Welcome to Litsy!

It was too slow for me.

#ispy a yellow cover
a couple of yellow covers from my shelves

Thanks for the tag @greenreads

Do you have red? @Siri_reads @Kalalalatja

#7Days7Covers Day 2

@sisilia, you may be the only person not playing yet. 7 days, 7 covers you love, no explanation. Try to tag someone new each day.

This edition was printed in 1896. I had to cut pages as I read, meaning a book that was meant to be read had to wait 125 years. Kinda sad. But I‘m honored to finally do it the honors.

Well, I have 38 volumes of Balzac to get through. Better get cracking. 📖🤓��

Old Goriot, 1835

Translation, 2018: “You‘d be pretty if you smiled moreâ€�

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#bully #quotsyoct18 @TK-421

It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.

Fascinating story about the boarders of a house in Paris. Father Goriot is one of them. This formerly wealthy man now lives in poverty to let his greedy daughters live their spoiled lives among Paris' upperclass. All the characters are worked out very well. No one is really likable, which makes this story so fascinating and ultimately very sad. #1001books

Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?

My favourite title father... well, at least in French

Obligatory reading... but realism is what makes it good 😉

Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.

"I tell you, Monsieur de Rastignac, you must treat the world as it deserves...learn to mistrust the world if you wish to preserve in advance an affection that has, as yet, no existence."