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Róisín and François spend a lot of time #UnderTheStars in this beautifully written story that weaves through moments of their lives that occur only when a comet is overhead. #AyUpAugust

Hi!! 😬
Long time no post!! 🧐
Life/work is busy, the early bird gets the worm they said! ☻

Anyway bookworm's, thought I'd make a post of this book I picked up.

It sounded really good, my cuppa chai, check it! 🔍

Oh and I'm selling lots of cool cheap books on my Ebay if anyone wants to check out what I've got you'll find the link on my Litsy profile.

Have a great weekend, stay safe. 😌🔖

I feel kind of so-so about this but not enough to actually give it a so-so rating. It was very well written and had a unique and interesting concept. But without risking spoilers, some of the family issues were odd to say the least.

Had a tiny voucher today so this ended up being 80 pence! 😃💫

#TBRtemptation post 1! "One Day" meets "The Time Traveler's Wife" in this debut novel. Róisín and François will meet in Antarctica. She was raised in an Irish village and grew passionate about science and the skies. He was raised by a mother with a past she couldn't get past. We glimpse each of them and their converging paths only in moments when comets streak by the Earth. #blameLitsy #blameMrBook ?

A beautiful and original story that intertwined the lives of two families through the passing of comets overhead. Roisin whose love of space takes her far from her small Irish village and François whose mother is less haunted by family ghosts than embraced by them. Helen Sedgwick's writing is just full of the wonder of life and the universe

Eh...
I got to the end but I don't get the point of it. It's a rather depressing book on the whole and I kept waiting for some tie up or reveal or something but it never came. It was a relaxing read but nothing particularly memorable. I also found the time jumping and switching of POvs to be rather difficult to follow so I just gave up trying to keep everything straight.

The cover intrigued me and it was available through hoopla so why not!?

I've just completed my Goodreads goal thanks in part to my recent enjoyment of comics (which I count by volume not single issue) and graphic memoirs.

As a young man, his father believed that hammering wood into the ground would make a strong enough root to last. It was an act of faith.
As a young man, he wanted to be just like his father.
It is heartbreaking, he thinks, the things people believe they want when they are young.

I love it when I'm excited by #firstlines ? "They arrive on the snow during the last endless day of summer... the ice shelf they're standing on is floating, slowly, toward the coast - will one day melt into the sea. There is nothing permanent about this never-ending white." ❄️

Wonderfully written, I love the way the two stories intersect. The characters are three dimensional with genuine flaws and the author has really captured what it is to love someone and make great sacrifices in the name of that love. Liam was the only character I really didn't take to. Severine will be sitting on my shoulder for a long time-it would be too hard to leave her behind. A beautiful story rich with historical and scientific detail.

Get it?? You get it! (the dog's name was Comet)

Wow! I feel so privileged to know all of you extraordinary people. It's been a blast! Cheers to all of you, my dear littens. It such a gift to share my love of reading with you.

#24in48 - book 2. Hoping to finish this one up today or tomorrow. Interesting story and well written, but the author chose not to use quotation marks and that drives me bonkers! #readingdilemmas

The last of my Book Depository order arrived today. Excited for all the goodies I got from the U.K. What did we all do before the ability to buy books internationally?

Beautifully written book that combines multiple interwoven stories over time. A little mystery, a little science, a little love, a little family. Cool and clear and fiery and all the elements of life - just like a comet. Great read.

This is beautiful writing.

Leopold and I are going to hang out today. I picked this up in November and need something to alternate with the enormous By Gaslight (which I'm loving, but I'm a polygamous reader). #catsoflitsy

Starting this one today. I love books that have scientific expeditions as the setting!

#currentread Starting tonight!

I don't know how it ends but so far this is magical.

Such a charming book! Reminds me of 'The Gracekeepers' with its romance, subtle magic, and focus on the beauty of nature. It's the perfect easy read for winter. Perhaps not ground-breaking, but certainly a very pleasant way to spend a day.

My favourite book of November was this one. Since I all ready showed a cover picture, here is a cute animal picture. #photoadaynov16 #catsoflitsy #dogsoflitsy

I took a chance on this book when I first heard of it and preordered it. It just sounded like a me book. And I was right! It was really good and I really loved it. It is a quiet novel, but it struck something with me. I have always enjoyed astronomy and this book that was based around comets was a creative approach to cross many times and the bring many stories together. I am so happy I got this book! (With my reading companions) #photoadaynov16

Picked this up on a trip to my hometown.

It has been doing all kinds of this today. What a perfectly lovely day for reading! Starting The Comet Seekers.

I am crushing so hard on this book. I think it reads best if read in no more than two or three sittings. You get immersed in the back and forth in time narrative as well as the author's style of writing. Her spare use of words evokes the yearning for love unlike anything I've read in a long time.

I appreciate references in novels to real and previously unknown musicians because it is just as wonderful to discover new music as it is new authors.

Joined by a friend this evening.

I'm loving this book so much and have no idea how it will end.

Please stay this good for the last half of the book. ❤❤

About 20 pages in and not following the plot. Just reread the cover flap and decided to start over. Fingers crossed it goes better the second time.

So many amazing books and comics hit shelves this week!

Happy #bookbirthday to #TheCometSeekers by #HelenSedgwick, a magical debut novel that #TheGolemandtheGinni author #HeleneWecker calls "haunting and beautiful."

#booktober #mostanticipated

Been looking forward to this one and yet still didn't get it read before pub date (Update: pub date was moved back from the projected in my ARC doc. We're still good!). But reading now!

Lovely and spare, The Comet Seekers is a book about love, loss, family ghosts, celestial bodies, and the roots that ultimately tie us to the earth.

Really loving this - beautiful and haunting.

There are many things I really liked about this book many of the ideas and concepts the author introduces are truly wonderful and inventive. However, I felt like it got to be too repetitive and too rambling. I don't usually say I'd like a book to maybe be a novella, but I felt so much of this was a replaying of the same scenes over and over. This is NOT a novel for people who feel like things are constantly being left unexplained or unresolved.

This novel is right up my alley: interwoven stories (wink wink), ghostly family connections, an ancient mystery, and Halley's Comet. Found this beautiful embroidered cover on Tumblr. More info at this link. http://vintagebooksdesign.tumblr.com/post/142457320976/thecometseekers-helensedg...

Literary fiction w/ a fantasy bent (compared to The Time Traveler's Wife). Set at least partially in Antarctica. Astronomy, unstructured time, romance, science. I cannot wait to dive in. "They arrive on the snow during the last endless day of summer."