Welcome to Litsy!

Lovely coincidence that as I finished this wonderful book, there was the author on portrait artist of the year. I was totally absorbed in the tale of 3 characters touched by a drop of water passing through history from the court of a mesopatamian King to a victorian child born in the slums rising to an archaeologist for B museum, a teenage hazidi mid the isis terror, + water scientist in 2018 living on a houseboat. Absolutely loved it.

Thuis is waar je afwezigheid wordt gevoeld, waar de weerklank van je stem in leven wordt gehouden, ongeacht hoe lang je weg bent of hoever je bent afgedwaald, een plek waar nog steeds jouw harteklop slaat.

Another wonderful book by Shafak. She doesn't just write a story. She's weaving it.Each scene, each sentence a tiny string in a big, beautiful carpet of a plot. It made me value water even more, but not only this - I got a new feeling for how connected we all are. Not just linear, but over time and continents. It's hard to describe the feeling, that's moving inside of me, when I think about this book, so I don't even try.
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“Huh?” I say, not because I didn‘t hear her, but because I‘m not ready to go there.”

-I poke fun of my husband for doing this when he doesn‘t want to answer me. “Huh?” Some people will say “hmm?” Or “What‘s that?” Drives me nuts lol you heard me don‘t pretend you didn‘t!

You‘ve got to do something you‘ve never done, to have something you‘ve never had.

As a kid, you idolize your parents. You think they‘re perfect, because they‘re the yardstick by which you measure the rest of the world, and yourself. Then as teenager, they just piss you off, because you realize that not only are they not perfect, but they may be even a little more screwed up than you. But there‘s that moment when you realize they‘re not superheroes, or villains. They‘re painfully, unforgivable human.

“You understand this is not about your father and me getting back together,” she tells Dalton and his sister, but for kids of divorce, hope springs eternal.

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I‘m now 3 for 3 in books that didn‘t live up to my high hopes. I‘m giving it a pick because I learned exactly what went on in Flint that probably caused the lead crisis, but the narrative was all over the place and the tone was off. She tries to strike a conversational, storytelling tone but I found it a little too informal in places, and she comes across a little bit manic, impulsively shooting off e-mails and such

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Amazing!!! So beautiful... I don't really have any other words! I was dubious at the beginning... It felt a bit Cloud Atlas (which I didn't love) but by the gut wrenching end I was completely swept away by all those intermingling rivers.