Welcome to Litsy!

Casey looks just as groggy as I feel. So far today I‘ve read two issues from Marvel Unlimited and a wee bit more of RING, which is just as wonderful the second time through. It‘s got me thinking about how it‘s less concerned with romance as a genre (as the jacket copy implies) than as a philosophy and as a largely internal negotiation that nonetheless intimately involves at least one other person. Great stuff. #deweyoct #readathon

I figured there was a good chance I‘d start my 31st consecutive Readathon at Hour 3 or something, but I woke up just in time! I plan to start with the last 80 pages of RING (which I was too sleepy to finish last night), another chapter of FOUR LOST CITIES, my daily short story, and at least 15 issues from my Marvel Unlimited library.

I hope I‘ll also take a break to visit a book sale, but it‘ll depend on how I feel later. #deweyoct #readathon

I requested an Instagram poetry collection on a whim, and it wasn‘t until I got the pickup notification that I realized I hadn‘t toggled the location from my September branch to my current one. Blah. Since I had to go pretty far afield anyways, I figured I‘d go ahead and grab two more titles from André Alexis‘s quincunx. Once I get DAYS BY MOONLIGHT, I‘m poised to revisit the whole thing in rapid succession. Good times.

*CANADIAN
*This was wonderfully imagined and unique! Though tough to sum up, i'm still ruminating all this genre-bending novel is trying to achieve. Alexis is wonderful at developing characters and making them believable and has obvious talent with language use. I'm looking forward to Alexis's other books, I have a feeling they will be just as contemplative. Try this author if you want something a bit different.
#bookreview

November stats. Look at that TBR reduction!!!!! I‘m gonna knock those two books off in December and start 2022 without anything hanging over me.

It wasn‘t a spectacularly memorable month, aside from the TBR milestone, but I did find a 5-star read (tagged) and a 4.5er (PRINCE LESTAT by Anne Rice). Good times.

In other hands, RING could‘ve been a flat, distanced meditation on human interactions and the role magic (real or metaphorical) can play in people‘s lives. André Alexis makes it a story to fully inhabit. I couldn‘t look away from Gwen‘s perspective, desperate to drink in her every observation on the people in her life and the things she experiences alongside them. It‘s bloody magnificent. I could yammer on about it for HOURS. 5 stars.

I started RING yesterday and didn‘t willingly put it down until I was too tired to carry on. It‘s got all André Alexis‘s usual gripping elegance, and now I‘m at the part with the ring it‘s pretty unsettling to boot. I can‘t wait to wallow in it today.

I do wish I hadn‘t read the rest of the books in this Quincunx so far apart. I‘ve spotted plenty of references to the other four, but I know I‘ve missed a lot more.