Litsy

What Would Kinky Do?: How to Unscrew a Screwed-Up World | Kinky Friedman

Background info: I do my best to not be terminally “online.” And despite my generational placement (elder Millennial), I‘m actually not *that* tech-savvy.

SO. I created a Reddit account largely because threads kept cropping up with answers to questions I‘d googled. I don‘t use it socially.

ANYWAY, apparently a random username was assigned to me? Leather-Payment?! 😅🙈🙈🙈

Had a quick existential online identity crisis but I think I‘ve fixed it!

ChaoticMissAdventures 😂😂😂. I don't have a reddit account (younger Genx) but I love to hear about the forums there. AITA, Relationship advice, people are wild. I do absolutely hate the type font of the system though I honestly think that is what keeps me from it. 4h

thegirlwiththelibrarybag I‘m actually laughing out loud at the randomness of that auto generated username 😂 4h

RaeLovesToRead LEATHER PAYMENT 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Dying 3h

monalyisha @ChaoticMissAdventures @thegirlwiththelibrarybag @RaeLovesToRead What makes it worse (better?) is that I‘m pretty sure that account was kicking around for at LEAST a year before I realized! 🤡 3h

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monalyisha

Barking with the Big Dogs: On Writing and Reading Books for Children | Natalie Babbitt

so-so

I went into this collection with a deep love for one of Babbitt‘s essays, “Happy Endings? Of Course, and Also Joy.” I came out of this collection with a deep love for one of Babbitt‘s essays, “Happy Endings? Of Course, and Also Joy.” 😅🙈

The rest are fine. A few sparkling sentences and ideas sprinkled throughout. And, a few ideas to which Babbitt dedicates too much time. 👇🏻

monalyisha 1/4: She‘s a little too impassioned for me on the issue of whether fiction should teach anything. She insists, time and again, that children‘s fiction shouldn‘t be burdened with this task. Personally, I think she focuses more on the “should” than on the fact that it *does* — organically. If we continue to tell stories about life, the lessons will come. 1w

monalyisha 2/4: She does also make a case for rebellion and for gleeful rule defiance in children‘s fiction rather than creating mini handbooks for proper behavior. She says that if we do the latter, “we‘ll subvert their purpose and destroy their magic.” She sees children‘s fiction as being responsible for offering pleasure, first and foremost, which is hard to argue with and I wouldn‘t dream of it. 1w

monalyisha 3/4: She insists that children‘s fiction must acknowledge life‘s big & little contradictions, which is sound advice. 1w

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monalyisha 4/4: Babbitt imagines a “children‘s book section of [an] echoing library up in heaven where authors like”…”E.B. White and Beatrix Potter and Arnold Lobel”…”meet every morning for milk and cookies and have a good time talking shop.” I don‘t believe in heaven. Regardless, I think it‘s my new life goal to be able to join them someday. 🍪 1w

willaful Great commentary! I wonder how many authors are actually meeting for a slug of whiskey and a blunt. 😂 7d

monalyisha @willaful Heaven can be whatever you make of it, right? I'm a cookie monster, though, through & through. 😜 7d

pdxannie Cute 👻 6d

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monalyisha

Barking with the Big Dogs: On Writing and Reading Books for Children | Natalie Babbitt

“I think a work of fiction, for children especially, needs to present life as it really is: a mixture of joy and sorrow, of the solvable and unsolvable, of the simple and the complicated. I hope my grandchild will be a reader and that he will learn something about the contradictions of life from books before he is thrust out to learn the same thing firsthand.”

Cuilin Yep!! Great quote. 1w

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arlenefinnigan

A Field Guide to Getting Lost | Rebecca Solnit

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GatheringBooks

Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories | Raymond Carver

#Falling Day 24: #WalkingHiking up the road.

Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs It‘s the small things that can breathe a miracle into life 👏🏻 3w

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WildAlaskaBibliophile

Upstream: Selected Essays | Mary Oliver

A beautiful poem for a beautiful season. #poem #poetry #poetrymatters #autumn #fall

dabbe 🧡🤎💛 3w

lil1inblue 🧡🤎❤ 3w

kspenmoll Love her. 💛🧡❤️ 3w

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CrowCAH

Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times: A Collection of All Original Essays from Today's (and Tomorrow's) Young | Kevin Smokler

#FallCardSwap

Thank you @lil1inblue for the corner bookmark 🔖 I can‘t wait to try that apple ginger fizz mocktail!!!

TheBookHippie

lil1inblue I'm so glad it made it! 😍 3w

CrowCAH @lil1inblue same 🥰 receiving mail is super exciting! 3w

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MemoirsForMe

If This Isn't Nice, What Is? (Even More) Expanded Third Edition: The Graduation Speeches and Other Words to Live By | Kurt Vonnegut

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I started several Vonnegut novels and couldn‘t get thru them. A little too dark for me. So I settled on this compilation of his speeches. Kurt was very quotable and had many powerful messages to impart. I applaud him for his empathy, his courage to speak the truth & for being such a survivor. After listening to the wonderfully detailed biographical intro included with this audiobook, I may need to read one of his bios.
@Soubhiville
#AuthorAMonth

Ruthiella ❤️ He uses that line in

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

willaful I always remember it as “Damn it babies, you've got to be kind“ which isn't quite correct but I like it better. 3w

AnnCrystal 💝💝💝. 3w

MemoirsForMe @Ruthiella @willaful I love that kindness is his top priority. But I should have known Kurt would add a few more colorful expletives. 😉 3w

MemoirsForMe @AnnCrystal 🙌🏻❤️🙌🏻 3w

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GatheringBooks

Upstream: Selected Essays | Mary Oliver