Welcome to Litsy!

https://youtu.be/ZakTsw5MTzM

Introduction
Mystery guest
The Pornographer by John McGahern
A welcome interruption
The Pornographer by John McGahern (continued)
Hope Never Knew Horizon by Douglas Bruton

Recent acquisition:

📖 A Colder Eye: The Modern Irish Writers by Hugh Kenner

Friday Listening: an all-audiobook episode for #NonfictionNovember #LGBTQ #IrishAuthors #CanadianAuthors #WomenInTranslation #Indigenous #audiobooks

https://youtu.be/YcRrSvT4lNM

A deceptively sophisticated book about unrequited love, self-sacrifice, and the seemingly impossible task of trying to be true to oneself while doing right by others and becoming part of a community. The protagonist is a smut writer dealing with the impending death of a beloved aunt on the one hand and birth of an unwanted child on the other. Full of fantastic dialogue and insightful observations that feel wholly organic, never forced or tacked-on

I loved the first 100 pages&then it was too much.A drug addicted mom fails at mugging tourists,a jewelry heist,the murder of a family,an attempted suicide-the guy has blood all over him but doesn‘t talk-,back flashes to many other cases already solved.It all comes somehow together at the end but Kerrigan lost me along the way. I didn‘t care about the characters or the detectives… just too much going on for a crime novel.

The New York Review of Books usually hits it out of the park with their reprints and this novel by late author John McGahern is no exception. Set in Ireland during the 70's, a struggling writer publishes erotica to make ends meet while caring for his ailing aunt. Enter a one sided affair with an older woman and our protagonist drowns himself in drink as he reflects on his life in this literary book of love, loss, and longing.

📚 Tagged, Y is for Yesterday - Grafton
🖋 Yanagihara, Hanna
🎞 Young Frankenstein
🎤 Yes
🎶 You Could be Happy (Snow Patrol) Yesterday (The Beatles) You Don‘t Have to Say You Love Me (Dusty Springfield) You Don‘t Own Me (Leslie Gore) Your Wildest Dreams (The Moody Blues) You Are the Reason (Calum Scott) Year of the Cat (Al Stewart)

#ManicMinday #LetterY

@CBee

I picked this up at a library sale last fall. Coming in at 1200 pages, it's definitely a #SuperChunkster. I'm going to try to finish it by the end of the year. @Amiable

Such a good ghost story! And it‘s super short so you can read it in just a few days. Or in one night … if you dare.