Welcome to Litsy!

1. My elder kiddo is coming home from college for the first time since we dropped them off in August! I'm SO excited! (And we're getting COVID boosters tomorrow, cooking a low-key dinner Thursday, then Christmas decorations on Friday.)
2. The tagged really influenced how I see Thanksgiving and the way that history shifts into legend, particularly as it serves the interests of the dominant culture. (Sorry... buzz kill.)
@TheSpineView #Two4Tuesday

Just admiring my color coordinating book stack 📚

#MountTBRchallenge Numbers 37 and 38. Mayflower was number 37 and here is the link to my gr review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3281137348

This copy of Faith and Practice is from 1972. I enjoyed reading it. And this was Number 38.

It isn‘t the tagged book (which is a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ read), but it came in today‘s mail and I have 5 hot minutes to myself to read it. Laundry and dishwasher both spinning for the umpteenth time today, both kids playing outside with a neighbor kid in lovely 56 degree weather.

Three hours in to this and It is some dense listening, but Fraser is detailed, sharp, and not skipping over the injustices and plain wrongs committed by the Pilgrims against the people who already lived here. And as I recently discovered that I‘m descended from William Brewster, is is a very weird but also enlightening read. I‘ll probably pick up a used physical copy eventually.

1. Pilgrims, right?
2. Accompanying my children to Junior Scientist Day at my spouse's workplace. I suspect it was primarily an excuse for the grown-up scientists to play, which helped make it super awesome!
3. Leftovers and an early bedtime.
4. Nine living, two deceased.
5. On it!

#friyayintro @howjessreads

An extraordinary book on the beginnings of America. A real eye opener. Fascinating not a dry text book at all. Wonderful, wonderful!

I have a very Mayflower-esque Litfluence.

Great children‘s book about a day in the life of old timely pilgrims in America!

It seems appropriate to follow up A Kingdom Strange with Mayflower. Both authors give full histories of England‘s takeover of Native American lands, even the ugly, selfish parts.