Welcome to Litsy!

50 pages in and this book already delivers some serious heartbreak. Not sure if my heart can take a whole book. 😭

This book was different. There are no chapters. It‘s split into 8 parts that are like 50 pages long. There are no quotations.

In spite of all that, I couldn‘t put this book down. It was so haunting. It‘s about Grace‘s experience during the Irish famine and her journey. It‘s heartbreaking, terrifying and awful.

#Booked2019 - Book Set In Ireland/By an Irish Author

Waiting for my Jeep to get an oil change. Have my book and my work computer in case anything important comes in.

I didn‘t think I was going to enjoy this book. There are no chapters. Just 8 parts that are 40-50 pages long each. Now I don‘t wanna put it down!

There is also basketball playing on the TV, so I have my headphones in because I literally cannot stand the sound of basketball. (All those shoes squeaking!!)

Happy Thursday!

1. Tagged, All The Birds In the Sky
2. My Favorite Thing is Monsters
3. Day - I hate waking up in the morning and don‘t like staying up late (unless I‘m reading 😂)

#weekendreads

Here‘s my little area for my books set in Ireland 🇮🇪

Basically Tana French and Grace (which I haven‘t read yet)

Grace is my pick for #Booked2019 for Set in Ireland/Irish Author

#LiteraryLuck #Ireland #Irish

Holy hell, that was a brutal read. Heart-wrenching, but so beautiful. The stream of consciousness style adds a inescapable immediacy to Grace‘s harrowing story. Equal parts gutting and gorgeous.

“He reaches the top of the hill but there is no crow, only the company of a ruined old tree and he asks the tree which way did the crow go but the tree points in every direction.”

It makes me sad how dirty the book lockers get at my library. It‘s bad for the books and I have to stick my hand in there! Gross.

#TBRtemptation post 2! Released recently. A Dickensian story about a young girl and her brother as they journey across 19th-Century Ireland right before the Great Famine. One early morning, Grace's mother cuts off her hair, outfits her in men's clothes, and kicks her out of the house. Her little brother, Colly, follows after her. A coming-of-age odyssey, as she grows from boy to bandit to penitent to woman. #blameLitsy #blameMrBook 😎

Grace is poetic and lyrical. A coming of age tale set in the harshest of times. The beauty of the words in contrast to the brutality of the landscape. Captivating. Full review in my blog, the link is in my bio 📚 #littlebrown #littlebrownambassador #littlebrownreader #paullynch #grace #bookstagram

"...the autumn of her long hair. It falls in swoons, falls a glittering of evening colors, her hair spun with failing sunlight."