Welcome to Litsy!

The #TallShips are once again sailing the #GreatLakes this summer! A port host city this year was Detroit, MI #MittenLitten, not too far from home. There were four ships, but only three could be boarded while docked for tours. I‘m wearing a Her Universe POTC dress with pockets!

I‘m not sure about this one.

Big-hearted bass guitarist Rainy lives with his book-loving wife Lark in a small community on the banks of Lake Superior, where it's still just about possible to live in relative happiness despite the deterioration of the world--until it isn't. A heartbreaking, hopeful story, as big-hearted as Rainy himself, even in the face of arbitrary cruelty and rampant injustice.

Just finished, this being our last day of a 6-day trek from KS thru MO+KY to a wedding in TN. Homeward bound took us more southern thru AL, MS, LA to last night with friends in AR. These flowers are at her house 💖 I started this book in earnest, thanking the road gods that I can read in a moving vehicle. LOVED this! Adored Rainy & Lark, eager/scared to follow escape and trials of sailing “Flower” to freedom unknown. #May2025 Book42 #dystopia

“… our job always and forever (is) to refuse Apocalypse in all its forms and work cheerfully against it.” #Resist #PushbackagainsttheNonsense

I also like “Her kindness was like water over smooth stones.” #BeKind

Pic of Louisiana bayou.

“I liked imagining F‘s world, … its appreciation for pies, its competent mariners and tonking diesels.”

LOVE all the pie references and this is now in the running for my annual Pie in Literature award 🏆

(Ignore the other block! I got confused 😵‍💫)

No one cheerfully refuses pie! Yesterday was Blueberry Pie Day, but I made a mixed fruit crumb top instead.

A break from all my backgrounds of spring flowers. My first Lief Enger; this is for the Tournament of Favorites. I volunteered to be an alternate judge.

If you enjoyed Peace Like a River, this novel by Enger will have a familiar (and yet very different) feel to the writing. A dystopian novel, an odyssey, and an unlikely found family relationship, this cli-fi is a warning and a threat. Full review at http://booknaround.blogspot.com/2024/10/review-i-cheerfully-refuse-by-leif-enger...

4 ⭐ Kids who really like non-fiction are going to love this book. This book is about the history of the lakes where they came from the and the life that they have sustained since then.

Wow, all #tob25 for this month's favorites. It either says something about the quality of the longlist, or it's just a reflection of the fact that I read most of this month's books from the longlist so my favorites are statistically more likely to be from among those titles.

#WeeklyFavorites @Read4life