Welcome to Litsy!

Thank you for sending me in an awesome trip around the world, as the indomitable Nellie Bly, @StayCurious! Such a fun package. I love everything, but am especially stoked about the pocket watch and pen! Hoping to dig into the books and candy soon. Thank you and our hosts! @DinoMom @Chrissyreadit #staycationintimeswap #sits #staycationintime

Still here. 🏥 Lunch, my third round of IV antibiotics, and surprise thoughtfulness from my high school friend (friendship 23 years strong) arrived all at once.

Not wrong?

You have GOT to be kidding me. 😡

I‘m being surprise admitted to the 🏥 because of an infection needing IV antibiotics and they keep throwing the word “surgery” around. 😭 I hate my life but at least I brought a book. #doublespin

Here are my books for November‘s #BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

I got posted today's prompt yesterday because these days my days just all run together. So, here's my #flag post I should have made yesterday. 🇺🇸

#BoundTogetherJune @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620

Fantastic book!
The Woman‘s Hour takes a brief look at American woman‘s suffrage, then delves deep into the fight for Tennessee, the 36th state to approve the 19th Ammendment, paving the way for it to be ratified by the federal government.
Weiss also spends time looking at the key players of both for- and anti- parties.

Back to nonfiction bedtime reading! This guy is happy for it. This is the first of many 19th Amendment books in my queue. I should probably mix it up a bit but I like voting so here we go. 🚀 🚀 🚀

I'm #audiobaking with my favorite chocolate chip recipe and a book about the suffrage movement in Tennessee. I also remembered that I completely forgot to post a #bfcr3 update last week. 🤦 Truth be told, I've had a bunch of small health issues that have kept me from exercising much, but I think it's important to pay attention to my body's messages. Sleep is going decently well, though! 4/12 books read. #bookfitnesschallenge @wanderinglynn

Book mail is the best mail. 📚📚

Perfect way to end #womanshistory month! If you take your right to vote for granted, read this book! If you want to feel empowered, read this book! It took a 72 year movement, to get the 19th amendment ratified. I have never felt so grateful for the brave women who came before me. And the numerous parallels to today's political and social climate was astounding. We still have so much work to do.

“When the founders wrote “We the People,” they really meant “We the White, Wealthy Men.” Despite much lofty rhetoric, all men were not created equal, and women didn‘t count at all.” #internationalwomensday #litsywalkers #tbr pic from my walk today

This is my ambitious March #tbr. Dedicating the month to books by and about bad ass women, doing bad ass stuff!
#womenshistorymonth

On my to read list, this book chronicles a specific battle in United States‘ women‘s fight for suffrage. #SisterSuffragette #MusicalNewYear

Enjoying the day off! #breakfastisthebest #nowreading #nonfictionnovember

This seems like an excellent night to start listening to this one. So far I'm enthralled. And I haven't even gotten past the intro yet! #vote

I voted in the most book nerd way possible and dropped our ballots off at the library last Saturday. But today I'm rockin' my ALTNPS shirt to ward off bad mojo. 💙🇱🇷🌊 #votersoflitsy #vote

The parking lot was pretty full this morning at the polls. Didn‘t need my book, but I was ready to wait all day if I had to. 🇺🇸

The nail-biting climax of one of the greatest political victories in American history: the down and dirty campaign to get the last state to ratify the 19th amendment, granting women the right to vote.

This one is a Goodreads 2018 Nominee ❤️

#makeyourvotecount #fallintoreading

#vote #tbr #words #gratitude30

Opening up school this morning and serving breakfast to the kids because I early voted and am doing a favor to my colleagues! Even if you early voted, make it easier for your friends to go vote! #vote

Proof again that when women are determined, they can get the job done. Thank you to these smart, tough women that got the 19th amendment ratified so I have the privilege to vote.

Very detailed account of the fight to get the women‘s vote and the people who fought for and against the fight. Slow read

Exceptionally researched, brilliantly readable this was eye opening. The political shenanigans, distrust and rampant racism that went alongside the campaign to finally grant women the vote in the US is played out with obvious modern day parallels. A full recommend. I‘ve already handed this over to my dad to read!

I am so enjoying this book which was a #blameitonlitsy birthday request. Keeping track of all of the players is proving tough as I have never studied American history but it is fascinating and pretty relevant today. Kept me occupied on a slow moving train !

These are on my tbr pile, so much good stuff coming this year!

The amount of detail in this book is astounding (& occasionally slows things down) but the amount I learned about the women's suffrage movement & the ratification of the 19th amendment made it worth it. I particularly appreciated Weiss's commitment to depicting an honest portrayal of all sides (for & against) & the role racism played--both for Antis & the white Suffs who were more concerned w getting the vote than actual universal suffrage.

Sunshine and reading 🌞

Sounds good to me-- why *can't* the rooster sit on the eggs for a change? 😂

This book is amazing — edge-of-your-seat nonfiction about the fight to ratify the 19th amendment in the fateful 36th state needed for women‘s suffrage to become a right across all the US. Riveting. And sad that the racial arguments are still alive today. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

A fantastic work of narrative nonfiction that offers a behind-the-scenes look at what it took for Tennessee to ratify suffrage and how this led to women having the right to vote across the U.S. 1/2 ⬇️

suffragette sunday 💪

Happy Independent Bookstore Day! What a day at #WatermarkBookstore in Wichita! Great books, great friends, and a new hat! 💚📚💜📚💙📚❤️📚

This was absolutely riveting from the first page to the last. When the 19th Amendment was up for ratification, suffregetes and anti-suffregettes converged in Nashville in a no-holds barred battle. The ending had me on the edge of my seat as much as any thriller I have ever watched or read. Weiss doesn't shy away from the shameful concessions and lack of support for racial equity that was involved in the push for the vote. Highly recommend.

Since you can‘t hear the rain that is falling outside, I figured this overlay would suffice ☔️ I really enjoyed this book, I learned a lot about this movement that my history classes glazed over. My string of picking good “books about women who get sh!t done” continues 👍🏻⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 stars

How I rock a Saturday when the hubby is out of town. Got the heat cranked up to 68 and I‘m soaking it in 😇

"They had to beat back the accepted medical wisdom that strenuous thinking harmed a woman's reproductive organs, draining the lifeblood from her ovaries to her brain, endangering not just civilization, but the human species."

YIKES.

At my parents-in-law‘s house enjoying a Little King brew (pen for reference) 🤣 #booksandbrews

Having a steady stream of “women who get sh!t done” books is needed for me to make it through a day at work 🙄 My manager is useless, so at least I have books full of exemplarily women to look up to

Thank you @strandbookstore for one of the best #bookhookup (s) ever. Super excited💃🏽 #strandbooks #feministsrule

Lunch + two excellent books

The Woman‘s Hour tells the history of women getting the right to vote prior to the 1920 election. It‘s a detailed and interesting read. Despite it being almost 100 years in the past, the election results of 1920 sound very similar to what happened in 2016.

😡 These words were written in the early 1900s. I can‘t believe that it‘s 2018 and women still have to fight for control over their own lives and bodies.

Lunch & reading break (plus using all of my will power not to binge the entirety of Jessica Jones season 2 instead of doing work)

#bookhaul part 2 thanks to @everlocalwest - these look so good! Just what I needed at the end of the week 📦😀📖

“No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.” Susan B. Anthony

Here‘s another couple of pictures from my visit to Susan B. Anthony‘s house yesterday in Rochester. On the left is the full view of the sculpture of Ms. Anthony with Frederick Douglas called “Let‘s Have Tea”. And on the right is a close up of Ms. Anthony holding my copy of The Woman‘s Hour. #suffragette #bookphotography

“Failure is Impossible” Susan B. Anthony

Today I used a few hours of my 33 hour layover in Rochester, NY to visit Susan B. Anthony‘s house, I highly recommend the tour if you ever find yourself in the area. Joining me on my visit was Elaine Weiss‘s upcoming book, The Woman‘s Hour: The Last Furious Fight to Win the Vote. I was lucky enough to get an advanced readers copy and can‘t wait to dive in. It comes out March 6, 2018

And because my local booksellers know me well, a 2018 (!) ARC to peruse... #history #nonfiction #feminism

I love when I come home and there's a new ARC waiting for me to review. #gooddays