Welcome to Litsy!

#bookmail #seatosea #LMPBC
@FantasyChick look what I got! Thanks- all your goodies put a smile on my face! And I can't wait to go through all the comments- I read some and they made me tear up 😢😄 @Jabberwocky @BookishTrish I'm so glad we are continuing!!

@Andrea4 I am a flake. I am so freaking sorry. I've been sitting here for days wondering if you got your #seatosea book back yet and today I realized.. nope you did not. Because I found it. In the backseat of my car. Under a bunch of the kids crap. Sigh...so NOW it is officially on its way! I have a tracking number and everything!!!
I really need to clean my car out. 🤔
@Jabberwocky @BookishTrish

Finally finished reading Neruda the other day!! WooHoo 🎊🎉👏 I swear, @Andrea4 it wasn't because I didn't like it, but I really have to be in a poetry kind of mood and can only read a few selections at once,but I really did enjoy this collection. A lot was beautifully dark, some sad, just a well rounded series. Very glad I picked this up. #seatosea @BookishTrish @Jabberwocky Now...I promise it'll be in the mail soon 😂

I've been having a bit of a hard time with this one, but I'm making progress! Almost halfway through. I was hoping to send it home last week but I have high hopes for this week coming lol
#seatosea
@Andrea4 @BookishTrish @Jabberwocky

Working my way through some poetry and having a movie day with the minions. Hoping to get this book finished this weekend and on its way back home by Monday. Also, I couldn't find my pretty pink pen so basic ballpoint blue it is!
#seatosea#LMPBC
@Andrea4 @Jabberwocky @BookishTrish

No, you may not read #May #KAL #catsofLitsy #seatosea

Saturday morning with Neruda and friends #seatosea ladies how are you doing with your latest read? @Andrea4 @FantasyChick @Jabberwocky I know yours is already on its way...

Neruda + #May = #KAL #seatosea edition

Okay! I‘m sorry for being so late you guys, with the wedding and everything it‘s just been a little berserk around here lately. But! It‘s off! @BookishTrish It should be there by the day after tomorrow and there is a little treat for you included in the package 💖. #lmpbc #seatosea @FantasyChick @Andrea4

I have to admit something: Neruda is a master poet & voice of Chilean culture. But I couldn‘t get into this book. I wanted to LOVE it. I wanted to drown in his words & be awakened by them. Unfortunately I couldn‘t. UNTIL THE SONNETS. God his sonnets took my breath away. I need a copy of 100 Love sonnets. Maybe I‘m too much of a romantic to be able to immerse myself enough in his political/cultural work. Or maybe it was just the wrong time for me.

Working a split shift today 😭. I‘ve been working so much and trying to get caught up on Christmas stuff and I just feel like I‘m running on empty. In the meantime I‘m trying to finish up this #seatosea pick soonish. I made a note in the book but I did have to switch to blue pen for a while. Sorry friends. @BookishTrish @FantasyChick @Andrea4

I‘m having a very melancholy couple of days. No good reason for it, but this stance from ‘Your laughter‘ made me smile.

Finally diving into this #seatosea pick from @Andrea4, my last book just broke my heart so I‘m looking forward to what seems to be a thoughtful read and a palate cleanser. LOVE that it‘s a bilingual edition. I don‘t read the language but I think there is something powerful about prose in its original state on the page. 💛 🇨🇱 #poetry @BookishTrish @FantasyChick

And thus, through me, freedom and the sea
Will respond to the dark heart.

I already knew how much I loved Neruda before this collection but I absolutely loved a chronological look at his work; it was like a peak into his diaries, listening to his reactions to the world changing. It also opened me up to many of his books that I would not have gravitated towards before.
😢all the feels

Enjoying a quiet, relaxing night with Neruda, the Gilmore Girls, and a festive cuba libre (it's festive because of the red tumbler) .
So needed after the past few exhausting days!

And I, infinitesimal being,
Drunk with the great starry
Void,
Likeness, image
Of mystery,
I felt myself a pure part
Of the abyss,
I wheeled with the stars,
My heart let loose in the wind.

#infinite #quotsynov17 @TK-421

All will pass on, you will remain living.

You set fire to life.

You made that which is yours.

And know that your dead ones smile from the earth
Raising their fists above the wheat.

#protest #quotsynov17
@TK-421

Two blessed lovers have neither end nor death,
They are born and they die many times while they live,
They have the eternity of nature.

But I've gathered in abundance
The kindness of friends and strangers.
I received kindess
Wherever I went walking
And I found it everywhere
Like a heart shared.

#kindness #quotsynov17
@TK-421

And at night
Your small
Window
Which closes
Opens at the other side like a tunnel
To the vague homeland of dreams.
#dream #quotsynov17 @TK-421

I was taking stock of which collections of Neruda I own (and thought I had quite a few) but 3 of them are selections (which leaves only the #six standing ones as whole collections) and wow, am I sorely lacking. Welp, guess I know some books for my Christmas list!! My only problem is liking a really good bilingual edition!
#novemberbythenumbers
@Tiffy_Reads @JoeStalksBeck

Perhaps,
You are lost,
Entangled
In threads of gold,
Covered
In turquoise,
Silent...

#lost
#quotsynov17 @TK-421

Hey @BookishTrish @Jaberwocky @FantasyChick I'm suggesting this lovely bilingual edition of Neruda's poetry for #seatosea #LMPBC -it's under 40pp and since it's bilingual it's really like half of that. Also seeing as it's poetry there is lots of room for annotation! Thoughts?