Welcome to Litsy!

#CoverStories Day 6: #Clouds - had to pause my reading of this book as I go over the #ToB25 shortlisted titles. Wait for awhile, Fredrik Backman, I will get back to you soonest. 💕

Logan and Rosemary were best friends growing up, but they parted ways. 10 years later they‘re both teachers back in their small hometown school and don‘t like each other much. But then their favorite former teacher Joe, ill with cancer, asks them to take him on a road trip so he can die in peace in Maine. Together on the road, the women have the opportunity to start anew. Lots of humor, some heavy moments too. Definitely too long, but pretty good.

Meh, idk about this one. The MC/narrator‘s voice was funny for a while, but the consistent self-deprecation and dislike got wearing after a while. This book is really just about Greg and what happens to him because of this girl who‘s dying, except not that much really happens? He doesn‘t seem to change that much, although he is clearly affected more than he pretends to be. Sort of coming of age without much self-actualization, I guess. Soft pick.

Finished this last night at 11:55pm bringing my February reads right down to the wire.

18/80

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I was so excited when I realised this was a retelling of Hamlet (my favourite Shakespeare play). I was very disappointed almost immediately. The main character is 11, but his thought processes seem much younger. He throws around words like “fatso” because he‘s impatient with a bank teller, and his friends are stunningly and disturbingly misogynistic for prepubescent children. He repeats words over and over like a kindergartener.
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Really excited to take this one for a spin.
#MattHaig #TheDeadFathersClub #audiobook

I almost forgot it‘s Freedom to Read week here in Canadia, but I managed to find this on my TBR. I‘m 100 pages in and not much has happened, but it‘s pretty funny and sharp. Don‘t forget to #readbannedbooks!

This book was fantastic! Incredible story-telling to the point that I got really sad while reading it, especially now that I‘m going through something. You will really feel for the boy. You will feel all the emotions the author is trying to send out while reading this book.

I hope and pray that what happened in the book will never happen to my family. 🙏😭 Thanks bf for this 😭

"When the test came back the nurse called them into the examination room and when the doctor entered the room he just looked at them and asked them to sit down."

#FirstLineFridays
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