Welcome to Litsy!

I liked the 80s nostalgia of Westchester County, where I grew up. As for the story itself, eh, it was alright and not as compelling as I thought it would be. I hate going into books with high expectations 😕

31/62

May #DoubleSpin @TheAromaofBooks

#MountTBR #ReadAway2024 @Andrew65 @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES

"My sister, Greta, and I were having our portrait painted by our uncle Finn that afternoon because he knew he was dying."

#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

Started this #BlameItOnLitsy read last night

“I think New York was the perfect place for Toby to live because it was maybe the only place he would never run out of new restaurants. With Finn you had places. Horn & Hardart, The Cloisters. Places we went back to so many times that they started to feel like home. Toby was loose. Attached to nothing. Except maybe to Finn. That's what I started to figure out. Without Finn, Toby was like a kite with nobody holding the string.“
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📚 Tell the Wolves I‘m Home
📚 The Hate You Give
📚 The Perks of Being a Wallflower

#TLT
#ThreeListThursday

Have you played @Gissy @AmandaBlaze @UwannaPublishme

Thank you @dabbe for the #TLT tag! 🤗

Hard to narrow it to three, but…

1️⃣ The tagged book-love & grief in the life of a teenage girl in 1987. If you haven‘t read it, you must. 💙

2️⃣ Little Women -it‘s a classic & my first bildungsroman love. 💚

3️⃣ Never Let Me Go-I find people either love or really dislike this one, but it‘s love for me. Bleak, dystopian coming of age.🩶

Who else wants to share their three? Consider yourself tagged! 🤗

This was at time difficult but very powerful story of a teenage girl coming to grips with the loss of her favourite uncle to AIDS and her general feelings of loneliness and lack of connection from her family. There‘s too much in here for the length of the novel - a storyline with her sister that is rushingly resolved, a parental backstory or two and the main storyline where she befriends her uncles boyfriend but for all that a good read

Beautiful, sad coming of age story set in late 1980s NYC. It explores different kinds of love and how emotions and experiences are magnified and distorted through the childhood lens, yet continue to influence our decisions and behavior as adults without our even consciously realizing it. This was tough to read at times, because the characters were often so frustrating, but overall well written, painfully honest, and full of heart.

This was a great read that got a hold of me. Kept me curious to the end and did a great job with HIV/AIDS

November #bookspin and #doublespin locked in!

“I thought of all the different kinds of love in the world. I could think of ten without even trying. The way parents love their kids, the way you love a puppy or chocolate ice cream or home or your favorite book or your sister. Or your uncle. There's those kinds of love and then there's the other kind. The falling kind.”

This book is so overlooked!! I wish everyone would read it!! 💚

#InvolvesFuneral
#BookBinge

Up next…another backlist that I didn‘t read at the time. It‘s on my 23 in ‘23 list. I‘ve heard all good things AND it‘ll give me a bingo!

#bookspinbingo

I found the book slow to start, but as I got into the book, I was immersed in the relationships between the sisters, the story between June and her uncle and then the story between June and Toby. Great book!

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This memorable coming-of-age novel completely stole my heart (and some of my sleep). June‘s voice felt original, tender, and perceptive - her relationships with the other characters were complex and emotionally resonant. I couldn‘t stop highlighting paragraphs on my Kindle. Beautiful writing, fantastic storytelling, really just a gorgeous book!

A beautiful emotional coming-of-age story set during the AIDS crisis of the 1980s. My last book of the year. #WinterReadathon #Booked2022 @Andrew65 @GHABI4ROSES @DieAReader @Cinfhen @BarbaraTheBibliophage @alisiakae

This is one of my all time favorites and I don‘t think it gets enough love!!

14 year old June loses her beloved uncle to AIDS in the 1980‘s. He‘s the only person who has ever truly understood her. She then develops a friendship with his boyfriend. Love, loss, grief, acceptance… All the feels!! 💚💚

#TBT

Great idea Shawna!!

This was an absolutey beautiful story.
A ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️pick for me.
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#trappedonanisland
@aperfectmjk @Littlewolf1

Started the second book from this month's batch for #trappedonanisland and it is SO good. TGIF because I can't wait to spend the day reading it tomorrow. 🤗
@aperfectmjk @Littlewolf1

I picked this up at my used book store for like $3 and it was worth so much more than that. Such a unique, important, beautifully written story that made me tear up at the end. One my favorites that I‘ve read this year.

More summer reading and wine 😎

OBX vacay

While this is a story of the relationship between a 14 year old girl and her uncle who is a famous artist, it is also the story of the country‘s reaction to the AIDS epidemic in 1987. And then again, it is a story of love and acceptance, and the sacrifices that are made in the name of love. Characters that will touch your heart. Heartbreaking yet hopeful. #pridemonth #booked2022 #mclivingwithaids

Great read for #PrideMonth! It‘s a beautiful book set in the ‘80s about a teenage girl trying to navigate through difficult family dynamics after the loss of her beloved artist uncle to AIDS.

“I thought of all the different kinds of love in the world. I could think of ten without even trying.”

My current strategy to attack the ridiculous #MtTBR stack is to choose a book that also has an audio available to borrow. I was also looking for a book to celebrate #Pridemonth. This one is my choice.

Picked this up at the used bookstore yesterday. I love summer 😎

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
@Eggs
#Beginswith Home

Day 20

#Two4Tuesday
@TheSpineView
Thank you for the tag, @eggs 🌺 and @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 🌻
1. I can enjoy either kind of book as long as the writing is good.
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#GratefulHarvest
Two books with title #Home . Tagged book was a good story about loneliness and friendship. I‘ve enjoyed Tryon‘s ‘The Other‘ and Harvest Home sounds as great.

#LesserKnownBooks
#FallTreasures

LOVE this one!! 💚🖤💚

I've a feeling this book is gonna rip my heart out

#WonderousWednesday @Eggs 🌷
1. I used to read tons of magazines, but I've been focused on books now. I have a huge TBR, and if I don't keep focused I'm never going to get anywhere.
2. Not really, my bestfriend reads but not like me. I'm the book obsessed one.
3. It's a feeling, when a book makes me feel that magic feeling.
4. My doctors. They are amazing.

What a family this is. Narrated by a young girl, we get to know her sister, her mother and her uncle. All well-developed characters and a good story about her navigating all these relationships.

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A little late but finally starting this one for #lmbpc #groupg @shellleigh33 I totally forgot at I hadn‘t read this (this is why I shouldn‘t be in 2 #lmpbc groups lol). Starting it today and will get it in the mail by next week. @staci.reads

I finished Tell the Wolves I‘m Home and just yesterday watched The Normal Heart. One doesn‘t really have anything to do with the other except the time/setting/certain circumstances.

Tell the Wolves I‘m Home is about a 14 year old girl who loses her uncle she loved dearly to AIDS and she ends up developing a relationship with his lover she‘d known nothing about. The Normal Heart is set in NYC in the early 80s at the start of the AIDS crisis.

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I'm so bored, so I'm posting about my favorite fiction - thinking this will be a list of 9 to fit on one post insta. Let's start with Tell the Wolves I'm Home, by Carol Rifka Brunt. It takes place in the eighties and is about June, who is fourteen and ugly and weird, and who just lost her beloved uncle to AIDS. As she is attempting to cope and learn more about him, she meets his long term partner and unravels some family secrets. Wonderful ⬇️

It's a beautiful story, filled with all kinds of complicated relationships. I really enjoyed this one and poured through it quickly. I loved reading your thoughts, Michelle. @shellleigh33 . #lmpbc #groupG @suvata @laurenashley @Jerdencon

Michelle, your book arrived this week! Super excited to read it! And Lauren, Girl, Woman, Other will be going out in the mail tomorrow - hope you enjoy! #LMPBC #groupg @shellleigh33 @laurenashley @Jerdencon

What a lovely, honest novel. I was a few years younger than June in 1986, and my upbringing was quite different, but I relate to her feelings during those pre-AZT, latchkey kid, no cellphone times. And as an adult, I can relate to her parents and their fumbling attempts to do what's right for their children. With its look into relationships, identity, and growing up, this is a book I think my 15yo would appreciate.

It probably doesn't quite count as the cat sitting with me since he didn't choose to join me, just chose not to get up when I joined him, but after almost six weeks with us and no lap sits, I'm taking what I can get.

And I'm really enjoying this book.

Okay #groupG #LMBPC this is the book I have chosen for this round. I am going to go with a green pen for my mark-up color. I hope everyone enjoys it.

@Texreader Thank you so much for everything! I love the book and the cute bookmark you clipped on as well as the magnetic shopping list. And the candy! You ran with the peppermint theme and gave me some new chocolates to try. I‘ve never had them and it‘s so cool they came from Scotland/the UK.

Thank you again so much! You‘re so sweet! Hope you have a wonderful holiday! 😀🎄

#jolabokaflodswap @MaleficentBookDragon

If y‘all aren‘t swapping books on Facebook, you‘re doing it wrong. 🤩

Oh man was this a wonderful book! Captures different types of relationships so well. The writing was great and the story was so heartbreakingly beautiful. A must read! Thank you @DimeryRene for recommending this book to me four years ago 😂

Ok, be warned the #catchup posts are coming! It‘s October 1st, and I just felt super compelled when I woke up to complete my remaining #3books challenge posts (I think this is especially since I was so close to being done). So here are 3 that gave me serious book hangovers! After I finished each of these, I was just like ‘what even is life‘. These #3books really got in my bones!

A little late posting my #3books #setinnewyork but I had to do a little digging and I really enjoyed all of these.