Welcome to Litsy!

This is incredible. I‘m looking forward to seeing where every section, every chapter takes us (and how). I have even deployed the magnifying glass without throwing the book across the room (which is my standard reaction to stupidly small print). Just for a page though - if he repeats this too often, book-throwing may ensue.

It won the Goldsmiths with good reason. Layout is important, so I‘d recommend print if you can.

Delighted to get Cuddy as my first BookSpin of the year. This was a Gladstonerds blind date from @LeeRHarry back in October and, from the first few pages, a book I will be sinking into!

While my #bookspin list this year is all physical books I own, my #doublespin is ‘work reading‘ - pushing me to read books that are on the shelves in my branch library, so I‘ve a greater range of ‘immediate‘ recommendations for library customers.

#12booksof2024 @Andrew65 This year I read 3 Benjamin Myers novels, all 5* and this was the highlight as we had a weekend in Durham, and I could read the linked tales of the city in the footsteps of the characters across 1000 years from st Cuthberts body being carried around to a young man working on building sitez off book caring for his mother who finds sanctuary in a job in the cathedral.

Home after a lovely weekend in Durham, where, like the monks in 995, having carried the coffin of cuthbert around the north of England to escape viking plunderers before finding a home, i brought this wonderful book to Cuddy's funal resting place.Telling the story of the journey, + the Saint it is inventive + poetic in prose style evoking the devotion to the legend a remarkable man. It was fascinating seeing the cathedral having read the book.