Here is a bit of fan art I‘ve made that was inspired by my experience reading Neil Gaiman‘s The Sandman series. It‘s a self-portrait composite photo created from many layers. I took all of the photos used in this image myself.💕

I can‘t help telling everyone The Sandman is FREE on Audible until Oct 22. I love the comic books, and the Audible version has great cast including James McAvoy, and is narrated by Gaiman.

#audiocrafting #fan_art

He could‘ve written, “I thought about my friend who died,” but instead he wrote...💕📚

Great first book of summer! What will be my last one?

I give this book all the stars! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Not sure where I picked it up, or if it was a gift, but it‘s now one of my favorite non-fiction books. I even shed a couple of unexpected tears when it ended. Recommended for those who love nature, or who want to start loving it. 💕

A little mystery behind old books I found at one of my favorite haunts in Maine. They were in different sections of this labyrinthine store but seem to have been gifted between the same friends with hand written notes inside. According to their response, David and Jane didn‘t enjoy The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. I may never know if they read the love stories by Ivan Turgenev out loud as suggested by Sveta (friend? teacher? doting aunt?). Sigh...

I‘m told Norman Mailer was the keynote speaker at my college commencement. Unfortunately, I have no recollection of it. 😱 So this is my Saturday of knitting another nest for orphaned birds, and diving into his Pulitzer Prize winner. 🐥 📚Hopefully some of this will be done outside on the porch.🌞

Estate sale haul for $21.😃👍 Bonus: a few autographs, local articles, and photographs of birds. I wish I had known the previous owner. I think we‘d have gotten along. The book featured above is by a local author.

My first Woolf, and I‘ve wanted to read it here for so long. I love the way she writes. 📖💗

I‘m down to my last book in the 15-book series which I recently found in like-new condition at a used book store. The rest I bought or borrowed from here and there. I started the series with Foundation in 2014...and got hooked.

My haul from the library book sale. I noticed I grabbed a Karenin instead of a Karenina without realizing there are two spellings available. Does anyone know why? I‘ve already read the Roy, but needed my own copy to love.💕

Treated myself to these just for the beautiful artwork on the covers created by one of my favorite photographers, Brooke Shaden. 🤗

Snowed-in with no power, and all of these.

So excited about these library grabs I don't know where to start. I think I'm going to have to buy my own copy of the Vonnegut. 📚🤓📚

A look at the factors that bear on a person's behavior that considers what happened from milliseconds, to millions of years before it occurred. I recommend it for anyone with an interest in human behavior, and in finding out what things might help bring out the best in us.

It's the time of year to bring in new things, and that includes trying some new authors. Being a fiery redhead myself, and naturally drawn to the cover, I grabbed this debut for a nice day of escapism in my favorite chair by the fireplace. I'm just taking a break to tell you that I've been sucked-in by this book, and I'm not coming out again until I finish it. Yes, there are redheads, and they're being (eek) murdered!!! CHEERS!🎊🍾

"...sometimes I think we must be walking on shoals of bodies without realizing it and all the earth‘s a graveyard.”

I'm a sucker for things Victorian and Gothic. It was more low-key than I was hoping for, but it suited the sluggish week I've had, and didn't require a lot of my own energy in return.

Chinaski, on his first time getting drunk: “I thought, ‘Well, now I have found something, I have found something that is going to help me, for a long long time to come.‘”

After reading a few books that pushed my boundaries in different ways I ran back to Vonnegut and Murakami for some comfort. Does anyone else want to share which authors you go to when you need a book hug?

#tenthingsidneversay @LittleWonder

Just teasing my hubby on his book handling habits 😁. He does have a nice cigar, coffee, and slippers going for him though.

This was a beautiful book. I loved the depictions of nature, and all the bits of frustration, darkness, and rebellion. I'm glad I joined the #Janssonbuddyread .

Thanks @Liberty for making Litsy an awesome place to hang out, and for this big stack of books! Exit West is the one I can't wait to read first.

I've enjoyed all of Sedaris's books so far, and this was no exception. Maybe it's because I don't get around much, but I kept finding myself thinking, "are people really this mean to each other?" Are they?? I had to select the title as-is from Litsy, but the book only goes up to 2002. Looking forward to the next one.

" We do not simply live in this universe. The universe lives within us." Neil DeGrasse Tyson

A fun-size book on astrophysics for anyone. I even have time left to finish my planting! ??

#garden

This book was infuriating to read, but also the best of the year so far for me.
@Liberty #TGIFGIVEAWAY

My book haul from a local library sale. I picked up Naked, and The Book Thief for my mom. One for laughing, and one for crying.

I don't usually just pick up a book on a whim, but the title drew me in, and it was a good choice. I especially liked the practice of having the whole village gather around one of its members who had done wrong so that she would not be alone in her disgrace, and then having all participate in a cleansing ceremony to bring the fallen one back to the right path. I wonder what it would be like if that were common practice.

Spending the day indoors knitting my wool socks for winter, and reading Murakami's new short stories.

#knittersoflitsy

Reading and watching the garden grow.

"The fallen angel betrayed God probably because he longed for solitude, of which the angels know nothing."

Ward No. 6, Anton Chekhov

Never too old for a children's book, especially with great illustrations by Lane Smith.

A gapper is like a "burr in your sock", only bigger, and orange with lots of eyes. Gappers shriek with pleasure when they get near a goat because they love goats so much. The shrieking upsets the goats so they can't give milk which the people of Frip depend upon for their livelihood.

My haul from free comic book day.

Rain is making sure we get in some play time while working through this great library haul.

I opened this trilogy I found at a library sale, and there was a fortune inside. 😃

I think it's fitting that I finished this book today during my #litsypartyofone. It reminded me of this photo I took of my husband while vacationing in Maine.
@Ambrosnazzy

I finished O Caledonia this morning, and was moved to create this photo. It's a composite of a blood super-moon I photographed, a bird and tree I snapped in Yellowstone National Park, and a piece of fabric from one of my dresses. I hope this will serve as my review. This book has ruined all other fiction for me for a while, and my next read will be a running book.
@shawnmooney @Lindy @saresmoore @DeborahSmall

A few of my library holds came in at once, but something is telling me I need just one more. 😁
At least I'll get some #knitting done today thanks to the ebooks.

#literaryknitter #knittersoflitsy

Hanging with my bestie (left) and Garrison Keillor tonight before the snow started falling. I have the next two days off, and plan to hit that tbr list hard.

"The most important thing a garden needs is the shadow of a gardener."

I came across this line last night just in time to turn my clock forward for my favorite day of the year. I'm looking forward to more sunny days, and casting a shadow in my own garden where I took this photo last summer. ☀️?

#garden #gardening

I decidedly cannot draw, but here is my picture for #drawme and @rachelm . The Hero and the Crown is one of the first books I can remember choosing for myself as a young girl, and Aerin was one of my first female heroes. I still have the book. My drawing was no doubt also influenced by the delivery of my new Zelda game today!
#womenshistory @LitsyFeministBookClub

I'd rather read than cook.

"There was something so electric about it. So dangerous. Those little touches were everything. I lived for them. You can build a whole world around the tiniest of touches."

I found this one hard to put down. It had a lot of feels. In a word- relationships.

#tellthewolvesimhome #carolrifkabrunt

Two days left on my long vacation, and I'm diving into this visual treat by Neil Gaiman and his wonderful illustrators pulled from the shelves of my local library.

#neilgaiman #thesandman

So good. It's made me want to check out some American Civil War non-fiction. Can anyone recommend a good place to start?

#georgesaunders #lincolninthebardo

"And then the child would touch the catch, and the lid would open, slow as sunset, and the music would begin to play, and Jack came out. Not with a pop and a bounce: he was no spring-heeled Jack. But deliberately, intently, he would rise from the box and motion to the child to come closer, closer, and smile."

Here is another one of my photos inspired by Neil Gaiman. In this case a haunting short story titled Don't Ask Jack.

#neilgaiman

I love when something familiar pops up in a book I'm reading. In this case a character from my home town was just sent to a hell of sorts. 😈

#Lincolninthebardo #georgesaunders

It's the book on my nightstand tonight. Brought home from the library today, and finished by bedtime. It took a couple of restarts to get a feel for the writing at first, but then things went smoothly. There are no chapters, which I think contributed to my having finished it in one sitting. I don't usually choose romance novels, but I'm glad I took this recommendation thanks to the return of The Readers podcast.

#motheringsunday #grahamswift

A little haul from the library for the long weekend. It's time to sit down by the fire with my best girl.

#lincolninthebardo #georgesaunders #libraryhaul

"Be hole, be dust, be dream, be wind/Be night, be dark, be wish, be mind,/Now slip, now slide, now move unseen,/Above, beneath, betwixt, between."

I so often find inspiration for my photography in Neil Gaiman's books. Here is another of my photos paired with one of his quotes.

#neilgaiman #thegraveyardbook

"Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers."

Here is a photo I took in my garden along with a quote by one of my favorite authors. I love reading warm summer books like this one in wintertime. #raybradbury #dandelionwine

"Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly."

My hobbies of reading and photography have a mutualistic relationship for me. Here's one of my photos which I've paired with a quote by Neil Gaiman. It just occurred to me that Litsy might be just the place for me to share these. I hope you enjoy them. #neilgaiman