And then there was today‘s #bookmail - a hard copy of the Hoffer for my personal library project, and the Arendt inspired by (in addition to, well, everything) reading We Are Free to Change the World.

Seriously, I have a problem. And it‘s not enough bookcases.

Kiddo and I went to Fort Worth (again) for new pointe shoes (again). We went to a new-to-us Barnes & Noble as a treat.

In my defense, I can‘t be expected to exercise restraint when they set up mythology and myth-inspired tables right next to each other in the main aisle. I did resist all the other pretty shiny things.
#bookhaul

Living it right now.
#HannahArendt #AdventuresinPhilosophy

One of my goals this year is to educate myself as much as I‘m able to stomach about what‘s going on. So far this year, I‘ve read a few books (currently listening to Stacey Abrams Our Time Is Now and reading Angela Davis‘ Freedom Is a Constant Struggle) and these are all on my agenda. Right stack is most directly involved, left is supplemental. Also following some great thinkers on fbook and Substack that I‘ll share below. Let‘s be bricks/mortar!

Not from the tagged, but on Solnit‘s facebook page today:
“You don‘t need to be the whole wall against fascism yourself; you can just be a brick and if you can‘t be a brick, you can be a dab of mortar…”

@kspenmoll and all of us who need it right now.

Today, this hits harder.

I mean, really, how was I supposed to resist this? This is 75% of why I bought this book.
#bookhaul

And I spent the last of my gift card (and then a little more) on these beauties. I know nothing about any of them, but it‘s been a while since I blindly browsed. 🤞🏻 they‘re good! #bookhaul

My Christmas present to myself was joining Haymarket Press‘ monthly book club. I get my choice of one new print title every month, plus all the new ebooks. And I paid for the whole year, which gets one month free. I haven‘t dived in yet, but I‘m really excited about these. #bookhaul

I got the tagged book for Christmas (my sister is awesome) and used some of my Christmas gift card on the other three (my dad is also awesome). I‘ve been waiting forever to get this Riordan but now I have to wait on the new Percy books to come out in paperback 😢 and I decided to bite the bullet on Bride. I‘ve liked everything else I‘ve read by AH (which is everything but Check & Mate, which I‘m currently reading) so we‘ll see. #bookhaul

“…the propaganda effect of infallibility: the trick of appearing omnipotent by prophesying a future that you then make happen.”
#adventuresinphilosophy #resistance #HannahArendt

Eichmann sounds a lit like somebody else in today‘s news, doesn‘t he? I mean, like a lot of somebodys, really.
#adventuresinphilosophy #HannahArendt

#DannyBoy wishes everyone a happy new year, and reminds us all to choose love. Thanks to Penzeys Spices for his new bandana, which required a collar, so kiddo and I went shopping yesterday. Danny‘s thrilled about it, really.
#catsofLitsy

#DannyBoy is all Christmased out. Feline Navidad!

Late for the readalong but figured I‘d finish it, and wish I‘d just chucked it. Repetitive but never particularly clear or convincing, Harris just seems to spitballing about something he kinda believes but can‘t convey. Not a great one, and if he were anybody else I don‘t think this would have gotten published at all.
#deadphilosopherssociety #adventuresinphilosophy

A library impulse pick that turned out to be really good. She‘s adrift after an unwanted proposal and heads to the lake she spent childhood summers on. He‘s trying to find his way as a single dad of two, one with ASD, after a messy divorce. He‘s also her brother‘s best friend. A lot of good stuff about finding yourself, finding your family, taking care of each other how it needs to be done (not how you want to do it). Surprisingly enjoyable.

So it would appear that our spelling book is out of date.

Meowy Catmas from #DannyBoy!

Today‘s #bookmail came with my vitamin/supplement package. Gotta get to that free shipping threshold, right?

Do you ever think you have a book figured out, then it doesn‘t work out that way and you‘re disappointed because your twist was better? That was this. I had an idea that would make this actually thrilling and mysterious, but it was just not good.

Today‘s bookmail part 3/3 is the general purpose portion. A little for school and a little for my own education.

Today‘s #bookmail 2/3 is for the book advent calendar for kiddo.

Today‘s #bookmail part 1/3 - I may have gone a little overboard with new cookbooks…

Why did I do this? I‘ve been scattered for the past month, between weird health stuff (nothing major) and the election, other personal junk; can‘t concentrate to read or get other stuff done. So, clearly, I needed to order a huge box of books. And half of them are cookbooks (serious problem). The justification of needing books for the advent calendar is negated by yesterday‘s Amazon order for just that purpose…

Today‘s library #bookhaul is entirely impulse grabs from the new books displays. I‘ve had a lot of trouble focusing on…anything…in the past month. We‘ll see if any of these help. Or hurt. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Haymarket Books is offering a library of ten anti-fascist books for free for a limited time (one week, I think). Run, don‘t walk.

https://www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-ten-free-ebooks-for-getting-free

Recent #bookmail and I‘m so excited!

Today‘s library #bookhaul - kiddo complained because I gave her a limit (15 is a reasonable limit!) and then found all of these for myself. Two I‘ve read before but need to refresh to finish the trilogy. Everything else is new.

Sigh. We just can‘t move beyond this, can we?

Starting this one today. We just got home from a few days at Great Wolf Lodge in Dallas (kiddo‘s been dying to go back), and #DannyBoy is so happy to be back from boarding school! He‘s been my velcro kitty most of the evening, and exceedingly vocal about my failings as a mom. Time to sit down and hold the kitty.
#catsofLitsy

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/euripides-greek-tragedies-translated-2528715

This is so cool!

Another concern about the AI aspect.
#NaNoWriMo

Hey NaNoWriMo folks, some not great news: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/09/02/nanowrimo-gets-ai-sponsor-says-not-writing-yo...

#nanowrimo

This week‘s library #bookhaul and they‘re mostly for me! (The mountains of Warriors and Rainbow Magic and 13-Story Treehouse books for kiddo have taken over our hearth)

In honor of World Folklore Day, I picked one of my many (so many, so very many, seriously I have a problem) books of folktales to dive into.

It‘s a good day for #bookmail!

Today‘s #bookmail - I‘m hoping to get back into #deadphilosopherssociety with this one. 🤞🏻 I have not done well with scheduled reading for the past year or so, and now I‘m especially caught up in daily Substacks about the current political nightmare…I mean situation. And that leaves less time for books, unfortunately.

I absolutely LOVE this! From “Vasylisa and Baba Yaga,” by Rossana Sasso, at the very end of this novella.

Knowing I was about to finish my current read, I threw another book in my bag today. When I pulled it out, I found three bookmarks in it. Apparently I have done the “grab a bookmark, throw it in the book, throw the book in the bag” routine a couple of times already with this one. I did start it this time, though. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Schrödinger synod ?

What I wish I could do today/this week.

My BDH merch arrived! Now I can get around to reading the print edition of this book.

Man, I just cannot get away from this POS.

Ouch. And even more true in the COVID era.

“…you might wish to describe Christianity as the gateway drug to supply-side capitalism.”

Recent library #bookhaul - let‘s hope the tagged is better than the last one 🤨🙄

And one caught my attention on the new releases shelf, so let‘s give it a try then.

I was so excited to get this #bookmail this week! I preordered it, but it shipped before the release date, so I was completely surprised. I need to find the time to focus on it, which is hard to do at the moment. But soon, yes…soon.