Litsy

The 50 Greatest Love Letters of All Time | David H. Lowenherz

#FeelinTheLove Day 11: #CrazyLove or maybe the infamous doomed love of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera - one of the many loveletters in this fascinating book. You can find more here in my feature: https://wp.me/pDlzr-7hF

Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs Love this💕 3h

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LiseWorks

Love Letters | Antonia Fraser

February 10th #FeelinTheLove Love Letters 💌 @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs Absolutely 💯 16h

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GatheringBooks

The 50 Greatest Love Letters of All Time | David H. Lowenherz

#FeelinTheLove Day 10: This one is Ludwig Van Beethoven‘s letter to his Immortal Beloved – who this is remains a mystery until now. This is a fascinating book that contains amorous and heartfelt #Loveletters of famous people: from Vita Sackville-West and Viriginia Woolf to Franz Kafka‘s letter to Felice Bauer. More here: https://wp.me/pDlzr-7hF

Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs Excellent choice 💕 16h

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Suet624

Soldier Sailor | Claire Kilroy

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Not that it will happen, but every soon-to-be father should be required to read sections of this book. A woman explains what her life has become once she has become a mother. Her husband is busy at work and he abdicates all responsibility for the child. The exhaustion, anger, disappointment, loneliness, desperate love and raging anger toward a young child, all of it was perfectly described.

#offtheshelf

Tamra I was lucky, my husband was really great co-parenting both of our children as infants & tots. (Not that he isn‘t now, but that‘s the focus of the novel.) I have serious admiration and at times sympathy for single parents & guardians without a source of support. 2d

Suet624 @Tamra my situation is so varied. Three marriages, children every 7 years with the last two being twins. I was a single mom occasionally. My last husband was very helpful. The others, not so much. Living in a commune with my first child was VERY helpful. 2d

TheBookHippie I agree. A must read. 2d

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Tamra @Suet624 I can see any arrangement with multiple responsible adults in a household with small children would be a great fortune! 2d

Suet624 @Tamra it really was the best. 2d

BarbaraBB I loved this book too. That husband though. I can‘t imagine living with and tolerate such a man 2d

Anna40 I think most men,even if they read it, would still not understand. But great review! 2d

Suet624 @Tamra I was thinking about your comment again and it made me wonder why some men are great at understanding the needs of a new mother and others aren‘t. Probably a million reasons but I‘m glad yours was on top of things. 😊 2d

Suet624 @BarbaraBB I know! And I fear it or some variation of it happens more than we like to think. 2d

Suet624 @Anna40 oh my. You might be right. 2d

Tamra @Suet624 we were way older than average and ready so that was part of it and my husband isn‘t thoughtless. 😂 2d

Suet624 @Tamra that‘s a great point about age. That‘s definitely a huge factor. (edited) 2d

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TheKidUpstairs

My Husband: A Novel | Maud Ventura

“And what more beautiful gift is there than a hiding place?“

The deceptively simple, unsettling prose in this one is so spot on. Unnerved and intrigued so far!

ChaoticMissAdventures This was my favorite book of '23 I think about it all of the time, hope you enjoy it's unsettling ways! 2d

BarbaraBB It‘s good! 2d

youneverarrived One of my favourites last year! 1d

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VanessaCW

One Day | David Nicholls

I‘m reading this with my online book club, https://thereadingloft.groups.io/g/main. The theme is a love story seeing as it‘s Valentine‘s Day on 14 February. I‘m interested to find out how it compares to the Netflix series.

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Moss_Croft

The Only Story: A novel | Julian Barnes

CarolynM I‘m a Julian Barnes fan. Nice to see him getting some love. 5d

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BarkingMadRead

Valentines | Olaf Olafsson

Ignore my messy shelves! The first batch of valentines from the Litsy swap hosted by @TheBookHippie
Thank you to @KadaGul for the lovely note 🥰
And to @Catsandbooks @Butterfinger @Cuilin as well!!

TheBookHippie Yay!!!!!! ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ 6d

Butterfinger 😉 5d

Catsandbooks Hooray! 💖 5d

KadaGul L👀King Good 🩷🥰💜 #Happy🩷Day 2d

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litsybookclub

The History of Love | Nicole Krauss

New month, new book. In February, we are reading “The History of Love”. Our monthly meeting will be held on Sunday, February 23rd at 3 pm EST through Teams. We hope that you will join us. Questions..ask @Graciouswarriorprincess .

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