Welcome to Litsy!

I liked the wildness of this- the twist of fancy like a wedge of lemon could be sour at the times Michaels transitions between realism and surrealism, but mostly fantastic because Michaels can certainly write. If this hasn‘t been optioned for a Netflix series sign me up. This could be a gold mine if we‘re lucky. 🍀

The first half of this novel was very interesting, but then it just became too weird. I tried hard to keep on caring about what would happen, but after a while I just couldn't.

Coming out in January, this was a fun adventure to go on. A couple of weird twists in the narrative kept me fully engaged. It‘s a little long, some odd pacing. But overall a good read.

My #audiobook hold came in at the same as the print edition, making it easy to note passages like: “The sun was raying all around.” A thoughtful, dreamy story set in Montreal—a grocery store, a comedy club, a betting track, riding bicycle through rainy nights—and combining fantastical elements with realistically developed characters. It‘s also a Robin Hood-type crime caper with action that spans the globe & plumbs the human heart. #CanadianAuthor

To certain observers, Theo might have appeared bored, but he wasn‘t bored, exactly. Boredom requires a degree of self-knowledge. It is not enough that an activity be tedious (i.e. without momentum) or aimless (i.e. without direction): for it to be boring the doer must recognize he is being dulled. Theo was too restless for that.

A passage in the tagged novel could just as easily come from Gladwell‘s Talking to Strangers: “Sometimes it is easier to trust someone than to doubt them, a kind of gift you give yourself.”