Welcome to Litsy!

Thank you so much for this lovely gift, Megan! @TheKidUpstairs ☺️

I bet you thought it was lost in the post, didn‘t you? It looks like you posted it in September! 🤨

I‘m glad you like it so much and that makes me look forward to reading it even more! ❤️

The Hidden Keys (Quincunx 3/4), by André Alexis (2016 ??)
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Premise: A thief is drawn into a series of heists intended to solve a puzzle about gifts given by an eccentric billionaire to his grown children.

Review: This wasn‘t at all what I was expecting it to be. It‘s a fun heist story with a satisfying mystery.⬇️

I wish more had happened in this book. The characters were interesting, but the story just kind of wandered. Low pick.

Via @BarbaraJean

Next up in the #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead:
✍🏻One week of LMM's journals
📓Two weeks reading Emily's Quest
✍🏻One more week to finish volume SIX of LMM's journals
🎄THEN: #KindredSpiritsChristmas! (schedule will be posted separately)

Next up in the #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead:
✍🏻One week of LMM‘s journals
📓Two weeks reading Emily‘s Quest
✍🏻One more week to finish volume SIX of LMM‘s journals
🎄THEN: #KindredSpiritsChristmas! (schedule will be posted separately)

I‘ve tagged my small list for #LMMJournals and Emily‘s Quest (Hi Sarah! Hi Laura!), but all are welcome! Let me know if you‘re not tagged and you‘d like to be.

In depth account of Daisy's life, from her peculiar birth to an uneventful death.
It's full of family and friends, work, love and life as it ticks along.
A reminder that life is each person and not an ordinary life.

Themes: gaslighting, agency and love. Isolated Mennonite women who have been drugged & sexually abused by the men in their society meet alone over 2 days to discuss their options - do nothing, stay & fight or leave. The novel records the thoughts, arguments, songs, fears, beliefs & hopes of the women along with August, a man who has been outcast by the other men who is recording the process. While disturbing, this is a compelling read.

5 ⭐
I have read 2 of the 3 books in this trilogy of stand-alone stories and liked them both.

This book had a slow start for me. The first 1/3 of the book was fine, but I could take it or leave it. However, just wait because then it starts to get really funny. Laugh out loud funny. It‘s written like a bunch of short stories about Dawn‘s life. She gives you a clear idea of her character throughout the book so the traumatic events that happen end up making you laugh. She just has a hilarious way of looking at her life. I‘d recommend!

The first in the series by L R Wright. I enjoyed the characters and the plot was interesting. There was sadness in several parts. 4/5⭐️