I'm finally back to Litsy and I could not be happier😍🎉 The decade's first book is 99 percent mine.
While at the age of 30 I am proud to be a contemporary romance fan I was a little disappointed with this 2019 favorit. The Hating Game was one of my favorit discoveries of 2019 but this Thorne book was sadly boring at times. While I loved Darcy as the badass but escapist heroine I did not understand the dynamic that drove the romance.

I had heart-shaped pupils pretty much throughout the whole time I've read it. Smart reenactment of the good old-fashioned Benedict/Beatrice hate-fuelled love narrative. Thorne creates characters with real vulnerabilities and is able to write intelligently structured and worded sex scenes which I greatly appreciated. Though idillyc the scenes are tasteful and true to the characters she created. will revisit this humorous sexiness of a novel.

???Happy International Women's Day Litsy! I wish every female writer to have, as Virginia Woolf have said a "Room of Her Own" to create worlds of her own. So I am happy to present female author who I'll be reading this year from horror to fantasy through science, romance to crime and scifi. There is no form of literature that is particularly male or female there are only good texts and bad texts. #shewhowrites makes the world a better place!

If you adore BBC's Pride and Prejudice to the ridiculous extent that you are able to recite complete scene in multiple languages this gem of a behind the scenes picture is for you (other) crazy folks😘

#JaneAustenrules #austenian

?✒️?Elizabeth Barrett Browning knew something profound about love when she wrote "I love thee withe the passion put to use/In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith." Definitely one of my favorite lines of poetry. I am celebrating this genius' birthday with this picture. What is your favorite line from any poem?

#poem #lovepoetry #poetry #sonnet

🗼✒️💈The great master and empathizer of human suffering #victorhugo was born today in 1885. I adored#lesmiserables as a teenager (angst galore) but the #hunchbackofnotredame is also a grand masterpiece in tragedy and compassion. Keep reading Hugo. What's your favorite quote, character, story from this French realist/romantic? 😊

Mesmerisingly true to seventeen year-old's struggle with identity. Sweet and pure but nonetheless intense. If you have not cried like a baby by the end of this one you are made of stronger matter than I am.
Its a breath of fresh air that while you know that the love Ari and Dante have for each other will face many obstacle from this environment their family's support will shelter them from not taking a chance with each other.
Fall in love 💕

✒️💕One of my favorite poets Edna St. Vincent Millay was born on this day in 1892. Transcendental mind, immense heart, larger-than-life poetry. Yes, those are my #booknerd notes on the margin. I've got this volume for my 18th birthday. I did not know all of the words then (Hungarian here) but I cherished them nonetheless. #poetry #poems

In 1907 a great master of human emotions was born. His birthday is today. I loved him in Uni, and continue to love him today. #poetry #englishliterature

It‘s commendable of Angie Thomas that she created a character who is three dimensional, with amazing strength and very human with wishes, regrets and traumas yet (or maybe because of this) she can be an inspiration for a whole generation. Even if one sees the struggles Starr's family faces the support you feel through every conversation makes you wish you see more families behaving exactly like hers when facing such insurmountable obstacles.

Magnificent, transcendental, gut punching. Brilliant tribute to Bushwick and Jane Austen‘s original work.

I‘ll reread and reread this book when I want to get lost in the themes of coming-of-age, self-discovery, first love, family-pride, and the love of Bushwick, or any neighborhood that starts to lose its heart.

This book took me the longest time to finish, but in the end it shook me to my core. You do not complete reading a book narrated by Death in a couple of days. It's a slow process with miriad of miraculous and horrific scenes revealed.

With this book you'll experience WWII with characters you'll grow to love and know from the beginning that they'll needlessly suffer because of a psychotic little man. And you'll be viciously angry.

"A last note from the narrator: I am haunted by humanity." from Marks Zusak's The Book Thief