Welcome to Litsy!

Delighted to get Cuddy as my first BookSpin of the year. This was a Gladstonerds blind date from @LeeRHarry back in October and, from the first few pages, a book I will be sinking into!

While my #bookspin list this year is all physical books I own, my #doublespin is ‘work reading‘ - pushing me to read books that are on the shelves in my branch library, so I‘ve a greater range of ‘immediate‘ recommendations for library customers.

#12booksof2024 @Andrew65 This year I read 3 Benjamin Myers novels, all 5* and this was the highlight as we had a weekend in Durham, and I could read the linked tales of the city in the footsteps of the characters across 1000 years from st Cuthberts body being carried around to a young man working on building sitez off book caring for his mother who finds sanctuary in a job in the cathedral.

Home after a lovely weekend in Durham, where, like the monks in 995, having carried the coffin of cuthbert around the north of England to escape viking plunderers before finding a home, i brought this wonderful book to Cuddy's funal resting place.Telling the story of the journey, + the Saint it is inventive + poetic in prose style evoking the devotion to the legend a remarkable man. It was fascinating seeing the cathedral having read the book.