Welcome to Litsy!

There was a (black owned!) bookseller (The Soul Book Nook from Waterloo, IA) at the conference, so I picked up a couple titles. Then I got myself a candle and cute wrapping paper to treat myself this afternoon.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I love Tayari Jones. Her exquisite writing and character development are in full force in this sad story of secrets and guilt, and how holding onto both has ripple effects throughout time.

A very slow buildup. I struggled to get halfway through this but hopeful that it‘ll pick up.

I know I shouldn‘t compare this book to Jones‘ An American Marriage, but I‘m going to anyway: The Untelling is definitely not as great, but I still liked it. The writing is not quite as striking as her other work, and the characters are hard to like. It‘s so frustrating to me to read about such sadness and heartbreak and not get a little happiness payoff at the end. Still, I never considered bailing and I‘m glad I finished it.

⭐️⭐️⭐️

I really enjoyed this one. Tayari Jones is so talented. I love the way that the characters come to life and you can really relate to them. I felt like I was really apart of this book and I felt the same way with An American Marriage. I look forward to reading more by this author!

I didn‘t like this one nearly as much as Silver Sparrow. Every character annoyed me, including Aria. I get keeping secrets, but boy do the lies come back to bite.

I did enjoy the narration by Michele Blackmon, and I‘m looking forward to finally reading An American Marriage.

#WeeklyForecast

📚Finish tagged book 🎧, Morningstar, and A Warning
📚Continue #TheJoyfulVeganBuddyRead and Mrs. Saint and the Defectives
📚Resume #chronologicalkingread with The Waste Lands
In February:
📚#TBRCrew buddy read: Start The Cuckoo‘s Calling
📚#AuthorAMonth: Start The Nickel Boys

Meh. I absolutely LOVED An American Marriage and Silver Sparrow, but this one was sort of lackluster. #MountTBR

Tayari Jones is a master at dissecting the struggles of familial and romantic relationships. This is the story of Ariadne and how her family dynamic changes after a fatal car accident when she is young. Her writing is a bit lacking in this book (her second) but I will continue to read her future work bc I LOVED Silver Sparrow and American Marriage ❤️

Her prose, both delicate and rough, seeps into you like melted butter. Her characters, especially the women, are extraordinary and original. Jones explores the meaning of parenting, sisters, best friends, infertility, marriage, love, and grief. Need to let this one sink in a while...

🤔 #foodforthought

Not nearly as good as An American Marriage but still a gripping, compulsive read dealing with infertility, relationships, female friendship and motherhood. Using this as a sub for #MarchMadnessChallenge (NC) Thanks for gifting me this book @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 💗💗💗 also was my #Floweroncover #booked2018

Next up...a book gifted to me by the fabulous @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks and my stand in replacement for #MarchMadnessChallenge An American Marriage (which I read & loved) This will also work for #floweroncover #booked2018

#BookMail #RealLifeAngel @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks just sent me & my daughter the MOST THOUGHTFUL gift 💚💗💚Feeling truly blessed for the gift of friendship 🙏🏻Thank you so much, Misty #NotEnoughWords to express my appreciation 😘😘😘 and the wrapping was exquisite 🌷💕🌸

#flowers I can‘t wait for my flowers to grow!! 🌷🌼
#Readingresolutions

I‘ve got high hopes for the tagged book because An American Marriage is so good!!!

#impulsebuybooks #🕯
#Feninbooks18 #thisremindsmeof

Because I have a feeling I‘m going to love her ❤️

SUPER SALE ALERT! $4.99 across most platforms.

This is a very heartbreaking story but told in a plain spoken manner - she doesn't lay the character's pain on so thick where it feels gratuitous like some books do with such serious subject matter. I liked that each woman in the story was her own person and stood out from the others. The ending felt a little rushed and I wish we had more to Aria's story after it. Think this was written in 2005 so probably no sequel coming, though, heh 4/5 ⭐️

The human body is so delicate. When anything goes wrong, hormones, enzymes, just the slightest thing, everything starts to malfunction. Ariadne, the miracle is that people are able to live at all.

Lawrence once told me that it takes forty-two muscles to smile. Watching Dwayne, I could see the strain in every single one of them.

February is Black History Month & @laurenandthebooks started #Femmeuary, So I'm reading only books by Black American women authors this month. Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones was a fave, so eager to read more from her. Her newest book is on its way to me in my BOTM box. But I had this on my TBR shelves, 30 pages in and loving it! First TBR post https://alisonroseisreading.blogspot.com/2018/02/next-5-tbr-volume-3-femmeuary-a...

@Reecaspieces I found the tagged book at the Goodwill store today!!! I hope we get to go to the book signing!! Have you read any of her books? My first @ChrisBohjalian book!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Goodwill finds!! #bookhaul

My favorite contemporary author is Tayari Jones. This is her #sophomorenovel though she's best known for her third book, Silver Sparrow. I cannot wait to read her new book in 2018! #jubilantjuly @RealLifeReading