Welcome to Litsy!

I completely forgot my #WeeklyForcast yesterday, so here it is.
Surprise, surprise, I‘m still reading Ducks 🦆 and will do so also this week. Now I‘m at the halfway point.
I‘m still listening to Educated too.
So same, same as previous weeks

Snack time! #MrBook1inamillion #24b4monday Back to massive 🦆🦆#readathon #litsypartyofone
Tillamook extra sharp cheddar with Trader Joe‘s crackers. @MrBook

I finally did it!

This wavered towards a so-so about 3/4 of the way through....but picked itself up again for the last 150 pages, when all of the disparate threads came together.

I actually enjoyed the unusual approach (no sentences or paragraphs) and the ‘stream of consciousness‘ style, but it‘s definitely not a book you can read in one go - you need to read it in chunks. I just wish it had been a 700 page book rather than 1000 pages...

My favorite Disney movie combined with my least favorite president? I need this on a T-shirt.

#BookReport

I‘ve read 270p in Ducks, and is now at 451p. The more I read in this novel, the more I love it. The protagonist‘s thoughts are really interesting and takes you all over the place from making pies and cinnamon buns, to musicals to school shootings and other shootings.

I‘ve listened to 2hrs of Educated and is now at 5hrs 38min. The more I listen the more shocked I get over Tara‘s childhood.

Book and snacks for #LitsyPartyOfOne As you can see I‘ve already eaten most of the chocolate covered marzipan.
#MrBook1InAMillion #24B4Monday

It‘s books like this one that drive me to my e-reader. My old hands can‘t hold this monster and it is just uncomfortable to read. The story, however, is magnificent!

I think this is the first time I‘ve encountered Tater Tots in a book and it feels quite fitting when it‘s the weekend we celebrate Litsy‘s very own tater tots king @MrBook

and that‘s what‘s stuck, the fact that negative stuff sticks much better than positive stuff, for some reason

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#MrBook1inamillion #24b4monday Snacks for the #readathon I put the extra Halloween candy away since I‘ve been eating too much of it since Halloween!
#litsypartyofone Maybe some pickles and Kalamata olives too! Not all at once though.🤢 @MrBook

The fact that it took me three weeks but I finished, the fact that this book is amazing and you should read it, the fact that it is still time for men to shut up, especially about its length, but also about guns, the fact that Man Up and put the Guns Down...

#WeeklyForcast

Over the next week, I‘ll continue my reading of Ducks, and hopefully get in some listening to of Educated.

#BookReport
This week I‘ve been to the movies twice, I saw Judy and a Spanish movie w Antonio Banderas & Penelope Cruz. Then I‘ve spent time watching Fischer Chess on the TV. There‘s been chess fever in Norway ever since Magnus Carlson won his first world championship title in 2013. It was rest day on Wednesday.

So I‘ve read 40p in the tagged book and is now on p180. I‘m really enjoying it so far and the thoughts that‘s put forward.
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#GratefulReads Day 3: This is one book #Over500Pages that I am determined to get to, once I get my hands on a copy.

I‘m #LookingForwardToReading my tbr. I‘ve signed up for #NFNov so there‘s mostly non-fiction but I also have some library books to read.

In addition to the pictured books, I‘m also reading the tagged book. And there‘s still plenty to be read in that with 850p left.

#GratefulReads

October was my return to reading month after a dark spell of not reading, and gosh it was glorious. Four of my fave books of the year (Ducks, Girl Woman Other, Ghost Wall, and The Nickel Boys) Yassssss

The protagonist‘s thoughts on guns and gun control. So this entire page, but especially the underlined lines. These numbers, I‘m speechless

Again, as a Norwegian I have a hard time to understand American gun control laws.

This is such a great idea @Cinfhen

I‘m a day late, but here‘s my #WeeklyForcast.
I‘m going to read more in the tagged book. I‘m only 140p into this mammoth
On Friday Lauren on “Lauren and the Books” over on YouTube, is hosting Cozy Reading Night. For some of that time I‘ll either read a comic or the Dumbo book I bought earlier this year. I‘ll see where my moods take my on the day.

Is this true? If so, BRILLIANT! Also, how can I spin around the sun 50+ times and not know? 🤔

I don‘t usually plan my reads too much, but here goes with my first #weeklyforecast....

Ducks is a given as I‘m not halfway through yet and it needs to go back to the library in less than 2 weeks. I‘ve been trying to read one a week of my Penguin Moderns but fell behind - these two will bring me back up to speed.

As for Kindle reading on the train - recommendations? I can see a few I might try in #nonfictionnovember but otherwise... help!

After a little nap (3 hrs) and dinner I‘m back and will read some more in this mammoth. #24B4Monday

The much-billed 1000-page single sentence stream of consciousness makes this #AScaryBook for me, but I will read it. I saw Ellmann reading from it earlier this month and it actually sounds very good.

#FallIsbooked @OriginalCyn620 @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

I‘m calling it for today.

I‘ve 40p in the tagged book. It gets a special pacing when there‘s only commas and no punctuation.

#24B4Monday

Isn‘t this what we all fear, only with books?

There‘s so many thoughts already that I want to highlight.

Living in Norway, I don‘t see all the opposition against Obamacare. And that‘s a lot of people in just on state.

Second, I love this reference to Jane Austen and Persuasion, but it makes me wonder about all the other references I missed already just 28p in.

I‘m going in 🤞

Getting a late start to #24B4Monday

Halfway point‼️📖🤓❤️

but now I‘m a grown-up and I get to make my own dumb decisions...

I‘m taking this book in little sips and it‘s just delicious. Never thought I‘d enjoy stream of consciousness, but I‘m relating to this so hard.

The fact that that‘s a lot of creeks...

I actually think this has a good shot at winning! 😀

My husband and I went to Atlanta this weekend, and this is my #bookhaul from three different bookstores!

The fact that books go well with tea, and tea goes well with books, and I‘d be content doing this every remaining day of my life, the fact that there are no periods in this post either,

90 pages in and I still haven‘t run across a period, except in the brief “asides” of the mountain lion sections....900+ pages to go.

I adored Ducks, Newburyport. Clearly not for everyone: over a thousand pages of continuous run on sentence, separated only by "...the fact that..." can be a little challenging. I come to this work as a musician, a musicologist (a long time ago) and what strikes me about this work is its profound musicality.

#BFCr2 Week 1 Check-In: Didn‘t run as much as I wanted but I did have some quality time in the woods and in the gym! @Kaylamburson @Blaire @MaleficentBookDragon

Obviously, it would be impossible to sum up all 1000+ pages in a short review, so I won‘t try. I will say that it was more than a book to me, it was an experience, an immersive one that took over my thoughts during the months that I spent savoring it. I kind of can‘t believe it‘s over. #BookerPize Longlist 10/13, Shortlist 5/6

Packing for a campervan holiday on the wild and woolly North Yorkshire coast. Got to get my priorities right - books, hot water bottles and Marks and Spencer‘s Creme Brûlée liqueur ? ? ? ?

Does this book make my thighs look thick? 😜😆 I like big books and I cannot lie.

Okay y'all. I'm doing it.

Zing! I‘m intimidated but intrigued by Ducks, Newburyport, and finding this on the Instagram feed from Text Publishing in Melbourne, Australia, I now think I might owe it to Lucy Ellmann to read her book.

https://www.instagram.com/text_publishing

#manbooker

I am convinced that this is a work of genius. Yes, this is a stylistically demanding read; part info-dump, part stream of consciousness narrative. This is overwhelming most of the time, but in my reading that really is the point. Ellmann‘s novel asks big questions of its readers, most significantly how we go on in the face of personal traumas, and national and global crises. All I can really say, is wow. #indiebuddyreads

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“There will always be monkeys in the zoo,”

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#UnpopularOpinion

I have finally finished this 1000 pages of absolute drivel. The photo shows you a typical page if you like the rhythm? Which most people seem to you will love this. If like me you just see a page of random 💩 punctuated by a repetitive phrase then don‘t bother reading as this is what you get for 1000! Pages.

Full rant here https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2914062168

Picked up this one from the library at lunchtime today.... it‘s going to totally ruin my book count for October, maybe I should switch to page count instead!

And this anxiety!