Welcome to Litsy!

This thought-provoking book is a mix of unusual personal/family memoir and what feels like a NF version of Labatut‘s How We Cease to Understand the World. It ruminates on life, death, war, and more. I found it fascinating and I‘m glad it serves as my final completed book of 2024. #TOBlonglist

Thank you so much for the Christmas gift @Rissreads This is the cutest Christmas card 💕The little fox! I am excited for both of these books and the bookmark is exquisite. You have spoiled me 😍 I hope you have had a lovely day and maybe spent some time with that cute kitten Earl! Merry Christmas!

Overall, I enjoyed this one even though the town is a little stereotypical and despite the very odd reason that most everyone in town shuns the main character but that I could never really accept as plausible. Even with these shortcomings, the novel makes me want to visit Tasmania.

Solo sunset walk with the tagged book in my ears. I also saw bats out hunting, which always gives me a thrill!

Dinner prep and an audiobook. The calm between busy spells on this lovely but packed Saturday.

Took a little time to get into the plot. the ending was sad.

Kieran returns to his coastal home town to help his parents move. Years earlier a violent storm hit the town and Kieran's brother Finn and two other people died. Kieran has carried the guilt of his brothers death for decades as Finn was coming out into the storm in his boat to rescue Kieran. When a murder occurs during Kieran's visit it opens up the past and what really happened the day the storm hit. Overall a very good thriller. ⬇️

I really enjoyed this!
It put me in mind of the drama Black Snow, with Travis Fimmel: it's Australian, has dual timelines, a young woman is murdered and the past gets raked up again, to the distress of the inhabitants of a close knit town. (Could wish for greater victim-diversity, but, as Kieran observes, "they don't go after men and babies.")

I ended up having several longer than usual cardio workouts because I didn't want to stop listening. ?

An idiosyncratic memoir with much about Flanagan‘s father, WW2, the atomic bomb & invented vignettes about H. G. Wells & the physicists who developed the bomb. It‘s artfully woven together in his usual muscular style. His writing is jaw-droppingly good & he‘s distilled this tapestry of a life history to its essence. Humble, Australian & acutely aware of injustice in Tasmania 1780s through to the war, & how precarious life is, including his own.

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Prompt: TRAGEDY

The locals have never forgotten the tragedy that most people believe was Kiernan‘s fault because he shouldn't have been in the caves when the storm surged.

Just what was the intrigue of those caves?

A haunting mystery with revelations you won't see coming.

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