Welcome to Litsy!

This book is indeed a strange new thing. I like Faber‘s writing but my overall judgment is still unclear. I‘m 70% done and I think I know what‘s going to happen, but I hope it doesn‘t. 😗

Update: I‘d have to give it a so-so. After finishing, still not quite sure how I feel about it.

Told the dogs they needed to pose with a book! But then, of course, I wasn‘t as ready as their quick enthusiasm. Barely managed to capture this. I wrote on gr, “Just a sad and bizarre story. I don‘t know what to think.” There ya have it.

#ScienceFiction #MissionaryWork #EndOfTimes #ToFavoritesfall2023 #Doubt #Love #Trust #DogsofLitsy #CandE

I think I‘ll need to mull this over - slow going but thought provoking. Pastor Peter is sent to Oasis, a new colony in space to do missionary work amongst the “native” beings, leaving behind his wife. The separation proves to be more difficult than either imagined as world tragedies large & small occur back on earth. Thanks for gifting me this GORGEOUS edition @BarbaraBB photo: Blue Grotto, Capri

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Mt. Vesuvius ✅✅✅ it‘s really right there!!! Bummer you can‘t see it in my photo 😫 Loving this book @BarbaraBB I‘m sooo grateful you choose this one for my birthday 🩷

This book is one of four* that I hadn‘t yet read, of the 8** up for discussion in the gr TOB group‘s Tournament of Favorites. And this is the only one totally off my radar - I knew/know NOTHING and am now abt 30% in. Certainly compelling. I am afraid my eBook loan will expire so I added the Physical copy. #ToFavoritesFall23

* LaRose, Thousand Autumns JacobdeZoet, and Horse
** Tell Wolves I‘m Home, Circe, Great Believers, Hamnet

Title #WithNew ✨ #TemptingTitles ☔️🌸💜

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My #LetterB book for the #Alphabetgame

A wonderful book about a missionary to the planet Oasis that works as a SF story and also takes the main characters' faith and their emotional interactions seriously. It left me wanting to know what happened next for the Earthlings and the Oasans but I suspect a sequel would only spoil it. If I could give it more than 5 stars I would.

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

This book was okay, not great but not bad either 😬

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I've never read anything by Michel Faber, but I'm now interested in trying something else he has written. I've never read anything quite like this. It's science fiction, with a big dose of religion thrown in. It's a big heavy book (500 pages) but I really wish there were another 200 pages. It ended too soon. What happened next? I really want to know what happens!
I enjoyed this weird strange book. Not sure if everyone would.
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It‘s good to be reading again after a work-caused reading drought. This is a strange story of a born again Christian serving as a missionary to an alien race. It‘s interesting and surreal and even at halfway through I‘m not sure I have any idea where it‘s going, but it feels like it‘s headed somewhere weird.

Reading this for the fourth evening in a row. It's an easy book to fall into 📚 Everything feels genuine.

#3books that were gifted to me

I haven‘t read Invisible Cities yet, but the other two were good.

Peter Leigh is selected by a mysterious corporation to take part in a mission to Oasis, whose native population have requested a missionary to teach them the Gospel. Peter is excited and flattered at being chosen, despite the pain of having to leave his beloved wife behind. What follows is a slowly unfolding narrative which asks profound questions about the nature of human love, religious faith and the future of the planet.

7/3 - sunburn #quotsyjuly20 @TK-421

7/2 - a day late... you could say, I “forgot” #quotsyjuly20 @TK-421

Wow. I loved this. It took me a while to get through this June #bookspin, but I feel like every word was necessary. The words chosen from “the quarter million available in the English language” were arranged into a magnificent story. Could it have been told with only the few thousand available in the Oasan language? Can we all make a way to find what we‘re looking for? A way to say goodbye. Forgive. Amen.

1. Overcast and humid ☁️
2. Tent, RV or cabin will do as long as I can step outside and be in the quiet of nature. About 2 weeks till the north woods of Wisconsin as long as no Covid restrictions spoil our plans 🤞🏕
3. Granger from the tagged book. She‘s an auxiliary character, but I feel like I relate to her and the south Louisiana air in the summer feels like it could be the planet Oasis 🌌
4. Relax with the family 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦

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1. My patio or in the woods camping 🌳
2. A chocolate chip cake doughnut 🍩
3. Probably my current read, tagged, it is so strange and I love weirdo books 💙📖
4. 2 kitties and 2 sons 🐈🐈👦🏼👦🏼😂

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@4thhouseontheleft @howjessreads

“I was going to say something,” he said.
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@ShyBookOwl

Really enjoying this book so far! Original and interesting science fiction. Interesting tidbit, each chapter name is the last line of that chapter... sort of foreshadowing. I kind of hate this cliche though. Hasn‘t our whole lives lead up to every moment? My whole life has been leading me to this moment sitting in bed reading The Book of Strange New Things 😇 goodnight!

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Updated #bookspin #doublespin @TheAromaofBooks will shift to an adjacent book if my read books are chosen 🤩📖📚

“Sometimes a statement of the bloody obvious was the only appropriate way forward. As if to give life ceremonious permission to proceed.”

In a maybe-not-so-distant #future we might end up in a situation like Peter - he is going as a missionary to a new planet to preach the word of the bible. At Earth he leaves his wife Bea, and slowly, and from a universe away, Peter learns how life on Earth has been changing in drastic ways. Will there even be a home for him to return to?

Also, this cover is so shiny, I can‘t even 😍

#MOvember

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Day 4 #7days7covers #CoverCrush

Höchst interessant stellt sich die Frage ob Religion aus unsererWelt heraus bestand hat und meine ehrliche Meinung ist nein. Religion ist Teil unserer kultur und glaube ist die Wahrnehmung des unbegreiflichen um uns her als was immer wir das empfinden. Interessant aber leider langatmig verpackt
Ich habe etwas gespoilert und erfahren, dass die Dinge welche mich interessieren in diesem Buch nicht beantwortet werden. Daher breche ich das Hören ab.

I got out of work yesterday at 6pm, I‘ve been at work since 1am today and I have to be here until 4pm. Now I‘m trying to perk up with a little coffee ☕️ and reading 📖 #HospitalLife #ReadingKeepsMeAwake #CoffeeBecauseAdultingIsHard

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From one Michel Faber book to another - just look at that shine ✨✨

Peter travels to a new planet as a missionairy, leaving his wife, Bea, at home. Communication is hard with no #TelephoneWire going through space, so it takes Peter quite some time to learn, that not all is well on Earth.

Faber‘s writing is stunning, but this book left me wanting something more.

#MusicalNewYear

Ein Missionar und Astronaut : das wirft bei mir die Frage auf ob unsere Religion für andere Welten übertragbar ist. Mein Gefühl sagt das ist übergriffig. 1/10 habe ich gehört. Bin gespannt ob mich das Buch noch mehr fesselt oder ob ich abbrechen.

A little bummed to have taken the Christmas tree down already, but very happy to have my reading spot back

In this novel, Peter travels through space to evangelize aliens. Faber does two things incredibly well in this book. He conveys the difficulties of both long-distance relationships and cross-cultural missionary work. This novel gets pretty bleak, but is deeply moving.

Today my mate surprised me with this sweet custom bookshelf complete with inbuilt lighting and now I feel like I‘ve achieved all I need to in life. What a mate!

A pleasant mix of genres that somehow felt too accessible for its own sake, especially compared to Faber‘s amazing Under the Skin, which still haunts me to this day

Es gibt eine bestimmte Erzählweise die Männern eigen ist. Bei diesen Buch wusste ich nicht ob es Mann oder Frau geschrieben hat, da ich es auf dem Crosstrainer zu hören begann.
Mir war sofort klar dass ist ein Männerbuch. Zwei Menschen müssen sich trennen, mich stört ein
bisschen das man nicht frühzeitig erfährt warum.

I can't wait to read this !I loved the flim under the skin that was based off his book!! And im also itching to read that as well!!😃

It's prolly best to go into this one blind, i have heard its intense and deep!

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This genre defying book certainly makes for a thought-provoking, interesting read. Missionary Peter Leigh leaves his wife on Earth & travels to a distant planet to preach to the native population. As Peter revels in his calling & the work he is doing, his wife gets increasingly desperate—revealed in the letters she writes him—as environmental & political upheavals wreck havoc on Earth. Much to think about—faith, love, responsibility, self.

And now for something completely different...

#booksaboutbooks #readingresolutions

#emojimadness @Tiffy_Reads @JoeStalksBeck 🔭 When I think of looking at the night sky I think #vangogh and #stars

Peter, a missionary, sets out on a quest to take the word of God to the farthest corners of the galaxy. While he is #PrayingToTheAliens his wife stays on Earth where life spins out of control rapidly. Such a great read.

#NuYear

One of a couple Goodreads Deals worth noting today. I bought this audiobook a couple years ago and listened to it twice with in a fairly short amount of time, a year maybe, because it was so baffling to me. Across the board its reviews are "good but not great", at best. Have any of your read it? It was such a peculiar read, it stayed with me for quite some time.

"He loved her. Surely somewhere in the universe, allowing for the laws of time and space and relativity, there must be a place where that could still be possible."

Being on different planets definitely strained Bea and Peter‘s #marriage .

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A pastor embarks on a mission to bring the word of God to the natives of a recently discovered planet. This takes him away from his wife and the world he's always known. At first, everything seems to be working out for him. But, of course, things soon start to go downhill and he finds himself struggling with his new parishioners, his co-workers, his wife, and his faith. Interesting, though a bit preachy at times.

#PlayingFavorites

?THE BOOK OF STRANGE NEW THINGS by Michel Faber (not entirely off Earth, but a back-and-forth of new planet as Earth falls apart)

?WOLF HALL by Hilary Mantel

?WHITE TEETH by Zadie Smith

?THE ARGONAUTS by Maggie Smith

?JANE EYRE by Charlotte Brontë

?YOUR HEART IS A MUSCLE THE SIZE OF A FIST by Sunil Yapa

1. The Book of Strange New Things by Michael Faber
2. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
3. The Green Glass Sea by Ellen Klages
4. Zlata‘s Diary: A Child‘s Life in Wartime Sarajevo by Zlata Filipovic (I haven‘t read very many memoirs, but I remember liking this one in middle school.)
5. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
6. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling (Does blood count?)

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