Welcome to Litsy!

"I have been obsessed with the ancient world since I was eleven years old, when I began learning about Roman Life at school."
- Introduction

"It's tempting to believe that we no longer need to think about politics." ?
- Chapter 1: Old World Order
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#BookmarkMatching featuring the good old XX Valeria Victrix Legion of the Roman Army, and a souvenir Greek Hoplite helmet from a long-ago holiday to Corfu.

“On a hot, almost windless afternoon in June, a seven-year-old boy stood beside his mother and looked out across the green islands of Boston Harbor.”

That 7-year-old was John Quincy Adams, and they were witnessing the Battle of Bunker Hill from at least ten miles away.

#history #RevolutionaryWar #BunkerHill
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“There was a vulture on the mailbox
of my grandmother‘s house.” 🪶

is it really horror if I‘ve had some smiles while reading?
there are nerdy bug facts, spooky southern gardens,
& each chapter has opened with a wild dream so far!
#SoftHorror #southerngothic #speculativefiction

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"I'm gonna stick it in now."

I've been waiting all week for #FirstLineFridays and #haikuhive #haikuaday ??

I'm clutching my pearls
Romance Book Club assignment
Starts off with a bang!

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“Catastrophe is never convenient”

This is the first line of the preface and I have to say in all my years of reading, this is one of the most beautiful prefaces I have ever read. The last paragraph is so moving I‘ve read it a few times and I read it out to my husband and to my eldest daughter.

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He was lying on a varnished wooden board, the top of a boxed-in radiator.

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"At one point there was almost a *Vanderpump Rules* without Scheana Shay."

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"Tom was trying to concentrate."

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