Verso La Luce Books
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Verso La Luce is a book-lovers home. We welcome free thought, embrace creativity, demand kindness, and love freely.
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The start of a great memoir…
I often think of pursuing my PhD, but at other times I catch myself cutting bread with the dull side of the knife and I realize that maybe I should simply be content that I’ve made it this far.
December 5, 2025 at 1:33 PM
The start of a great memoir…
I love this! “A secret portal” 💙
Totally agree. Libraries feel like a secret portal to a hundred different worlds all at once.
December 5, 2025 at 10:26 AM
I love this! “A secret portal” 💙
December 5, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Nothing completes a vacation like finishing a book on the flight home!
More to come this week… including a review of the book I just finished and the perfect gift guides for the people in your life!
More to come this week… including a review of the book I just finished and the perfect gift guides for the people in your life!
November 30, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Nothing completes a vacation like finishing a book on the flight home!
More to come this week… including a review of the book I just finished and the perfect gift guides for the people in your life!
More to come this week… including a review of the book I just finished and the perfect gift guides for the people in your life!
My daughter is a literary genius:
“You know what I love putting in my mouth? Food!” She said, as she stuffs pizza in her mouth.
#writing
“You know what I love putting in my mouth? Food!” She said, as she stuffs pizza in her mouth.
#writing
November 24, 2025 at 2:42 AM
My daughter is a literary genius:
“You know what I love putting in my mouth? Food!” She said, as she stuffs pizza in her mouth.
#writing
“You know what I love putting in my mouth? Food!” She said, as she stuffs pizza in her mouth.
#writing
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John F. Kennedy
May 29, 1917- November 22, 1963
“More than a man has died… What is to be mourned now is an ideal. What has been murdered is a belief in our own decency…"
~Rod Serling
May 29, 1917- November 22, 1963
“More than a man has died… What is to be mourned now is an ideal. What has been murdered is a belief in our own decency…"
~Rod Serling
November 22, 2025 at 12:12 PM
John F. Kennedy
May 29, 1917- November 22, 1963
“More than a man has died… What is to be mourned now is an ideal. What has been murdered is a belief in our own decency…"
~Rod Serling
May 29, 1917- November 22, 1963
“More than a man has died… What is to be mourned now is an ideal. What has been murdered is a belief in our own decency…"
~Rod Serling
Facts ⬇️
Purchased books
Borrowed books
Used books
All books are amazing
Borrowed books
Used books
All books are amazing
November 22, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Facts ⬇️
November 22, 2025 at 1:14 PM
I recently got to sit next to storied reporter and advocate Bob Rawitch. What a treat to hear stories from the days when journalists wrote breaking news that changed history. #CSUN #LA #LATimes @latimes.com
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Dinner with CSUN Alumni & LA Times Writer Bob Rawitch
I recently had the good pleasure and immense good fortune to be at a dinner sitting next to the one and only Bob Rawitch.
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November 18, 2025 at 12:36 AM
I recently got to sit next to storied reporter and advocate Bob Rawitch. What a treat to hear stories from the days when journalists wrote breaking news that changed history. #CSUN #LA #LATimes @latimes.com
versolalucebooks.substack.com/p/dinner-wit...
versolalucebooks.substack.com/p/dinner-wit...
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For 18 years, a mother wrote her son a birthday letter each year. As he neared adulthood, she wondered how he would receive them. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/the-eighteen-letters-project
November 2, 2025 at 9:00 PM
For 18 years, a mother wrote her son a birthday letter each year. As he neared adulthood, she wondered how he would receive them. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/the-eighteen-letters-project
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The Toll House Chocolate Crunch Cookie was the perfect antidote to the Great Depression: in a single, inexpensive, hand-held serving, it contained the very richness and comfort that millions of people were forced to live without in the late 1930s. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/oluwlN
October 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The Toll House Chocolate Crunch Cookie was the perfect antidote to the Great Depression: in a single, inexpensive, hand-held serving, it contained the very richness and comfort that millions of people were forced to live without in the late 1930s. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/oluwlN
We recently finished watching Boots on @netflix.com and wanted to share some writing about boot camp:
500 Letters to Nana - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/5...
500 Letters to Nana - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/5...
Episode 10: More Problems to Work Out
Podcast Episode · 500 Letters to Nana · S1 E10 · 48m
podcasts.apple.com
October 20, 2025 at 1:17 PM
We recently finished watching Boots on @netflix.com and wanted to share some writing about boot camp:
500 Letters to Nana - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/5...
500 Letters to Nana - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/5...
October 18, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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there are
too many notes
stuck to her fingertips
sticky notes and music notes
and love notes wedged
in the beats between
she keeps time with her toes
keeps love in its throes
and keeps coming back
for more
#poetry
too many notes
stuck to her fingertips
sticky notes and music notes
and love notes wedged
in the beats between
she keeps time with her toes
keeps love in its throes
and keeps coming back
for more
#poetry
October 17, 2025 at 5:42 PM
there are
too many notes
stuck to her fingertips
sticky notes and music notes
and love notes wedged
in the beats between
she keeps time with her toes
keeps love in its throes
and keeps coming back
for more
#poetry
too many notes
stuck to her fingertips
sticky notes and music notes
and love notes wedged
in the beats between
she keeps time with her toes
keeps love in its throes
and keeps coming back
for more
#poetry
October 12, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Want to cure the workplace blues? (80% of U.S. Workers Now Say Their Job Hurts Their Mental Health via Monster.)
Pick up a book.
Source: www.monster.com/career-advic...
#Books #MentalHealth
Pick up a book.
Source: www.monster.com/career-advic...
#Books #MentalHealth
www.monster.com
October 11, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Want to cure the workplace blues? (80% of U.S. Workers Now Say Their Job Hurts Their Mental Health via Monster.)
Pick up a book.
Source: www.monster.com/career-advic...
#Books #MentalHealth
Pick up a book.
Source: www.monster.com/career-advic...
#Books #MentalHealth
How do you feel when you finish a book?
October 7, 2025 at 2:19 PM
How do you feel when you finish a book?
So. Much. Truth. ⬇️
Therapist: You must trust your gut..what is your gut telling you to do about you?
Me: I don’t know, I’m not listening to that bitch anymore, have you seen the choices she keeps making?! Yeah fuck that, she’s stupid.
Me: I don’t know, I’m not listening to that bitch anymore, have you seen the choices she keeps making?! Yeah fuck that, she’s stupid.
October 7, 2025 at 6:06 AM
So. Much. Truth. ⬇️
It’s Banned Book Week.
At Verso, we embrace words that challenge us, make us question, and expand our worldview.
#bannedbooks #books #lgbt #tmyk
versolalucebooks.substack.com/p/banned-boo...
At Verso, we embrace words that challenge us, make us question, and expand our worldview.
#bannedbooks #books #lgbt #tmyk
versolalucebooks.substack.com/p/banned-boo...
Banned Book Week 2025
It's 2025 and we are still banning books. It's time to embrace the great works that make MAGA feel scared about themselves.
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October 5, 2025 at 3:34 PM
It’s Banned Book Week.
At Verso, we embrace words that challenge us, make us question, and expand our worldview.
#bannedbooks #books #lgbt #tmyk
versolalucebooks.substack.com/p/banned-boo...
At Verso, we embrace words that challenge us, make us question, and expand our worldview.
#bannedbooks #books #lgbt #tmyk
versolalucebooks.substack.com/p/banned-boo...
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On a recent visit to his mother’s house, David Kamp was stunned to find old boxes with dozens of selfies taken by his grandfather in the ’30s and ’40s: funny ones, straight ones, flagrantly thirst-trappy ones.
The Original Brooklyn Selfie King
In the nineteen-thirties and forties, my grandfather constantly, carefully photographed himself. What was he trying to see?
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October 4, 2025 at 5:11 PM
On a recent visit to his mother’s house, David Kamp was stunned to find old boxes with dozens of selfies taken by his grandfather in the ’30s and ’40s: funny ones, straight ones, flagrantly thirst-trappy ones.
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“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
~Jane Goodall
Profound words to ponder by a woman who lived to give and to love until her very last moments. 🌹
~Jane Goodall
Profound words to ponder by a woman who lived to give and to love until her very last moments. 🌹
October 2, 2025 at 7:45 PM
“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
~Jane Goodall
Profound words to ponder by a woman who lived to give and to love until her very last moments. 🌹
~Jane Goodall
Profound words to ponder by a woman who lived to give and to love until her very last moments. 🌹
October 3, 2025 at 11:39 PM
@rygebhart.bsky.social Hey! Just getting my Substack started … let me know if you’d like to be featured. :)
October 3, 2025 at 5:58 AM
@rygebhart.bsky.social Hey! Just getting my Substack started … let me know if you’d like to be featured. :)