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This is a repost from the incredible @Ambrosnazzy , a new #LitsyPartyOfOne is on the schedule:

Hello Littens! It‘s that time again for our #LitsyPartyOfOne This time I thought it would be neat to do it on MLK weekend and try and focus our reads on POC or by POC. Please share this far and wide to reach newbies. #HostPost

amvs1111 I love this idea! 6y

Shortstack What books by POC are you going to read for the event? So many good ones to choose from! #ftg 6y

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BookishFeminist

The Witches of New York | Ami McKay

Taking a break from my productive Sunday to start this. I'm a sucker for witch books. 🖤🍁🍂

TheNextBook Is that pumpkin? 😂😂😂 7y

mcipher I have this out from the library - how is it so far? 7y

Jess_Read_This This one sounds really good! I love witch books too. 7y

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BookishFeminist @TheNextBook lol no! I told you I was sick of it already 😂 7y

BookishFeminist @mcipher I mean, good? No idea since I *just* started. 7y

BookishFeminist @Jess_Read_This Of course you do 😉 witch books = #ftg 7y

MeganAnn I'm also a sucker for #witchyreads! This is on my TBR stack of #fivestarpredictions 😍 hope you enjoy it 7y

amvs1111 Can't wait to read this! Maybe I'll save it for October 🕸 7y

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MrBook

What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories | Laura Shapiro

#TBRtemptation post 7! Released in July. The renowned culinary historian looks at 6 famous women from an angle that never gets looked at: their relationship with food, so as to gain a deeper understanding of their world-view. Dorothy Wordsworth, sister of the poet; Rosa Lewis, the Edwardian who cooked her way up the social ladder; Eleanor Roosevelt; Eva Braun; Barbara Pym; Cosmopolitan editor Helen Brown. #blameLitsy #blameMrBook 😎

Shortstack Oh great, more commentary on women in the kitchen and how/what they should be eating. Because that's obviously what defines a woman. 🙄🙄🤢🤢 tempted to throw this in the trash is what I would be. 😐 7y

MrBook @Shortstack Yeah, I can understand your perspective ??. I'm always fascinated by what people eat. Bill Bryson's "At Home" has really opened my eyes to this sort of thing. ? 7y

Yournewfriendsams @shortstack #FTG 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽 7y

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Shortstack @Yournewfriendsams I can't even take credit for this strong reaction, I got it from Chaz. It's one of his biggest pet peeves when men assume that anything related to food is a woman's burden. I'm a pretty lucky girl. He takes equal responsibility for the food on our table (when he's not on the road). But seeing his annoyance with this stereotype has made me hyperaware of just how sexist that thinking is! 7y

becausetrains @Shortstack @Yournewfriendsams right? Not only is it disrespectful to assume "women's work" vs. "men's work", it's dumb. I enjoy cooking so I make most of the meals; she does other housework to compensate, but the important part is that we /agree on it/ as a couple. It also excludes same-sex, single-parent, or multi-member households, as well as those with non-male primary earners. In conclusion: ugh. 7y

becausetrains @mrbook but what is her opinion on tater tots? @tatertotreads 7y

MrBook @becausetrains Maybe this book has the tater tot answer. 😁 Now that is something I don't want to know, it's something that I need to know. 😉👍🏻 7y

BookishFeminist @Shortstack @becausetrains @Yournewfriendsams And Eva Braun. I don't want to hear what Nazis thought about food with all of the other amazing food memoirs and histories out in the world. 🚮 7y

elkeOriginal An 'angle that never gets looked at'? I think women's relationship to food is TOO OFTEN looked at and used to narrowly define them. #Pass 7y

rwmg I would probably read the chapter? section? whatever on Barbara Pym because I like her books but for the rest, meh. 7y

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Yournewfriendsams

I Am Helpful | Errol Goodman

I'm looking for fun sci-fi that is less about crazy science stuff and more character based.

Looking for things in the vein of Oryx and Crake, The Wool Omnibus and The Long Way To A Small Angry Planet.

Any ideas would be much appreciated, friends!!

EmilyChristine

Annihilation

Yournewfriendsams Thanks @emilychristine !!! I've actually read book one of that series and never moved-on. Haha it felt a little like the TV show, Lost. Does it eventually all make sense? 7y

EmilyChristine I have book two and three to read. My friend read them and said I HAVE to read the rest. Plus book 1 is being made into a movie. 7y

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EmilyChristine Have you read this trilogy?

Hominids

Yournewfriendsams @EmilyChristine Oooo I haven't! That sounds interesting and I love a good series! Thanks for both the reco's 🙌🏽 7y

keithmalek I'm not big on Sci-fi (in fact, I'm not familiar with any of the titles you just mentioned) but I recently read New York 2140 and found it pretty enjoyable. And it's very character based. 7y

Yournewfriendsams Thanks @keithmalek !! I keep seeing that one in the store but have never picked it up! I hear KSR is one of the best in the genre! 7y

EmilyChristine Welcome! 7y

Owlizabeth

Leviathan Wakes

Owlizabeth

Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation

JessReads Maybe give Version Control a try?

Version Control: A Novel

Wbabdullah I haven't read any of the titles you mentioned but thoroughly enjoyed The Forgetting! You could also try An Ember in the Ashes...

An Ember in the Ashes

Wbabdullah

The Forgetting

becausetrains @EmilyChristine @Yournewfriendsams how have you not read the Southern Reach Trilogy yet!? Run don't walk to your nearest fine bookseller (or at least library!) I also recommend Beacon 23 by Hugh Howey and

Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas

Wbabdullah I've heard 1Q84 is good too, and a homage to 1984...in Japan!

1Q84

Yournewfriendsams Thanks @Owlizabeth ❤️ Invisible Planets sounds great! I read LW just a few weeks ago and loved it- then I got to Caliban's War and it just felt total different...like a political strategy book? Have you read the third? 7y

Yournewfriendsams @becausetrains Oooo I love HH def will pick those up! Re: Southern Reach, it felt so...randomly pieced together? IDK. #ftg 7y

becausetrains @Yournewfriendsams it is kind of pieced together, yeah, but I personally like the style. Humans don't have control of the narrative in Area X, so their stories are more jagged, don't fit together well, and don't match into a fully-flowing narrative. (Helps that I saw Jeff VanderMeer speak on Annihilation in person & heard his reasoning.) Redshirts is by John Scalzi, whoops. And yup, 🏆 (edited) 7y

CrowCAH @TobeyTheScavengerMonk this seems right up your genre! Suggestions? 7y

Cupofjo Dean Koontz! 7y

EmilyChristine @becausetrains I know! Books 2 and 3 are sitting next to me. I plan to read them soon. I've had other books to get done. And I'll definitely check out Redshirts and Beacon 23. Thanks! 7y

NerdyRev

Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas

NerdyRev

Annihilation

Owlizabeth I've read through the sixth book. I like the series a lot! 7y

AceOnRoam Someone already mentioned it but yes have a look at

Version Control: A Novel

AceOnRoam How good was Wool !!!! 7y

moranadatter

A Fire Upon The Deep

moranadatter Anything by Anne McCaffrey 7y

moranadatter

For Darkness Shows the Stars

rachelm Have you read

Station Eleven: A novel

ApoptyGina69

The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)

Bookbeez A Close and Common Orbit, the sequel to a long way was fantastic. 7y

Yournewfriendsams @Bookbeez I am not-so-patiently awaiting book number three!! 7y

Yournewfriendsams Wow thank you so much for all the recos @ApoptyGina69 @kimm @sprainedbrain @moranadatter @rachelm @AceOnRoam @NerdyRev I am going to look into all of these! Litsy peoples have helped me find so many gems ✨✨✨ 7y

PennyPistol

Ready Player One: A Novel

KimM Since you mentioned Oryx and Crake, did you finish the Madd Addam trilogy? 7y

Yournewfriendsams @kimm I did and they really have stuck with me! What a great series. MaddAddam and The Wool Omnibus may be my fave series (besides HP, of course) ever. Did you love MaddAddam too? 7y

KimM I did! And Wool. 7y

BooksForEmpathy I second this recommendation. Like A LOT.

The Sparrow: A Novel

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BookishFeminist

Precious Gifts: A Novel | Danielle Steel

Happy #bookishbirthday to Danielle Steel! She's 70 today.

She's the 4th bestselling fiction author & has sold over 800 mil copies of her books. She's also an activist! She lost a son 20 yrs ago. In his honor she founded the Nick Traina Foundation to raise money for mental illness orgs. She also started the Yo! Angel Foundation, a street outreach program for San Francisco's homeless, to get them supplies/funds.

#ActivistAuthors #SpotlightOnWomen

Shortstack Just opened up Litsy to see this wonderful post at the top of my feed! I had no idea she was so incredible! Thanks for shining a new light on an author I hadn't thought about much! 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 #womenkickass 7y

elkeOriginal I feel silly for not taking her seriously based on her writing genre - love the quote above and knowing she's a humanitarian. And I knew she couldn't top Agatha Christie's sales (no.1 seller of all time)! #awesomeladies #ftg #topoftheheap 7y

HippieChickHomeschool It looks like I should read some Danielle Steele! 7y

Megabooks Awesome! No idea! 7y

ferskner She's only 70?! I thought she'd been around much longer. 7y

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Laalaleighh

Harry Potter | JK Rowling

Number seven, though.

Meeko93 I like the second one! 😂 7y

stargazerblue49 😂😂😂 7y

Shortstack Pure gold. #FTG 😂😂😂 7y

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Laalaleighh @Meeko93 Sames! 7y

Laalaleighh @shortstack 😹#FTG indeed. 💁🏼 7y

Lcsmcat 😹 7y

RadicalReader @Laalaleighh I LOVE HP and will watch and rewatch them again and again never tiring of the perfectly on point film adaptions 7y

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MrBook

Oh Myyy!: There Goes the Internet | George Takei

😳😳😳😳 *tries to hold it in*...*trying*...*struggling*...🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😝😝😝😝😝🙈🙊🙉😹😹😹🤷🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️ #LitsyHumor

TheBookAddict 😳🤣🤣🤣😵 7y

TK421 Lannister brand incense. 7y

kimlovesbooks 😂😂😂😂😂 7y

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Meeko93 😉😂😊 7y

becausetrains Dude. Vibrators, incest, and #bookporn is not a good look for you 😵 #ftg 7y

LinaLovesLit 🤦🏻‍♀️ lol 7y

Yournewfriendsams These #litsyhumor posts are getting a little absurd. (edited) 7y

SheilaChew 😂😂😂 7y

MrBook @becausetrains @Yournewfriendsams ???I'll label these "Rated M for Mature" ??. 7y

MrBook @becausetrains I'm not good with acronyms, what's #ftg stand for? I'm seeing that a lot lately. 7y

becausetrains @MrBook For the Gold 🏅🥇🏆 7y

MrBook Ah! Gotcha! 😆 7y

MrBook @becausetrains ☝🏻 7y

Dragon 🤢 yuck 🤢 7y

SconsinBookyBadger Cerseiously ?! 😧😂🤣🤣 7y

Texreader Oh...my...gah 7y

LauraJ Oh, please tell me that's an autocorrect issue. 7y

monkeygirlsmama Hahaha 7y

Laalaleighh Im missing the humor on this one. Even rated M. Sorry 🤷🏼‍♀️ 7y

Bookartbookmarks I didn't know Cersei has Snapchat! (edited) 7y

Robinsroute Hahahah this is golden! 7y

OrangeMooseReads 😲😳😮😧😯😳😲😳😮 7y

BookBabe Technology mess-up's are hilarious...especially when something innocent goes horribly awry 7y

BookBabe Saw one yesterday where daughter texts mom "No idiot"...but she really wrote "No I don't", and autocorrect changed it! ? I wonder how many people have lost friends and jobs because of autocorrect...lol 7y

readinginthedark 😏😂😂😂 7y

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