Welcome to Litsy!

Normally large books with small print put me off but I was determined to give this a go. Published in 1962 I can see why it would have been widely read then. The more I read her and find out about her the more I admire her. It felt like this was auto fiction. It was like reading several books in one. I read the preface last. She had written that in 1971 and though long was very insightful. A woman before her time. 👏👏

I have a feeling many Littens will identify with this cartoon. 😆 #notebooks #stationeryaddict

Definitely a challenging book. I ultimately found it rewarding but also hard work. In any case, I like this quote about reading from it.

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I did a bad, bad thing! 🤣 Wants, not needs. But I don‘t care! Retail therapy at its best! ♥️

@TheBookHippie it was a double Litsy mail day for me 🥰🥰 I laughed right out loud when I opened this gem ❤️❤️❤️ you are a stellar book chooser and an amazing facilitator of Sunday Buddy Read, my Sundays are wonderful no matter the book thx to all your planning, prompting and when necessary, book throwing. This was an unexpected and thoughtful touch. I‘m so so glad I found #sundaybuddyread 🥰🥰

Thank you @TheBookHippie for my certificate of completion 😂 it was a challenge for sure! I am also so honored to receive this very appropriate bookmark!! ❤️ I hope our next few books are way better than this but I do look forward to enduring another challenging read together!!

Thank god that‘s over

Meh. Final discussion on Sunday. 🤐

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Thank God that's over! It pains me to pan a book but I did not enjoy this one little bit.

Anna is going round the bend with writer's block and keeps multiple concurrent notebooks whilst sleeping with a succession of increasingly dreadful men and agonising over whether to leave the communist party or not. Maybe it's an insightful document of its time but I was in WTF?! mode for most of it.

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Phew, done! I‘m guessing no one will find it spoilery if I say I found the ending unsatisfying 😂. I have no idea how to rate this — there were enough nuggets along the way to keep me reading, but the further I got the more infuriating I found it. There were so many places I wanted the author to take this that she stubbornly refused to go & the questions I found most interesting stay unanswered. 😅😵‍💫🤬😬🤷🏻‍♀️ See you Sunday! #sundaybuddyread

Made it. Took a weird selfie to celebrate.

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I cannot even with this book. It's never going to end....