Hey guys, I‘ve been running a zoom book club for the past few months specifically for Anti-Racism, we read fiction and nonfiction, alternating month to month and this month we are reading ‘Natives‘ feel free to sign up in my bio and join us 18th November 19.00 BST. We‘ll pick the next book at the meeting and you can suggest your own favourites. It‘s a lovely group so I wanted to share it with you!

I watched ‘I‘m thinking of ending things‘ last night and now this beast has pushed its way to the top of my TBR. Apologies to all the recent recs that have been relegated 🙈

1) Always exceptions but usually hate
2) Go out
3) Flowers please and thank you
4) They are toxic AF but Cathy and Heathcliff
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I‘ve taken some time off Litsy and reading in general but recently after reading Matt Haig‘s wonderful books twinned with headspace I‘m actually making time in the day for the important things and looking after myself more and it feels really good! Just started this but couldn‘t recommend ‘Reasons To Stay Alive‘ and ‘Notes On A Nervous Planet‘ enough!

I was blown away by this book. Just breathtakingly good and plenty to think about afterwards. I knew about this book and had meant to read it and thought I knew roughly what it was but was completely wrong. I had the best time, would recommend!

Very excited to have some Saunders back in my life. I‘ve been trying to save him books and not plough through them but I have a feeling this year I‘ll break that rule.

Amazing read. Powerful, surprising and short enough to read in a sitting or two. I found this whole book rather mesmeric and would highly recommended.

And so we read on! This has been on my TBR for about seven years now and I‘m not exaggerating 🙈 I have in when I saw this gorgeous edition.

And just like that I‘ve landed in America for a well deserved break 😂 kicking off the books with this which I picked up at the airport and I‘m going to try and update a load of reviews from last month before I got too busy to post them! Hope all littens are enjoying the new year!✊🏻

It‘s been more weirdness in terms of reading BUT j have a few hours to café and book (the ultimate alternative to Netflix and chill) and it‘s the 1st December which means it‘s time to read Infinite Jest again!

I‘ve been dealing with a super intense slump, this post graduating 20s stuff is unsettling 🙈, but trying to get on it with a recommendation from the mother so hopefully I can get back into regular readings and the wonderful world that is Litsy ☺️

Oh wow. This book is something else! I have to read stream of consciousness slower but it was so worth it with this book. Woolf‘s prose just flows so gorgeously and feels like being in someone‘s head going through their memories. Absolutely stunning novel!

Cram some more of this in before a work shift!

Sooo the bookchenist recommended an easier read whilst we plod through ‘Gravity‘s Rainbow‘ and the guy that runs the bookshop recommended this and I have to say it is compulsively readable!

So I realised I left a look of books I‘ve been reading without reviews. This book is incredible and really rather horrific. I was left feeling shocked and really uncomfortable when I finished it. I don‘t think it reads as easily as the other McCarthy I‘ve read but the pay off is huge if you have the stomach for it!

So I‘ve been off Litsy for ages, everything been mad since I left for Scotland to do a show but stuff is finally starting to settle and as luck would have it a readalong was starting so I‘ve got a nice big book to bring me back! Both excited and scared for this 😂

Read this for a book group, absolutely loved it! The atmosphere in this book, especially the first 2/3 is just so tense, brilliant read.

Reading a wintery book on the sunniest of days 😂

Interested to start this again. I last read it for A Levels and absolutely hated it but feel I‘ve changed a lot as a reader so was wondering if my opinion would have changed, if not, at least it‘s short 😉

Doing so good old train reading and I have to say I‘m blown away by the beauty of this book, I had no idea what to expect but best way I can describe how the prose flows from character to character is how the film Birdman is shot; it‘s just so seamless!

Woo🎉🎉 Litsy remains the coolness/nicest cyberspace I know and I think the real answer to what gets me through reading slumps is this awesome community 😍

Votes are in; Mrs Dalloway here we go!

ADVICE TIME: do I re-read or start a new book and my first ever Woolf?

Should finish this today, it‘s been a weird ride so far so I‘m intrigued to see how I feel when it ends!

Continuing my McCarthy reading, actually scared to read this one 🙈

Onwards to the next book in my road to Ulysses, I loved sections of Dubliners so let‘s see what we find here!

Finally getting back into the swing of proper reading (more coming up on that!) and this book is MENTAL I‘ve read All The Pretty Horses but this is a whole different level! Anyone else read this or have thoughts on McCarthy?

Bulldozing my way through this one! Love the film and I am loving the book, especially the British-ness of it 😂

Had to pick this for #HeyJude I adore this character and this book, it is staggering and one of the few books that has managed to make me enraged for the right reasons 🙈#heyjune

Began this dubiously but it‘s interesting so far and I honestly thought it would drive me crazy

Reading has been hard recently but I have to say I almost always really enjoyed reading this when I picked it up, but I do think I preferred ‘The Secret History‘ but still highly recommend this

I‘ve had to take a few days off this beast because of school work loads but I‘m starting to fall in love with this book, about a third of the way in!

I‘ve delayed writing a review in this because I tend to find with books like this after a few weeks I have thought more about them and have more of an opinion but it hasn‘t really happened here. I love bits of this, I find a few bits dragged a lot, I might read it again and if your into this stuff absolutely read it but I think I prefer Camus at the moment

I read this purely for research for my next show. It‘s enjoyable enough and I got some interesting character sights but I can‘t imagine I‘ll read it again but it‘s easy to read if you want something simple and might be great fun if you care more about sports

I adored this book. I thought I would hate it but it‘s easily in my absolute favourites. It‘s really hard to describe why but it‘s just so charged and powerful and almost terrifyingly raw. Unbelievable book!

I‘ve been a real mess reading recently but I‘ve got stuff back together and hope to get through this today, mixed feelings so far

Onto the next one! #1001books

Okay so I‘m about half way in, the start was typically what I find with more gothic stuff (I always find the beginnings slightly slow) but wow. I might be in love with this book, Cathy and Heathcliff are mental and sometimes repulsive but this is the strongest reaction a book pre 1930s has elicited from me! Loving it!

This book is just much fun! I loved how everything escalated more and more and it‘s so compulsively readable, highly recommend!

Back to the classics! This has been a hole in my reading for far too long 🙈

Let‘s finish this bad boy!

Onwards! Loving this book so far!

In tech, we read books

I‘m slumping so I‘m postponing my pre 1930s limit and trying a chapter of each of these in the hope something will@grab me! Anyone have any thoughts on these?

Just scraping a pick for me. I did enjoy the book on the whole but a hit a wall towards the end when I just wanted it to end, oddly my favourite parts of the book were mainly during his complete isolation which had less obvious action than the later stuff. There are also a few moments where you have to remind yourself that cultural norms were very different when this book was written but I still think I‘d say it‘s worth a read ☺️

Due to unforeseen circumstances my attempt at this #24in48readathon is not going to be very impressive but hey, it‘s still nice to take part!

Coffee and a book? Yes please.

Some weekend café reading

Book haul from a lovely used bookshop in Camden Market today!