Welcome to Litsy!

Wonderful intense story. One of the rare books where I did not constantly fall for the plot because I sporadically found it too over conscientious. But I could relate to many of the situations and the feelings.

I wouldn‘t say it‘s a tear jerker but it‘s definitely moving. 😢 🤧

Plus: I like the layout, the dividers between the chapters, the drawings, the included playlist and the excerpt from Kristofer‘s notebook in the inner front cover.

Reading 📚 my bad news away with this lovely love story – at least I hope it will end in one instead being just a story about a single mother and her teenage daughter trying to heal after the suicide of their son and brother – chocolate 🍫 cappuccino ☕️. 🥰

I really like the story.

But I can‘t help it, I feel bothered by the fact that Luise paints her room in white. Before, the walls were light yellow, so why do they now need to be white❓ I understand that she wants a new colour but white always reminds me of hospitals.

„A different facet of silent.“ (p. 235)

„Eine andere Facette von still.“ (Seite 235)

⬆️⬆️⬆️ Yes, that‘s right, there is a wide variety of different silences. I like this sentence very much. Anyway, I am very happy that I finally find a few hours to continue reading in here. 💙 Either it‘s one of the books where it‘s easy to find back into the plot or I unconsciously chose a good point to stop.

This or that, I had no problems finding back in.

I did like @Deifio suggested.
My limit was 25 Euros 💶.

Probably dressed for today‘s undertaking. 😍📚🌟

(Screenshot 📸 taken from: https://bit.ly/2kf77sw)

Later today we will visit a book flea market with the in-laws. 😍 Do I need to stress that I really look forward to this❓🤔😉😁

Actually, I don‘t have any money left. But my significant other hinted that last time (2-3 years ago) I got 15-20 books 📚 for 5-10 Euros 💶, “so why not?” He‘s got a point there.

I need to make a list 📝 of books and authors to look for. Suggestions welcome‼️😃

Sadly I didn‘t have the time to continue in here during this last week.

It‘s not that I didn‘t want to – mostly during daylight I was too busy and at night I felt too exhausted to get in more than a few pages. 😔
Additionally it‘s one of the bigger hardcover volumes that I always find too heavy to comfortably read them in bed.

So I spent all of last week‘s reading time with my audiobook. Which was okay because I enjoyed it. – But still …

Phew, this book floors me.
Sometimes in a good way that rewards me with a warm unconscious smile, sometimes in a sad way that makes me remember how we humans can be/act when we‘re hurt and/or vulnerable.

A touching read without being cheesy.
In the contrary, I find it very authentic. Without secrets that the author lets her characters keep only for the purpose of an arc of suspense. That alone is worth five stars 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟, I think. 😃

After 123 pages I stop – for now. Which is a pity because the I stick to the story. And to Luise.

The plot until now creates a feeling of: „Oh yes, been there, done that.“ But at the same time I feel like: „No, for me, back then, things have been completely different and not even similar.“

It‘s weird, I can completely relate and at the same time I absolutely can‘t. A proof maybe that I already am my future me.

And the layout is so beautiful.

🙂 Time for at last two of the three famous “b”s in

• bed 🛏,
• book 📖,
• beer 🍺.

»Ich bin jetzt da«, sage ich leise zu Ming. »Ich treffe Mama zum Essen. Sie wartet bestimmt schon.« (Seite 85)

»I just arrived«, I tell Ming in low voice. »I need my mama for dinner. Surely, she‘s already waiting.« (p. 85)

⬆️⬆️⬆️ It‘s funny, when I talk to others about my mother I never use the word “mama”, I always say “my mum” or “my mother“. In that respect, “mama“ feels childish and outdated to me.

Okay, I just gave in to a local temperatures (17°C/62,6°F) and put a long sleeve/cardigan on before continuing my read.

Feels cosy now but I‘d really prefer the sunshine we had around noon.

And, after all, where did summer ☀️ go❓?

Is it already time for

? “Summer moved on
And the way it goes,
You can't tag along …” ? ❓?

This book gives me goosebumps and I hate that I need to put it away but I‘m _hungry_.

😢 Her brother, who committed suicide a while ago, is sending her e-mails from the afterworld.

Yes, you might think this is stolen from “P. S.: I love you” but the text he wrote touched me so much that I almost began to cry.

Do I soften❓ Or, do people generally soften when they grow older❓
I‘m not quite sure but I think that about five years ago I wouldn‘t have reacted like that or even found it cheesy. But no, it‘s not. It‘s not cheesy at all.

Read some pages in here before I just felt too tired to continue.

I still like it but it seems I don‘t have the patience to continuously read at the moment. Can‘t really say why because in the office things calmed down a bit. At least, as much as things can. At the moment, I am a bit less pressed for time and it seems to me that this doesn‘t telegraph through to my private life. 😟 Pity‼️

Often, I get a bad conscious some days after having bought a brand new book.

But then, when I wrap off the foil and begin to read and the book then smells after new, freshly printed letters – I calm down. 😍

When it then additionally has such a nice board interior I almost forgot that I spent money I better had kept for hardcover editions I usually refuse to buy … 🥰

Maybe I really grow old by now. Can you imagine, me, who likes to lay in and on workdays always hits the „snooze“ button one or two times too often was awake – and I mean _awake_ – more than one hour before the alarm clock ⏰ went off. 😯

I got up and in a rare fit of doing-paperwork-and-administrative-stuff that I had procrastinated for 6 weeks, before, I carried away _all_ my piles.

As a reward starting this one ☀️ until lunch is ready.

Did I tell you I ordered books on Saturday because we were at the bookstore anyway, ordering books to give them away as presents❓

First haul‼️🥰

I am a bit sad because it was published last year and obviously the author or her publisher or both don‘t plan to sell it as paperback. *sigh*

So, as I accidentally came to know that she already wrote and published a new book and I haven‘t read the “old” one still, I decided I need it anyway. 🤷🏽‍♀️