Reads Marie Kondo once...

When the sun hits your #endpaper like a big pizza pie, that's amore 🌞📚

I've been a very Lazy Litten lately, so here's all the audiobooks I've been listening to in the last month 😘 #catchuppost #ketchuppost

I came across two horror books in my local used bookstore. One I'll be reading, the other will haunt me all my days. #horrorstory

Today we get to work #womensmarch #womensmarchphiladelphia #audrelorde

This podcast #adaptation of The Handmaid's Tale (one of my favorites) is pretty thrilling. I haven't met the Commander or Serena yet, but the Aunts sound a little like Disney evil-stepmothers.

Sending my intentions for the year out into the void. I got to 46 last year, so it's within my reach! Audiobooks and a job where I can listen to books most of the time really help. #bookishresolutions

Caught Diane Guerrero on Face the Nation this morning (not my usual thing, but I just left it on after CBS Sunday morning). I can't wait to read In the Country We Love for #readharder2017

Finished! This was so much fun. Anyone have recommendations for next year? #ReadHarder2016 #bookriot #readdiversebooks

"Do whatever it takes to make your life more worth living, just don't be mean."

I quickly took this photo when I met Kate Bornstein at Temple in 2009 and she gave me one of her "Get Out of Hell Free" cards. She's just as funny and fiery as you'd expect.

I squealed a little bit when I read that Auntie Kate's first apartment in Philly (after leaving Scientology, ending a third marriage, beginning her transition, and in the middle of this badass trailblazing memoir) was across the street from my favorite dive, 2 blocks from my workplace! #phillyreads #Philadelphia

First successful addition of a book to the Litsy database 💥💥
I'm seeing a bunch of new reading challenges pop up for 2017 and I love the excitement. I did #ReadHarder for the first time this year and loved it, but I'm wary of overwhelming my stubborn brain with too many assignments. #toopunkrock 😛

Warmed my little heart on a rainy morning

@penguinrandomhouse has great timing - my giveaway winning arrived on my birthday! 🎈And what a weekend to spend thinking about kindness #happybirthdaytome

Cecil loves me, but he's chosen darkness 😸👿📚 #booksandcats

"And so we ride eternal cycles of hope and disillusionment."
A most timely paragraph from this lovely travelogue. It's a journey through places and cultures as much as a jouney through the travel literature that preceded it - a florid way to say the Nicolay quotes Custine (and others) every step of his way, to great effect.

Witch-Wife
Happy Friday Litsy fam ❤ It's the season of the witch and I am in my element 🎃

"Be inconspicuous all day, I learned, except for the thirty minutes onstage, when you must be the most conspicuous thing in the room. Your livelihood depends on being unable to ignore."
[Thrilled to have met Nicolay at Brickbat Books earlier this fall ?]

I love Pioneer Girl's deptictions of research work in archives. The "actually" kills me. Are we sure this book is fiction?! ? #LISlove #archivesland

Stopped by this cute little book shop in CLE and picked up A Monster Calls. Tis the season! I'll be here until Sunday if anyone has any other bookish stops to recommend

I couldn't choose between these two books for the @bookriot #readharder challenge, so I checked out both! I'm really enjoying Pioneer Girl, but I hope to get to Of Bees and Mist in time for #allhallowsread

The Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell miniseries was very faithful to how I pictured the novel, including how easy-on-the-eyes Strange would be. And in that moment, I was Norrell. #adaptations

She ought to know that where there‘s a queen there‘s often a plot to overthrow her.
#booksandcats

Nimona is a badass biddy and I am into her.

The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.

I'm the kind of hot mess who reads self-help books while eating Chipotle.

A former boss lent me the first edition of this book many moons ago and I loved it. I won a review copy of the second edition from LibraryThing and I can't wait to curl up with this little dude and read it!

I unwittingly chose the perfect shirt to wear while I finish my Night Circus audiobook. Je suis un rêveur

"I guess I have to believe that the best marketing tool is still a good song. And that it's probably better that I put my time into writing one of those than learning how to do social media properly" (page 303)