Welcome to Litsy!

Class never runs scared. It is sure-footed and confident in the knowledge that you can meet life head-on and handle whatever comes along. Those who have class have wrestled with their own personal ‘angel‘ and won a victory that marks them thereafter. Class never makes excuses. It takes its lumps and learns from past mistakes. If you have class, you don‘t need much of anything else.

Day 4 #class #quotsysept18

I have absolutely no idea what my star rating for this is. At times I wanted to give it a 2, other times a 3, still other times a 4. A satirical indictment of Brooklyn Momzillas and the hypocrisy of limousine liberals this book frequently made me LOL but just as frequently made me 🙄. If you need to like characters stay FAR AWAY from this one as everyone is horrible.

I get up for one minute to go to the bathroom and this one steals my spot. Not tonight, Abby. I gotta finish Class before I fall asleep!

I finished reading The Arrangement and decided to try this, since it had a similar vibe. This is more of an examination of one woman's struggle with all the competing voices in her head that govern her behavior and her entire life. It mostly concerns where her child goes to school and the guilt she feels about wanting to change that and the crazy stuff she does to get to that end. It got a little old, but it's a quick read. The writing was eh.

I wanted to like this one, but I just really do not like the main character, Karen. And I don't think I'm in the right head space for all the political, cultural and racial satire right now. Maybe I will pick it up again some day, but I need to put it aside for now.

I work in an independent school, so, of course, I have to try this one!!

OMG!! This pizza was fantastic!

Salami/hot peppers/olives & a stinging nettles/talleggio/prosciutto.

This book is taking me FOREVER to finish. Don't know if it's the book or my reaction to it. It's definitely making me think. And it's been the subject of many conversations I've had with my friends lately.

Parents! Or really anyone:

Public or private school? How do you close the education gap inherent in schools!? It's all SO fucked up.👇🏻

Stop 2 for our coffee-shop crawl: Dapper & Wise. I am having a chai and I just love these flowers that match so perfectly with my book!

Happy Friday!!

Tonight we had dinner at a restaurant called Alba Ray's and I felt like we were back in New Orleans! It was dark enough, mysterious enough, and decorated just beautifully. We had braised rabbit stew + rabbit sausage and grits + black eyed peas and kale + guanciale mac and cheese + budin balls + the best chicken and pork jambalaya. And, of course, BEIGNETS! With a salted-caramel sauce.

Between the book and my partner, company was 👌🏻.

Book + Chickpea Croquettes + Arugula + Sumac-Spiced Greek Yogurt = Happy Sunday night!

Oh yeah, there's also an imperial barrel-aged brown ale (don't see that often!!) from Firestone Walker 👌🏻.

#marchintoreading #Didntlikebutstillfinished
I hated the main character, Karen. She is judgemental, condescending and racist all under the disguising of being a do good liberal (and as a liberal myself her attitude begged me the hell out of me)

Dinner tonight! Orecchiette, heavy on the arugula, with chorizo and tomatoes. One of my favorite meals 😍.

Still thinking this book is great! Yes, Karen is terrible sometimes. But I can relate in more than a few ways... 😬.

I know it might not look like much, but this week's burger was SO good from our favorite burger place. Feta yogurt, harissa (what a magical ingredient in anything ✨), and olive tapenade with arugula and pickled onions. YUM!!

I'm 50 pages in and am really LOVING this book. I know it's early and there are mixed reviews, but I think about schools and equal educational opportunity a lot and how to help solve this massive divide. What did you think?

Has anyone read Class by Lucinda Rosenfeld?
I'm a 100 pages in and decide if to continue reading or not. I hate the main character, Karen. She judgemental, condescending and racist all under the disguising of being a do good liberal (and as a liberal myself her attitude begs the hell out of me)
Thoughts anyone? Should I keep going?
#Class #LucindaRosenfeld

Enjoying a good book and celebrating National Margarita Day
#boozeandbooks #nationalmargaritaday

Bad, Boujee and bohemian 😁
#Class #Badandboujee

Look at this dedication! Here's to you Betsy Devos! 😜😜 #publicschoolkidthankyouverymuch

A sharp satire about a well-meaning and entitled white woman who ends up betraying her principles in order to get her only daughter into a better (read whiter and more affluent) neighborhood public school. Yes, I wanted to slap Karen (often), but she does learn --some-- lessons. Overall, an enjoyable, pointed take on white upper-middle-class liberal parenting and its hypocrisies. ⭐️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Waiting for @WanderingBookaneer so we can go home!

Picking up some late afternoon libations --and a doughnut!-- at our neighborhood Starbucks. Happy Sunday, Littens!

Last day of tournament duty with @gibblr -- the end is near! #teachersofLitsy (I'm thankful the students and their parents have worked hard to make it a smooth event 👍🏼)

The protagonist --white, skinny, affluent, liberal-- judges another mother --black, overweight, poor-- for her choices. This next paragraph is a devastating indictment of her hypocrisy, to which she is blind, but the reader certainly isn't.

Liking this one so far!

Starting this newly published satire about wealthy liberal parents who have to decide how far they will stand by their principles when their daughter starts to be bullied at the local public school. Sounds promising! #epigraphs

Found the local bookstore today.

Since this fits #orangecovers thought I'd post it today. It's a lovely novel about how well-meaning people don't always do the right thing. For all of their good intentions, they make choices that jeopardize what they've been so adamantly avoiding: bigotry and racism.