Welcome to Litsy!

A novel based on real events, written in a non-fictional manner. It begins as a journalist‘s research notes from a visit to a newly surfaced archive of secret police records. But as the narrator digs deeper into the files, his access is denied and it becomes a journal of his continued investigations, leading to the discovery related to a traumatic event suffered by his mother. I didn‘t get the revelation, because I didn‘t pay attention the names.

A typical coming-of-age story with an atypical narrator. A bisexual Palestinian-American, she is unable to please her mother. An outsider both in America and during summers spent in the Middle East, she sabotages mundane relationships by pursuing idealistic, impossible ones. A breakup sends her into treatment, which doesn‘t solve her “love-addition” but interrupts her behavior enough to (eventually) make choices rather than following compulsions.

#12Booksof2023

I did not get much reading done in September, but this probably would have been the best book of the month regardless. All the feels.

@Andrew65

#12booksof2023 May saw the reunion of the #BandofTrollopes with a loose buddy read of the third book in the Barchester series. The language takes a minute to get used to, but then it is a joy to sink into these gentle comedies.

@Andrew65

#CatsofLitsy #Bert

Another book chosen for its location, but this was also brought to my attention from the many Litsy reviews. Loved the unusual protagonist and the portrayal of how her illness dictated her days.

#12Booksof2023 @Andrew65

My reading seems to have slowed down lately, I can't figure out why....

😹😹😹 #CatsofLitsy #Bert

BEFORE the reader is introduced to the modest country medical practitioner who is to be the chief personage of the following tale, it will be well that he should be made acquainted with some particulars as to the locality in which, and the neighbours among whom, our doctor followed his profession.

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And I'm off, on an early start #Trollopeing through Barsetshire.

#adventrecommends

I had seen many glowing reviews and was delighted that it appeared on my matches NewYearWhoDis list. It was spellbinding.

#catsoflitsy, #Bert

This chunkier doesn't have an electronic version, so starting a new morning routine to read a dozen pages each day.

This book requires context. It‘s written as an interior monologue into which the reader is thrown mid-discussion. The narrator is ruminating on two timelines – her struggle to survive after abandonment in the veld and her life as a slave. the combination of not understanding her current situation, not knowing the history of the time period, and the complex literary language in which it is written made it a more confounding than enjoyable read.