Welcome to Litsy!

I started this one late December and then decided to wait until January to continue because it worked for #PandemicStory #Booked2023 😷 Kristofer, living in Iceland, receives a message from his long lost lover Miko, a woman he hasn‘t seen in over 50 years. It‘s early March 2020 and the world is beginning to experience a global pandemic, Kritofer decides to fly to Japan before his second chance for great love is lost again. #MoreMehThanYeah

I loved this partly bc the structure was surprising. For the first third of the book new things kept being introduced, and I‘d think this must be the direction we‘re going in, again and again… But all the threads tied together bc Erdrich is a skilled writer. I have one more of hers lined up for #AuthorAMonth, but I‘m hoping to keep dipping into her catalog throughout the year. #Bookspin #Pantone2023 #EmpireYellow #Booked2023 #AboutAPandemic

I loved this book. The plot, the setting and the style.
A student from Iceland meets a Japanese girl in Londen in the early 1970s. They fall in love until she suddenly disappears. Many years later they reconnect on Facebook, just when Covid hits the world. It is another gorgeous read from the #toblonglist. Many thanks for sending me this one Meg, it‘ll make my #top22of22 🤍

I was touched 😉 by this story. Christmas makes me nostalgic and looking back on lovers from your 20s really resonated with me.

Kristofer, an Icelandic widower, was in love with a Japanese woman 1960s London. He never gets over their abrupt breakup even though he marries another woman. When he hears she‘s sick in 2020, he travels to Japan racing against lockdowns to be with her.

Another winner from the #toblonglist