Welcome to Litsy!

This book kind of had the vibe of a Tom Waits album from the perspective of an 11-year-old girl. The reader meets a ton of characters living on the edges of society. The tale is fast-paced and everyone is unique. I started to hope Baby would make it through relatively unscathed…and then the wheels fell off the bus. Her drug-addicted man-child father is drowning and his decisions and attempts to teach or punish his daughter throws her to the wolves

So I looked at the solutions to the clues on Reddit (generally someone has them there by the third ones) and was on the fence about Original Daughter. Of course I got it! 😂😂 Four from #botm plus three from #aardvark plus whatever I buy at Parnassus today. (I already have three staff picks I like.) 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️😂 I‘ve lost my mind in the best possible way!!!!

I‘m back home in Canada & it‘s all Canadian authors in this December 18th episode! #booktube

https://youtu.be/lXJD3Exclio

I'm currently reading this collection of short stories set in my hometown of Montreal. I live in Ontario now and today bought these locally-made Montreal bagels. They're not bad but not as good as the real thing from St. Viateur Bagel.

Montreal bagels are the best! Sorry, New Yorkers.

#FoodandLit #Canada
@Catsandbooks @Texreader

I really love how Emily St. John Mandel tells stories. This is a little reminiscent of Special Topics in Calamity Physics, but darker. I can relate to Lilia's compulsion to relocate (for different reasons), and it's interesting to see how this manifests for her. The characters are all kind of extreme, which feels slightly unrealistic. But maybe I just haven't met enough people.

(Photo is of Quebec City, the closest I've been to Montreal so far.)

Marie is a young woman who loves horses and brings her idealism into the lives of carriage horses and their drivers in contemporary Old Montreal. A short, sharp novella that encompasses the criminal underworld and the dark side of gentrification. Translation from French by Sheila Fischman. #CanadianAuthor #WomenInTranslation

The return of the horse to Marie‘s life & the events of the past few days have stirred up memories, painful & ecstatic, against which she has begun to retaliate by the compulsive purchase of horse figurines—her favourite being a plastic Percheron. These past days Marie has travelled across the city & bought all the trinkets that have caught her eye, from antique dealers on rue Notre-Dame & from Dollarama.

1. No one book in particular, but I'm looking forward to reading some darker mysteries, like the tagged book.

2. Carving pumpkins and roasting pumpkin seeds for Hallowe'en.

3. Moon cakes, which are usually available at Asian stores before the Mid-Autumn festival.

4. All the bingo boards, and seeing all the scary/spooky books Littens are reading!

#Flerken #HauntedShelf @PuddleJumper

August 20, 2024

I‘ve started dating my posts because I like to go back and look at my past posts, a digital reading scrapbook. Anyone else like the dates?

Coffee date with myself and my book. Reading my way through all of Emily St. John Mandel‘s books. She is in my top five all time favorite authors. 🩷
August 9, 2024