pickPretty good, maybe not on my favorite list. But did keep me interested and enjoy how two people speaking different languages can develop a friendship and understanding.
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Clear: A Novel | 
pickPretty good, maybe not on my favorite list. But did keep me interested and enjoy how two people speaking different languages can develop a friendship and understanding.
Prep for #camplitsy24 hosted by @barbarabb @megabooks and @squirrelbrain Let them know if you are interested in joining in!
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Exactly a month from now we‘ll go camping! In #CampLitsy24 we‘ll kick off with Clear, our first June read. As always we‘ll discuss the books over two weekends, even when it‘s as thin as this one!
On June 8 we‘ll discuss chapter 1 to 23, on June 15 chapter 24 to the end.
I‘ll be your host for the June reads and will post some questions to discuss sometime during these days.
We are looking forward to a summer of reading and chatting with you!
pickThis is an interesting novel. My spouse asked me about it, and I described it as "quiet." When asked to elaborate, I explained that the story unfolds quietly, slowly, haltingly. There are delays, but even in those delays, things happen. It's introspective but is very efficient with the words used to describe that introspection. The tone of the story is paralleled by the feeling of the setting---isolated, remote, cold, foggy. Definitely a mood.
The irises in our backyard are just gorgeous right now! On the left, #CampLitsy24 June picks and some from the longlist. It was an embarrassment of riches as always!
In the center, the two I picked up on #IndependentBookstoreDay. One Japanese in translation plus a short story collection (of course). Have you read the Japanese one @BarbaraBB ?
On the right, some additional library finds!
Well, #sdbookcrawl is over, and I didn't collect any prizes, but I did get a second book for #CampLitsy24 today! And I found out that my local indie bookstore is having a book club about this one in May...quite tempting!
pickScottish minister leaves his wife behind and sets off to a remote island intending to evict its lone inhabitant. This atmospheric book is just beautifully written. It was a little too slim for me. I could have used at least another 150 pages. That said, I have not stopped thinking about it since I finished reading it two days ago.
pickA minister trying to eke out a living during the Scottish clearances takes a commission to travel to a far north Scottish island to remove the final inhabitant. This novella is both intimate and vast and atmospheric in all the best ways. I enjoyed the read and absolutely loved the ending.
pickI‘m still processing this stunning book but what I can say… it‘s stunning, heartbreaking in many ways.
pickAchingly beautiful writing. Superb! 💙
Davies sets this novella in Scotland 1843 during the Great Disruption (church rebellion) and the Clearances (mass removal of poor rural tenants). John Ferguson is hired to remove Ivar, the sole tenant of an Orkney island and the only home he has ever known, to be replaced by sheep. Things happen…….I can‘t share more.
I thought I knew where the story was going, but at each turn I was surprised!
All other reading is coming to a screeching halt today! 👏🏾
Davies became an auto buy author years ago after reading Redemption of Galen Pike. Every single story in it was 10 for me. Since then I‘ve read all her other writing and I sound like a fan girl. 😂
pickThis title comes out in April and I highly recommend this one. Very atmospheric and based on actual historic events of Scottish Clearances. Keep your eye out for this one.
