Welcome to Litsy!

Evenson covers much of the same ground as in prior story collections: liminal spaces, ambiguous identities, sci-fi & dystopian horror. Although not as consistently strong as say “Song For the Unraveling of the World“ there are some real gems in here: “Solution,“ “Annex,“ “Vigil In the Inner Room“ & “Servitude“.

Two middle-aged (I hate that expression) men fall in love on a date. This book is about their growing closer, each with a life and a big love behind him. It‘s a very tender book despite all graphic descriptions of smells - the author must be an expert on bodily smells 😉. Thanks for sending me this Carolyn, you were right that I‘d like it!

#FictionalTraveler #Island 🇦🇺

1 Still doing my French toast thing! This one is stuffed Bavarian cream (shared with a friend)
2 Three favorite shows streaming again.
3 Beautiful display of tulips caught my eye
4 One Queen Bee
5 Off on vacation tomorrow! Really looking forward to a break.

#5JoysFriday. @DebinHawaii

4/5 🌟

This is a beautiful and poetic book about three women and their sorrow and loneliness.

This book examines the lives of four interconnected but vastly different African women. Adichie is a master of language, and her social and cultural insights are incisive as always. So it was an interesting, if a bit too long, book. But I didn‘t quite connect with it like her previous novels.

3.5⭐Light Pick
•An engagingly diabolical story where you‘re left trying to figure out who was the unreliable one. Unfortunately, I did have a few issues. 1. I‘m pretty sure the covid stuff was a turn-off for me. I lived through it, don‘t want to read about it. 2. The MC's meddling ways were overly annoying, & 3, I saw the end coming, although I didn't see that extreme, because wow, it was unhinged.
•Maggi Meg-Reed brought her A-game with this one.

Reading with a sprinkle of ☕😜

#WeeklyForecast 16/25

I don‘t want to get too crazy yet about all CampLitsy nominations that are calling my name, and stick to my plan! I‘ll read the tagged one, by a favorite author, gifted to me by the wonderful @CarolynM . Where the Forest Meets the River is my #Roll100 book and Small Rain is the last one I wanted to read from the #ToB25 longlist.

But first I have to finish Moon Road that‘s not in the photo but that I am reading now.