Welcome to Litsy!

#ArtfulAugust Day 1: This one definitely #IncludesAMap. I don‘t know if it is because the protagonist is a young science genius and brilliant mapmaker that made me appreciate the novel, despite its daunting thickness. I find myself naturally gravitating towards stories of outliers, particularly those in the farthest-high-end of the bell curve. My review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-7rA

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#LilithJuly Day 1: Tecumseh Sparrow Spivet is not a typical 12yo. He is a mapmaker. #GetOutTheMap. He is a collector of data and documents them fastidiously in his color-coded notebooks: red for insect anatomy, blue for his sociological observations of people doing things, and green for his zoological and topographical maps. There is no information perceived as trivial. My review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-7rA

I vowed to make a good faith effort and immediately realized that I COULD NOT with narrative voice for nearly 400 pages. Related: the word "precocious" means nothing to me anymore - that circuit is burnt out (and after only 16 pages!).

This has been sitting on my tbr for approximately a thousand years, and while the marginalia aspect still has me intrigued I'm not sure I'm gonna stick with it. (They say after reading just 4 pages.)

Here are the books for your consideration for Round 5 of #LMPBC #Round5GroupY
@leslieseidel @grumpygirlbooks @BridgetteM
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#QuotsyOct18 Day 21: A #Map to a novel is a #Map to one‘s heart.

Love, Love, Love books full of MARGINALIA!
This one has it throughout! ✅ #prettybooks #illustrated #marginalia

I suppose it is a victory that I came home with only two books from the Dollar Tree.

#ReadingResolutions Day 15: For #BookishMap this is the first book that came to mind. One of my fave quotes from the book “there was never a map that got it all right, and truth and beauty were never married to one another for long.” The story revolves around a 12 year old prodigy navigating his way around the Asymptotes, Longitudes and Latitudes of Human Relationships. Full review here: https://wp.me/pDlzr-7rA -this has now been made into a film!

Worth reading for the marginalia alone, this book within a young naturalist‘s journal is a delight from beginning to end.

Here's my #JanuaryTBR, including two in-progress that I want to finish, one more Wheel of Time volume, two for #LitsyAtoZ (Q and Y), and the start of #hpchapteraday! #readjanuary

Diagrams are pictures, right? They are when they're this pretty. #bookswithpictures #seasonreadings2016

My lovely husband brought this one home for me after he had an unexpected stop at the used bookstore. It looks really interesting! If you've read it, let me know what you thought 😀

One of my current reads fits quite nicely into today's #childprotagonist photo challenge prompt. 😊 I've just started reading this one, and I love the diagrams and notes in the margins... the products of a child genius cartographer. Has anyone else read it? Let me know what you think! #photoadaynov16

#booktober #debutnovel I just loved this novel! A 12-year-old genius cartographer wins a prestigious award from the Smithsonian Institute and rather than share the news with his folks, he runs away from home. Divide, Montana to the nation's capital he hobos East and creates an extraordinary journal of his journey.

I just bought this on a whim at a used book store because it's filled with drawings, illustrated graphs, and maps. I've read 4 pages and am completely smitten.

Totally captivating - this marvellous book remains the only one I've ever started reading again as soon as I'd finished it.