Welcome to Litsy!

#weeklyforecast #bookreport @Cinfhen

I haven‘t had the energy to cook this week, but I cheated and gotten delicious Brazilian takeaway to enjoy while reading my #foodandlit book. I had an açaí bowl for the first time?. And tried several other cool new things like an amazing coconut flan one night (not in picture). Plus a few favorites like those yucca fries?. @Butterfinger @Texreader

Starting my #foodandlit read for Brazil this morning. I‘m not sure I‘ll actually finish it in January because I ended up putting five 500+ page books on my list this month. Clearly I possess no planning skills. 🤣 But I‘m really excited about this one so I refuse to swap it out for something shorter. @Butterfinger @Texreader

I am stingy with 5 ⭐️, but these two novels were my top reads this year. Both are heavy in character development and setting - I fell into and lived in them.

Great idea @Cinfhen and thanks for the tag @Redwritinghood Here are my #Top6Reads so far this year. If I had to choose only one, it would be Lanny. It‘s the kind of book that reminds why I love to read.

I‘ll tag my recent swap buddies @Hoopiefoot and @erzascarletbookgasm

#ReadingEnvySummerChallenge Completed. I‘m stretching it a bit with Quick Sand for Something Swampy ( 😬🤞🏻) .. then Something Blue. Something Translated. Something True.

All the Stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I have no words to do this book justice. I am left full of images & feelings. A brilliant piece of writing, sacred & profane. A force of nature & unputdownable to the very last word.
Set in Minas Gerais, Brazil. The Meneses family as they face into their final years.
#ReadingEnvySummerReading #SomethingTranslated

This book is so like sipping a beautiful dangerous wine ... And I now have an afternoon to indulge myself ♥️👍🏻

Finally , reading time 👍🏻. And ....I feel myself
slowly slipping further down the dark, narrow path that is the life of the Meneses

I‘m still on this one ... very little reading time this weekend. Great book , this writer is drawing me in deeply to this story & to this house ... this family The Meneses. It‘s dense & beautiful & strange & .... a page turner 👍🏻 ( if only I had more time to turn the pages ! ) soon ... hopefully later.
Happy Saturday lovely Littens 😘

Just wanted to share a pic of our flower garden ( present read too) .. I think it‘s at its best at this time of year 🌺 💐

#MayMovieMagic #WhereIsMyMind Chronicle of the Murdered House .... the Meneses are suddenly torn from their innermost thoughts ! This book ! This book is where my mind is these days 👍🏻♥️ I love it.

This book is so readable! A novel ! The characters are so exciting & the drama !! I love it @Tamra

My picks for @ReadingEnvy ‘s 2019 Summer Reading Challenge
Something Swampy
Something Blue
Something Translated
Something True

See @ReadingEnvy ‘s page 👍🏻♥️

Oh @Tamra 👋🏻... look what I have !! I‘m settling in for an early reading night AND first on my list is .... Chapter 1. Andre‘s Diary ( conclusion) ....
the first part , the Biographical Note was very interesting...

5⭐️ Supremely screwed up family. Be forewarned this is not a story for the faint of heart. The writing is dense, thoughtful, beautiful, and reminds me of Marquez & Faulkner in style. Engendered feelings of wretchedness, disgust, pity, loneliness, loathing, fatalism. Eye popping!

It has a plot line you must read to the last entry in order to fully grasp.

I‘m shocked I haven‘t seen/heard of this novel before since it was written in 1959.

So very close! I need to start thinking about review descriptors now, because it needs a lot of them.

Mediocrity pales everything.

I could post a quote from nearly every page.

Oh my oh my, I‘m only 100 pages into this chunkster and I‘m anticipating a major book hangover. The first chapter which is a diary entry and the conclusion is 😳😲. I can‘t even give a hint without a spoiler. Seriously lush writing.

It‘s really sad that I stack up books next to me while I work, sort of like a warm blanket I can‘t use. 😢

Tagged book is my book mail today. 😁

Whoa. This was intense and astonishing. I‘ll avoid plot details, because, frankly, they may put people off, but this dark and twisting story is so vivid and rich in detail, it feels as if the book itself is alive. For such a long book, it never dragged and I was never counting how many pages were left, rather I was pulled more and more deeply into the story.

I just got this book. It is an appropriate read now that it looks like Brazil will get a misogynist, homophobic nazi as the president 🤬☹️💩🤮

This one has been looking at me from the TBR for too long. Diving in.

I broke down today and had an international #bookhaul 📚 Open Letter only publishes translations works and I ended up with 4 books! This one won the Best Translated Book Award this year. Considered a classic in Brazilian literature and finally translated into English.

#diversebooks

A tour-de-force of a book about decay, hate, jealousy, desperation that drove a once grand family to destruction, set in the Brazilian backwater of Minas Gerais. Dark themes, certainly, but what exquisite writing.

Hmm... this new translation of a Brazilian classic by an openly gay author sounds just a little bit intriguing…

This article gives some more context: http://www.avclub.com/review/familys-downfall-marks-high-point-brazilian-litera-...

Just a girl and her dog(s) on a Sat. night. 😍🐶🐶🐶#litsypartyofone

The first aquisition of what is sure to be a city-wide shopping spree during my visit to #ATL . First stop: the college #Barnesandnoble at my alma mater, Emory. Have had this book sitting near the top of my #goodreads #TBR list for a while.

Because I just didn't think that the hundreds of unread books on my TBR pile would quite last me long enough and being completely lacking in self control, I of course had to stop by a bookstore on my way home from work #bookhaul #noselfcontrol

Day 1 #feistyfeb #tbr These are a few of my planned reads for Feb.

Nothing says Fall like a 500+ page novel about a dying aristocratic family entombed on a crumbling estate. #Autumn #drama #Brazil

Nothing says Fall like a 500+ page novel about a dying aristocratic family entombed on a crumbling estate. #Autumn #drama #Brazil