Welcome to Litsy!

THANK YOU @Chelleo both for being an amazing #blitsyhistorymonth host AND for my amazing package!! 😍 I wish I‘d taken a picture of the fabulous wrapping before tearing it open. I love these books, and I love that you chose a few for me! My shirt‘s wonderful—clearly you picked up on my love of black poets. I‘m happy you patronized black owned businesses/museums on my behalf. And of course the Obamas 💕 And a mug for my tea ✊🏽 So thoughtful 😊

What a generous #blitsyhistorymonth box, @CSeydel !! Thank you so much....I LOVE the #coffeeMug!!

Thanks for doing this for us, @Chelleo

Thank you @CaliforniaCay for a wonderful swap package! I love everything, especially the tote! Thank you @Chelleo for putting together this wonderful swap !#BlitsyHistoryMonth ! #BHM

#blackhistorymonth roundup - 14 books and halfway through one more, plus the three events I went to this month.

Proud of my wide reading this month spanning pre conquest Africa-2019 via Dumas and the Harlem Renaissance! I covered classics, contemporary, lit crit, anthropology, memoir, politics fantasy and read incredible books from 3 languages.

Here‘s to keeping this up and giving black history & writing the importance it deserves every month

@Liatrek my #BlitsyHistoryMonth package arrived today!!!! Thank you!! I can't wait to open it tomorrow!! #BHM @Chelleo

@CSeydel It came! A good pick-me-up while I‘m recovering from some surgery!

#blitsyhistorymonth @Chelleo #bookswap

Annoyed with myself that it took SO LONG to get my #BHMSwap goodies to the post office, but finally the box is en route to @Wannabe_Quijote ! Should arrive early next week. Also - expect a second (small) parcel shipping to you directly from Etsy seller TheTriniGee.

#BlitsyHistoryMonth

@MolliesaurusRex @Chelleo my #Blitsy package has arrived!

#BlitsyHistoryMonth #BHMSwap #blitsy

Thank you @Annl the package arrived today! Woot! Now ... to wait patiently ...

I plan to send mine out by Friday at the latest. Should easily arrive by 2/28! Thank you @Chelleo for organizing. I‘m excited!

Progress check for my #blackhistorymonth reading. My minimum goal was to read 10 books by black authors which I hope I‘m on track to manage! I also want to get some more non fiction in there before the end of the month. I have a few more on my shelves I can read and include - trying to focus on reading books I own not buying more but I have some Maya Angelou and some Dubois I haven‘t read yet!

I love the doorway to story time at our local library decorated to celebrate Black History Month. So creative and beautiful!

A package received and a package sent, now to wait. #blitsyhistorymonth @Chelleo

Hello hi hey!! My #BlitsyHistoryMonth package arrived today and I am sooooo stoked and excited!!

(Also motivated to get mine out as soon as my last item arrives)

This just brought me so much joy and I haven‘t even opened it yet! 1000x thanks to @Chelleo for hosting and organizing ✊🏽

#blitsy

I shipped my #BlitsyHistoryMonthSwap box today but forgot to take a picture beforehand. #bhm #blitsy #blitsyhistorymonth #musicbox

Celebrating Black History Month.

My reading goals for #February #BlackHistoryMonth

Looking over my reading list from last year I definitely need to add more POC authors to my general repertoire. It's not something I consciously think of, but it probably should be.

This was posted on FB but I wanted to share it here too. #blackhistorymonth #Feburary1-28 @Chelleo

Hey!! All the #BlitsyHistoryMonth participants...how is stalking/shopping going?? I‘m interested in seeing how everyone is progressing!! Let‘s give @Chelleo some #BHMSwap updates!!

☕️Tea (chai or black tea), Coffee (dark or medium, no flavors)
💋Chapstick (eos😉), Lotion (anything with shea butter - Jergens is my go to)
🍫🍯Sweet!
👕🧦Love tshirt (L) and socks (7 1/2 shoe)
📖Love bookmarks, magnets and pins 🤙

#BHMSWAP @Chelleo

The #BlitsyHistoryMonth #BLM package is on it‘s way.
@Chelleo

And...#justabookswap #round2 is also on it‘s way.
@TheBookKeepers

Tea ☕️
Candles 🕯
Sweet 🍭
Socks, specifically fuzzy 🧦
Bookmarks 🔖
#blitsyhistorymonth #bhmswap

Coffee, but tea is my evening drink.
Lotions
Yes please! 😜
T shirt for certain
Bookmarks, although I swear I end up with receipts half the time.

Litsy friends! Please be sure to check out this amazing swap! So many great African American writers that would make this swap an exciting one! Head on over to @Chelleo page and sign up!!! #blitsyhistorymonthswap #blhms

Friends! I just signed up for this and I'm so excited. Head to @Chelleo 's post for more info and to sign up!

#blitsy #blitsyswap #blackhistory

Check out this amazing swap opportunity! #blitsyhistorymonth or @Chelleo

Save The Date!! @Chelleo is hosting a Black History Month Swap. Such a great idea! See her original post for more details.

#BlitsyHistoryMonth

*US Littens only. Make sure to sign up, cuz if it's a success she'll open it up to international the next year & then I can play too!! 😋

https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/0Bz011IF2Pu9TUWIxVWxybGJ1Ync

It's Black History Month for a few more days, and I only just found the above repository of scholarly articles and information from a Twitter repost. It looks like a pretty interesting resource! (Thank goodness for friends who Twitter, since I can't bring myself to join) ❤️

Day 7: Black writers. #bookriot #riotgrams #blackwriters

So I believe it‘s Black History month in the US. What are you reading? Are you doing this challenge by @BrownGirlReading ?

I got so excited about starting my #blackhistorymonth reading that I couldn‘t choose a book for my commute 😍 One for the morning, one for the evening. #ReadSoulLit

Here's some of the titles I'm hoping to get to this month. #readsoullit

Shopping my shelves for more books to read in Feb! #blackauthors #MountTBR I mean, I'm never gonna get to all of these, but at least I have a stack for if I make it thru the few I already set aside for #blackhistorymonth. Excited to read Danez Smith/Gwendolyn Brooks/Audre Lorde for #poetrychallenge2018! The epigraph in Oyeyemi's White is for Witching from a Brooks poem is what inspired me to start the challenge in the first place!