Home Feed
Home
Search
Search
Add Review, Blurb, Quote
Add
Activity
Activity
Profile
Profile

Welcome to Litsy!

Litsy is a place to share and discover your favorite books with your favorite people.

Litsy is available on the web, for iOS and Android.

It’s fun.  It’s simple.  It’s all about the book. Sign up and get a little Litsy.

To respect member's privacy and keep things awesome, most of Litsy is hidden from Google. We let humans see and share pages, but not machines. Find out more.
This page is: Hidden

Trending Hashtags

See More
#SpringSkies
25 users recently
#BookSpinBingo
20 users recently
#LitsyLove
25 users recently
#serieslove2024
27 users recently
#readaway2024
20 users recently
#camplitsy24
50 users recently

Trending Books

See More
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
51 users recently
The Familiar
The Familiar: A richly imagined, spellbinding new novel from the number one bestselling author of Ninth House
Leigh Bardugo
15 users recently
Ready or Not
Ready or Not
Cara Bastone
5 users recently
Shades of Milk and Honey
Shades of Milk and Honey
Mary Robinette Kowal
8 users recently
Let's Go Camping!
Let's Go Camping!
Jan Mader
18 users recently
About | Help / FAQs | Privacy | Terms | Press | Resources
The Night Swimmers
The Night Swimmers | Peter Rock
5 posts | 4 read | 4 to read
1990s, Wisconsin's Door Peninsula- A man just graduated from college and a young widow, Mrs. Abel, swim together at night, making their way across miles of open lake. The meaning behind these night swims and the narrator's relationship to Mrs. Abel become increasingly clouded as the summer passes, until the night Mrs. Abel disappears. Twenty years later, the man brings his wife and two daughters back to the peninsula, attempting to understand his past. As he rebuilds a world he's lost with decades-old relics, he searches for clues to the fate of Mrs. Abel and begins to swim long distances in dark water once again.A novel of highly charged and transformative thought and soaring physicality, The Night Swimmersexplores the depths of an identity in motion with lyrical insight and reflective imagination few works of fiction can summon. It lays bare what it means to come to terms with your fraught and weighted choices as you struggle to make peace with the person you?ve found yourself to be. Consonant with other Sebaldian re-inventors of autobiographical fiction, this novel is an exploration of unrelenting meaning.
Amazon Indiebound Barnes and Noble WorldCat Goodreads LibraryThing
blurb
Clwojick
Clwojick
The Night Swimmers | Peter Rock
post image

I‘m cheating, and starting a few days early since my stretch of days off starts today 😛 For anyone who‘s on storygraph, I started a challenge on there. Here‘s the link. https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/ce0e5316-455a-4d81-bbef-4fec173...

Goals:
Read 15 books or more!
Finish 3 #TBRDeckofCards books
Get another bingo for #Jumpstart2021
Read my #FoodandLit book pick
Read 3 #BookSpin books
Read 3 NetGalley books

@Andrew65

Andrew65 Good luck, great to have you with us. 😊 3y
55 likes1 comment
review
Redwritinghood
Redwritinghood
The Night Swimmers | Peter Rock
post image
Mehso-so

From the Tournament of Books longlist - this semi-autobiographical novel about a young man and an older woman who swim together on the lake at night. While the writing is fine, the story, to the extent there is one, is meandering and pointless. Audiobook is available on #hoopla. 2⭐️ #tob2020

BarbaraBB When I read about this on the longlist I thought it would be perfect but so far I‘ve only seen mixed reviews. 4y
Redwritinghood @BarbaraBB It sounded great and started strong, but about half way through I had no idea where it was going. 4y
BarbaraBB Thanks. I‘ll leave it be until the shortlist is announced. Can‘t wait! 4y
Suet624 Thanks for taking one for the team. 4y
62 likes4 comments
review
ReadingEnvy
ReadingEnvy
The Night Swimmers | Peter Rock
post image
Panpan

I went looking for books from the Tournament of Books 2020 longlist in Hoopla and landed on The Night Swimmers is audio. There really isn't much here, a story of a teenaged boy intrigued with a woman living nearby and they both swim at night. But nothing really happens. These chapters alternate with even less interesting chapters from the narrator in his present day that just sound like they're probably the author in his real life.

41 likes
review
jdiehr
jdiehr
The Night Swimmers | Peter Rock
post image
Panpan

Meh.

The audiobook was only about 5 hours, but it sure felt longer.

Just a whole lot of nothing much for me. I found myself getting excited for some storylines, but nothing ever came of any of it.

15 likes
review
Pandalibrarian
Pandalibrarian
The Night Swimmers | Peter Rock
post image
Mehso-so

I was expecting more from this book. I picked it up because of the Wisconsin connection and was underwhelmed by it. The mystery wasn‘t much of a mystery- just rather weird. More literary than I want in my mysteries.

18 likes