Litsy

Dear Fang, With Love: A novel | Rufi Thorpe

pick

How to describe this? Ultimately, I kind of loved it, but with reservations. I felt like there were too many storylines, and some of those weren‘t fleshed out enough. It feels like she tried to pack SO MUCH into the book but left out some important parts. That being said, I LOVE her writing and I love her characters. What does it say about me that some of Vera‘s “madness” made sense? 😂🤷‍♀️

ChasingOm I‘m reading her most recent (tagged) and it‘s making me want to read her backlist.

Margo's Got Money Troubles: A Novel

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CBee @ChasingOm I LOVED Margo ♥️♥️♥️ 23h

Suet624 @ChasingOm After reading Margo I started reading her backlist. I think this particular book is my least favorite but like @Cbee says the way she writes her characters and their challenges is so good. 16h

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Suet624

Dear Fang, With Love: A novel | Rufi Thorpe

so-so

I‘m going backwards in Thorpe‘s writing and this is the third book I‘ve read of hers. While I‘ve quoted this book several times I have to say this book felt a little too ambitious. A trip to Lithuania in honor of his grandmother who escaped from a concentration camp with a teen who has experienced a psychotic break, the story covers a lot of ground and feels a bit too much. I was captivated while reading it but ultimately disappointed.

BarbaraBB I felt the same! 6d

CBee Just finished this. I agree with what you said - I definitely liked the book and I love her writing, but it was a LOT. Maybe I wasn‘t in the right headspace? I loved Margo. Which others of her books have you read? @Suet624 (edited) 24h

Suet624 @CBee I read The Knockout Queen and I‘m now reading her debut novel The Girls From Corona Del Mar which I‘m liking a lot so far. 24h

CBee @Suet624 just posted my review of Fang. And also, that quote from Herzog just sort of slapped me in the face. It just makes so much sense to me right now. (edited) 24h

Suet624 @CBee ugh. I know. 24h

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Suet624

Dear Fang, With Love: A novel | Rufi Thorpe

The author put this quote both in her novel and in her acknowledgments. It hit me hard each time I read it. A great description of my current understanding of the world.

Leftcoastzen Wow,I‘m feeling it . 1w

dabbe #truth 🩵🩶🩵 1w

sarahbarnes 🩵🩵🩵 1w

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Suet624

Dear Fang, With Love: A novel | Rufi Thorpe

“No one seemed amazed that in Lithuania, in order to deal with the end of communism, local artists had made a statue of Frank Zappa.… And now Frank Zappa has become sort of a patron saint, if you will, of Uzupis, but also of Vilnius and even Lithuania as a whole.”

Who knew?

kspenmoll Whoa! 😳 (edited) 1w

Leftcoastzen Yay! 1w

BarbaraBB I had no idea 😀 1w

Suet624 @kspenmoll I know!

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Suet624 @BarbaraBB @leftcoastzen I had no idea either. I proceeded to google the crap out of that nugget of information. Where the quote says 'in order to deal with the end of communism' they are talking about the fact that when Lithuania became independent of the Soviet Union all of the statues of Lenin were torn down and there were many empty plinths. So they decided to put Zappa on one of the empty plinths. 1w

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Octoberwoman

The Boy in the Suitcase | Lene Kaaberbol, Agnete Friis

I‘m posting one book a day from my massive collection. No description, no reason for why I want to read it.

#ABookADay2025

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Princess-Kingofkings

Between Shades of Grey Signed Edition | Ruta Sepetys

Thanks to Litsy encouragement, I surpassed my goal of reading 12 books. Started the tagged book on Monday ~ the writing is easy to read while the content is heartbreaking. 🩶

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