I‘m never not surprised when another whole year has passed! I feel lucky to have gotten on Litsy early to enjoy all of the bookish comaraderie! 📚🥳
It‘s my 7 year Litsyversary!!!! Thank you to everyone who has made this space special to me. The likes, the supportive comments, the laughs and the endless additions to my TBR. It‘s been such a fun ride. Here‘s to 7 more years. 🥰🥰
Happy Litsyversary, anniversary twin @Chrissyreadit ! 🥳👯♀️
So glad I found this community 6 years ago. Not only my reading life, but my whole life, is all the better for it 🥰
pick80 hrs of reading over 11 months 🙂
Gesine Cresspahl‘s diary, generally in 3rd person, is half present day New York City, August 1967 to August 1968, peppered with NYTimes headlines. And half her childhood in Germany before, during and after WW2…and she was on the other side of the Iron Curtain, in the eastern GDR. An odd love/hate to lonely capitalist NYC, and an ode to survival in and, to the ghosts of, eastern Germany. #uwe
I finished Part 3, the shortest of the 4 volumes. Narrated in April-May-June 1968 New York, with the assassination of Robert Kennedy told through its press lens on TV and in the New York Times. With the backstory now in post-WWII Soviet Germany. What does a communist country do when it conquers a wealthy capitalist country? It‘s a very strange story. The first two parts were easier reads. History is just a little too messy here. #Uwe
I finished the 2nd book, so half way home, but also a month behind my year plan.
Bk2 has changes from Bk1. It‘s more distinctly Gesine‘s voice, but at the cost of much of the eerie feel of this climactic time, which he created by paraphrasing the NY Times. (An unfortunate cost) Also it covers all of WW2, so the backstory takes priority over the then contemporary NYC, excepting MLK‘s assassination. I did get really into it eventually.
#Uwe
This came up in my fb memories today and then I realized it‘s my 6 yr litsyversary! This is truly the best place ever, and this community has supported me through some difficult times. You are all so special- I love each and every one of you!
4 years of reading run! 💜💜💜💜
I started Volume 2 this week, another 450 or so pages. I took a break for all of May, so I should say I _finally_ started again. So far Volume 2 is not as good. #uwe
Participating in a year long read of this on Library Thing. I've fallen a bit behind and need to get back to it. Meantime, the roses were for our 51st anniversary today. (Excuse the detritus on the floor--Dulci loves to rip up paper).
I finished part I of this 1700 page book following a child of Nazi Germany living in New York City in 1967, a single mother, a professional in a giant bank building, living on Riverside Drive in Manhattan with her ten-yr-old daughter and no other family, but some Jewish heritage and many ghosts. While reading I had one day in NYC and we walked around a lot from Central Park to Columbia University. It felt to me like a city still in 1967. 👇👇
I have no idea what prompted me to join Litsy on some rando day in March 5 years ago, but I am so glad I did. I love you all!
Books that I aim to read and conquer this year. In the past two weeks, I have not read much as I have gone through a four stage process to secure an English teaching job. I sincerely hope I have enough time to read these books whilst working .
Finished My friend Annie (reread), reading the tagged book & Bastard of Istanbul.
Another books I started the year off with. This one for a year long buddy read led by @JenniferP #uwe #anniversariesbuddyread
Wow! 5 years in this truly wonderful community. 💙📚💙
So glad I made the choice to join. You all make my days brighter and enrich my reading life. Thank you!
@JenniferP and friends are starting a year long group read of the tagged book in 2022. There is a discussion thread on LT at https://www.librarything.com/topic/337722 and also posts on Litsy if there is anyone who is interested but not on LibraryThing. Please join us - it looks like a fascinating book! #1001books #nyrb #yearlonggroupread #buddyread
We are starting a year long group read of the tagged book in 2022. I've created a discussion thread on LT at https://www.librarything.com/topic/337722 and I will also post on Litsy if there is anyone who is interested but not on LibraryThing. Please join us - it looks like a fascinating book! #1001books #nyrb #yearlonggroupread
Is anyone interested as reading this as a year long group read in 2022? I‘d love some company! #1001books #nryb
Well I can‘t seem to get this to fit - But 5 years!!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Holy 5 years, Batman! 🎉✌🏼
How many books have I only discovered, stacked, and read thanks to this wonderful community of book lovers! I can‘t believe I‘ve been a part of Litsy for five years! I‘ve commented on many of your posts and come to recognize a lot of names and favorite genres of individuals even if I‘ve not made any close friendships here. I do appreciate you all so much! I‘m truly grateful for this wonderful group! ☺️🥳
One year ago, Covid hit and I was furloughed from work. I joined Litsy not knowing how much it would keep me sane and how many amazing and nice people I would meet. Thank you for all of the love and kindness and book recommendations. This is a wonderful place to be. I love my #Pemberlittens group, my #SundayBuddyRead group, my #Litsylove penpal group and all of the book swaps and #LMPBC groups I have been a part of. You all rock! 💕
My #birthdaybookhaul! The #nyrb not tagged is The Book of Ebenezer Le Page.
Today is my Litsyversary! Five years on this wonderful site. I figured I‘ve read over 295 books since starting on Litsy. I only started tracking my audiobooks last year, so I know it‘s higher. My how time, and pages, fly by!
Yesterday was my 4th #Litsyversary! 🎉
My first Litsy post ⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️
I haven't been on here much lately unfortunately but I've still been reading! It's fun to browse to get some reading ideas and, of course, cram in all the book content I can!
pickTold in 366 chapters, from 8/21/ 1967-8/20/1968, this epic novel details the daily life of Gesine Cresspahl, a German exile in New York City, weaving mundane details as Gesine recounts life in Nazi-Soviet-East Germany from 1940-1960s to her daughter. It‘s a fabulous work with a huge cast that clearly moves back and forth between timelines. The length may be daunting, but it‘s not difficult. I am going to miss Gesine, Marie, and their love of NYC.
It‘s my 2-year Litsyversary 🥳 Thank you so much for making this happen, Litsy community 💖❤️💖❤️
It is done. I've read the last daily entry dated August 20, 1968.
Oh wow I‘ve been on Litsy for 3 years today! I‘ve been wondering how long it‘s been lol so happy I found this amazing app with all you amazing people ❤️☺️
#litsyversary #3years
Isn‘t this just the coolest? It‘s my Litsyversary, and I‘m in very good company! Look at all of the awesome people that made the smart decision to join Litsy four years ago today. 😂
I‘m so glad I found Litsy and thankful for all of the great friends I‘ve made here!
Today is my 4-year #Litsyversary! Thanks to all you wonderful Littens, I went from being lucky if I read 30 books in a year, to reading more than 150 each year. You all inspire me to keep reading even when I feel down, and you‘ve blown up my TBR and my bookcases. I blame you for the 10 bookcases I‘ve bought and the stacks of books I still can‘t fit on the shelves! I couldn‘t be more grateful. 💖💖
May reads: continuing with Anniversaries, of course.
The Golden Notebook is also on the go.
How We Fight for Our Lives is my bookclub's rescheduled March book, as the meeting was supposed to be on the day NYC started to close down.
Homo Faber is for #ReadingEurope2020
As Man Grows Older is for the #Reading1001 TBR challenge.
And The Gate is for a GR group translations project
#BookReport: Very exciting news: I have started volume 2 of the tagged book!
The Golden Notebook continues and Forest of the Hanged was recently begun (for #ReadingEurope2020), replacing Augie March, which is being set aside as too much of a slog right now. I will begin Hide and Seek (for #nyrbbookclub) later in the week.
Just a little snippet of my “home office“ piled with the April TBR:
A game of hide and seek #nyrbbookclub
Pepita Jimenez #Reading1001
The adventures of augie march #Reading1001
The golden notebook @JenniferP
Ongoing reads:
Ducks, Newburyport @Graywacke
Anniversaries
I finished 1919.
This will come as a surprise, but I'm still reading Anniversaries. I've started Irretrievable, but due to a day off and a miserable cold I am likely to devour Obelisk Gate instead. Also downloaded Pursuit of Love in an attempt to read something from the 1001 list rather than an epic Sci-fi trilogy.
#WeeklyForcast
#BookReport
I am trying to get caught up to today's date in the tagged book. I've started 42 Parallel and now that I have it as an ebook it will be my subway read. Finished the other two books.
• 114/100! I thought about bumping it up when I completed it, but I‘m busy with school readings so don‘t want to stress about it!
• I don‘t know how interesting this is, but I attended 3 universities between Canada and the UK to get my undergrad
• I really love metal music, and the many, many sub genres of it
• I‘m sure I have an anniversary for being in arthritis/uveitis remission, but I‘m. It sure when it is
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#friyayintro @howjessreads
Anniversaries: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl | 
