Welcome to Litsy!

“While we ate, Mami sat as far from us as she could. Omar couldn‘t get off work, I kept slurring, even after Leidy kicked and kicked my shin under the table each time I forced out the excuse. Dante crawled around on the floor next to her, moving from cousin to cousin, begging to be lifted. I kicked Leidy back and said it anyway - Next year, you‘ll see - to Neyda, to people who‘d been whispering about my mom‘s outburst, her door-slamming . . .”

Still working on finishing the books I‘ve started 📖 instead of starting any new ones. Enjoying a caramel high rise with an extra shot of espresso and an Asiago bagel 🥯 with garden veggie cream cheese.

“Only when the ghost of my mother‘s image - her metallic outline - faded away into the now-dead screen did I let go of the remote, its thud against the carpet the last sound I heard as I ran out the front door.”
#Adventathon Day 10

“Canals zigzag across the city I used to call home.”
Hold came in at the public library, so I immediately had to read the first two chapters tonight for #Adventathon Day 9
April needed to check the book out as well
#catsoflitsy #firstline

Ugh. Painful. Painful to say it was painful but it was about as bad as it could get. I‘m hoping the author‘s book of essays is better. The writing is trying really hard but just doesn‘t work (for me). I found some sentences taking 2-3 reads before figuring out what each was trying to say (editing issues?). Lackluster characters ugh just a bore fest. Sorry, hard hard pass. So here‘s a pic of a turtle crossing my yard a few days ago. Ugh.

Ahhhhhhhh if you have to be up before dawn, this is how you do it 🔥🐈☕️📖

Y'all: I have discovered Half-Price Books

This book bathed my soul in violetas.

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Wow! So disappointing. Burning a Latina authors book because you don‘t think white privilege isn‘t real is not cool.

http://www.thegeorgeanne.com/news/article_27bf3288-eb78-11e9-b386-47de5677b8c7.h...

When you are one of the only Latina students at a prestigious liberal arts university, heading to college can be an incredible cultural shift. But it can be just as difficult to return home. Lizet tries to move between the worlds of her Cuban-American family in Florida and Rawlings University. It's 1999, Cuban refugees are in the news, her parents have recently split up, and she is pulled in multiple directions. ⤵️

For some reason, it took me weeks to get through this book. However, this is not a reflection on it's merit. As an academic, I related with Lizet's feelings of living two lives, of losing her family in pursuit of her dreams. This book is not fast-paced, it's more like a slow burn. Heart-breaking and heartfelt.

Roadtrip companions.

#bookstagram June 9: #spinepoetry

#riotgrams feb 8: spine poetry

This was spectacular! Touched me on so many levels...Miami, going away to college, now thinking about the author teaching at UNL. Just loved it and couldn‘t wait to share it with friends.

#riotgrams day 12: book & library card

When you get random texts suggesting IKEA furniture your book stacks may be out of control 😂

A few recent acquisitions that #startwithmno 📚Any thoughts on these? #jubilantjuly

Just put a line through whatever you did incorrectly and keep going. - Jennine Capó Crucet

My niece is headed off to college this fall and #uncasheville chose this book as their incoming student summer read. Figured I'd read it with her!

The premise of the story is great, and the character is compelling, but the development of the story was a bit slow for me. Still worth the read, though!

"When everyone around you thinks they already know what your life is like, it's easier to play in to that idea...at the very least, it made trying to make friends simpler than it would've been had I tried to be a more accurate version of myself" (66). #realtalk #24in48

My book club read this book, one I would never have chosen on my own, but I'm glad to have read it. It's a well-written story of a bright young woman torn between her family's insular immigrant community and the opportunity to break away and take her place in mainstream America. You root for her all the way to make the right choice.

I'm going to plow through this stack of library books first. Then if I have time, I'll read one (or two) of the many I have waiting on my Kindle! #seasonsreadings2016 #wanttoreadindec #libraylove #tbr

@RealLifeReading

And then I remembered BookOutlets black Friday sale and traded all my money for magical glorious books. 🎉📚🎉📚🎉📚🎉

It's Hispanic Heritage month! Have you read any of these books by amazing Hispanic authors? What other titles do you recommend? 📚❤️🎉