Wish I could just keep reading these today . Stuff to do #sharreadathon @sharread

#25Alive #Gratitude ❤️👏

#25Alive #Dreams a photo of a postcard in a book about Coney Island. This is of the park called Dreamland . It was the last of the early parks built, opening in May of 1904. Completely destroyed by fire in May of 1911 .

Sofie gets an internship at a major publishing house, thrilled because she‘s a reader. Gunnar, a major editor is charmed by Sofie giving a candid & spot on criticism of a work soon to be published. So begins a plutonic mentorship between Gunnar,editor of his own imprint & Sofie. They both have a high minded drive to publish books of significance in a world that is more interested in large sales & trends. It is full of passion for art not commerce.

#Sharreadathon #chunksterChallenge2025 #chunkster #SeriesLove2025 Started this one today. I‘m kind of ahead of myself because I watched most of the TV series!🤭📺 I remember Sharon‘s insightful posts,I love that this group remembers our Littens ! It is a generous community. ❤️

#MentalHealthMonday planning to avoid the news.big NPR listener , not today.turned on the local classical music station that has no news,just noting its MLK day & featuring some well known & lesser known African American composers.Played w/ my cats , some reading.Visited the newest location of the Az Humane Soc. is also bittersweet, I want to take all the cats ,dogs ,& critters home. Inspiring to watch volunteers work to get animals adopted .

Yard sale mini #Bookhaul 📚👏😁

quiet #Caturday morning. Got up, made some coffee, back in bed to read a few minutes at least!🥰
#CatsOfLitsy Dusty & Tom Tom , youngest & eldest!

#25Alive #favBk24 Griffin Dunne wrote a really interesting book about a really interesting family. It is one of those books I wish I could read again for the first time.😁I‘m going to cheat a bit , I found it almost to be a 3 way tie ! As for fiction , Liz Moores God Of The Woods & The Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors are excellent!

#BOTM Love this !

I loved it.Jacaranda,our main character,is a LA girl from birth, lives a loose existence painting surfboards and hanging at parties w/ the pretty people. It‘s a meandering book but the joy is in Eves observations of this world .The 2nd part takes a turn, Jacaranda has written some things that attract an agent in NY, she goes there to see she can turn it into something sustainable. love/hate relationship w/ NY. &One of her LA pals shows up famous!

#25Alive #memory I lost my dear old man Nacho last year, not getting over it . 😢 #CatsofLitsy

Weird things lurking in my desk drawer. Fascinated by old matchbooks! Some I kept from going there, some found in antique store bins .

#25Alive #BookHaul a mini haul, proud of myself, actually traded some books for these earlier this week . Also works for #SeriesLove2025 the next two Will Trents to read , and if I like “ Falling “ TJ Newman has written 2 more . Are plane disasters considered a series ?

The tagged book was my first read of the year, not the best book on books & reading I‘ve ever read , I did enjoy it . Her specialty is the history OF the book so she went deep on some elements of that I didn‘t get into. Short book & she did have lots of info in the appendix if you wanted to dig deeper, always appreciate that . #SundayFunday

#readyourkindle I‘m enjoying this mess of a book , about half way through. Babitz really wrote about her life generally in fictional form. I do like those sort of loosely written books that were written mostly in the 60s-70s about party people consuming too much of everything. There is a sadness for me now, Eves stories are very LA and my heart is breaking for all the loss from the fires. Unfortunately, more Santa Ana winds Monday -Wednesday 😞😢

#25Alive a blast from the #Friendship past!

an old woman is killed in her apartment & the Romanian housekeeper flees,the police go with the simple answer, Housekeeper did it. The housekeeper dies as she flees & when a neighbor who helped the housekeeper & despised the old lady comes forward to describe the events,Brunetti steps in to Investigate.the old lady was mean,cheap, & played the TV so loud , police were called often. Brunetti has too many suspects & not many answers. #serieslove2025

#25Alive #prosperous one thing that always makes me smile is a Maneki Neko , Japanese lucky cat . I have read right paw up more money , left paw up. , more customers! 🐱

#25Alive #Joy when you have a gift card for B& N you haven‘t used yet !😁👏

Yes , I think I will try this challenge this year ! I have read #chunksters before, when I read War & Peace I got to the point I had goals of 20 pages every time I picked it up. Did finish it , did love it. Admittedly, failed on some of them too. The titles that come to mind , A Little Life and the third in The Outlander series, Voyager.
Thanks to @Amiable for hosting!
Is there a chunkster lurking on your TBR?

#bookplates New to me in a thrift shop find today !

Mom was sentimental about her shorthand book . A different world . She graduated from a prestigious business college that no longer exists. She could also type 125 words a minute on a manual typewriter!

Here we come #SeriesLove2025 still have many books to go in these 2 series. Also plan to work on Victoria Thompson‘s Gaslamp mystery series. Next book up Murder on Lenox Hill. Think my library has that one as an ebook!

Soft pick. As a lifelong reader & lover of books I enjoyed the book mostly. Learned a few things . She went on a few tangents that weren‘t all that interesting but with a page count of 170, not too long . Exploited Crosby as a book prop this #Caturday 1st book completed 2025 . Yay!😁

#OutWithTheOldInWithTheNew #YearEnd #20in4
Well I accidentally deleted my lap counter but I had just glanced at it before.😄 I basically got about 10 hours in over this #Readathon . Finished a book before years end , made progress on others , so it‘s all good 👍 thanks for hosting @Andrew65

Well , I‘m usually around the 100 book per year level, but what I read this year I‘m grateful for. I‘m such a mood reader , and I had some challenges to my ability to carve out time for reading or maintain my concentration to read. This community is such wonderful support, I make discoveries I wouldn‘t find anywhere else! Many thanks to all who post !

#25Alive #peace https://youtu.be/Ssd3U_zicAI
Yeah,what is funny about it? ☮️

I‘m celebrating on New York time, I might not be awake to celebrate in my time zone. 😀Sophie thinks bubbles are funny ! Happy New Year! Find joy wherever you can Litsy friends!🥂

My last #serieslove2024 this Slaughter particularly filled with horrible people doing horrible things . But I liked it! Bad reading year for me, I usually read 90-100 books , I even missed my abbreviated Goodreads goal of 75 . 😞Still, Litsy & reading gives me joy, I‘ll be sticking with that in the new year, less focused on goals. #OutWithTheOldInWithTheNew #20in4
#Readathon #YearEnd

Sometimes the best thing to do is sit in bed under the covers with a kitty and read .
#20in4 #OutWithTheOldInWithTheNew
#Readathon

Crosby know the best way to spend #caturday

#20in4 #YearEnd #OutWithTheOldInWithTheNew
I‘m joining in , I could really use a #Readathon
Monday looks busy , a bad day for reading, but the other days are pretty low key.My hope is to finish enough books to fulfill my Goodreads goal! Thanks to @Andrew65 for being our host!

Yes , I treated myself for Christmas! And yes , I still need to downsize book collection!😄🎄
#Bookmail is the best mail !

Trouble town ! I bet some of you are there right now!

I have read a lot about Fitzgerald, filled in some blanks for me.written in year by year style by different scholars, it doesn‘t or shouldn‘t read like a traditional biography. They dug deep to find places he lived as his folks moved around , his father struggled to maintain a viable career. One thing to remember about Scott, as he struggled w/ alcohol, & Zelda w/ madness, he was very much like his character Gatsby , wanting glorious perfection.

Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah 🕎 to all who celebrate! Peace on earth for everyone! ☮️

Tom Tom is snuggly while I watch The Holiday! An all time favorite.

#ChristmasCheer #Angel New ornament this year given out at a memorial service to remember people we lost through the year .

#bookmail is the best mail! A gift to myself, signed ! Absolutely not wrapping it . 😄📚

Bookish ornament! 📚

Happy Christmas Eve Eve to all who celebrate!

Not your average holiday reread ! 😳😀

#ChristmasCheer #Tree my friend said you need more ornaments, I said no , I don‘t . My most precious ones are not on the tree this year , several young cats in the household, so I‘m unless I have a chain link fence to protect it , the best of the best ornaments, not out this year !🎄😹😼

#ChristmasCheer #Wreath probably my all time favorite thing that I purchased from Cracker Barrel!🎄

#ChristmasCheer #BowsAndRibbons if you are old , no sugar coating here,😄this records might have been in your parents or grandparents collection!

Vintage ornament thrift store find today. Looks homemade , like the matchbox base . Was actually dropping off donations & went in ! $2

Happy #caturday King Crosby on his throne!
#CatsofLitsy

I‘m so far behind! Hence the mug ! 😄I want to spend more time reading and on Litsy, I just got my Christmas tree up yesterday! 🎄This week working on these, and one other ,a composite biography of F.Scott Fitzgerald.

😢 https://www.npr.org/2024/12/09/nx-s1-5222858/nikki-giovanni-poet-obituary