Dear @carrceli thank you oh so much for the amazing gifts!!! My winter reading is all sorted, with an amazing tote in which to carry them all. So thoughtful!! 💕💕💕

#wintersolsticebookexchange #secretsantagoespostal

I‘m so excited to see everyone‘s #litsysecretsanta #wintersolsticebookexchange unboxing posts! After work, I have back-to-back errands, so I will have to eagerly await the opening of my box from @carrceli this evening!

Apologies to all non-meat-eating Littens!

My local butcher makes the most delicious mincemeat, and I look forward to making tasty tasty tartlets. Jeanette Winterson has a recipe for her adoptive mother‘s mincemeat tarts in the book CHRISTMAS DAYS, along with many other recipes and holiday-themed stories 🥧

Also, your package made it to me safely and soundly @carrceli 🤩

LET THE WAITING BEGIN!!!

I‘m back! After a few very crazy weeks, where I read 0/0 books, I‘m ready to rejoin bookish society again. And my #secretsantagoespostal #wintersolsticebookexchange package is on its way to the final destination. Woohoo!

#LitsyPoetry365 Day 320 - In Childhood, Certain Skies Refined My Seeing

#LitsyPoetry365 Day 319 - Pocomania

We‘re now moving from Joshua Bennett‘s poems of black men‘s experiences in the US to those from a young Jamaican woman. I had the great fortune to witness both of these supremely talented poets read recently, and it was amazing!

The title here refers to a folk religion practiced in the poet‘s homeland of Jamaica, involving veneration of ancestors and a revival-type worship.

#LitsyPoetry365 Day 318 - On Blueness

#LitsyPoetry365 Day 317 - Still Life with Little Brother

#LitsyPoetry365 Day 316 - On Flesh

#LitsyPoetry365 Day 315 - Love Poem Ending with Typewriters

Hope this is helpful, secret Litten!

1.navy blue, red, Persephone gray, rose gold
2.feminism, wine, coziness, hot beverage
3.Moby-Dick, Beloved, Their Eyes Were Watching God, The Mother of All Questions, Voyage of the Sable Venus
4.Nonfic on wine/food, Persephone Books, hard hitting lit fic, Brit Library Crime Classics, modern poetry
5.Being cold, sports, romance/horror/sci-fi books
6.I 💕 baking bread
7. Https://librarycat.org/lib/BooksForYears

#LitsyPoetry365 Day 314 - Samson Reconsiders

#emojinov day 13 - 📫

“We all lead busy lives - perhaps it‘s better so...So I‘m afraid we‘re very bad correspondents - though delighted, of course, to receive letters” -Sheila, in 84 CHARING CROSS ROAD

#LitsyPoetry365 Day 313 - Aubade with Insomnia

#LitsyPoetry365 Day 312 - Anthropophobia

Anthropophobia is, literally, “fear of humans”.

VonDerrit Myers was a black teenager who was fatally shot by Jason Flanery, an off-duty cop, in St. Louis, MO in 2015. The officer claimed that VonDerrit had a gun, but that claim has been repeatedly challenged. No charges were filed against the officer.

My salon offers wine, and so my current read is 💯 perfect

#LitsyPoetry365 Day 311 - Tenacious Elegy

I was going into Dollar Tree for thanksgiving supplies, but walked out with books 😇

#LitsyPoetry365 Day 310 - Home Force: Presumption of Death

#emojinov Day 9 - ☔️

A rainy book of poetry that was so nice I bought it twice

#LitsyPoetry365 Day 309 - Black History, Abridged

#LitsyPoetry365 Day 308 - The Sobbing School

#emojinov Day 7 - 🍀

There‘s no luck club like the joy luck club

#LitsyPoetry365 Day 307 - Ode to the Mascot

1. The new Picador Modern Classics hardcover edition of Joan Didion‘s SLOUCHING TOWARDS BETHLEHEM

2. BEYOND THE RICE FIELDS by Naivo

3. EVEN THIS PAGE IS WHITE by Vivek Shraya

4. KINTU by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

5. IN THE LANGUAGE OF MY CAPTOR by Shane McCrae

#emojinov Day 6 - 🍾

I have collected quite a few corks, and books on corks.

#LitsyPoetry365 Day 306 - Family Reunion

#emojinov Day 5 - 🤷‍♀️

In the choice between coffee and tea, some people say 🤷‍♀️ but I say 🆗 to both!

I just signed up for #secretsantagoespostal #wintersolsticebookexchange and you should too! I participated last year, and it was such great fun. Thanks to @BookBabe @MrBook and @Avanders for taking up the mantle!

Sign up due by November 10 - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfD1dDKSK7scmgm0cDc-g_h0VTjgP3tcouyni_S...

❄️ this AND that 😉

❄️new AND used (as long as “used” is good condition for the thing‘s age)

❄️stand-alone‘s all the way

❄️tea

❄️candle

❄️neutral colors

❄️warm blankets

❄️”nah” to figurines

#LitsyPoetry365 Day 305 - Fresh 3

#emojinov Day 4 - 💋

Whether your lips are straight or twisted, enjoy your colors!

#emojinov Day 3 - 🤠

A little hat-wearing advice from one of the US queens of fashion, Kate Spade.

#PlayingFavorites

?THE BOOK OF STRANGE NEW THINGS by Michel Faber (not entirely off Earth, but a back-and-forth of new planet as Earth falls apart)

?WOLF HALL by Hilary Mantel

?WHITE TEETH by Zadie Smith

?THE ARGONAUTS by Maggie Smith

?JANE EYRE by Charlotte Brontë

?YOUR HEART IS A MUSCLE THE SIZE OF A FIST by Sunil Yapa

#emojinov Day 2 - 🏝📚

Kali is hoping that her primping and good looks will be good enough to get her into The Twin Palms

#LitsyPoetry365 Day 304 - Fresh 2

Next up from my #nonfictionnovember #tbr is this deep dive into the history of how we cook and eat

#LitsyPoetry365 Day 303 - Fresh 1

#LitsyPoetry365 Day 302 - Variation on the Father as Narcissus

#emojinov Day 1 📚🔜

Just got back from the library with this little haul of books.

#LitsyPoetry365 Day 301 - First Date

#LitsyPoetry365 Day 300🎉🎉 - On Stupidity

#LitsyPoetry365 Day 299 - Self-Portrait As Periplaneta Americana

#uncannyoctober day 29 - face your fears

Armed with this recipe/idea book, holiday entertainers can face their fears of the poorly executed cheese party 🧀

#LitsyPoetry365 Day 298 - Fly 3

UncannyOctober Day 27/28 - Treat/Trick

My most recent book haul is a treat for me, but a trick on my #TBR

#LitsyPoetry365 Day 297 - Fly 2

#LitsyPoetry365 Day 296 - Fly 1

#LitsyPoetry365 Day 295 - Teacher‘s Aide