#ThreelistThursday @dabbe 23 books read, absolutely loved Christ stopped at Eboli and the tagged book,full review here:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5535027924
My 3 I want to read are Transit by Anna Seghers, The man who loved children by Christina Stead and The big sleep by Chandler

1.My mum's 1st choice for me was Pashmina,I Love that name but my dad objected because he thinks sheep are silly and it's a type of sheep!
2.Not my pets,but I used to feed an adorable kitten that I called Gigi,after her cat in Kiki's delivery service
3.I love all the names in tagged series-Lyra Belacqua,Iorek Byrnison,Lady Salmakia.
#WondrousWednesday @eggs

#Two4Tuesday @thespineview
1.3 books,all great,review of tagged book here:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7612055587
Language city,and The Long Goodbye,full review here
:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7612052750
2.Maybe planning a trip to Uzbekistan,excited to read The Railway by Hamid Ismailov!

@dabbe #TLT #ThreeListThursday
DH Lawrence is one of my favourite writers,so all 3 of his books in this list would be my favourite -Sons and Lovers,Lady Chatterleys Lover and The Rainbow,my review is below!
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4997984958

@dabbe #TLT #ThreeListThursday
Picking 3 I hated again!
1.The Alchemist-shallow and silly
2.Gormenghast-self indulgent,verbose,sexist,Peake has never spoken to a human woman in his life clearly.
3.The secret history - so very pretentious

@dabbe #ThreeListThursday #TLT
Posting a bunch that I did earlier!
Utterly baffled by how 50 Shades,Ready Player One and Flowers in the attic can be on a list along with Their eyes were watching God,Things fall apart and Lord of the Rings.I have read Mills&Boons category romances more nuanced than the former three.So that's my 3 against 3!My review of Steinbecks Red pony(not in this list
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7578188800

#Two4Tuesday @thespineview
1.Tamizh is one of the most ancient languages in the world and my native language, unfortunately not my first language!I can speak and understand it perfectly,but read it only very haltingly.
2.Tagged book is the first of a 7 book swashbuckling historical fiction picaresque tale set in the Chozha Empire,in around 800AD.Ive read it in English and absolutely loved it,would love to read in original Tamizh

#SundayFunday @bookmarktavern
The translation of Les Miserables is around 1400 pages and never felt like a slog,not even once.

#WondrousWednesday @Eggs
This was one of my absolute favourite,edge of the seat adventure books when I was a kid.I could probably read it now and still love it!
From a children's book,definitely George Kirrin of The Famous Five,not perfect at all,straining against the constraints of girlhood,a clever rebellion against expected behaviours.
I read The Long Goodbye and would give it all the stars!!

“Astha was brought up properly, as befits a woman, with large supplements of fear. One slip might find her alone, vulnerable and unprotected. The infinite ways in which she could be harmed were not specified, but Astha absorbed them through her skin, and ever after was drawn to the safe and secure.”This excellent opening paragraph just gets more excellent.Can't recommend enough.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7083955636

This is a public service warning,not a review,Consider yourself warned against reading this absolute garbage.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7578874348

Perfect for fans of MOlly Keane,Ursula Holden and Patricia HIghsmith
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7578869299

Excellent biography of how cities change,and how some histories can be hidden.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7578863564

Beautiful book about preserving linguistic diversity.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7528386875

The political fissures of the past echo down generations.We're seeing it happen in every country.This interesting graphic novel shows you that for TUrkey.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7489997044

For nearly 2000 years,nobody was reading a poewrful Emperor's painstakingly carved edicts about seeing the error of his violent expansionist ways,converting to BUddhism and wanting to rule through peaceful means.In the mid 19th Century,a bunch of soldiers,chemists,lawyers,administrators,out of sheer curiosity,spent years deciphering them,and his voice was heard again,and still it.THis is that story.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7578833355

Each book in this series is better than the last,I can't wait to finish all.Read No.3 in Rougon-Macquart,so nuanced and intelligent,and so continually relevant.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7578825197

One of my favourite things about Litsy is that the buddy reads make sure I end up reading books that have been on my TBR forever,and just haven't gotten around to.every time that's ended up adding a new book to my favourites pile, and this was no different.Finally posting my review! #hashtagbrigade @BarkingMadRead
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7578808437

Excellent historical fiction from Tracy Chevalier, as always, with a conceit I didn't like at first, but quickly warmed to.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7578800458

Please shop for this book that's so illuminating about how we shop.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7578782099

Nuanced biography of a truly beautiful mind.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7578218270

Excellent companion piece to one of my favourite books.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7578213655

I've never read this book before, and now I dip it into it on a daily basis.What better image than Lockwood' Kipling's illustration for what is one of the most evocative opening paragraphs ever.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7578206614

If I could rate this book infinite stars, I would.THe opening lines of Emily WIlson's translation of 'THe Odyssey', “Tell me, O Muse, of a complicated man“would not go amiss as an epigraph for this.Read if it you're not a fan of Kipling(I wasn't,I'm now a devotee),or if you're a fan.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7578201795

Not as good as the other spy novels I read last December, but the context makes it interesting and worth reading
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7578198400

Edge of the seat spy novel, and interesting female protagonist.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7578195543

Look no further than this book for your next spy novel if you haven't already read it.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7578192350

Give him another Nobel Prize, just for this perfect novella.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7578188800

Evocative, moving book about the 20th Century and its upheavals in Mayyazhi in India.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7578183379

Review dump after a wihle! Loved this beautiful book about Ás above, so below“. Full review here:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7578171770

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.