Welcome to Litsy!

Darkly funny book about two women and two men, loosely linked by working together at a non-descript London office building, all single, and all facing the dilemmas and quiet dread of a looming retirement, that symbolic start to “old age.”

“… Letty did not fancy herself in the role of gooseberry.”

Love finding new-to-me idioms. Who is it that shares “things that scratch my brain”? 😊
#Aug2025 Book73 #AsheCoNCReading Challenge category season

📸 View of the beer steins from lunch other day.

#CharacterCharm #elderly @Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

"Ageing, slightly mad and on the threshold of retirement, it was an uneasy combination and it was no wonder that people shied away from her or made only the most perfunctory remarks” ?

#5joysfriday @DebinHawaii
1. Beautiful pot for my deck.
2. Enjoying retirement. My tshirt says I can wine all I want #retirement.
3. My deck is finally complete. Black deck with new stairs in a new location.

It‘s official! After 33 years at my workplace, I took the leap into retirement. Officially, I‘m on vacation until the end of June, but as I no longer have to wake up at 5:30am, I‘m calling it. Looking forward to my “Renaissance Years” full of reading, gardening, Litsy, knitting, and so much more! #retired
(April 28, 2025)

Current read reflecting on the financial aspects of a life well lived. I'm glad it acknowledged very early on that globally a privileged few actually have disposable income with which they could take on board his viewpoint.

Already this is starting to feel like a lot of padding to get his central idea to book length though.....i think this will be a skim read.

Retirement Goal: Reading in a comfy chair with a goat on my lap! 😂😂

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I handed in my retirement application - so I see more time to respond to some #litsylove after Dec 6! 🎉

There has not been enough hammock time this summer, but today I finally got a bit with Gandalf for company. I found this book an interesting examination of character and commentary on aging alone, but it was a rather slow and melancholy read for me. I was glad that it ended with a bit of hopefulness.

#Reading1001 #TBRTakedown June 2024
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I read a few more pages of Quartet in Autumn today while filling the overhead bin (upper right photo) and found this unfamiliar word. Apparently, Marcia is having a tin of sardines originally for the cat.

pilchard: a small, edible, commercially valuable marine fish of the herring family

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