Arcadia: A novel | 
pickWith multiple interconnected storylines taking place in very different worlds, it took me a while to figure out what was going on, but once I did it was truly fascinating. It has elements of a LeCarre spy story, a soulless dystopian future, a utopian pastoral society, and one pivotal character: a brilliant, iconoclastic scientist capable of literally changing the world. The ending of this book made perfect sense but I still didn't see it coming.
The book has an app?!?! I am SO EXCITED ABOUT THIS.
So excited about #bookspin and #doublespin this month! For the double, I‘m diving into the first three of this series... feels perfect for summer reading ❤️
1. Poe's Tales Alta Edition
2. The Conference of the Birds
3. They all mean so much to me that I honestly do not know what one is worth the most.
4. Arcadia
Last weekend I tackled Life After Life by Kate Atkinson (558 pages), now I‘m soldiering on through Arcadia by Iain Pears. I‘m enjoying it very much indeed, but still. All the pages, just all the pages.
pickChallenging read, and disappointing in parts, but I still go around recommending this. I began the hardback, then borrowed the audiobook and overlapped the two, which helped me keep the complex plot straight. The improvisational talents of all characters were unrealistic to me, though it made for some entertaining reading. Pears did an excellent job of developing place and characters - no small feat in this story!
I was released into a library sale today with 3 tote bags and a debit card:
Arcadia A Good American The Lost History of Stars
The Guineveres Molly Fox‘s Birthday The Ghost Writer The Orphan Master Tragedy of Mr Morn
The House at the Edge of Night To The Bright Edge of the World Burning Down George Orwells House
The Rehearsal Hausfrau Story of Beautiful Girl
The Little Friend Carrying Albert Home The Univ vs Alex Woods Whiskey Rebels
♥️♥️♥️ loving this Iain Pears book! Random library pick. "People are naturally so fond of themselves that they assume the past must lead to them. They have egos of such size that they cannot imagine it doing otherwise. Rather like biologists of the past imagining the whole of evolution leading to Homo sapiens, so that we almost become the point of evolution, ...This desire is so strong we wilfully ignore all evidence to the contrary."
pickReally enjoyed this in spite of the over-complicated at times plot. Lots of fun literary references too!
I love me some bargain books and fantasy paperbacks at barnes and noble. $23.11 was what I paid 😍 #toomanybooks #andnotenoughtime
One of my favorite littens @BarbaraBB reached a big milestone yesterday and is celebrating with a #spitlightgiveaway 👏
I really love this book, which is every book lover‘s dream: references to Shakespeare, how stories can change us and our histories, a bit of time travel (maybe?), bad ass lady scientists, references to Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, and just a whole lot of fun!
pickI read this about a year ago. I was just telling a coworker about it and remembered how wonderful reading it was. You MUST read it in the app form. It‘s so much fun. I love how I got to experience so many of my favorite genres in one, how I got to control the chronology, and how all the pieces fit together. Looking forward to reading this one again!
This novel feels like an #homage to Shakespeare and story telling, history and science. It is filled with literary references and a great love for stories, which makes it a perfect book for book lovers 📖
#Aprella
I want to finish this one this weekend. I had to renew it from the library because i was in a bit of a slump for the past two weeks. I've been enjoying it so far even though it started off pretty slow. #weekendreads
My favourite way to start my day! What a fantastic box to open ? I had never heard of any of these books, but each one I pulled out had me going "ooh, that sounds INTERESTING!" The teas sound AMAZING, and I love the sweet sprout bookmarks. Thank you, thank you, dear @MPick I can't wait to get reading!
#dystopianblues
And a big thank you to @Mommamanzi for all your hard work organizing another great swap!
pickA bit of a play on Shakespeare's approach to fate and coincidence with a lump of sci-fi thrown in for good measure, this book starts out complex but then explains itself in the way of all good fables. It is not Cloud Atlas but nevertheless it touches on some of the same themes and was a good read with three female characters I enjoyed spending time with.
I can already tell from the first couple paragraphs I‘m going to love this book!
Angela Meerson is a scientist from the future. She is a bit mad, utterly brilliant and completely unpredictable. When she ends up experimenting on others and herself, it will have consequences for both the past, present and future #thefly
#MonsterMadness2017
pick68 ~ Arcadia by Iain Pears (Kindle edition📱) ~ Started: 18.06.17 ~ Finished: 09.07.17
Rating: 4/5📚
I'm participating in the Tome Topple Readathon, which lasts for 2 weeks and focuses on reading big books > 500 pages. I really like this readathon; it's great motivation to tackle the giants on your shelf. This time I'm focusing on Arcadia by Iain Pears, which was on my list of top 10 books to read in 2017. Really like it so far! #tometopple
#TBRtemptation post 5! #PhillyMeetUp #bookswap edition! Proudly displayed by @Librarybelle ! Henry, a spy-cum-academic, Oxford, 1962. He comes up with a story about 11-year-old Jay, who has a vision which gets him questioning his tech-driven world's authorities. Meanwhile, Henry's former colleagues track him down for one last assignment. #blameLitsy #blameMrBook 😎
pickAnother enjoyable reread. I noticed so many new things, literary references and little quirks this time around, which just made the experience better. Even though I had read the book last year, it surprised me still, and my mind is still a little blown over how everything ties together in the end.
This is a mystery, fantasy, science fiction, book-for-book-lovers kind of book, and I would definitely recommend it!
Croissants make everything better. Even a really great reread 🥐🥐
#currentlyreading
My weekend set-up 📚☕️🍫
#currentlyreading
I know most of you Littens have massive tbr piles, but I really think you all should forget about those books for a bit and read Arcadia - it is a story about time travel, storytellers, love, a bad ass lady scientist, interwoven storylines and just everything good you could imagine in a book. So #readthisnotthat with that being everything else you might have on your tbr 📚
#MayBookFlowers #recommendsday
I've seen a few posts about how good this book is. So I won't give up just yet. I think I need to continue this in print because the audio is AWFUL!! Who hired this narrator? Eww.
The books I recommend the most right now - a book about trauma and mental health problems, a beautifully written story about ghosts and family, a hard hitting non-fiction book about rape, and lastly a a big book about different worlds, story telling and a bad ass lady scientist! 📚
#mostrecommened #AprilAmazingReads
This book is an exploration of worlds and how everything we do leaves a mark on the world. Especially the world of Anteworld seems like a kind of #paradise to me - simple living, court intriques and story telling as the highest form of art 👌
#LyricalApril
so-soI may be the only person who found this book boring and long. There were too many characters to follow along for the first 250 pages and I didn't develop an attachment to any of them. It was an interesting premise but it was not put together in a way I could enjoy. #litsyreadingchallenge
After a rough day, I came home to some awesome #bookmail from @Laalaleighh ... here is my #blinddatewithabook ❤❤ I'm so excited to read this! Thank you so much! #litsygoespostalOG
pickI recommend this to ppl not fans of hard sci-fi, but who do like fantasy. An aged writer, a research scientist, and a teenager work, both together and against each other, co-existing in mid-century England and time traveling through a cellar portal to a medieval world that may soon become their reality. Strangely, the future has the unique ability to affect the past.
Just....wow. A masterpiece. If you want to lose yourself between the covers of a genre-bending, mind-blowing story, have I got the book for you.
#Riotgrams Day 2: Here are my soon-to-be-read #onewordtitles. I'm actually really looking forward to each of these!
Not necessarily my fav snack but after a difficult and emotional day in child welfare, there is nothing like hunkering down with a book and some homemade #glutenfree chicken noodle soup. #readjanuary #bookandfavoritesnack #comfort
#TBRtemptation post! A bit ok the thicker side, this is one part fantasy, one part adventure, and one part thriller. In 1962 Oxford, spy-turned-academician, Henry, begins the story of Jay. Jay's an 11-year old boy who has supernatural visions and begins a journey. Jay's world is a strict, regulated, machine-driven one, intent on creating time travel. Meanwhile, Henry's tracked down for 1 last assignment. I like! #blameLitsy #blameMrBook 😎
Traveling through alternate universes is the only way to commute tbh
Picked up this hitchhiker at B&N.
pickArcadia is a fantastic book and in many ways a departure from Pears previous books. A story in set in three different locations being the 1960's, a future dystopian world and a idealistic fantasy setting which is one of the characters literary invention. Part sci-fi, part fantasy, part spy story with an ending which made me do a double take. I will need to revisit again in the future to confirm the storylines fit together as well it did.
pickAnother holiday escape. I loved it! Didn't want it to end! Had everything I needed to forget the Wyoming Winter and the stress of Xmas.
pickWithout intending it I read 2 books in December about time travel. One book goes for the infinite multiple universes thing. The other says only travel through time, not multiple universes, is possible. I enjoyed reading both of them. Thumbs up recommendations for both. They are lovely fast entertaining reads. 👍👍
