Welcome to Litsy!

In this novel, Chris Johnson McCandless goes on an amazing journey throughout North America, eventually leading to his death in 1992. This book is a true nonfiction story that has touched the hearts of many and inspired many to go out and enjoy the vast places we live in. Chris started his journey in 1990, first heading west to Mexico.

This powerful book shows three generations of women, Knott being the youngest, who claim space and support those around them while suffering from various kinds of racial, systemic, and personal abuse. Knott is going to find a new way with guidance from her Indigenous teachers and mentors. Throughout various challenges she navigates to a place where she takes joy in those around her, especially the women.

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Christmas/birthday book haul for 2024. (My birthday is 4 days after Christmas.) The tagged book is one I've already read, but wanted to reread and I discovered I didn't own a copy.

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Swamped this week, so a bit late posting my review. This book was the perfect read at the perfect time. A quietly mournful tale of two people building a life on the frontier when their familiar life becomes unbearable. I didn‘t mind the magical realism and elements of ambiguity around the child. I loved that the story centered on the female experience, contrasting Mabel, Esther, and Faina‘s relationships with society, but also ⬇️

This author! I‘ve now read two of her books and I‘m a big fan. A sad, older couple want a child so badly. So when they build a darling little snow girl and wrap her in a red scarf, is it any wonder when they “imagine” her alive? In deep winter in Alaska, a little girl with striking blond hair starts to visit their homestead and in her own way helps them survive their first harsh winter there. But she refuses to stay with them; how can she ⬇️

Still trying to finish my cards so I can send for #naturalLitsy and #litsylove cards!! Audiocrafting to the last two hours of this book

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I wasn't sure whether I liked this book right from the start but there was something about it that kept me reading. It did pick up into a decent thriller apart from the absurdity of Yasmin driving an eighteen wheeler along the ice road in a heavy snow storm. Suspend your disbelief there!

An homage to an old Russian fairy tale. In 1920, a man and woman, grieving over their stillborn baby, move to a remote outpost in the Alaska Territory to start anew. Making a snow child one snowy night and finding it gone the next morning, the woman soon suspects the snow figure has come to life, after spotting a lone girl in the woods.

1. Remote cabin with snow

2. The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey. Not specifically Christmas-drawing a blank there, book wise-but has the mountains, snow, and Alaska. A favorite book by a favorite author. 🙂❤️🏔️

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The book “Into The Wild” by Jon Krakauer tells a true story of a young man‘s journey into the Alaskan Wilderness. The true story will leave you on your toes, wanting to know the next turn in the journey. Christopher Johnson McCandless came from a wealthy family. Authors such as Jack London and books like “Call of the Wild” amazed Chris. At the young age of twenty one Chris decided to head west in his little yellow Datsun car. After abandoning the