Welcome to Litsy!

The only way I can salvage anything from this book is to play with a photo of my sweet 🐶 Page. I spent the weekend sniffling and sneezing, which is the only reason I had the time to grind through this monstrous book about the love lives of a neighborhood in Brussels. I found the characters repellent, the author's tone misogynistic and the writing tedious. Also, I resent being forced to read a 662 page tome for my #bookclub.

So this was my "blind date" with a book selection from the bookstore. Sounds interesting.....

For #day14 of #photoadaynov16 - a selection of orange covers, most of which are in my TBR pile. I think the best part of these photo prompts for me, as someone with a larger library, is that it forces me to examine my bookshelf and find books I may have forgotten I bought and pushes them up the TBR list.

Book mail! A giant door stopper. I need to cancel all my book mail now that, ummmm, I manage a book store! 😬😳

"Anyone coming to the Place d'Arezzo for the first time would experience a sense of strangeness. In spite of the opulent Versailles-style stone and brick houses lining the square, where the shady lawn, the rhododendrons, and the plane trees suggested a Nordic kind of vegetation, there was a hint of the tropics about the place..."