Welcome to Litsy!

#TLT #ThreeListThursday @dabbe
Had to jump in for this one (but couldn‘t quite narrow it down to three 😆)
1. Tagged
2. Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan
3. The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell
4. The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
5. Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted by Suleika Jaouad

Apparently I really like memoirs 📚

Currently reading This Changes Everything and feeling like my book club hates me. Over 400 pages of doom ahead of me I‘m afraid. Not like it‘s not important, but it‘s what I already know. Why did everyone vote for this?!

But on a sweeter note…it‘s Nova‘s first photo bomb. I‘ll never be mad at a cute dog photo bomb.

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#DogsOfLitsy

Thanks for the tag @Eggs

1. I was an office assistant/contact lens technician for my eye doctor. I was 16 and worked there for 2 years. Believe it or not I went back to work for him in 2011 as his office manager for 9 years.

2. No

3. Not with constant/instantaneous communication in your pocket

#WondrousWednesday

WE DID IT!! After more than a year, and 1,000+ pages, my partner and I finished reading Capital Vol. 1!! We basically took turns reading the entire thing out loud line by line. I also kept a notebook that I‘ve updated after each chapter (still need to finish my notes on the Appendix)! It was so much clearer (and funnier!) than I anticipated & I would encourage anyone who wants to read it to not feel daunted. But, definitely read with a buddy 🤓

Starting this one. So many fascinating things so far.

July is the last full month of freedom before my kids and I must return to school (one more year, for me! Sorry kids!). So it‘s a bittersweet month. I can‘t believe how fast this year is flying by. As my dad says, “The days are long, but the years are short.” Here‘s my #BookSpin list for the last bit of sweet summer freedom! ☺️

Orestes and Conway document how America moved from the ideals of Declaration of Independence (the rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness) to a government concerned with protecting property above everything else, and how the deification of the free market has led to business profits belonging solely to the business, but business losses are shared (through bailouts and tax right offs).

Finally done 😪 I was so excited to read this, especially after Moby Dick, but it ended up feeling underwhelming and tedious. There was a lot of interesting information, just not presented in the most interesting way. Ready to move on to something new.