Welcome to Litsy!

💛 Spending more time with my family for the Christmas holiday and my nephew making supper for us.
💛 Snuggling with the cats after being gone for several days
💛 Homemade pizza on a Friday night
💛 Watching Luthien be so happy to run and explore
💛 Tallying book stats and seeing progress on my #1001books tabs

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My 106 books included some great reads, but I only chose a few to highlight. I reread The Tale of Genji on audio (72 hours) and finished a multi-year read of all the Sherlock Holmes stories (71 hours). Kristin Lavransdatter was my longest print read and an amazing story. I included Heartstone on this graphic, but really it should be the Shardlake series. Fingersmith & The Colour were fascinating #1001books. A Tree A Day was great nonfiction.

This year I read 33 books from the #1001books list which included 2 rereads to bring my current total to 320 of the 1318 on the list.

Most memorable reads from this year include Kristin Lavransdatter, Fingersmith, and The Colour.

#ReadingStats #2025Stats #DaiseysReadingSummary

I sat with this one a while before reviewing it. I actually loved the jumping POV. I haven‘t watched the movie, but I would wager that transfers well on-screen. It was like a window into the very private lives we keep hidden in our minds while simultaneously playing a carefully curated role to the outside world. It‘s interesting to think that, though one seems to have it all, they too can be filled with existential dread. 248/1,001 #1001Books

This was a slow read for me, really more of a start and stop kind of read because of life and wanting to focus on it when I did read it, but it was an amazing story. It follows Kristin throughout her entire life in 14th-century Norway. It was an often frustrating read, but so worth it in the way it completely pulled me into Kristin‘s story.

#KLBR #DoorstopKristin #1001books #translated

This was an interesting little tale describing an island where pirates arrive seeking gems and ban all items and item names using the letter named in the title. Yet, in this tale, that letter is used many, many times, including in a few very necessary ideas.

#1001books #audiobook

Today I finished an audio reread of The Tale of Genji. I did not listen nearly as carefully as I read the first time a few years ago, but I found it interesting how some scenes were so familiar from the previous read. It is still a beautifully written but infuriating story.

#1001books #Reading1001 #audiobook #Translated

This is another tough one for me to review. Through much of it, I wondered what in the world I was listening to. I know it was full of symbolism, but I‘m not sure how much I understood. There were parts that left me baffled, others that made me laugh out loud, and some that were just brutal. The cats of the Majestic might have been the most interesting part for me.

#1001books #audiobook #Ireland

The entire time I‘m reading this, I kept thinking, “Oh, homeboy‘s just neurodivergent.” And that‘s what is truly unsettling about this book: how easy neurodivergence can look nefarious to the neurotypical. How you can never really know someone, not even yourself. We‘re so deeply complex; individuals with similarities. Absolutely banger of a book. Loved it. (Listed as The Outsider on the 1001 List) 247/1001 #1001Books

I listened to Titus Groan several years ago and did not especially enjoy it, so it‘s taken me a long time to try this second book. Gormenghast Castle is a world of its own peopled with truly interesting characters. I enjoyed this book more than the first, but it‘s still a slow moving story where I kept waiting for more to happen.

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