Welcome to Litsy!

#MidwinterSolace

I'm going to need the first two for sure and bigger mugs!! What do you need more of this holiday season?

Image - https://www.instagram.com/lucyclaireillustration?igsh=ZmE5Y3Axd2wyc2ds

@thebookhippie @Chrissyreadit

#MondayMood

Tackle the TBR 🤓📚
What are you reading?
#boleybooks #quiet #susancain #bookbeast #bookbuds #bookclub #letsread

A mind forever young / Voyaging through strange seas of thought alone. (Isaac Newton as described by William Wordsworth)

Calm yet powerful: explores introversion‘s undervalued strengths, why society celebrates charisma, and how solitude and introspection can fuel creativity and impact. Insightful, validating, and quietly empowering.

An in depth exploration on introversion in a world that currently values extroversion.

This was fascinating! A lot of information, along with personal anecdotes made this an interesting read. I wish I had found this book when I was in high school when I was absolutely convinced I was broken in some way, because I was so introverted. There‘s value in how we see the world. 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑

This was really interesting. It isn't just a self help book - there's a lot on the science of introversion, and how research suggests that it's hard-wired into people's brains, and telling introverts to 'just be more sociable' is unhelpful and damaging.

Next up

Being an introvert myself, I found some encouraging conclusions in this book.

“Introversion- along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness- is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology. Introverts living in the Extrovert Ideal are like women in a man's world, discounted because of a trait that goes to the core of who they are."

Was reading this book on my phone. It was slow but had a very interesting premise. However Apple Books decided to remove my download multiple times and I kept losing my page so I‘ve currently given up for now!