The perfect package to return home to after a wonderful weekend ❤️thanks @wanderinglynn #travelingstars
The perfect package to return home to after a wonderful weekend ❤️thanks @wanderinglynn #travelingstars
This is such a cool little book! Thanks @Gissy 🌟#travelingstars I‘ve already learned some cool tips from this & love the size! I think it‘s going to work really well with my bujo, too ❤️✨
I‘ve had to resort to an ereader once again 📚 this weekend I need to read several novels— Shirley (which I quite like), The Professor, The Gift of Asher Lev and My Name is Asher Lev, The Dybbuk, and Regrowth by Der Nister. That‘s not listing the textbook chapters and scholarly articles also assigned. Thankfully, they‘re all on this beautiful little device so I can speed read at my ease instead of carrying their collective literary weight 📕📗📘📙
Oops this book jumped into my bag! I had no choice but to buy it. I‘d define it as vegan friendly because there are some omnivore recipes too but largely these are plant based 🌱
I bought this book to read “with my children” during the seasons & it certainly did not disappoint! Just look at these gorgeous illustrations 😍 I love making excuses to buy myself gorgeous books
Love these books 📚 they‘re very fun & the romances are so very realistic ❤️💋
I enjoyed this— it reminded me of Rutherford‘s novelized histories but more interesting, as Catherine Moreland from Northanger Abbey says, without “…the quarrels of popes and kings…the men all so good for nothing and hardly any women at all…” rather, there are a lot of very strong women & the stories focus on local history & the way our stories become myths
Gorgeous book cover! Just started this first installment of the new #travelingstars2024 thanks @wanderinglynn for the beautiful card & the celebration planner ❤️🌘
Not for the faint of heart— you may find yourself rooting for the killer. Of course, the murders are also painful & affecting, but who was most guilty? Quite thrilling but damn dark 🖤
Cute little grocery list pad my dear friend designed for me 🐈⬛ I wrote about this book for a conference!
TLDR; version is it‘s a great adaptation, lots of fun, but missing the glorious descriptions of nature that makes the original Jane a delightful witch in her own right.
This was such a cozy read. I enjoyed the author‘s discussion of periodical archives at the end, too. The mystery was relatively straightforward but plenty of red herrings to keep you guessing.
Picture of me resting after chopping logs for the fire at my friend‘s NYE party. Happy New Year! 🎆
What‘s better than a town full of talking animals? A foxy cub reporter who solves mysteries— her best friend Lenore is a raven with a bookstore 🐦⬛
Desk fairy & friend pictured for fun #midwintersolace #fridaynightshare #naturalitsy @AllDebooks @Chrissyreadit @jenniferw88 @TheBookHippie
What a lovely holiday it‘s been! The sequel was wonderful. I like the first one but the second is even more life-affirming &, of course, magical ✨
Our whole holiday has been difficult but also the best one yet. I‘ve been struggling lately, doing too much, but I am so grateful for everyone in my life. Things might be hard but we‘re so very lucky 🍀
My favorite cookbook! The recipe for the homemade kidney bean vegan chorizo is a staple in our house, featuring here in my hearty bean soup 🍠 #midwintersolace #naturalitsy #fridaynightshare
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Enjoying the luxury of taking my time to set up my 2024 vision board page in my new bujo— featuring tons of tiny tarot, of course! #travelingstars
I can‘t believe I forgot to mention this book has one of my favorite ever comments on modern witchcraft:
P.331-332 “Oh, those are those glossy working-mother types, always perfect, never a hair out of place. Bronagh told me about them. She says they‘re all witches. No other way you could conceivably ‘have it all‘ apparently.”
This may be a new addition to my annual holiday reading list, along with all the murder, fairytales, etc.
Although accurate depictions of sisterhood, children, & love, I want to live in this world where none of the depression or other mental illness is crippling. Maybe that‘s Scotland? I‘d be willing to give it a shot.
Until then, I want to share the beautiful painting my student/colleague/friend made of my children in all their alien beauty
Another excellent, poignant Singing Hills installment— I really love how each story comments on the nature of storytelling, all while telling incredible stories ❤️
Picture of my son staring into the riverlands, although not the ones in the novella (thank goodness)
A good spot on the porch with a pot of tea, a blanket & Tricia Hersey here to whisper-shout: “Your body is a site of liberation./It doesn‘t belong to capitalism.”
Second book of the day, complete— if you‘re not acquainted with Charlotte Holmes, you should be!Suspenseful, clever, & now with a bit of spice. The high stakes made this latest installment so satisfying 🕵️♀️ this mystery centered on “the occult”— always love seeing how writers portray this
also, feeling a bit better after some tea & my famous lemon orzo soup 🍲 delighted to tackle my holiday tbr tbh ☕️
Phryne provides excellent entertainment as usual, but cold comfort, I‘m sad to say. Tested positive for Covid so I‘m masked up in the bedroom reading. Not feeling very festive, I‘m afraid. Still, the tree looks lovely.
At last, the tree is up! Decorating can wait until Tuesday, though 😅
For now, breathing deeply & thinking of “The Hanging of the Greens”— love this #hyggehourreadathon
#naturalitsy #midwintersolace #hyggehour
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The most delicious treat, I saved this book last year just so I could read it for the holiday season ❄️☃️✨
📸by Chickpea Mag
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#naturalitsy #midwintersolace #hyggehourreadathon
“…the fire was reliable and the teapot was full.”
Delicious tea, a spine tingling winter tale, & my oldest reading buddy ❤️ what a perfectly lovely evening
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#naturalitsy #midwintersolace #hyggehourreadathon
I loved reading this riff off of the Scarlet Letter & imagining how love & time can intertwine ❤️✨Alice Hoffman evokes magic again 🍁🍏
Also, the cover looks like Rebecca from aclotheshorse
Thanks for the tag @Yuki_Onna ☺️
1. The tagged book, the newest of the Murderbot diaries, was a lovely little installment. How long to wait until the next one comes out? Alas.
2. I have a whole stack of trashy witchy rom coms, ghost stories, & other lovely, silly things to read but I‘m most looking forward to reading the snow queen by Hans Christian Andersen with my babies ❄️
@TheSpineView
Picked up some gorgeous editions of Proust‘s trilogy while visiting family for the holidays 🍂 also found an encyclopedia of herbs— anyone else read the encyclopedia as a kid?
🕯️🍂This centerpiece combines rosemary & marigolds, memorializing absent friends 🪦🍁 so it‘s a fitting representation of both finds!
Someone on BlueSky described this to me as “the Count of Monte Cristo, but with lesbians in space” so obviously I immediately downloaded it from hoopla and then came here to tell you lovely people ❤️🚀
Playing witchy games, reading witchy books 📚 this one was a rando library find (the best kind) pretty good & some very fun imagery but not as much world building as I tend to like in my fantasy romcoms 🔮 Koriko is a sweet coming of age solo journaling RPG— I highly recommend! 🧹✨
Such a lovely man & such a great book to audioknit to 🎃👻🔮
I love this place so much! Got three books for everyone in the family & an AMAZING fishless & chips
International Writing Center Association Conference in Charm City 🌆 good to see you again, Baltimore
A heartwarming triple murder mystery with a lovely crossword creating sleuth! 🕵️♀️ I don‘t recommend the Star Trek crossword puzzles, however.
My dear friend @Chrissyreadit sent me this lovely book because I‘ve been overdoing it lately 😅 my brain is picky post post-concussion syndrome 🧠 I get migraines if I do too much— thankfully I have great friends who remind me to relax 😎
🌟Enjoying some #travelingstars stickers on my reading list (thanks @wanderinglynn I love them!) 🌟while celebrating the return of great British bake off with a rewatch & reread of one of my favorite cozy mysteries 🥮🍰🧁
Subtle office witchery 🪄reading the second to last novel set in this world & reluctant to end it
Another beautiful day at the shop, another lush fantasy novel from Jacqueline Casey. These books are compulsively readable and seriously hot 🥵
Hard-pressed to think of a better way to spend my day than breaking up housework with little stints of reading on the porch and playing with babies— both furry and otherwise ❤️
Bissell is annoying in that mediocre flavor of a particular kind of gamer but he gets an insight here and there— so many male writers who just need to get therapy
By contrast, Spiritfarer (pictured) is a lovely game and I highly recommend it, especially if you have been dealing with grief or losing loved ones to dementia
I‘m on book 5 of this series about a religious courtesan spy and no one can stop me #quietimreading #iykyk
Had a lot of fun teaching this terrarium workshop inspired by green witchery & plant magic. The little skull is a turtle! They look like dragon skulls 🌵🐢🐲
Truly enjoyed this novel recommended by my postmodern lit prof— videogames, identity, and social change wrapped up in a compelling story beautifully told. I want to put it on a syllabus with Tomorrowx3 and Roleplaying
I forgot how funny this was! We‘re reading it for my Science Fiction before 1660 course…
that‘s right, you may have learned science fiction wasn‘t a thing until much later but this class makes a strong argument against that timeline
Picture of my dark purple lavender lemonade with butterfly pea flower and kaweco sport, two essentials for surviving class
I‘ve been reading so much for my PhD it‘s been both a nightmare and wonderful— saw this and thought of all of you 💝
By the way, the tagged book is both bananas and very fun to read lol if you decide to dive in, bon chance!
Loved this smart & quirky romcom ❤️ helped solidify some theories I have about videogame literature,too! BTW, EmilyBlaster from Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow is real— find it (and my high score) here: https://gabriellezevin.com/emilyblastergame/
What a wonderful novel about love and loss and play. I don‘t know if the writing was good, but it was evocative and very clever.
I‘ve always had a hard time evaluating books, because how do you distill something so complex? It‘s like trying to rank your friends, which is amoral (I think).
That said, I enjoyed every minute spent in this world and deeply connected to the theme, story, and Easter eggs. I have a feeling I‘ll be rereading this one.
Sent out 3 packages for #travelingstars today! @jenniferw88 @Erinsuereads @Gissy sorry they‘re late but I made them extra special! Each contains a vintage book, like the one tagged, and an oracle of some kind. I hope you like them!
It‘s been a hectic year. I can‘t believe it‘s already the solstice! The Northen hemisphere is heading towards the dark again— my favorite! :)
📸 by Rebecca of aclotheshorse
1. A mountain and a hot spring! There are some very pretty ones in Iceland ❤️
2. All my Litsy friends! Obviously ☺️
Thanks @Yuki_Onna for the tag 🥰
#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView
#holidays #travel #holidayreading
Really enjoyed these— there is a newer translation by M. Nazir Ali, too. I‘ve been enjoying them side by side. Translation requires so many subtle choices. I love seeing the two authors choose such divergent forms!
A fantastic book! Funny and heartfelt and sad.
This book reminds me of the term tragic optimism. Originally coined by a holocaust survivor, it refers to the way those experiencing traumatic loss can find deeper meaning and purpose amidst the broken pieces. The opposite of toxic positivity, it admits the hardships and grief we all inevitably face.
This book has some of that. It‘s also funny and very cute. (Meme image shared for levity.)