😻I just love book signings! 😻

Front and center to see Andrew Sean Greer speak at Austin Public Library!

#7favesin7days 💙 (4/7)

(Post a book you love each day for 7 days, without review or comment, with the hashtag #7favesin7days in your post so we can keep it going!)

#7favesin7days 💜(3/7)

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#7favesin7days 💚(2/7)

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#7favesin7days ❤️ (1/7)

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But I‘m a very altruistic Slytherin, like Professor Snape 🖤🖤🖤 Thanks @RealLifeReading for a fun #thisorthat 😺

Any other Littens doing NaNoWriMo this month? Wanna be Writing Buddies? I‘m CricketW over there...#NaNoWriMo2017

Inspektor Kitteh, checking out all the beautiful things @4thhouseontheleft sent for #HalloweenGoesPostal🎃! Owls! Tea! Candle! Indie bookstore bookmarks! I‘m thinking: You soooo get me. But then, Victorian Goth coasters? Edward Gorey? You get me so much it‘s downright spooky 👻! My bday was last week, so it was like birthday presents all over again. Thank you thank you thank you, Alisia! 🎃❤️🎃❤️🎃

Mailed my #HALLOWEENgoesPOSTAL package today. So much fun to shop for stuff to put in! Hope it reaches the Litten soon! 🎃🎃🎃

#HALLOWEENgoesPOSTAL ready to go! There can never be too many wiggly-eyes..

Look what the mailman brought us today! 😺🎃😺🎃😺🎃😺🎃😺🎃😺🎃😺🎃(Oh, how will we ever wait 30 whole days???) #HalloweenGoesPostal #FallBookExchange

🎃Thank you @BookishMarginalia for organizing the #fallbookexchange! So fun to find that my #halloweengoespostal match and I have similar reading tastes. And for any other stalking Littens, I suppose now would be a good time to mention my love of bookmarks from indie bookstores. 🎃👻🎃👻🎃

Mister Rogers reads to us. ❤️ #fallintoreading #someoneelsereading

"Lo-lee-ta : the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta." The book I happen to have with me, one of my favorites, has cursive in the cover ?#fallintoreading #cursive

I love song lyrics that tell a story, and I can't think of a better one than this -- just WOW. This was a recent record store find -- $1! And today, June 3rd, was the day Billie Joe McAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge. But what are some other songs that tell powerful stories???

For I made their flesh as a sieve #nationalpoetrymonth

This book about Ruby Le Gato, the first Alamo Cat, is worth tracking down if you enjoy Texana. It's a charming (if not a bit sad) children's story with beautiful illustrations. My mom, a docent at the Alamo, took this photo today of Bella (short for Isabella Francisca Veramendi de Valero), the third Alamo Cat.

certain dark things ❤ #nationalpoetrymonth

Check it out -- he signed it! 😊 Mr. Doerr is quite the charming speaker. Another lovely author evening with #TexasBookFestival and BookPeople ❤

the soft animal of your body ❤#nationalpoetrymonth

E. E. Cummings' l(a ❤One of my favorite poems by one of my favorite poets to begin #nationalpoetrymonth

So excited for this! Austin's BookPeople and Texas Book Festival are hosting Anthony Doerr on April 6th. Are there any other Austin area Littens going?

"I bought a big bag of potatoes and it's growing eyes like crazy. Other foods rot. Potatoes want to see." I particularly like #epistolary books, so here is another for #januaryreads. The author, Bill Callahan, is an amazing musician, but bless him for this weird little book, too. ???❤

"Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love." ❤I reread LTAYP every year. These aren't even my favorite quotes from this book (see the one in Letter Four about "living the questions"). Seriously, read Rilke, or read him again!!! #januaryreads #epistolary

Last summer, for #augustphotochallenge, I posted about building gingerbread houses as one of my hobbies. Some of you asked for photos of this year's efforts. So. I'm blaming our humid Texas winter atmosphere for this epic gingerbread fail. 😆😆😆#dammitdammitdammit

Not a blurb, but a related post, because we Littens love our kittens: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/library-cat-outlasts-councilman-that-wanted-him-gone...

Today is the best day for some Edward Gorey! 🎃❤️ Happy Halloween y'all! Be safe, and eat allllllll the candy!

Though I agree with other reviewers that the promise "tales of terror" seems a stretch (a better description: deeply, deeply troubling), these open-ended stories left me with the angst that these psychologically messed-up characters (or others like them) are still in the world at large. And THAT is terrifying! Meanwhile, Hazel Kitty enjoyed this book for its firm comfort. ??

❤️🎼🎧🎸

This author amazes me in her ability to suspend disbelief. She writes about things like fairies, spirits, ghosts and in this novel, sleepers (undead people) -- and she makes me believe, every time. This story, like her others, is well-paced. Historical fiction entwined with a present day story makes for a quick, spooky page-turner!

For #FunFridayPhoto: On Valentine's Day in 1900, a group of students from an Australian women's college vanishes while on day trip to a rock formation. The story is fiction, but the account of how the women's inexplicable disappearance weighs on the community has made some wonder if this mystery might be a true story. An interesting read. It was also made into a film.

A damn fine novel, y‘all.

#Funfridayphoto: anything LOTF, and I think of my 10th grade English teacher, Miss Flint. Not so much older than us students, she was the coolest chick ever. Not that she was "cool" with us -- she was (still is!) an Educator, for sure. It's just that she didn't speak to us like the punks we were, but like the adults we would become. Students could read either Romeo & Juliet or LOTF. I chose this, because it made me feel like a cool chick too. ?

LOVED IT ❤️! I wouldn't change a word, but initially, I resented the meta fiction chapter at the end -- I wanted to know: what next?! what next?! After considering it though, I think this ending honors Offred, perhaps martyrs her. This story will stay with me, and I'll continue to think about it. Have any of you studied this one academically?

THIS book. It's been in my TBR pile for an embarrassing length of time, but now that I've started it 😻😻😻!

I read this story collection long ago, and remember liking it well enough to make it a 🤘🏻, but I appreciate it more as an idea: songs as writing prompts. So for several reasons, Lit Riffs is my two cents for #day21 of #augustphotochallenge #bookandmusic

#FunFridayPhoto I remember my mom asking me when I was little why Alice in Wonderland was my favorite: because she goes strange places and meets strange people and there's no prince.

i'm not sure i could choose one favorite E.E. Cummings poem (i 😻 him so much), but i think this one is the best example of what it might be like to have a grasshopper bouncing around inside your head 😸#augustphotochallenge #day19 #poetry

Nothing beats a swimmin' hole on a hot day in Texas, and this is one of our #favplacetorelax! We're at Jacob's Well in Wimberley Tx. #augustphotochallenge #day17

All the #uniquefact photos for #day14 of the #augustphotochallenge prove that Litsy is full of cool, creative, strong, brave and amazing people! My thing is gingerbread houses. I love making them, gathering unusual supplies and of course, collecting BOOKS for new ideas. 😺

While I'm away from home and my stacks of books, I do have my tablet with me, so here is my #bookstack (or #ebookstack) for #day13 of the #augustphotochallenge. It's been delightful to see all the book stacks that others have posted, evidence that my piles and piles and piles of books are really quite normal after all! 😸

#FunPhotoFriday One of my fav books, by one of my fav authors, discussing two of my fav activities: running and writing.

Obv, I've borrowed this pic from the film, but I can't think of any better, more fascinating literary siblings than the Bennet sisters of Pride & Prejudice. The range of personalities bounce off one another: embarrassment, scandal, heartbreak, hurt feelings, all of it. #augustphotochallenge #day12 #favsiblings

Don't let the title put you off, Steven Pressfield and (editor) Shawn Coyne are the sympathetic, but plain spoken friends that creative types need. I love Pressfield's books on the craft of writing; The War of Art may be my favorite, and this newest volume feels like a continuation of the same conversation. I bought it "just to have," but once I started reading it, I couldn't stop. ❤️

I don't choose "Here" as a #laidbackbook because most of its pages are wordless, but because its a quick read with a straightforward and profound premise. "Here" is about the ephemeral. Today my "here" has a pink concrete duck, but I remember this same here 20 yrs ago as wilderness. What will be here in 100 years? What was here 1000 years ago? It's laid back because I can chill and think about it. #augustphotochallenge #day10

I have a personal short list of Best Books Ever, but this, THIS, is THE BOOK. I first read it in high school for French class and I read and read that copy literally to pieces. It's the book that made me feel like a serious grown-up reader (as sad as that sounds 😉), but also, in memory, makes it seem inevitable that I should be a writer. #favoritebooks #augustphotochallenge #day9

Happy National Book Lover's Day to all the book nerds of Litsy! #nationalbookloversday

We have an impressive collection of Little Golden Books because they make me smile. These are just a few of ours 😉 #augustphotochallenge #day8 #booksthatmakeyousmile

Cold Mountain is one of my favorite books, and one of the many reasons why I love it so much is the friendship between Ada and Ruby. #augustofpages #favoritebookishfriendships