Welcome to Litsy!

I feel this to my very core… I just need to make it to Friday and then I can enjoy 9 days off!! #teachersoflitsy

Happy first day of #Scarathlon 2023! For the first #ScarathlonPhotoChallenge prompt -- #Black -- I'm posting a book by my favorite author!

#mischiefandmayhem

#Top10Summer2023Reads

3 nonfiction
1 memoir
2 fiction
2 historical fiction
2 mysteries

Each chapter or essay in this book took me time to process-had to take notes,reread tabbed pages-too many books, ideas! swirling in my brain…The author‘s last sentence in the book states that his argument “is a argument for a genealogy of love.” His love for books, ideas, is evident in every page. He speaks to how frenetic are lives are, how we are inundated all day with information all day, so that it is impossible to process beyond the present🔽

Starting my morning with this very meaty book. Jacobs combines ideas from Philosophy, literature, & history, into an enriching whole as he makes the case for reading, especially “old books.” #tranqilityinafranticworld #booksbridgepastandpresent #14books14weeks #3 #TBR #crumpetsandmarmalade #bookandcoffee

#14books14weeks #week3

Had to post this- while this is college 2020, it is so High School 2023!
#coverlove

In normal conversation, when the interlocutors are physically present to each other, they can add all kinds of meanings and nuances to their words by facial expression and body-language, or indeed communicate by…non-verbal means[…]. Until the recent invention of the videophone (which is still in a very early stage of development) these channels of communication have not been available.

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(p170; ch 37: The Telephone)

I‘m glad my library didn‘t get this book until March because it paired nicely with Lana Del Rey‘s new album. It‘s empowering to read about an outspoken, provocative and smart woman character from the 14th century while listening to a current day one. Marion Turner allows Alison of Bath to shine her light on enduring misogyny and how women will ever be irrepressible! 👯‍♀️

If you want to expand your reading to include more Indigenous authors, your TBR will explode as you read Daniel Heath Justice‘s remarkable and heartfelt work of literary criticism. I did this as a print and audiobook combo and loved it.

Friday Reads December 9 - I talk about the books I‘ve read this week:
https://youtu.be/PZlgWZxPBU4
#booktube