Welcome to Litsy!

January could have been better. Lots of started books. #stats #tricoursstats

This is a fascinating book, mostly thanks to descriptions of the incredibly friendly and cheerful #Inuits and their way of life. The Norwegian Astrup seems like an open-minded and almost annoyingly optimistic fellow who actually spoke Greenlandic. While the introduction does mention his untimely death at 25 (yup, after TWO Greenland expeditions), it doesn't specify that he most likely killed himself. #arctic #polar

I'm going to finish this one this evening. After a slow part about expedition progress it is now all about Inuit customs! (At the end of the 19th century, in Northern Greenland) #arctic #polar (That's a Kriek Boon btw, in case anyone was wondering.)

Reading hijacked by cat, as per usual. #catsoflitsy #readingwithcats

"The women also know how to 'use their mouths', just like their civilized sisters further south, though they use it for something more useful for their fellow man [=chewing skins] than these latter usually do." Such a funny man! #arctic #polar

Enjoying this excellent herbal tea with some blatantly racist 19th century views on inuits. Piano music in the background 🎶

Happy New Year then, Littens. I will be too hammered to post anything closer to our 12 o'clock, even though I would rather just hide behind a book about cold and hardship instead of celebrating. There's something so demanding about New Year's, it has to be so much fun, so social, etc. 😑 IMHO, I thought 2016 was a nice year, Litsy got going, I read more books, bought a better house and ordered a puppy. Not sure how 2017 is gonna beat that.

Honestly though, books had more soul back in the days, right? Once I got past the preface I realized this is a text that by no means has been modernized, they kept the 1895 typeface (the edition is from 1990) and the Norwegian language is so old-fashioned it's basically Danish 😃

This is one of the books I plan on starting today, "Among the neighbors of the North Pole" from 1895. ?