Welcome to Litsy!

Got my Penguin bookmarks platinum and ruby prizes today! I chose Portable Magic (which I'd been eyeing for a while) and Either/Or for #camplitsy

And a new notebook is always welcome in my house

It was a treat to finish this book in my car during a rainstorm! 📖 🌩 I loved this poignant story that touched on so many feelings and thoughts that are familiar to me. I was a bit skeptical about a time travel novel but it was brilliantly done. Looking forward to discussing later this month! #CampLitsy

I‘m *totally* blaming this on you @JamieArc 🤣 After your post yesterday I totally fell down a Booker prediction rabbit hole this morning….

These are from the library, with a few more on order. (Either/Or is for #camplitsy)

I also requested about 10 on #netgalley, some of which have come through already.

I certainly won‘t read them all in 3 weeks (if at all!) but at least I have them in my sticky little paws if they do get nominated.

Starting on these two today! Olympus, Texas is for #LMPBC with @melissajayne @zenwldflwr and @TheBookWitchON and HHWGITD is for #CampLitsy catch up! (I'm all out of order with that one 🤣🤣🤣)

Eerie & haunting / I‘m not quite sure what to make of this book. Im definitely excited to discuss with my fellow campers in August #CampLitsy Told in alternating POVs: Miri, the wife who stayed behind & Leah, the wife who journeyed under sea as part of a scientific exploration. When 3 weeks becomes 6 months, each woman must grapple with the consequences of the separation. Atmospheric writing and unsettling prose makes for an exquisite read.

This cover! 😍
Surprised at how much I was invested in these characters, even if their decisions were so difficult for me to understand, personally. Loved the setting and felt for Feyi in her grief, though this was full of joy also. Excellent audiobook narration from Bahni Turpin, as always. Not a knock out of the park for me, but an entertaining read.
#camplitsy

I am so bored. Does this get better? Does something happen? I‘m 100 pages in and I have no idea how I‘m going to go 300 more pages and read the sequel for #CampLitsy

I was interested in the story at first and read through it pretty quickly, but it‘s just so slow or something. I don‘t read a lot of character driven novels, I need action. 🤷🏻‍♀️

So I wasn‘t sure to expect this book when I started it. I heard it was a romance but there is also so much grief in this book. This book made me feel uncomfortable but I also just couldn‘t put it down. I feel like this is a deeper romance than I normally read and a lot more complicated. Not going to say much more before the #CampLitsy discussion.

Holy ‘90s nostalgia! A time travel novel which is at its heart a love story between a parent and child. Alice was raised in NYC by a single father whose claim to fame is an incredibly popular time travel novel that was also adapted into a successful TV series. On her 40th birthday she travels back to 1996 on a pivotal night.

All the references to other time travel narratives in the book were fun. Sweet story with a good message. #CampLitsy

I possibly drank to much while reading this because I cried at the descriptions of grief and losing someone. The tenderness between the characters moved me in a way I haven‘t been in a while. Sure the premise is a little far fetched but who cares when reading romance?

#camplitsy