Welcome to Litsy!

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/08/26/a-history-of-the-american-bookstor...

Fun memoir about two Iowan college students having adventures and misadventures in Manhattan towards the end of World War II. They get to goggle at celebrities, almost get swept out to the ocean at Jones beach, and are part of the wild celebration of VJ day at Times Square.

I was a little disappointed because I expected it to be funnier, in the tradition of My Sister Eileen and Our Hearts Were Young and Gay. More smiles than laughs.

This will be my pick for September‘s #SeasonalCozies
It takes place in September, is first in a series (Merry Muffin Mysteries) & it‘s free as part of my Audible membership, so I‘m giving it a go. (Does that take on new meaning when talking about bran muffins?!) 😜💩😉

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Looking forward to our December #EuropaCollective book about Belle Greene and her tenure as librarian of JPMorgan‘s private collection.

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8-24-24: Today was the 2nd Annual Philly Book Crawl! My daughters and I hit numerous bookstores and came away with tons of stuff, none of which is pictured here. Here we were taking a breather and toasting my mother for her birthday (which was last week) and for giving us our love of reading. 💖📖💖

#AboutABook #WithMystery A stash of Thompsons with a Spenser omnibus waiting in the closet on the TBR

I invite you to check out my latest video in which I talk about: Whales, Seals, Forest fires, Gardens & Books: Poetry; Comics; Art; Disability; and Indigeneity

https://youtu.be/YqW3myj5GDM

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Read this a couple of years ago and has been thinking of this book. May be time for a reread!

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The way in which Delaney discusses this interactions without holding stigma towards any of them is really beautiful to me. There is a lot of stigma and talk around queer men and hook up culture and sexual intimacy and etc. that make me feel uncomfortable with myself I guess. But he is so honest and transparent makes it viewable in a lens not so foregin but simply different.