Welcome to Litsy!

Loved my time with this. Such a cool concept and well-executed. The interconnected stories from various POVs work so well to paint a complete picture of the Arctic plague pandemic. Somber, but also reads like a love letter to humanity. Very moving. Pig Son, in particular, had me reaching for the tissues.

Look forward to reading the thoughts of my fellow campers! #CampLitsy

SUPER SALE ALERT for my British friends #CampLitsy #CampTOB

Look what‘s on kindle deal today! 😉 perfect timing for #camplitsy #camptob in June. 👍

Thanks for the tag @Eggs

🦋 Tagged for #CampLitsy, it‘s currently a 4⭐️. Have about 2 hours left.

🦋Oo tough. An Impossible Imposter

🦋 I am grateful for being able to provide myself with self care. Got a pedicure today and it was lovely.

#wondrouswednesday

Wow! All I can say is Wow! And comparisons to Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell are apt.

Pretty excited about this lovely stack of books that came in at the library! I have Litsy to thank for some of these, and am looking forward to the first #CampLitsy selection as well! 📚

My haul from yesterday‘s London bookshop crawl with @squirrelbrain @Oryx @Leniverse and @LeeRHarry - what a lovely day out. Let me just say that many a book was bought. 😅

“In Siberia, the thawing ground was a ceiling on the verge of collapse, sodden with ice melt and the mammoth detritus of prehistory.”

#FirstLineFridays

repost for @squirrelbrain

Here is the JUNE schedule for #CampLitsy!

We will discuss the first half of How High We Go In The Dark on June 4th, then the remainder on June 11th.

Then the first half of True Biz will be June 18th, and the second half on June 25th.

I‘m excited to be your host for June, alongside @BarbaraBB and @Megabooks !

original post: https://www.litsy.com/web/post/2411051

#CampLitsy!
IF my library has it, I am on long waits already. 🥴OR - they‘ll all come available at once and I get 2 weeks. But look at this pretty ⛺️ card a friend sent me yesterday! 🥰
@squirrelbrain

Here is the first part of our schedule for #CampLitsy!

We will discuss the first half of How High We Go In The Dark on June 4th, then the remainder on June 11th.

Then the first half of True Biz will be June 18th, and the second half on June 25th.

I‘m excited to be your host for June, alongside @BarbaraBB and @Megabooks !

Look out for their posts later today with the remainder of the schedule.

Here are my #summercampsuggestions for #CampTOB22 I used a combo of my mental TBR, fellow Littens' posts & a quick browse of Lit Hub's '22 most anticipated guide, A quick caveat: I did not post any books that I would like to see on the end of the yr TOB. None of the 3 big April releases (Stuart, Mandel, Egan), the recent Batuman or the forthcoming Mosfegh. I wouldn't be upset if the ones I posted made it onto the regular TOB & they're still TBR.

This book was amazing! It centers around a global pandemic and catastrophic environmental disaster in the near future, which we can all relate to. loved how each chapter was its own story, connected to the other stories through characters or experiences, allowing the reader (or listener in my case) to marvel at how each of us is connected to all others on a grand or small scale, through shared loss, pain, family, hope, and so much more.🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

I loved this book, which is more extremely interconnected short stories than novel. The ending was superb as well!

In the near future, climate change has released a deadly plague from the melted Siberian tundra. The initial story is about the family that discovered it. Then there are stories about waves of infection and then how humanity is left changed afterwards. It is dark stuff. The one about a euthanasia amusement park was a favorite.

Too many loan choices!

What should I read first?
How high we go in the dark
The long song of Tchaikovsky Street
His only wife
When we were birds
No one round here reads Tolstoy
Listening still
Violeta
Fugitive pedagogy : Carter G. Woodson and the art of black teaching
A swim in a pond in the rain
The dark side of love
Kim Jiyoung, born 1982
Olga dies dreaming
The Doves Necklace
The final revival of Opal & Nev

This one is just too much for me! Each chapter gets harder to take so it‘s a DNF for me!

Wednesday #bookmail! So excited to have these on deck.

Nagamatsu‘s “novel in stories plus” (his description) starts with a research team in Siberia unearthing prehistoric humans and reactivating a virus. The book moves forward as this virus circles the globe and changes everything. This book is really bleak and won‘t be for everyone, but I think it‘s unique, well done, and likely to stick with me.

I liked the first two sections but somehow the third section I was skim reading and not enjoying it. So decided to bail. Although I might try again at a later date.

Climate change has led the Arctic ice to melt, uncovering a virus hidden for centuries.
It doesn‘t take long before a pandemic is spreading across the globe. The book tells about the pandemic and its aftermath. The premise made me think of Migrations and I had high hopes but this book is a collection of short stories rather than a novel, more SF than dystopian.

#52BooksIn52weeks #PublishedIn2022 #Booked2022 #NewIn2022
(Pic: Muscat, Oman)

This book wasn't always easy (I almost gave up in the second story), but it's also haunting and beautiful and I think it's helped me start processing some grief. That being said, if you're not ready for pandemic fiction (though this doesn't reflect our current reality) you might want to sit this one out. https://youtu.be/sRUkxeBsRJc

This was a totally immersive read for me. Each chapter tells a different person's perspective on a global plague. They were all in 1st person, but managed to sound different and unique. I believe the themes were how we adapt to loss, grief, and new possibilities. Five stars. #KickTheSlump
@DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES

So far this book is awesome. It's the type of immersive experience where I don't feel like I'm consciously reading.

I am obsessed with the “how much do I have left” stats visuals on the kobo

#WeeklyForecast 08/22

That was such a good suggestion Cindy, I am really enjoying Priestdaddy! Later this week I will be traveling so I chose some books of which I heard good things recently (the Dutch one won some prices). Looking forward to reading these in the sun!

Cute new bookstore in town!

Really absorbed in How High We Go in the Dark so far this weekend!
#weekendreading @Andrew65

The novel is a series of individual narratives surrounding the unfolding of a worldwide plague and its aftermath. It spans many centuries and points of view, but all the stories focus on the connectedness of humans through time and space. It is a meditation of sorts - on the ways we impact each other, the planet, and ourselves in the wake of devastation. The multi-narrator audiobook is excellent, and a good choice to hear the many characters.

This was a fantastic read..it starts with a man visiting the Arctic to see where his scientist daughter died, all because a virus that the melting polar ice has revealed. From there the story moves through new characters and pieces in a global virus situation. ↘️

That cover🌙 The 1st chapter gave me Migrations vibes which is a way to say I was loving it. Then, things veer in so many different directions, in tone, location and perspective. There‘s some eerily recognizable moments from our ongoing pandemic, making this seem plausible. Turns out there‘s sci-fi here which is not my jam but this book totally is! Sad, but still hopeful. It‘s all about connection to one another. A great, thought provoking read!

This book. Wow.

In the not-distant-at-all future, global warming leads to another pandemic that totally changes human life on earth in so many scary ways (except capitalism, which gets weirder but survives like a cockroach). Every chapter, the story skips ahead in the timeline and to a different character, until the last part of the book, where it takes us off-world and millennia into the future in a very interesting way. It‘s post-apocalyptic,⬇️

20/150 I think this is one of those books that will mean different things to different people. I see the similarities with Station Eleven that people have mentioned, although I thought SE was the better book. There were times when I had to set this book aside, it was too sad, brought up too many painful memories. Be forewarned, if you are someone who cries easily, you might want to have the tissues ready. 4 ⭐⭐⭐⭐💫

Phew, I will need something lighthearted after reading #HowHighWeGoInTheDark, a novel about a different plague and how humanity reacts. It‘s both frightening (capitalism will still make a profit although millions are dying) and hopeful (many humans remain kind). As with many books like this, I soon grew confused with all the different perspectives 😕. But a couple of chapters were very impactful.

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️,5/5

HOW HIGH WE GO IN THE DARK by Sequoia Nagamatsu
Pandemic novel with interesting twist in the last quarter, but is seriously depressing. Be in a good headspace for this one.
⭐️⭐️
#BookReview #scifi #pandemicbooks #NetGalley #reading
Full review at: https://lostnagoodbook.wordpress.com/2022/02/02/how-high-we-go-in-the-dark-sequo...

January wrap-up

This lyrical, contemplative book tells the story of a group of scientists who, in essence, reanimate an ancient virus and you can guess what happens next. Published as a novel, this book is really more of a group of interconnected short stories that explore grief, resilience, hope, connections, and the human spirit‘s unwillingness to give up in the face of incredible odds. The writing is great, some chapters great, others just ok. A good read.

Now that I've gotten God of War out of the way, I can dive into the audiobook I've been excited to start. I've heard a lot of great things about this book, people comparing to Station Eleven, a book I loved.

Loved it! 💚

Yes, it's dark. Yes, there are sections that relate far too accurately to today's world. But through it all, this book has hope underneath the tragedy and the bleakness. Each story is different, yet similar enough to make this book flow and come together in a wonderful way.

I‘m hearing great things about this book so I‘m starting my “snowy, it‘s the end of the semester” three day weekend with this one.

This book is wrecking me. Pig Son took me out for like 2 days couldn‘t stop thinking about it.

1. How High We Go In The Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu, anybody reading this currently?😄
2. Reminders of Him by Colleen Hoover
3. Words in Deep Blue by Cath Crowley

#WeekendReads @rachelsbrittain

Would you like to join in? @MadelineMcCrae @Smrloomis @eeclayton @Itchyfeetreader @LaurelChandler @damselsgotballs @TheSpineView @Eggs

I asked the bookstore today on any updates on the books I pre-ordered, How High We Go In The Dark and Reminders of Him. Both of them were released on Tuesday. I told them to ship it to my parents house because I‘m staying there over the weekend. They told me it could take weeks 😩. Shipment is really bad here because of COVID and also paper shortage.

#newbooks #remindersofhim #howhighwegointhedark

Currently reading HOW HIGH WE GO IN THE DARK, a post-apocalyptic novel about humanity tries to rebuild after a climate plague.

Oooof, this book is dark. Beautifully written but DARK.

What are you guys reading?

*ARC provided by by the pub

New books are the best!!!!

A mosaic novel exploring responses to grief in a terrible pandemic. It‘s full of interesting world building and poignant scenarios, but I found the stories a bit naive and rather repetitive (and I hated the final reveal). Mileage will vary - as a series of studies of grief there‘s lots to admire; I would have preferred fewer but longer (and deeper) stories.

Full review: https://onemore.org/2022/01/15/how-high-we-go-in-the-dark/

I loved this book so much. It‘s being compared to Station Eleven a lot, which I get because both are well-done novels about plague. This book also has its own unique magic. Jenny Lawson uses the word “bleak” in her Goodreads review. And while that‘s true, I feel like what the planet is going through now is fairly bleak. For me, these stories added a glimpse of hope to that bleakness.

#ARC pub date 1/18

This novel in stories blew my mind 🤯

This novel begins with a climate change narrative. Then a pandemic quickly takes over the globe, the aftermath is as telling as the crisis. AND. THEN. things get really freaky!!! Coming in January

#ARC

If you liked Station Eleven, stack this one.
In a series of linked stories, this novel tells the story of a pandemic, but more than that, what people changed afterward in their lives (or didn‘t). I didn‘t know how much I needed a pandemic book, one that didn‘t shy away from the grief and weirdness and awkwardness. A year ago, I couldn‘t have read this book. Now, I needed it. Comes out in January from William Morrow.