Welcome to Litsy!

I had such a happy start to my day when I opened my #bookmark swap packages. I really love my bookmarks @OrangeMooseReads and @IndoorDame !!
There are so many that I would have picked out for myself!
What a nice surprise when my bookmarks from @TorieStorieS were sent in the tagged book!
Thank you swappers for making my day!
Thank you for hosting @LibrarianRyan !
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My favourite thing to do is to sit down with a good book, my cats and a cup of coffee. Here are my girls as kittens, and as grown cats. The tuxedo kitty likes to lie on my chest as I read, preferring to get in the way as much as possible in front of my book. I just finished reading The Ship - it has me contemplating concepts of safety, hope and freedom to choose.

Hooray for gift cards! Last haul before my book buying ban. Ready to spend the rest of the day reading in bed.

A lot of the reviews I read on this one were pretty unfavorable. But I thought it was a really great meditation on religon, what it means to be human, relationships, and how humanity responds to a crisis. The biggest themes for me were the importance of what has come before and what it means to really live. I wasnt really a fan of any of the characters, but I dont think you were really supposed to be. (54)

"Because there is no such thing as certainty, and in creating it, we lose the very thing that keeps us alive."

"What was thought, after all? Only a means for self-torment, self-doubt."

Its funny how easily we fall into thought traps, especially this one, when something is difficult. We just want to be able to turn off all thought and let someone else take the wheel.

This book is good at making me think big philosophical thoughts within fiction, especially right now bc i cant seem to fall asleep!

The reason I keep reading this book: these beautiful mini-moments that make you sit and think about the wonder of living and how everyone deserves human connection and the chance to live.

(I should state that I don't think this book is great. But I am loving these small moments where the selfish teenage narrator is able to look outside of herself and see that there are so many who deserve more than they get in life)

Woke up early to read more of this before work.

A completely implausible apocalyptic novel where the world is falling apart and a man builds an ark for his family and 500 people, which leaves from London. His stupid bratty daughter tries to resist the father's utopian cult. Nobody knows anything about science, including, I'd say, the author, considering all the things that would have to be true for this novel to be realistic. Ugh.

Two apocalyptic/dystopian novels featuring #floating havens when the earth suffers catastrophic flooding. The Children's Hospital is fantastic. I'm less confident about The Ship but it was a steal at £1.50 #junebookbugs

🚢 🌊 #bodyofwater #maybookflowers

Excited to be reviewing sci fi for the LA Times! My first review is for THE SHIP by Antonia Honeywell. http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-ca-jc-the-ship-honeywell-20170413-sto...

I've become completely uninterested in this novel. Haven't picked it up in two weeks, at least. Maybe someday I'll go back to it. I'm re-reading 1984 again for my book group, and it is much more satisfying!

This is an interesting concept, life as we know it is ending and your one of the chosen 500 to start again, somewhere safe but with no hope of a future. I enjoyed this book, i didn't like the main character at all, she is naive and extremely selfish however I think that's the point. It definitely makes you think about what you would do in her red shoes.

An interesting idea for a new YA dystopian fiction but the main character is not very likable which really slows down the pace . I think it will serve as a good starting point for discussion though

Just started this lovely book last night. Am home sick today, so going to read and drink tea. Thanks to HRH Rorykins for being a patient bookstand.

Slightly disappointed with this audio prequel to The Ship. a solid story, but it didn't add much to what we already know about this particular dystopian version of Britain. (I've tagged The Ship as The Time Being doesn't seem to pop up in Litsy's catalogue!)

Ugh... I'm only 12 pages in and the main character is already annoying me 😞I know she's a teenager but come on! #youngadult #dystopian

A fable for an uncertain future, a love story to London and to life. A great read.

Here's The Ship with sea glass collected yesterday in the Highlands! Looking forward to reading this.