Unexpectedly thoughtful and poignant book about the paths our lives can take,and what gives one happiness. I did not at all like the ending and felt it undid all the excellent writing that went before,but I would still recommend this. Also it's a lot more real than books about women's mid life crises that seem to imply our only problem in our 40s is romance or a lack of it
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7466711043

@Cseydel
Congratulations on 50k!And how kind to do a #50kgiveaway,not putting my name in the hat,but commenting because Litsy is so much fun!This is the comment I had posted on texreaders post for why I love Litsy. And the generosity of all the kind people who hold giveaways!

#SUNDAYFUNDAY @bookmarktavern
A week later!I have,Salman Rushdie,Sebastian Faulks, Rukmini S,Peter Frankopan,Neil MacGregor,Thomas Piketty,VS Naipaul,Jenny Uglow,all at literature festivals!
Here's my review of Knife,an uncharacteristically vulnerable Rushdie.No less wonderful though.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6758504484

#Two4Tuesday @thespineview
Super late to this but don't want to pass up an opportunity to gush about this glorious book!
1.I listen to radio dramas on the BBC,and music programmes on it too!
2.Kim is one of my favorite books,I read it over and over again and it's just as delightful each time.Its also very comforting which is surprising for a book that's also a fast paced spy thriller

You can never have too much Shakespeare, or books about Shakespeare, specially when they're as erudite as this one.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7404969427

It might be about a violin, but as all great narrative nonfiction aims, it‘s also about all the things that go into it, from woodcutters, to church-funded orchestras, to an under-reported Holocaust and takes in dendrochronology along the way
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7404946306

Look at that beautiful photo of Timothy West and Prunella Scales.Lovely epistolary memoir of the life of a touring actor.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7404883873

Began this memoir as a Phantom of the Opera and Hello Dolly! super-fan, ended it as a Michael Crawford superfan.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7404860879

Patricia Highsmith does not need me reviewing her.She doesn't need anybody's validation,she would probably disdain my feeble attempt to convey the deep sense of unease she evokes in lesser mortals such as I.Here I go, though, and you should read this too!
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7404847863

If you think this cover is one of the most beautiful you've seen,I can guarantee you, the book is just as beautiful.Full review here:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7404839913

This book has no right to be as fun and as thoughtful as it is. And look at that utterly lovely cover. Full review here:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7404829354

Using litsy after a while!Also writing reviews after a while, bear with me while I do a reviews dump of books I've loved!Cannot recommend this delightful historical fiction enough.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6758491576

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!