Welcome to Litsy!

As someone who doesn‘t read romance, I picked this up because I‘ve read some darker stuff from Lucy foley, but this was the sweetest book I‘ve read in a long time

Finished 2024 with 55 books read, and here is the start of my January goals. My entire TBR collection and my goal is this year to get it much smaller and keep it smaller.

I am posting one book per day from my extensive to-be-read collection. No description and providing no reason for wanting to read it, I just do. Some will be old, some will be new. Don‘t judge me - I have a lot of books. Join in if you want!

#ABookADay2023

Yep! She's become a new favorite. Maybe a bit predictable, but a page turner nonetheless.

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A novel of family secrets, creativity,identity,heartbreak,loss & hope, set on the idyllic Mediterranean island of Corsica.The setting both informs & forms the characters & their responses to the world.Corsica‘s wild beauty encompasses various terrains:mountains,cliffs,valleys,tidal pools,forests.The arts:painting,architecture,photography,music,drive the plot.While The novel might seem slow to some,for me the pace & lyrical writing are perfect.

Alice/Celia succinctly sums of her life. #SummerReadingMode
Hashtag courtesy of @Cinfhen

Starting this today on a whim. #moodbook #porchlife #ocean

This book covers a lot: love, lost, grief, separation, family secrets, but the story is very slow, a little cliché and unconvincing. It's an OK book, but just OK.

⭐️⭐️⭐️ - April #BookSpin complete ✅

This was an okay read for me; I wasn‘t pulled in from the onset, but did want to know how it all came together. This was a quite different from The Guest List, which introduced me to the author.

This book definitely got better as I went, but it was slow to get started. I couldn‘t help thinking most people probably would have jumped ship. And it‘s probably not fair to compare & contrast, but this was much slower than The Guest List. After finishing that, I decided to look into Foley‘s other books.

This was in the free box so thought I had to rescue it. I found it hard to get into. Once I did I found the jumping from one time setting to another plus the different “ voices” sometimes hard to follow. It was an okay read. @MrsMalaprop

My book outlet #bookhaul. I realize now I may have gone slightly crazy. Plus I bought a couple for my tiny human. What I should have got was a new bookshelf...