Welcome to Litsy!

Start a ripple.

An appropriate title for this book I‘d say. A cast of unlikeable characters living sort of mundane lives, feeling unsatisfied for various reasons, and making poor decisions. I liked the fluid movement between points of view and the sheer bizarreness of people‘s thoughts and actions. A really weird book, but I think I liked it. 😆 And looks like it‘s on the TOB long list!

I finally had time to watch The Gillers. If Anne Michaels writes as beautifully as she speaks, I‘m really going to have to read Held. I also really want to read Prairie Edge and Curiosities. The TBR just keeps getting bigger.

November 13th #DaysDevotedTo Kindness @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

https://youtu.be/uoCq38jrT-o?si=6YGsC9EpEF1nxyH3

Perfect title! This is the book I needed this week. Relatively mindless and darkly funny millennials complaining about marriage, art, and academia.

Moddie has ended a 10-year relationship and returned to X, a small Midwestern town with a university where many of her high school friends have taken positions. When visiting artist David arrives, too, their new presence shakes up pre-existing friendships and marriages.

https://youtu.be/ghYyWMcA6ek?si=fuTZOnZUSBEK5CoS



Introduction

Bookish material girl haul

Shawn‘s biblioadventure

Lindy‘s biblioadventures

Important stuff about Patreon

Mystery guest

Weekly highlights

Held by Anne Michaels

‘I Spy the Stranger‘ by Jean Rhys

Set in Ireland in 1994, The Coast Road follows two women coping with their unhappy marriages at a time when divorce is still illegal. Collette left her husband, but returned, and now her husband won‘t allow her access to her children and she lives in poverty. Izzy is frustrated and miserable, struggling to find autonomy within the confines of a marriage she cannot escape. Both are considering the high cost of personal freedom. An excellent debut.

Combination of 2 Little Free Library scores the last Thursday of the school holidays when I treated myself to a Stockton op shop. I caught the ferry over and had a lovely morning to myself.

This is a beautiful book.
It starts with a man lying on a battlefield who‘s lost all feeling in his extremities and his mind drifts off to memories. The chapters skip back and forth in time and places creating a fractured storyline. The connections in the chapters include generations of family and friends, photography, war, art weaving in and out right up to present day. It‘s poetically written and so lovely. AM is so talented