Welcome to Litsy!

A conversation with the author about his latest book.

Link to listen: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-book-club/id1158913265?i=1000652169412

This was very interesting. I‘ve read much about the Roman Empire and watched a lot of documentaries about the emperors themselves, but never did I come across a study of the life of „normal“ Roman people. This book shows the ordinary life with the help of 24 different persons. Especially the the person last chapter „The parasite returns from dinner“ was new to me. I never knew that there have been spongers who attended dinners to entertain. 🧽🧽🧽

#WhereAreYouMonday
This is NF about Shakespeare and scholarship questions about his plays so I'm "in" 1600 England. So far it's interesting.
@Cupcake12

Hey y‘all, last month I didn‘t get a chance to read much because I had a lot going on. Work was crazy, I was dealing with the loss and I was planning my trip to Puerto Rico. Just got back last Tuesday and I have to say I cannot wait to go again. It was beautiful and everybody there was so amazing. I did take a book to read, but the weather was against me and I lost it to the rain gods. However, here‘s a few pics of the trip I wanted to share.

My current audiobook. I started this past week. The author, John Higgs, seems like a character, with many talents. He‘s really into and excited about the psychology of Blake, who was very much interested in his own vision and the visual world of his own mind. It‘s been fun. I read some Blake poetry along with this, and he has really added to my (still limited) understanding.

Continuing my exploration of the Tudor period with this #doublespin choice. I bought it after hearing the author on a history panel discussing Henry VIII and enjoyed the last book I read by her (tagged in comments.) @TheAromaofBooks

My oldest is home from college & wanted to go to the bookstore. I bought myself some books for Mother‘s Day (my husband did buy me some new flowers for my pots in the front of the house). The tagged book is one that the Naval Academy has on the banned book list, so definitely one to read.

You can recreate the recipes of Ancient Roman bread, as long as you‘re not interrupted by pyroclastic flows from a nearby volcano. 🤣🌋🤣🌋