Welcome to Litsy!

Nothing like closing out the week with another chapter and some limoncello!

"By waking up to the world, by renouncing certainty and cynicism, by opening herself to new experiences- all of which takes real courage, real strength - [Catherine] turned life into an adventure that would never end. This, Austen told us, is the true heroism. Life, if you live it right, keeps surprising you and the thing that keeps surprising you the most...is yourself."

I read this with the #SUNDAYBUDDYREAD group. I was sick and didn‘t participate much but have liked going back and reading the discussion. Again, not a book I would have chosen for myself but I found it to balance fluff & nostalgia pretty well. Overall, a good read for the month.

Current audiobook…Can‘t decide if the narrator‘s voice is boring me or not…

This was interesting but at almost 50% in I just felt like Joe was yelling all the time and it made me anxious 😅

#5JoysFriday

1) coffee and a book- always!
2) my porch if finally open !
3) Memorial Day parade as it goes by my house
4) at top of plant see a tiny bird- house wren has built a nest
5)Em & Poe #catsoflitsy

Rainy day reading.

Really good read! Brought me back to my childhood with some of the names brought up in the book along with Chipper himself. Highly recommend for Braves fans as well as baseball fans alike.

A sweet simple memoir, it read like a friend sharing their story. I really liked the casualness and honesty of the book, Nothing that I'm gonna remember for years to come, just a simple quick read.
3.5/5🌟

“It takes a village to mend a broken heart”

A witty, funny, heartbreaking and heartwarming memoir of Dolly Alderton set in her 20s. This book is not preachy, it‘s just fun and light and full of funny anecdotes. The best thing about the whole book is her unwavering love and solidarity for all her female friends, especially her best friend Farly.

What an excellent memoir of a year in the life of an amazing author! Doerr won the Rome Prize, an expense paid year in Rome to write and for his family to live there with him. He‘s clearly working on All the Light We Cannot See while there, but this memoir is also a result. He writes about his four seasons in Rome. I only spent a week there, but I was able to picture most everything he described and it was absolutely wonderful “re-living” it. ⬇️