Welcome to Litsy!

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

#lettery #alphabetgame @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#MarvellousMay #Readathon Check In :

I actually reached and surpassed my goal 😀
I finally finished the #Librarything EarlyReviewer ARC Dark Factory by Kathe Koja (Rather underwhelmed... 😑) - that was my goal.
Started Mine by Rachael Tamayo and finished it in five days AND started my next read The Unreliables.
So - success! 😁

Thank you @Andrew65 - it seems you got me out of my reading slump! 😊🙏

@RaeLovesToRead

My final #alphastack that isn‘t a stack at all! No Xs... No Zs.... and just one lonely #letterY by one of my favorite authors.....
This has been a fun challenge 😊📚💕

Marvellous Ways is eighty-nine years old and has lived alone in a remote Cornish creek for nearly all her life.She's waiting for something - she's not sure what, but she'll know it when she sees it.
A Year of Marvellous Ways is a glorious, life-affirming story about the magic in everyday life and the pull of the sea, the powers of storytelling and sloe gin, and how we carry on when grief comes snapping at our heels. #boundtogetherjune #boat

Whilst I liked this book, I didn‘t love it. It wasn‘t exactly fantasy but it was a bit too ethereal for me.

I did enjoy the storyline and didn‘t see the ‘twist‘ coming at the end, but I think I‘d have liked it more without all of the whimsy and ‘magical‘ happenings. (But that‘s the whole point of the book I guess!)

So, still a pick but just not my genre.

#bookspinbonanza number 9

Beautiful writing, oodles of atmosphere, gorgeous unexpected storytelling and all the feels!

For whatever reason, tho, I struggled badly to get into it - right book, wrong time? I‘d have liked to spend more time with the later characters too 🥖 ⭐️

Thank you for choosing this one (sorry for holding on to it so long!) @Cathythoughts - it‘ll be in the post to you tomorrow. At some point, we need to ask @jenniferw88 how she chose her name. @jhod

After reading Tin Man I bought both of Winman‘s previous books and finally got around to reading this one. Unfortunately it didn‘t really work for me. The writing is beautiful in places but the story felt convoluted and just never came together for me. #unpopularopinion, I know.

Just found a beautiful treasure at a little library. Such a lovely day!

Forgot to post yesterday that I sent #lmpbc (+ birthday) to @jhod & my #cozyswap package @Avanders

#bfcr3 week 2 update @wanderinglynn @Chrissyreadit . I was expecting injections to fall behind this week as we hosted a party Sunday night & the last guest didn't leave until 11:45 - too late for the injections.

4 1/2 ⭐ for this book - @Cathythoughts I enjoyed this book & definitely keen to read more by this author (luckiky I've got some downloaded on my Kindle!)

@jhod it will be on it's way later this week, along with a birthday present!

@jenniferw88 #LMPBC Hi Jenny, off to the post office with this book post for you now ♥️👍🏻

Sarah Winman speaks of the haunting & evocative feel of the tidal creeks in Cornwall / where the book is mostly set. ( never been .. but want to go now ) The value of storytelling.. the old people in her life. She says : the more I talked to old men who had been in the war , I realized , the more fantastical the stories - the more pain they were hiding ... Loved this one. #LMPBC

She had a rasping cough , if I remember rightly. I asked to listen to her chest and she told me it was grief. I said I thought it was pneumonia. I said , Open your mouth.
She said , Open your mind ......

I‘ve started #LMPBC .... it‘s a killer read so far for me .. great heart. And I think this will be my #Booked2019 #SoldiersStory ♥️

‘Inexplicable moments give me comfort‘. Marvellous Ways

A simply beautiful reflection on life, it gave me all the feels ♥️

My brain works in #mysteriousways - I was absolutely convinced this book matched this prompt. It doesn‘t. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Now if my brain worked in marvellous ways, that would be quite something! #musicalnewyear

This was cute, but I couldn‘t really connect to the characters. It felt like Winman was more focused on writing beautiful and poetic sentences, than focused on writing the story. It felt a bit messy to me, and while I loved the themes of grief and story telling, it just wasn‘t enough to make me fall in love with the story.

I‘m away on a weekend seminar, and once again I have my own hotel room 👌 I‘m done socializing for the day, and now I just want to dive further into this whimsical book before I can‘t stay awake any longer. 📖

#CurrentlyReading

What a wonderful surprise! Thank you so much @RachelO 😄 I loved Tin Man and have been eager to read Winman's other works and Daughter of Smoke and Bone has been on my radar for ages! Lovely! 😍😄

1. At home, in my reading chair.
2. The Giant's House by Elizabeth McCracken.
3. Usually random, whatever strikes me. But today I started trying to complete my #Litsyatoz challenge with books in my house including Kindle and Audible.
#TUESDAYTIDBITS

Fabulously kind #litsypost just arrived from @RachelO this afternoon. Really kind Rachel and i will be diving on into my experimental travel book sharpish I think! Thinking of you this week x thank you again xx

Just lovely 💕 Marvellous is a wonderful character, just loved her so much.
The poetic writing is wonderful and the reflection on nature.
There‘s a little afterward entitled To Be a Reader that is great too.

This book is another lump in throat read. The writing is beautiful too 💜

I‘ve just read her two other books and finally found this one, her middle one. I think I may have read it before. I liked it a lot. Her books are all very different but so well written they are just a delight to read for me. Hope she writes some more. If you love Cornwall you will enjoy her descriptions. Cornwall almost feels like another character in her books. @MrsMalaprop

A loan from a friend who adores magical and whimsical. After being a little blasé about the book, I've really appreciated the prose, the lyrical description and the memories/reflection by Marvellous :)

#day5 #septembowie One of the MC in each of these books is in their #goldenyears..... and I loved them all.... Vida Winter, Moses Sweetland, Ove, Leo Gursky, Marvellous Ways and Major Ernest Pettigrew are all wonderfully complex characters with stories to tell... 💕💕💕

After a busy afternoon of visiting a lighthouse and a beach it's time to enjoy a glass of iced coffee on my parents' porch with this book. It's slow to get into but I think it'll be worth it. Anyone read this?

My view this morning as I read on my parents' screen porch on Maine. 😊🌻

These are the books coming with me on vacation plus my Kindle and my #secretsantasummeredition gifts. I am sure there will be some good ones there. 😊 Plus there are bookshops in Maine... 😎📚

#maybookflowers Today's prompt made me think of #peace-time and the challenges faced by returning soldiers, and it gave me another excuse to recommend the lovely Sarah Winman! Set on the Cornwall coast, post-WW2. Marvellous is 90 yrs young, and living an isolated life. Francis Drake, is a fragile and damaged young soldier, returning from France. Their lives cross paths and they begin a friendship, healing as they care for each other. So lovely 💕

This week's book mail. It's been a long week, but this makes my day. I'm ready for a quiet weekend of reading. #bookmail

4.8 #aprilamazingreads #mostrecommended I recommend author Sarah Winman ALL the time! I love her writing, and find she's not always so well known in the US.... She writes whimsical stories, full of quirky characters, young and old, with a touch of magic, that always pack an emotional punch... I recommend her first 2 novels all the time, and can't wait for her new one 'Tin man' this summer.... 💕

Where do I start with a book as beautiful as this? Winman writes such a magical narrative so effortlessly that I felt like I had been transported back in time, I could almost smell the sea and the bread her descriptions were that good. Soothing, beautiful, moving & magical, this book took my breath away. I feel like I won't quite be able to forget this one in a hurry. Please read it & cherish it. 5*+++

#day31 #seasonsreadings2016 #topreadsof2016 Sooooo many good reads this year, but this is my dozen top dogs... books that I loved, and may well read again one day! 😍💕📚

This book is so beautifully written and so heart-breakingly sad in parts 😢

#day20 #seasonsreadings2016 #titlesstartingwithxyz This lovely post-war set novel is as heart-warming as it is heart-wrenching. Poetic writing with a touch of the magical, set on the rugged Cornwall coast. Marvelous is 90 years young and quirky as hell. Francis, a fragile young soldier, is returning from France after the war. Their lives cross paths and their friendship heals wounds as they care for each other. A great pick for 'Y'' for #Litsyatoz

Beautiful storytelling leads to beautiful sleeping Bearcats (AKA large headed dogs who act like kittens)

#day26 #augustphotochallenge #underhypedbook With beautifully poetic prose, charming characters and a dash of magic, this book is equally as heart-warming as it is heart-breaking....Set in post-WW2 Cornwall, this is the story of a friendship between Marvellous (90 years young, full of warmth and quirky as hell) and Francis (a broken and fragile young soldier) and of all the tales of their past that they share...Made me smile and broke my heart...

This book was so magical...