Welcome to Litsy!

1. Tagged book that I picked up from someone in my free cycle group.

2. I stumbled on a series of Hamilton reaction videos. Very thorough and insightful.

3. Tom and Lorenzo‘s podcast gives me joy most weeks, especially the last episode.

4. 2025 author a month list.

5. Vietnamese coffee, where have you been all my life?

#5joysfriday

Author Cassandra has written two successful memoirs, then a less celebrated novel, and returns home to write about a murder carried out by a girl she grew up with.

This started slowly, picked up in the middle, but then the ending was a let-down. I thought I saw the twist coming, but the denouement wasn‘t anything like as interesting! The tag-line is an exaggeration - there‘s no huge reveal, it just fizzles out.

Still a pick, but only just.

#LiteraryLuck #butterflies @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @vkois

Enjoyed this one, as I enjoy all Laura Lippman books. I liked the explanation she came up with to solve the mystery. There is no resolution to the actual case the book is loosely based on, so we‘ll never know if she‘s right. Also interesting for its flashbacks to growing up in integrating Baltimore, though not getting deep into the racial issues of the time.

This book is loosely based on an actual missing child case in Baltimore, and the further I get into it, the more I want to know what happened in the real case. It was never resolved. The mom never disclosed what happened to her child. Interested to see how Laura Lippman handles it. #usareadingroadtrip #Maryland

Well after reading two of Lippmann books recently I believe we will now part ways. This book was ok but it was predictable. It also seemed to fall out of my brain every time I put it down. I just couldn't remember what I had read! This has never happened to me before. Definitely not very gripping!!

I'm sorry but this book just is not doing it so I bailed. I felt like I was reading through a haze and nothing was sticking with me. I thought there was way to many added details I didn't need and could care less about. Apparently it's not just me most of my book club dnf this bad boy even the ones that always push through. I just don't see how this one all these awards

This may not be my best #litsypartyofone we all have strep throat and are miserable at my house. I only got about 50 pgs read but this book is pretty intresting hopefully today will be a reading better day.

Starting this bad boy for bookclub it sounds pretty intresting. Anyone else read it? Maybe it will keep me from jumping ahead in Outlander.

#litsypartyofone

We are off to live in a wooden pod for the weekend! So I've picked up my first actual physical book off my bookshelf in a couple of months. Looking forward to reading it by torch light!! Happy weekends everyone!

Treated myself to a couple of new books from the charity shop. Everything's Q9 so it's hard to say no! And I deserve a treat for dealing with all that is the 3 year old monster in the background every day! I wanted to read a Laura Lippman after hearing about her on the #crimewriterson podcast and The Dinner was just a random pick!