Welcome to Litsy!

Beautifully written story. Set in Ireland and Canada, from Irish famine to the Canadian Shield to Port Hope, Montreal and Ottawa this book tells the story of several generations of women from one family.

My #bookreport
?Away - finally reading this #Canlit classic from the 90s #192025
?A Great Deliverance - listening to the first volume in the Inspector Lynley series
?Hagitude - my "workish" listen (This will take me forever ?)
?️Behind You is the Sea - new ebook of short stories about Palestinian immigrants in Baltimore.

This book. I just finished it, so I don't really have words to describe it yet. Poetic, atmospheric, beautiful. I've read Urquhart before but this one was different - maybe it's one of those books that found me at the right time. For me, this will be a classic of #canlit

Stealing some quiet time while everyone else does other things to read and cuddle with the step-dogs (a picture of two tiny poodles + book is beyond my photography skills, but there's another on my lap). I hope everyone has very happy holidays, and that you take enough time for yourself if these days are hard for you ❤

I got this beautiful latte mug and a frother as an early Xmas gift, we have a beautiful snowy morning... but I can't cozy up with my stack of books right now since I have to pack and finish up getting ready for the holidays. I'm off work til Jan though! So excited!!

Normally I ignore the buy-this-book buzzwords on book covers, because let's face it they're usually the same or exaggerated or both. But 40 pages into this, honestly the top words to describe it that come to mind are stunning, evocative. Wow. This writing. (And good job, copy writer).

This book brings me very close to finishing #litsyatoz and helps me climb higher on #mountTBR. At first, I did not think I would like this book. I probably would never have grabbed it from my TBR had I not needed a book for "U." It started slowly, and then slowly I was pulled into the story. The author wrote some truly lovely passages.

I finally finished a book! And what an annoying book, at that. I've had enough of romantic and weak women for quite some time now.

The men in this book build things, create a life for themselves, are industrious. The women fall in love with ideas of men and then go around day-dreaming, being annoyingly "quaint" and poetic. Not so sure I like it ?

I'm completely unable to read, can't focus on any of the books I've been reading, so I naturally decided to try yet another book.

Still my favourite Irish/Canadian novel: Away by Jane Urquhart. Lovely blend of immigration story and magic realism.