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#camplitsy23 Woah that ending! Another great camp Litsy pick! I enjoyed this pandemic tale and it‘s dystopian feel. I kept hoping for a cure and for them to be rescued which is why the ending shocked me so much I think. A group of survivors stuck together for better or worse. I can‘t wait to discuss the revisitor more and that ending next week! ⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2 stars!

This was interesting and had some good parts, but overall it left me kind of feeling like it could have been much better.

Really somewhere between so-so and a pick. Read this atmospheric novel in one go. Not terrible, but I feel like this could have been so much better. Given the subject matter it should have packed an emotional punch, but instead I was left cold and critical. Should be fun to discuss.

Okay, so my #CampLitsy23 rankings? Birnam Wood was my fav followed by Bandit Queens. Yellowface in third place, Memory Animals fourth, HBB fifth, and Rom Com sixth.

Somewhat reminiscent of The Children's Hospital (without the floating), this is a quiet and unsettling look at what the pandemic could have been (or I suppose could still be in the future) had the mutations taken a different direction. The ending I found somewhat unsatisfying, but I'm not sure how else Fuller could have ended it.

#WeeklyForecast 32/23

I am having All the Little Bird-Hearts in progress, it is good! I also want to start the tagged book for #Camplitsy23 this week and want to join the #PersephoneClub this month by reading There Were no Windows. Hopefully I‘ll read even more, on Friday my vacation begins!

Riveting and frightening. After Covid one can easily imagine society dissolving into chaos & disorder in the wake of a pandemic. The same can be said of the difficult choices individuals may be forced to make.

I‘m undecided at the moment as to whether the memory element works as a congruent plot device. 🤔

Unbeknownst to my daughter, cephalopods play a central role in the novel and my daughter is drawing a hen - a female octopus.🐙

Loving this novel so far - scary in its plausibility. 🥹

On a road trip, one of my favorite things. It would be an otherwise sunny & clear day without the smoke from the Canadian wildfires. 🔥 🫤

#RecentAcquisitions It is the year of Claire Fuller, and I am here for it! Looking forward to my gorgeous #aardvark copy for #CampLitsy23 next month, but in the meantime, I‘ve got Bitter Orange, which is my 3rd by her this year.

The Guide is my #Bookspin. I‘m in the middle of Cassandra from the library now. The Rachel Incident has such a beautiful spine! And Forgiven was a consensus suggestion for a second book by Homes. Happy weekend!

A pandemic is raging, as Neffy volunteers to take part in a vaccine study. But while the test is underway, things fall apart. Soon Neffy & other participants are left in the hospital to fend for themselves. This timeline is interspersed with letters Neffy is writing to an octopus she freed from an aquarium & memories she accesses through a technology called The Revisiter. Together the threads create a murky moral story about freedom & survival 👇