Laughing SO HARD at this. Describes literally every other guy at my workplace ( most of whom have MBAs)

#5JoysFriday @eggs thanks for the tag! @debinhawaii
1.A major joy was that a close relative's medical. Emergency ended up being less major than we feared.
2.My dad's really painful spondylitis has improved considerably.
3.My office secret Santa gift was surprisingly nice!
4.Lovely goan Christmas sweets from a friend
5.Christmas lighting in my area! In the photo

Happy Christmas to all my Litsy friends!I can't begin to tell you how much all of you enrich my reading,with your comments,posts,thoughts and reading challenges.
The photo is of my 91 year old grandmum's Christmas party,she organises a Christmas lunch for her friends in her village!The colourful decoration is floor art done with coloured powder we call 'kolam',done for festivals.

@karisimo saw this shared by @Eggs #MiddleGradeMonday and it was a lot of fun!
I absolutely LOVED the tagged book, and a birthday gift that one of the protagonists gets in this book catalyses the whole adventure.

#Naturalitsy @Alldebooks @thebookhippie @Chrissyreadit #MidWinterSolace #Fridaynightshare
Please read this book, all Naturalitsy readers. Excellent book about humans and how we've been shaped by ice, in ways you would not imagine. Covers geographies, time scales and habitats and is beautiful.

#Adventathon #Week2 @BookmarkTavern
Katherine Mansfield is one of my favorite writers.Tough minded,intelligent, she can cut you like a knife with deceptively simple sentences, this is one of those that made me cry.

#Naturalitsy #fridaynightshare #MidwinterSolace @alldebooks @thebookhippie
I love the tagged book. Eerie, wintry and gripping. Susan Cooper's books are rather humourless though, but still fun reads!

#SundayFunday“ @bookmarktavern
I think this book is one of the Platonic ideals for time travel/ science fiction because it doesn't ignore the very real consequences of someone from one time and one contxt, and more importantly a set of rights, would face in a different time. Love recommending this.

@Eggs @thespineview #Two4Tuesday sorry about the late post!
1. Neither actually, Christmas at home! Failing which a city with nice Christmas markets!
2. Tagged book has multiple Christmases at home😃
Thank you for tagging me!

#Adventathon @bookmarktavern Reading this book for #Naturalitsy, so grateful it was picked because it's an absolute delight.This bit made me laugh out loud at the strange ways we anthropomorphise other living things that are utterly indifferent to us.

#SundayFunday @bookmarktavern
Definitely have a list in mind, I already have such an extensive TBR, I stick to that!Bought the tagged at Strand in New York, spent practically an entire morning there!

#Two4Tuesday @eggs @thespineview thanks a lot for the tag!
1.My area has a lot of very lovely lighting for Christmas that I usually like to walk around and look at-this is not the norm for my country,so it's a novelty for me!
2.Was hugely looking forward to reading the tagged book,borrowed it from my. Library,read in one sitting,cannot recommend enough!
You and your family are in my thoughts and prayers, @Eggs!

#MiddleGradeMonday @karisimo Easily a Middle Grade read, I think this book actually should be prescribed reading for schools along with your regular chemistry textbook!

#Naturalitsy @alldebooks this is so fascinating. So like all art, even how we interpret cave art says more about us than about the motives of the artists

#Naturalitsy @alldebooks read the deeply charming and informative introduction and already in love with a book that starts off with Edward Lear's whimsical plants, that indicate his interest in actual botany.

#whereintheworld @cupcake12
Such an interesting prompt.Fanon traveled extensively, and a compelling part of this nuanced book is set in the DRC and Angola, so all of these places!

#SchoolSpirit #Day2 #Bell
I found a perfect fit!Lyrical account of Tokyo through the city's old bells. @eggs @alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#SchoolSpirit #September #Day1 #Teacher
The protagonist of this book is an English lecturer,so it fits!Profound,witty and excellently written,do read this book about some writers getting pigeonholed into niches they don't want. Then watch American Fiction, the movie adaptation that's as good. @alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @eggs

#TLT #ThreeListThursday @dabbe
1. I know 85 of these songs! And wow, what a list.
2. Favourites would be Cabaret, from the film version of the tagged book,Stayin Alive and absolutely everything from Singin in the rain.
3. Share your favourites!! What absolute tunes this list has.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5090094708
#Aboutabook #Pub100yearsago
@eggs @alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
Bit of a cheat, this was published way more than 100 years ago and is still so relevant

#Middlegrademonday @karisimo
This book doesn't get as much attention as it should. Perfect for slightly advanced middle grade readers. Here's my review!
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3999055035

#TLT #ThreeListThursday
I've listened to 86 songs! So many absolute bangers but 3 clear standouts for me
1.Redemption song-moves me to tears
2.In my life-Ive moved around a lot and the song really speaks to me
3.Bohemian Rhapsody-the sheer inventiveness of that song
@dabbe

#WondrousWednesday not been on Litsy for a while, ever since the Android app was removed! I still find the website very fiddly! @eggs

#MotivationalMonday @Cupcake12
1.To continue obsessively watching a TUrkish show on Youtube called Ada Masali!
2.I just saw Dana Fuchs live and am now obsessed by 'Blue Mist Road'
3.Duran Duran,Depeche Mode, Simple Minds,Madonna,Tracy Chapman,The Who,Paul McCartney,Coldplay,Michael Jackson,Paco de Lucia

#TLT #ThreeListThursday @dabbe
1. VI Warshawski !Love her spunk, her gumption, her constant bad choices in men!
2. Brother Cadfael from ELlis Peters' books.Always compassionate,insightful and forgiving, in a harsh world.Anyone who hasn't,I cannot recommend the TV series enough,available on youtube.
3.Miss Marple,of course!For her unwavering faith in,and cynicism of human nature.
Honorable mentions-all of ENid BLyton's intrepid child detectives

#WondrousWednesday @Eggs
1.Definitely 'Dance Hall days' by Wang Chung. I could not LOVE that song more!
2.I stayed in a perfect Airbnb in Chelsea in London once,that would be my dream home!
3.A nice walk with my husband in good weather to get an expansive sweet breakfast accompanied by good coffee!
Tagged book is a great read on music!

#Two4Tuesday @thespineview
1. 😀Prefer not getting anything! I don't give anything for it either !
2.Tagged book, while it's a joint biography of Kiki and Man Ray, a part I found fascinating was its description of the help extended to,and received from,the women of Montparnasse.Lovely real life examples of platonic love.Full review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5407690537

I love these, will definitely manage all 4! Thanks for this interesting ( and really useful to #readyourkindle) reading challenge, @CBee!!

#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain
Finished 3 of these this weekend! Thank you for the recommendation of Don't kiss the bride, it was quite a good book,though that cover is nightmare inducing!

Chosen my 20!So difficult to pick just 20 from more than 150 unread and probably just as excellent books! #readyourkindle #readyourebook @CBee

#WONDROUSWEDNESDAY @eggs
1.No,my name was picked because my parents wanted an unusual name!Which means it's constantly mispronounced,I don't mind that though.
2.No siblings
3.These 2 amazing books by very underrated writers and tagged book, who should be as famous as John Updike and Philip ROth but aren't.

#MOtivational Monday
1. TO get back to my reading and exercise routine after a week of battling fatigue and the flu!
2.Tagged book.THoughtful,sad and should be as celebrated,if not more,than Revolutionary Road.
3.Curious,self-contained
@cupcake12

I absolutely love wearing rings, and anklets, and this sentence described my love for them like nothing else has. Tiny fragments of loveliness indeed.

WOW. THIs book is just one zinger after another

When one is in Scottsdale, do as any Scottsdale-ite would do and shop at Poisoned Pen Bookstore! #PoisonedPen

Barbara Trapido 's absolutely perfect sentences make you want to...live in her head!

Still the lines used by dictators. Service to the people.

Proust giving you an account of the stirrings of the 1917 Russian revolution!

I don't know how clear this is, but these are two absolutely delightful pages of writing.Tolkien manages a perfect tone throughout,which must be so hard. Great writing.
#LotrChapterADay #FellowshipOfTolkien

#WondrousWednesday @Eggs
🍎.Its when I take my annual vacation!
🍏Right now, extremely frazzled,stuck in a terrible traffic jam,and frightfully late to work!
🍏The tagged book, inspired by watching Oppenheimer. I can't recommend it enough.

#Two4Tuesday @thespineview
1.Breakfast! I love a lavish breakfast spread,with baked goods and eggs and there has to be filter coffee!
2.I had never heard of the tagged book, or author,and absolutely loved it. Her descriptions of her meals are deeply evocative

#TLT @dabbe
Movies:This is Spinal Tap,Withnail and I,Girls trip
Tv: Yes Minister,Fresh prince of Bel-Air, Blackadder
Books: Tagged books,Leave it to Psmith, Cold comfort farm

More late posts! #WondrousWednesday @eggs
1.Elizabeth Jane Howard, Elizabeth Jenkins,Stella Gibbons, Nancy Mitford (though she would probably hate me!),Arundhati Roy,Mahasweta Devi
2. The swinging 60s in Chelsea!!
3.I keep museum tickets, gig tickets and use them as bookmarks!

#LotrChapterADay #FellowshipOfTolkien I read this entire chapter completely teary eyed, and was in floods of tears by the time this came about

#LotrChapterADay #FellowshipOfTolkien This was always my favourite chapter,and nothing has changed over the years.Its even more poignant to read it now,when the depredations visited on earth are even more devastating.

Such unbelievably beautiful descriptions #LotrChapterADay #FellowshipOfTolkien

Late prompts! #Two4Tuesday @thespineview
1.Cant play to save my life,some of my worst childhood memories are associated with forced sporting activities at school😱😱I absolutely love watching,reading and talking about sports though!
2.The tagged book is one of the best I've read,as all good sports writing does,combines sports, history, sociology and humanity

@goodwilllibrarian VI Warshawski is a detective,former attorney, and the other characters are involved with the shipping industry, none of which are jobs I would like though I like reading about them!

So funny..and so true.
So all my well read Littens, what are your opinions on the surprisingly dark ending she gives to this book?She doesn't end her other Radlett-Montdore books on a note of such sadness, why do you think she chose this ending for this one?

Nancy Mitford is so insightful