“I'm just going to write because I cannot help it.”
And thank God she did because I can‘t imagine a world without Jane Eyre.
Cheers to Charlotte Brontë who turned 202 this past week!?
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“I'm just going to write because I cannot help it.”
And thank God she did because I can‘t imagine a world without Jane Eyre.
Cheers to Charlotte Brontë who turned 202 this past week!?
That it will never come again
Is what makes life so sweet.
Believing what we don‘t believe
Does not exhilarate.
That if it be, it be at best
An ablative estate —
This instigates an appetite
Precisely opposite.
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Happy World Poetry Day!
I was supposed to be having the time of my life. - Sylvia Plath
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The Bell Jar, published in 1963 under the pseudo name Victoria Lucas, was Plath‘s only novel. It is partially based on her own life and has become a modern classic. Have you read it? In my opinion it‘s a 5🌟 read.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela
I'm celebrating Book Lovers Day with an ice cold glass of lemonade and a stack of @picador books! Have you read any of these? I've just started On Photography by Susan Sontag and I hope to read Gilead by Marilynne Robinson later this month.
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Wishing you all a very happy #BookLoversDay 😀📖!
Have you heard of the latest book by @vatsal_xoxo, 20. I haven't read it but @lenadunham highly recommended it so that makes me excited to read it. Have you read it?
The A, B, Cs of #SockSunday...
?Austen
?Brontë
?Cather
#penguindropcaps @PenguinPublishing
Today marks the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen's death. So, naturally I brought a couple of her classics down to the river for a morning swim. JK! I'm not getting these precious babies wet!
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I have read several Austen novels and I truly believe that she is in a league all her own. Her wit and irony is as smart today as it was 200 plus years ago.
pickThis is one of my favourite Virginia Woolf books. Orlando is a work of art and like most artists, Virginia Woolf was far ahead of her time with this one. If you haven't read it, I would highly recommend it.
I started this Russian classic today with @thebooksatchel and a few other Bookstagram friends. I'm only on chapter 4 but quickly realizing we are in for a wild ride! Have you read it?
Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to."
"I don't much care where –"
"Then it doesn't matter which way you go.
—Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
"I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it. I assure you, if it had not been to meet you, I would not have come away from it for all the world."
pickIf you only read one book this summer (haha, as if!!!) may it be The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by @tjenkinsreid, publish by @atriabooks! I LOVED IT! 5🌟💚📗
Felix Dahn surrounded by other oldie in a bookshop in Copenhagen. I ❤️ vintage books!
Do you want a Litsy Pen Pal? Visit @steverogers to find the link to the online form. But hurry, spots are filling up fast. Shouts out to @MrBook for informing me about this great idea!
Can't wait to read this one!
Set in contemporary London and 1980s Rio de Janeiro, it's a story of André, a successful London Doctor who is mysteriously separated from his beloved English wife Esther. Their estrangement began shortly after André started receiving letters from Brazil, where he was raised in privileged splendor until he left abruptly some 30 years ago. The shocking reason for his departure is the central mystery of this debut.
I just saw Much Ado About Nothing on stage in Vancouver at Bard On The Beach and It was a great show! Set in 1950s Italy with movie stars & filmmakers as the characters! The whole thing was wildly entertaining and very comical!
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Does your city or town put on any Bard performances or festivals in the summer?
My favourite classic is Frankenstein. So this #socksunday is dedicated to anyone out there who is also a huge fan of this incredible book (not the movie). The bookmark pictured here is by one of my favourite online shops, @litemporium. It has the first and last line of Frankenstein quoted on either side. Any guesses if the quote shown here is the opening or closing line? "He was soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance."
“You are in every line I have ever read.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
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Don't you think this is such a romantic quote?
So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
Then fill the shelves with lots of books.
—Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Not exactly the Nile but I'll take it any day!
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This Agatha Christie book was the June pick for the @maidensofmurder book club on IG. It is now my third favourite of Agatha's behind Murder On The Orient Express (1st) and Then There Were None (2nd). Have you read this classic?
pickThis is a quirky yet enjoyable romantic comedy about Abbey Lahey, an overworked, frazzled and under appreciated mom. One day she falls down a Nordstrom escalator and when she comes to she finds herself inhabiting the life of the high society Abbey van Holt. She is now married to her handsome and super rich past love, Alex van Holt. But is it all that she fantasized it would be?
