Welcome to Litsy!

“I don‘t know how people live when they know exactly what‘s going to happen to them each day. It seems to me it‘s better to be dead than live like that.”

Anna, the MC, is so naive. Her trajectory is now set and she cannot or will not see it. 😣 I can‘t decide whether I feel pity or scorn for her.

I did not “enjoy” this novel; I don‘t think entertainment was the intent. I‘m left pondering over it, which for me is the hallmark of great writing!

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Intro

Weekly highlights

We Should Not Be Afraid of the Sky by Emma Hooper

A Pros and Cons List for Strong Feelings by Will Betke-Brunswick

Rhapsody and Other Stories by Dorothy Edwards

Yann Andréa Steiner by Marguerite Duras, Mark Polizzotti (Translator)

I do not remember ever buying this book, but when I was looking through my stack for a beach read I found this. And it was light weight and packable. Win! A little melancholy for the beach, but I‘m enjoying the writing style! #beachread #vacation

Curling up for the evening with my first-ever quilt (made at a workshop at Brooklyn Craft Co. on Sunday!) and Voyage in the Dark.

'Oh?' Vincent said. 'Good Lord! Well, even if a woman wrote it she should be knighted, that's all I can say. That's what I call a fine book.'

"Their glassy eyes don't admit anything so definite as hate. Only that underground hope that you'll be burned alive, tortured, where they can have a peep."

Jean Rhys' compelling novel Voyage in the Dark shows a conflicted sense of national/racial identity through a beleaguered young woman's life in London. #ReadingRhys #readalong