Welcome to Litsy!

I have read only a handful of Smith's works, but this has been my favorite so far. I am planning on rereading it next year.

The Nobel Prize for Literature will be announced next week. Here are my top two hopeful winners. It'll probably be awarded to Paul Simon 🙄

This is the perfect blend of fiction and nonfiction like only Ali Smith can do it. It is a series of lectures on literature, but it is also about the grief after losing a loved one and the process of coping with that.

This was my #BookSpin book for April

#WeeklyForecast

Continue my chapter a day reading of Anne of Ingleside

Continue my reading of Jerusalem, I‘m thinking maybe two chapters a day.

Read Piranesi, Small Pleasures and Artful

This was such a fascinating and delightful book exploring the relationship between thought, literature, and art. Also, I really liked Ali Smith's approach using an imagined past and present in this essay series/novel, which was a bit jarring and disorienting at times as told through the lens of mourning the loss of a lover.

"Art is always an exchange, like love, whose giving and taking can be a complex and wounding matter"

These lines from Czesław Miłosz's poem, Ars Poetica, are lingering in my mind.

#artful #aboutaugust @Eggs

Day 18 - #Artful #AboutAugust
#Artful #AliSmith

I think I need to read this book. Looks interesting to me!

To describe this beautiful, provocative book is difficult. It's part biography, part love story, part ghost story, part literary analysis, part meditation on death and life and literature and how we cope. The inability to put it into simple description or synopsis is one of the things that makes it so intriguing and interesting. It is a remarkable achievement in its boldness and perception. Haunting

A cottage and a stack of books. 😊

#happiness #artmatters #art #bookworm #readers

I could quote from every page ❤️ (but I won't!)

I don‘t have much artistic ability (my sister got that gene), but me, her, and our mother did a Painting with a Twist class back in April. This was the result. Not too bad overall. I‘m #grateful for the beauty #art provides and how every person gets something different out of it. I wish I had the picture of all three of our paintings because it was funny how different they looked for being the same scene

#gratitude30

1. #edbookfest! The marvelous Ali Smith who ALMOST sat in a booth with @scripturient and I. So close.
2. Researching for a blog on medieval girdle books
3. ALL DAY
4. I've just moved but the few encounters I've had have been friendly
5. Re-read an old favourite
#humpdaypost @MinDea

Smith's book defies categorization, it's narrator is haunted (figuratively & literally) by his deceased lover. A series of four lectures at St. Anne's College provided the genesis of this book. The narrative illustrates the theme of the four sections (On time, On form, On edge & On offer & on reflection); while the narrator discovers talks in his partner's papers that function as miniature impassioned & thoughtful essays. Smith masterfully 👇

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2/2

Chabon adapted this scene in his fantastic, "Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay" 1/2

Leonora Carrington has been one of my favorite artists for many many years.

The sentence that is cut off at the top of the page, reads, "Great books are adaptable; they alter with us as we alter in life, they renew themselves as we change and re-read them at different times in our lives."

ART ATTACK!!! Is it Monday again?!?!

1. Cover art: Language Arts by Stephanie Kallos. Loved the book too❣️
2. I have so many favorite artists: G. Eggleston, Degas, Hopper, Wyeth, Monet
3. Favorite painting is above: an oil painting done by my late husband that hangs in my kitchen
4. Favorite art museum: Harry Ransom art center (Austin) and National Gallery of Art (Washington DC)
#manicmonday @JoScho
Thanks @JoScho ❤️😊😍

I feel like I‘m decorating challenged. I‘m trying to put together some stuff to hang back in my reading room and I‘m slowly collecting stuff to hang and it‘s taking me forever because I get so picky about frames or how to actually hang stuff. Which one looks better? It‘s just a 4x6 print so it‘s not too big.

#quotsydec17 #love

@GondorGirl I love this company's bookish art! I've purchased prints, bookmarks, notecards, etc.
Great quality and original fun designs! Discovered them on Etsy.

https://obviousstate.com/

#LiteraryArt

#CoverToCover package going out tomorrow! With a little help from my munchkin. #LitsyGoesPostal

Clever trees. Know-it-all trees. I was tired of trees. I looked up at the sky. It was there, like it always was, like it always would be. It was regardless. It has no eyes for anything but itself. Cut me open with a knife the color of that January sky, take a sliver of sky as sharp as a cheesewire and split me down the center from here at the top of my head, and what would be inside?

Thanks @Liberty #MAKEROOMMAKEROOM

My nomination for #artrelatedbooks is Artful, by Ali Smith. This was the first Ali Smith I read and I loved it, of course.
It's a mix of poetry, art essays and fiction and it is so, so clever. I love that feeling when you finish a book and you've enjoyed it and you've learnt so much at the same time!

#seasonsreadings @RealLifeReading

Trying my first Ali Smith🤓

Put your feet up and read! 😊