Welcome to Litsy!

I reread this book after over 20 years in preparation for Queen Esther coming out. It is brilliant! It is even better the second time around. The characters are the quintessential John Irving type--endearingly strange. The message of the book is very pro choice. It still holds up.

#Falling Day 14: #Cider - I have yet to read the novel and see the film - am I missing out? Look at baby Charlize Theron.

#TLT #ThreeListThursday I‘m like @Billypar doing last weeks this week. 😄
Have to pick 4 , no particular order
The Bell Jar
The Bluest Eye
The Cider House Rules
The Catcher In The Rye

#ItTakesAllKinds #WithPhysician Dr. Wilbur Larch , a great character in a book loaded with great characters! 🍎Tom Tom looks on #CatsOfLitsy

1. Civil War
2. The Next Person You Meet In Heaven (Albom)
3. Probably the tagged book (according to Goodreads)
#wondrouswednesday

Happy #Caturday . I kept one of my foster kittens , this is Dusty. It was my first time fostering, I am sad and full of worries for her siblings now at the adoption center . 😢

Well, 20th Century books won this grid‘. Its truly a tie between these two books with no overall favorite. I tagged TCHR because Wilbur Larch is so relevant today.

5* = Loved It, want to shout out loud about this book! I do/will own/keep a physical copy. A+
4*= I liked it, would love to discuss. Solid B
3*=Meh, no need to discuss. Avg C
2*=Nope D
1*=DNF F

I saw this movie years ago only remembering Michael Cane‘s line, ‘Goodnight you princes of Maine and kings of New England‘. I have a feeling when I saw the 1999 film based on a 1985 book speaking to a mindset in the 1920s thru 1950s, I thought it was a history to be considered (a woman‘s right to choose) but never again contested. It‘s scary this looks to be our future, as well. ↓

May #BookSpin 5 Category: Over 500 pages @TheAromaofBooks

The stack beside my reading chair 😅

#MarchMagic #SpecialEdition playing catch up! My signed limited edition of The Cider House Rules & one of those lovely Barnes & Noble leather editions .
3 in 1 Anne Rice!

So , this was published in 1985, still seems relevant today.You know , I never had kids , I always felt if it happens, it happens, not pro or anti really.I had a couple of serious relationships with men who already had kids , didn‘t want more …but maybe….it‘s was this book!😄🍏🍎Note: book on tape!Moms car has a cassette deck & a CD player!👏🤷‍♀️ #retro

Fantastic novel, though the chapters are excessively long.

I wanted to be done with this by tonight, but it is SO LONG! I didn't realize that it was a chunkster when I started. My Kindle estimates it takes me an hour and a half to read one chapter. Irving is very detailed in his writing.

My #bookspin list for May. Very excited to see what this month‘s picks will be!

Well, if you came here because of the movie, I'm sorry. The book is certainly different isn't it? Not bad, just different. Perhaps a bit long-winded. I can see why they left out quite a bit.

#bookspinbingo #bookspin @TheAromaofBooks #19822022 (1985) @Librarybelle

...falling asleep, he would follow the ghostly mothers who left St. Cloud's in the cover of darkness, and boarded the horse-drawn coach car, or, later, the bus which replaced the coach, and gave Homer Wells his first sensation of the passage of time, of progress. Soon after the bus replaced the coach, all bus service in St. Cloud's was discontinued. Thereafter the mothers walked; this gave Homer further understanding of progress.

Her method was rigorous and messy. She presented great clumps of uncapitalized, misspelled, and unpunctuated words, and demanded that the clumps be put into proper sentences, meticulously punctuated and correctly spelled. She then corrected the corrections; the final document- she employed a system of different colored inks -resembled a much-revised treaty between two semiliterate countries at war.

#Book2MovieRecs #charlizetheron 5. I can‘t get behind the boys club Hollywood that Tobey Maguire was part of in the 90s, but I do love Charlize. @Klou

#Movie2BookRecs @Klou
Prompt: Natalie Portman

Cold Mountain, in which Portman plays Sara, reminds me a bit of The Cider House Rules. The character struggles though different in many ways between the two books were so real and thoughtful.

A re-read however, just as compelling and moving the second time around.

7/53

😭❤
All recommendations, great book.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ At St. Cloud‘s, they perform both the “lord‘s work” and the “devil‘s work. A Bildungsroman of epic proportions emerges. Homer Wells, the ever-returning orphan, studies under Dr. Larch. They treat women with unwanted pregnancies in a tender, professional manner. This was written a few years after Roe v Wade, but is set in pre- and post-WWII America when/where women had certain expectations. Dark, bold, thought-provoking. A clash of morals.

I read and LOVED Owen Meany - my first Irving - last year and vowed to read more of his work in 2021. Bold and fascinating story so far ...

1. Connecticut, United States
2. “The Cider House Rules” and “A Prayer for Owen Meany” (I ❤️ John Irving.)
3. Louise Penny‘s Three Pines mysteries
4. “Field of Dreams” —and it‘s based on a book!
5. All things HGTV
6. Billy Joel
7. Green
8. Narrative nonfiction
9. I do marketing communications for a health system with five hospitals
10. A black cat named Cleopatra (Cleo)

#MeetTheLittens

Thanks for the tag @veritysalter
Since I‘m doing winter games this year I actually have a fun of books picked out which never happens!
Dinner is kielbasa, with pasta and broccoli in a cream sauce
My Cousin Vinny always cracks me up!
#thoughtfulthursday
@Coleen_Nieto @Bookwormjillk @robinb if you havent played yet

#wordsofoctober #apple I use this book a bunch in posts , it‘s an all time favorite.

🍁 Fall
🥧 Pumpkin Spice everything!!
📚 10 including the one I'll finish tonight.

#thoughtfulthursday @MoonWitch94

Wanna play? @audraelizabeth @Buechersuechtling @ReadingIsMyHobby @Onceuponatime @TheBookDream @Daisey @Bookishlie @Sharpeipup @Cuilin @ReadingFeedsTheSoul @Lucy_Anywhere

#wondrouswednesday @Eggs

🍁🍂 Cooler weather and the fall colors.
📚 Tagged
📚 The Name of All Things and The Space Between Worlds

I'm late, have you played? @klou @ozma.of.oz @4thhouseontheleft @Texreader

I think this might be one of the few times that I‘ve enjoyed the movie more

#BoundTogetherJune #FruitOnTheCover A favorite and yes , that is a book on cassettes . 😀

I LOVED this book! So happy I took a chance on this new author (to me) and glad I did. The book was hilarious, I never knew an author to write out a scene where everyone took the meaning a different way. I laughed out loud on several occasions. Definitely recommend!

I love reading books that are completely new to me! I‘ve never heard of the movie or book and was gifted this by a secret santa. It is such a page turner! I can‘t stop thinking about the story and the characters. I‘m only on page 60/600 and am already so into the plot! 🥰

Oh man, this book has started a lot of conversations. I've been subbing for English teachers quite a bit over the last couple weeks, and they have some pretty polarizing opinions about Irving and his writing.

I loved it. I think this books needs to be looked at as a whole. There's Larch who is referred to as a saint but is highly immoral and he basically pulls the strings for Homer's entire life. It's so messed up, but its executed so well.

Okay, I remember why I thought Irving could be a bit hard to get through.

I've spent about 80 pages reading in-depth descriptions of medical procedures for gonorrhea, abortion, and births. I'm a squeamish person....like so bad that I won't read the grizzly Stephen Kings anymore (Misery rings a bell 🤢).

I also know Irving makes the trudge through details worth it, so I'm going to stick with it and maybe get a ginger ale.

2nd book of 2020 is The Cider House Rules!

I absolutely fell in love with Irving's writing when I read Owen Meany, which is funny because I'd previously bailed on Garp. I have high hopes for this one. 🤞

I am not sure why it took me so long to read this. This was amazing, so much better than the movie.

Cider is a #favoritefalltreat whether it‘s fermented or unfermented. Maybe I‘ll check out one of these places on a road trip this season. Meanwhile, the tagged book is a thought provoking story for this “first Monday in October,” and that‘s all Imma say about that.
#fallisbooked

#quotsyoct19 Day 3: #delirious

@TK-421

#LetsTravelAugust @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620
#Orphanage