Sleeping through the suspense. #dogandbook

#summerreading and beyond to #summertravels ‼️🇬🇷🛫

So many good reads passed on at the Carrollwood #freelittlelibrary this morning. #shortfiction #essays #classics #travelwriting

#recoveringlawyer

Fenrir judges my present involvement with three books at the same time. They‘re different genres, Fen. Relax. #dogandbooks

My #LitsyAvatar is me taking a selfie to see how sick I look before going out to a wine event I was still too ill to drink at. It did not convince my friends to allow me to beg off to stay home and read.

Sunday couch potatoes. #bookmarks #rainydayreading

Cold weather is only encouraging my indulgence in wonderful reading gifts from wonderful friends and family. #bookishgifts

Cozy, cozy, cozy. #bookanddog

Reminded of this #tbr in The Getty bookstore.

Watching Fenrir enjoy the dog park while starting a new audiobook. #britishaccentsforthewin

"You're entirely bonkers...All the best people are."

Being super American (except for the whole leisure reading part). #itsthemostwonderfultimeoftheyear

"'Have you heard a band called A Band Called?'...'They're good, but you have to like caterwauling.'"

Found another copy of the book I accidentally left on the plane in #TheLastBookStore for half the price I bought it for in NYC. #bookadventures

Books on a plane. #checkedbaggagefullofbooks

Fenrir naps with his Gram while I catch up on my nonfiction reading. #nonfiction #sciencepluspoetry #translations

Strawberry iced tea and a good book. #sundayfunday

The balcony is all clear for morning coffee and reading enjoyment. #coffeeandbooks #bookerprize #Fenrir #dogsandbooks

All safe here in FL. Catching up on reading by daylight and flashlight.

1. FL 🏝 2. Impossible! 3. The Neapolitan Novels 🇮🇹 4. Annie Hall 🗽5. Twin Peaks ☕️ 6. Okkervil River 🎸 7. 💙8. Sci-fi 🚀 9. High School English Teacher 👩‍🏫 10. Fenrir the 🦇🐖 @maich 💯#meetthelittens

Giving this one a so-so because there are a few funny lines (like above) despite many of the jokes being the same joke reworded in every chapter. Also because I am somewhat biased since I don't generally like the memoir genre and was compelled to read this for a now disbanded book club. #memoir #bookclub

From a 2015 New Yorker article by Ceridven Dovey on the therapeutic benefits of reading. The main book discussed is the A-Z guide to what novel to read organized by ailment and written by two bibliotherapists. #newcareergoal #recommendsday

Chris Adrian: "Sid and I are both at Columbia and meeting for the first time today." S. Mukherjee: "And that's New York City." Fascinating talk from two oncologist writers. #authortalk #nonfiction #science

Vivid descriptions of art (fictional but based upon paintings of the Dutch Golden Age). Interesting peek into art restoration. Loved the beginning and the end. Tension could have been handled better in between. But still a great read (or listen).

Beware the ides of March, y'all. - a Southern soothsayer #Shakespeare #shelfie

From "Mirrorball" #shortfiction

The end of each of these stories made me want to pause, journal, and discuss at length. "Mirrorball" and the title story were my favorites. The only one I didn't like was the first. I didn't see how the main character was supposedly strong; everyone in that story seemed spoiled, petty, and uninteresting. Don't stop there though. The rest are complex and rewarding. #shortfiction #dogsoflitsy

"There's the idea that if you have a ghost in the house, you ask the ghost what year it is. It says, 1847. You show it a newspaper and it instantly vanishes. Helpful tip for the audience." George Saunders is my favorite ghostbuster. #authortalk #tbr

You couldn't help but love this terribly flawed, terribly brazen narrator. My favs, which aren't ☠️spoilers but you may not want to know, are when Yunior tells the girlfriend he has cheated on ☠️a) that the documentary evidence is just part of his novel in progress, and b) that she should not blame him but the patriarchy. #booksandbeer

I liked the satiric send up of the Anna Karenina principle. I did not like the lazy and reductive resort to genetic determinism. Sorry wealthy white dudes, you and your children aren't violent assholes because of some ☠️unnamed inheritable mental disorder ☠️ahem Aspergers ☠️ahem, doesn't work like that #translations

Fenrir is not making it to the end of this party. But I made it to the end of this large collection of things dog related published in The New Yorker over an 80-year period. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, cartoons--all about dogs. I recommend this as a coffee table book you peruse over an extended period of time. #litsypartyofone #dogsoflitsy

Reading book about dogs with dog. #litsypartyofone #dogsoflitsy

#mylocallibrary is a beautiful building with a port themed reading room. It started out as a bank in 1926, closed due to the depression, and was converted into a library through the efforts of the local Woman's Club in 1951. #bookriot @bookriot

Wow. What a stunning, poetic short novel. This copy is from the library, but I'll be buying my own. It demands to be reread. Crow is better than a therapist.

Open it, says Fenrir. We are behind on our new releases from 2016. Gotta get to that Chabon. #dogsoflitsy #bookmail

So glad I finally got around to this witty and moving graphic memoir of a childhood in Iran in the wake of the Islamic Revolution, experience as an outsider in Western Europe, and return to a homeland sunk deeper into authoritarianism. The courage of so many of those depicted is inspiring. #graphicmemoir #translations #bildungsroman

Munro is a master. Nearly all of these stories have elusive yet satisfying endings. As in life, people wander in and out never fully aware of their effect on others. All her praise and awards are deserved. #shortfiction #dogsoflitsy #movingtocanada

A tortured sheep-man, a secret labyrinth, an ethereal mystery girl--Murakami short does not mean Murakami light. It's all there to be unfolded (literally) alongside haunting illustrations. #magic #fantasy #yalit #translations

I want to run away and live in Karen Russell's imagination. #signed #readjanuary

The time for tears is over. So long as we can plot, #allisnotlost

Although these are short fiction, the writing style requires some patience (yes, the first is a 68-page single sentence). However, once you're acclimated, these unique stories howl to be reread and pondered over. #translations #shortfiction

This book has been on my #tbr since I was born. #highexpectations The introduction delivers: it's amazing. Then the "Bolivian marching powder" wears off, as does one's awe of the writer. What follows is disappointingly ordinary, hollowly naive, and oh so quaint--a print fiction magazine employing a fleet of full-time writers, HA! If you love #NYC it's still a must-read. Just be aware that the most sympathetic character is a ferret.

Despite containing the above vicious libel, Fenrir and I found this graphic memoir most entertaining. Brosh is simply hilarious in her total weirdness and unsparing self-awareness. Fenrir now wants a helper dog. #graphicmemoir #dogsoflitsy #humor

I agree 100% with the review of @emilymorgan 💗I would add that I loved the above quote and that the book inspired me to rediscover New Wave. #yalit #1980s

Anyone lacking overwrought nostalgia for her study abroad jaunt in Britain will likely find this book intolerable. It certainly fails the test of time: Today 99% of the narrative would be obliterated with the sentence, "Then I consulted my iPhone and all was well." #travelmemoir #expat #overthepond

Woohoo! First #24in48 #readathon completed! The London Fogs and Fenrir's company were the keys to my success.

Car travel interrupted the end of Eleanor & Park. Believe it or not, this is my first audiobook ever. Loving it! #24in48 #audiobook

Needed a change of setting for my next read. #readingoutdoors #24in48 #dogsoflitsy

Starting off #24in48 with an #ebook! Let's do this!