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Okay, I'm joining in on the #7covers7days #covercrush thing.

7 book covers I love, no explanation needed. Feel free to tag yourself and join in 😁😁

Thanks for the tag, @LauraJ !

A picture from our Valentine‘s Day tea at the Ritz. When we discussed Gutshot, someone in our book club described Gray‘s writing as a delicately-laid tea set, and that is what comes to mind again when reading Isadora. Every choice precise, and the whole beautiful, like the description of Max‘s tea ritual, tea over sugar and topped with cream, conveying “a natural symbology: the cloud-soaked sky above spiced or subtle water above a sugar shoal.”

My initial “wow” impression (like a thumbprint on warm dough, as Gray put it) has not gone away. Nearly every page holds a striking image, a beautiful phrase, or surprising humor. It‘s a book to savor.

This crumb-coated pair, arms lifting for Mama, only know to take in love and churn it out again, offered up still warm from the soft shell of their delicate hands.

Gorgeous! Bought it tonight after our book club discussed Gutshot. This is like a different author entirely, or rather, her precise language has realized itself in a poetic prose that evokes sharply and simply and completely originally a specific place and era. I have read only a few pages and I am so wowed. 🤩

Isadora Duncan was the mother of modern dance... but was also the mother of two young children who were killed in a freak accident in Paris in 1913. This is the imagined story of what her life must have been like after that terrible tragedy... #onedance
#heatofjuly

Weekend reading.

Indie bookstore day #bookhaul came with a free galley.

Check out the books that arrived on my doorstep today. The backwards set are submissions for National Reading Group Month Great Group Reads so I can‘t show them for now. 😁Because of where we are in the NRGM-GGR calendar, I have been receiving similar amounts of books every day. Book heaven, I tell you!

Current Sunday situation 😻

Finally it is cool enough to sit outside and read!

Some of my library picks for #augustmostanticipated #mostanticipated #anditsaugust #backtoreading #litsyloveslibraries. Whether or not I get around to reading them, that's another story.

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I love Amelia Gray and while I can appreciate the sensual, dreamlike atmosphere her words create, I have no interest in a reimagining of the period of Isadora Duncan's life from death of her first two children to the birth of her third. Gray took risks with her writing style in this book that make it worth reading, so check out other reviews before deciding whether or not to read it.

Slowly making my way through this book. Unfortunately, the kitten is just more interesting.
#catsoflitsy

Walked to pick up my signed 1st edition from Skylight and passed a guy complaining that there were TWO bookstores on one block. Lola was aghast!!! Fortunately, she didn't let the experience ruin her trip. Skylight is her second favorite place in the world
#saturdaynightonthetown #julymostanticipated

#ReadingWomenMonth day 9:⠀
#TGIF It's been a long week, but we are looking forward to getting in some quality reading time this weekend. We'll be starting ISADORA. It's the story of Isadora Duncan, a talented dancer and choreographer, and how she dealt with the accidental death of her two young children. I'm eager to jump in. What is your #weekendreading?⠀
#thereadingwomen⠀

A friend in publishing who knows how much I love dance and eccentric women sent me this ARC.

A so-so to 👎🏻. There's an interesting novel in here, one about grief and loss and art, but it's bogged down by the style. The novel begins on the day Isadora's children drown in a car accident in the Seine and spans the next 18 months or so told by a rotating cast of characters - Paris Singer, Isadora's lover/father of the baby, Elizabeth, Isadora's sister, Max, Elizabeth's lover (?maybe) and a teacher at the Duncan school, and Isadora herself.

#TBRTuesday Took a look at what's on my shelves (real and virtual) and saw several titles with women's names. Thought I might go for a themed TBR this week!!! 👱🏼‍♀️👧🏽👩🏻