Welcome to Litsy!

This is a fairly short book, but it took me a long time to read because I found it depressing. I did find it interesting that it is somewhat based on Rhys‘s own affair with Ford Maddox Ford.

📷: It was a beautiful evening to enjoy the hammock and a fire in the backyard with Luthien.

#1001books #TurnThePage #Readathon

I love the idea of a weekend readathon. I hope to finish a few books and make some progress on others. I‘m close to done with Quartet and My Friends, and it‘s almost time for Westfallen to go back to the library. I haven‘t picked up A Tree a Day all month, so I want to remedy that. I‘ll probably listen to some more audio as well.

#TurnThePage #Readathon
#LitsyBookClub #NaturaLitsy #1001books

cafard: melancholia, depression (noun)

#WeirdWordWednesday #WeirdWords

https://youtu.be/tKiPy5oTHRY


Introduction
A special request from the wonderful Danny Ramadan
Mystery guest
Week in Review
Patreon news
The Collected Short Stories by Jean Rhys
Luck by David Carpenter
Babbacombe's by Susan Scarlett
The Thorn Puller by Hiromi Itō
She's a Lamb! by Meredith Hambrock

#SundaySentence from 'In the Rue de l‘Arrivée'

from ‘Mixing Cocktails‘

#bookspinbingo board laid out with my TBR (options/themes) game results and my location and miscellaneous prompt jar pulls. #bookspin and #doublespin picks are categories: non-fiction library loan & owned vintage/retro self-help (90s and before). Rolls landed on 3, 13 & 15: Kate Elliott or 500+ pages/philosophy or critical theory/owned romance. #roll100 - Witch's Boy (repeat+CR)/Opal&Nev/Bhagavad Gita or Hindu spiritual text.

@TheAromaofBooks

Wondering if I should add all of these to the wishlist (from the TLS' end of year "Books authors recommend" feature.

#AlphabetGame
Title that begins with the letter Q
I'm going to mention only one book today: Jean Rhys' Quartet. This is the only Rhys novel I have read (so far) yet the seedy Parisian atmosphere was memorable & Rhys is one of the best at delivering bon mots. “Have you got any books? It's horrible outside“ from a Rhys fan acct has been my pinned tweet since the beginning of the year & I don't plan on changing it anytime soon.

I first picked up Jane Eyre for a uni course, and I wish we had to read this book as part of it too.

It gave me so much to think about, and while it is a different style and tone to Brontë, I think it helps make the story and the characters of Rochester and “Bertha” that much more interesting.

Finished in a day too, so that‘s a bonus!

#bookstagram #bookstagrammer #penguin #widesargassosea #brontë #jeanrhys #janeeyre #readinaday