Welcome to Litsy!

This is a lovely “unlikely friendship” story focusing on a Black, divorced, lapsed Baptist & her newly-widowed Jewish neighbor. It touches lightly on issues of racism & friendships across lines of difference, and also explores some heavier issues—divorce, grief, single parenting—but doesn‘t really delve too deeply. I enjoyed it, but it stayed a little too “fluffy” & predictable for me, making it a low pick. And my January #BookSpin is complete!

Starting my January #BookSpin on my new Fire tablet… another Christmas gift from my Mother-in-Law! I figured out how to get Libby running, now if I could just get Hoopla to work on it… ☹️

#BookSpin day is the best day! This month, my list was primarily made up of #AuldLangSpine picks from @Karisimo and a few ebooks that have been languishing in my Kindle app. And I got one of each. 😊

Never Meant to Meet You is an Amazon First Reads that sounded really good, and The Cartographers is one of my Auld Lang Spine books (which has already come in from my library holds, so I‘m all set!) Really looking forward to both of these!

I really enjoyed this great story of friendship, family, loss, healing. I laughed my way through much of it.

The characters are awesome! Marjette Lewis, a divorced strong Southern, Baptist, Black woman, lives next door to newly widowed Noa Abrams, who happens to be Jewish. Noa‘s daughter Esty is in Marjette‘s kindergarten class. Then there is Noa‘s hot brother Max. Marjette‘s longtime bestie Judy. These characters felt so real!