Welcome to Litsy!

plunge headfirst into

fantasy, watch adventure

unfold on each page.

be enchanted by

whimsy, fall in love with a

hero, slay dragons.

storm the castle gates,

fight against evil — watch good

triumph in the end.

#haikuhive #haikuaday #poetry #fantasy #bibliophile

#JulyJazz Day 29: #MoonDay - posting way in advance since traveling on Monday and only arriving in the evening on Tuesday (we lose a day going back) next week.

Trying to finish this since it's a fine at the library. I've always read things based off of his writing so I decided it was time. It was so diverse and detailed in different cultures and history, I kept asking how he knows all of this. I've never heard of so many words that I had to look them up and this very pretty dictionary had none of them!
My favorite stories were about labyrinths or alternative culture philosophies.

#JulyJazz Day 3: #Loyalty

One of the last books I bought. Used a gift certificate I got for Xmas. Sort of an impulse buy. One of the authors whose name I knew but was never exposed to as an English major.

#weekendreading

I‘m not quite sure what I‘ve just read but I loved it!

I can‘t fathom what it must have been like to have a mind like Borges. His writing is like a complicated math problem—pretty sure some of these stories are arithmetic in disguise. They are precise, at once full of detail and absolutely nothing.

Borges has a tendency to use conflicting language—fantastic reality, logically illogical—which is sort of the perfect description of his work.

El desierto es un laberinto sin paredes

This book of short stories is slim - but it took me a month to mentally scale the lofty (but beautiful) prose, dense with philosophy, history and theology. Borges is a master of magical realism (perhaps veering closer to fantasy and esoterica): his stories are riveting imaginings concerning the impermanence of time, the symbolic nature of labyrinths, the ambiguity of authorship, as well as how eternity may manifest on a human scale.

#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView

Thanks for the tag @dabbe 😀

1. It's not terribly original, but it's hard to beat a dragon. Or maybe a sea serpent - I love to swim, and I could hang out in Lake Champlain with our own resident monster, Champ (though I guess that would make me a lake serpent 🐍 🤔).

2. The tagged book has ALL the creatures! 🐲🐉🧛‍♀️👾👻

Tag @RaeLovesToRead @MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm @CBee @Ruthiella