Welcome to Litsy!

I‘m making progress through this book but it has been months. I‘m enjoying it but not retaining much...for me these days reading isn‘t the escaping or devouring, it‘s the company a book provides and the all too soon forgotten moments of new understanding.
This is an inventory of my bottles of ink for my fountain pens. It‘s a project I‘ve been meaning to get to and an audiobook and winter weather helped.

I‘m searching for phonetic guesses of other languages. Al Hakam (?) reaches Mehrgarh and reports to Khalif Omar:
“He got a less than enthusiastic report: ‘It is a land whose plains are mountains,...whose only fruits are poor quality dates, whose enemies are heroes, whose prosperity is little, whose evil is long-lasting. What is much there is little. What little is there is nothing. As for what lies beyond, it is even worse.‘”

I haven‘t been reading. I have been reading, just not making progress. Yesterday morning, I did something I haven‘t done in months, almost a year, I grabbed a warm beverage and a cosy blanket and learned about another time and learned about places I‘ve never seen.
I missed that feeling. I missed that intention. I feel like I haven‘t been myself for so long I was a new self who didn‘t read.
This book, I am glad to report, isn‘t just about Europe

Starting my #LitsyPartyOfOne during lunch. Bonus points @MrBook for my Vanilla Coke 😜 I am already loving seeing all your posts. It's definitely making my work day so much better!!! More pics to come when I get home. 🤗 #HostPost

Lunchtime reading session. I'm hiding away in one of our file and supplies storage rooms. This is the best version of myself lol 😂

The new job is awesome! But there definitely isn't going to be a lot of time for reading. I brought in this book because each chapter is pretty short, but deals with a specific area that's not necessarily connected to the next chapter, which makes for great short reading bursts. I've started to decorate my desk a bit and make it feel like home. ☺️

This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful to be able to enjoy this book in front of this beautiful fire. But even more so, I'm so incredibly #thankfulfor Litsy. I love you all. 2016 has been a complete dumpster fire for so many of us, but this community is by far the best group of people I've ever encountered. Thank you for being there for me when I felt so low. Have a wonderful, relaxing day, Littens. 💖💖💖💖💖

My face when I thought little man was down for the night and I could commence on some much-needed reading time and I hear screaming start. Turned out he threw his Curious George book out of the crib and wanted it back. #ProudMommy

When you try and get one more kitty picture for #internationalcatday and you have to settle for a picture of his profile because King Kitty couldn't be bothered with such trivial things. Also, does anyone know how long you can go with numb legs before it can cause permanent damage? I don't want to move fatso here until right before that becomes an issue 😹😹

Taking full advantage of the break in Olympic action before prime time coverage, to read out on the balcony. Drizzling rain, an added bonus.

Decided to attack this monstrosity. Thanks a bunch to my wonderful mommy, @Lynnsoprano for letting me scavenge from her library. This will take me quite a while, especially with the Olympics happening. Cest la vie

I never know what I'll be in the mood to read on any given day, so compiling a TBR pile for a whole month seems disingenuous of me. So I'll post a book that I'd like to read after my current book is finished. As this is 667 pages of history, it could very well be my August TBR pile 😅