@Chelleo My profile pic is from almost 3 years ago now...it was taken at one of the lovely farms on Sauvie Island (see tagged book), in the shop where you can buy veggies etc that you haven't picked. 😆 (We were there picking flowers for my friend's wedding the next day!) I was very excited to find a cabbage larger than my head. #litsyavatar

Found this ARC on the sale table at the library--it looks really good and it's blurbed by Elif Batuman (!!) which really excites me.

Just read this article from the author and it is SO GOOD!

https://www.buzzfeed.com/akwaekeemezi/writers-of-color-are-making-our-own-canon?...

I think I may be the only one still chugging along in the #luminariesbuddyread (probably bc I took a good 2 weeks off reading it, at least), but I'm still loving it. My parents recently bought this gorgeous chair on sale at scan design (it's easily the classiest thing in the house now 😂) and it turns out it is a PERFECT reading chair, especially in the evenings after they've gone to bed. I'm going to really miss it when I leave...😭

I sent off my #mybloodyvalentineswap packages today! (Split them up so I could send the books via media mail). Luckily I got to the post office just in time and they'll arrive on the 12th or 13th. Sorry for cutting it so close, my friend.

Yikes, between all my #NCBgiveaway packages and the #mybloodyvalentineswap, things are getting crazy at the post office today. 😂📦📦📦📦📦📦📦

My #mybloodyvalentineswap package from @Craftylikefox arrived! Thank you, Tabitha!! I actually had to look up what #MVPS was bc I totally forgot the other hashtag...I don't even know what those letters stand for...shouldn't it have been #MBVS? ☺️

Lolololol anybody need a new #bookclubpick? 😂

#poetrychallenge2018

Fuck, people, this collection of stories is SO GOOD, you should definitely go read them. SERIOUSLY.

This story feels like some real Get Out level shit...jesus. I can't believe they categorized it as a comedy, that's just so wrong.

Hey hey! My #bookishfirst book arrived! 😄

As I've said before, this has the most ridiculous cover for a collection of Charlotte Gilman stories I can even imagine, but I'm so happy I own it and that I read it. The Yellow Wallpaper has obviously been on my list to read for forever and I was glad I finally got to it--it's worth reading, even knowing the whole concept. My favorite story was probably "If I Were A Man"...not enough has changed in the last century...

Still quoting from last month's poet, Solmaz Sharif. Throughout the collection, she uses terms & phrases from the U.S. Dept of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms, which usually show up integrated into poems but always capitalized. Here, she uses them as the starting point for a series of mini-poems. #poetrychallenge2018 Read more about it here: http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-ca-jc-solmaz-sharif-20160627-snap-sto...

In January alone I read 5 books that easily match or surpass the quality of ones I chose for my 17 in '17 picks...The only possible outcomes now are that the rest of the year is a real let-down, reading-wise, or I have a super tough time picking 18 as my faves come December. 😳 #youshouldreadthesebookstho

GODDAMN this woman knows how to write a first sentence, she never disappoints. 😍

I expected more from this book--and I don't think it was written long enough ago to excuse it. A girl growing up dealing with how her sense of self doesn't align with society's gender norms is an important story to tell, but this author wasn't ready to fully analyze or unpack her childhood experiences-the discussion was still VERY invested in the gender binary, made zero mention of trans ppl, & BARELY acknowledged how (cont ⬇️) ...

I wish I had the time to find a way to clearly articulate what was so great about this book-I was impressed & pleasantly surprised by how this book was able to focus on something so subtle & honest in the middle of what could have been an overwhelming context/"topic". It's neither-ultimately-a love story or a refugee story, but a story about how we are and are not changed by events, the mundanity amidst the dramatic, & how we treat each other. 5⭐️

"history is what it is. it knows what it did."
-from "summer, somewhere"
#poetrychallenge2018 #blacklivesmatter

I couldn't help myself, had to post some of the highlights from the book sale! Very excited about these finds. (Sorry the photo is weird, I'm trying to block the light from the reflective covers)

Pay-what-you-want library clearance book sale haul! 1st 1/2 row is my dad's, next row is my mom's, last 2 rows are mine, and the tub is full of books we grabbed specifically to give to others or books we decided we didn't want. (It was a free-for-all in that room, so you were grabbing anything that looked good--not all of them turned out. Plus my mom grabbed 2 books she forgot she already read! 😂) #bookhaul

I dragged my parents to a library clearance book sale today! (There was a huge line waiting outside!) It's hard to see but we got 1 huge box and 4 bags worth of books, it was amazing. Gonna go spread 'em all out on the carpet and enjoy the bounty. ☺️

#classicistsoflitsy Lately ive been reading comics and graphic novels before bed, right now I'm working through this Roz Chast collection

I know it's February now, but I still have to share some of these great poems I read in January! #poetrychallenge2018

Here are my picks! Who are you reading in February? #poetrychallenge2018

February lookin' up! There is 100% no way I'm getting to all these in February, but it's such a beautiful list, it makes me happy to look at it. #februarytbr #blackhistorymonth #readingresolutions #mounttbr #yearofthechunkster #poetrychallenge2018 #luminariesbuddyread #bujo

LOOK AT ALL THESE POETS!! These are some of the poets that people read (or said they planned to read 😆) in January for #poetrychallenge2018 (the rest wouldn't fit!). 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
What a fantastic first month, onto the next! 📖💫🎉

Hi #poetrychallenge2018 people! A few ppl looked into jumping on the wagon near the end of Jan, so I wanted to repost this for them & any others. In this challenge we are all just picking a poet for ourselves for each month & exploring their work and sharing it with the group! I've added so many poets to my TBR list because of you folks-thank you! I'm having so much fun. I read John Ashbery & Solmaz Sharif in Jan-my Feb announcement coming soon!

Reviewing more January reads! I feel terrible about giving this book a so-so, I really do. I think it's a fine book, pretty cute/sweet/whatever you want a book like this to be...but I just felt kinda neutral about it. I don't know why, it didn't grab me and really make me feel like Eleanor & Park did. I really hope it's not because Dimple and Rishi are both really well adjusted teens, I shouldn't need childhood trauma to instigate emotion...🤔

At first this book gave me a ton of anxiety because the general sense of unease and tension coupled w/ the main character growing into her adolescent sexuality made me super worried there was gonna be some sort of sexual trauma, but thank god, it didn't go there. This isn't a book where a lot "happens", it's a book that works to create and explore a feeling and a time, and it knocks it out of the park! ⬇️ cont in comments

41 TOTAL! I've been looking for new ways to track & present info, so here is an experiment. I've got reading method (mostly print), content format (mostly graphic due to #letsgetgraphicweeklongreadathon), source (mostly library), etc. I checked 6 books off my #mountTBR shelf, gave an equal amount of 3/4/5 star ratings & read 51% books written by women. Gotta work on that #POCauthor stat-32% isn't good enough. See comments for recommendations! ⬇️

I whizzed through my second poet/poetry collection for January of the #poetrychallenge2018 during the #24in48 readathon, so I'll be posting a few quotes from it today. Sorry they're all via a beat-up old kindle, it was technically returned to the library already. 😂 Solmaz Sharif, the poet, is Iranian-American and her poems are political in the best of ways.

Guys, I'm so obsessed with Lucy Knisley these days...it's a problem. I WANT MORE BOOKS!! I loved Something New, not just because it was sweet and well written, but because by now I was invested in her life and the people she knows. It was amazing to see this next stage in her life and how she went about it, especially little details she doesn't point to, like how they have a Vespa now?!?!! She mentioned wanting one in an earlier book! ❤️❤️❤️

I never posted a review of this book I read during #letsgetgraphicweeklongmarathon, in fact I didn't post about it at all. It sucked, don't read it, review over. 😂

Shopping my shelves for more books to read in Feb! #blackauthors #MountTBR I mean, I'm never gonna get to all of these, but at least I have a stack for if I make it thru the few I already set aside for #blackhistorymonth. Excited to read Danez Smith/Gwendolyn Brooks/Audre Lorde for #poetrychallenge2018! The epigraph in Oyeyemi's White is for Witching from a Brooks poem is what inspired me to start the challenge in the first place!

Another good volume--this one gave me a bit more anxiety, probably because I expected...certain people (spoilers!) to know more about what was going on! I still have no idea what is going on in this story, but I want to find out! On to volume 3!

So this was my 4th Knisley, loved it of course. Both the narrative & the drawing style were more tightly controlled, it seemed, than usual, & I actually felt something was lost in that control. I'm getting really nitpicky only bc I love her work-and I had thought in the past that perhaps her work was a little too loosy-goosy, but this one helped show me what that freedom really gives you. I love looking at the small differences between her books.

Oof...what a fall from grace after the first volume! This would have been a so-so just because the story kinda sucked, but this little blurb tipped it over: it's not okay to imply that strong women who make their own decisions can't be or are even less likely to be raped. If women in the military can be raped, so can fucking Mockingbird. She wasn't, fine, but this ISN'T the reason why.

Bad Feminist is a fantastic book, I love Roxanne Gay. It was a little weird to read so many essays on a similar subject back to back (originally published elsewhere) because you'd see an example she gives repeated somewhere else briefly, so I'd even recommend reading them in a random order, but on the whole really thoughtful, interesting writing.

I've read a lot of books this month I haven't reviewed yet, so buckle in for the next few days while I remedy that! I read & mostly liked Relish but then I read & adored Age of License, so by this book I had gotten a sense of Lucy. This one is less mature (as is Lucy), but there is a sweetness to it. I could remember being that age, it all just made sense. I definitely got something out of this book, but if it was my 1st Knisley I might not have.

Entering all the books I finished during #24in48! On to page 3 of my reading log! Which is fun, but do not be alarmed, it's probably 75% graphic novels and comics volumes.

Wanted to share the books I read during the #24in48 readathon. Bc I used it to clear a bunch of books I had already started, it's a little harder to measure (& I'm too lazy to tally the pages), so I decided to list them all and list about how much of the book I read during that time. Only the last 2 are ones that I didn't finish during that time period. Now the only book left that I'm currently reading (not including audiobook) is The Luminaries!

Posting another photo with the timestamp in the screenshot so I can enter to win one of the prize packs! I'm on the west coast of the US so the readathon ended at 9pm for me. #24in48 This was my first 24 in 48 readathon and it was so much fun!! I'm over the moon that I actually made it. Also, I didn't ever screw up my stopwatch! Amazing 😂

I DID IT!!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Detail forthcoming when I have a second. But yay!! I finished with ~10 minutes to spare. 😅 #24in48

Sitting down to dinner with a family who does NOT know I've spent all weekend reading when I should have been working on something else (so I can't explain why I HAVE to read for 20 minutes before 9pm...) Pray dinner goes fast!!! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼😱 #24in48

Hour 42: final challenge!! The Mortifications is the best cover I think bc it's both beautiful and so appropriate to many themes in the book. When I Was a Witch is a collection of Charlotte Gilman stories, which are feminist in bent and written in the 1800s!!!! which is why a weird modern stock photo is the most inappropriate choice I can think of. 😣😣😣 I'm glad to have it, but yikes that cover. #24in48

Reading interruption # 5 million: looking up reviews of the book I just finished to help me clarify how I feel about it. Does anyone else out there do this too? I'm sure you do. 😊 #24in48

This is too good a book to be listening to during a readathon when I am too distracted...😞 I knew I shouldn't have wasted it like this, I just know I've missed some part of appreciation of this fascinating book. #24in48

Ha! My shelves are complicated.
📖 Books from Great Books program at St John's College
📖 British Lit 17th->18th->19th cent
📖 Literary criticism & non-SJC philosophy
📖 Plays
📖 Classics from not UK/US
📖 American/Canadian classics
📖 Poetry
📖 Essays
📖 Graphic novels/comics
📖 Recent fiction I've read that aren't on my favorites shelf
📖 Recent unread fiction not slated to be read in 2018
📖 Recent unread fiction I DO plan to read in 2018

Reading breaks I can't afford to take number 1000: stopping to listen to the St. James Infirmary blues bc my book keeps mentioning the St. James Hotel and I can't get it out of my head. #24in48