Welcome to Litsy!

I should love this book. It‘s historical fiction set in Scotland that centers women. Sounds fabulous! But, I‘m just not connecting with it. I gave it almost 40% and that‘s enough. Not sure if it‘s me or the book, though, so don‘t let me dissuade you.

“Every year a person is alive they pass the date that they‘re going to die but they don‘t know it.”

I really this novel about a man sentenced to read aloud to the elderly & disabled. Wonderful, eccentric characters & a great sense of place in Cuernavaca, Mexico. The narrator‘s love & frustration with his home town infuse the story & add texture. His struggles feel real, including the backdrop of violence. His growth & relationships with other characters create tension & propel us forward with delightful poetic references woven in. Masterful.

I‘ve read all of her collections, and this is probably one of her darkest, and best. A bonafide Southern-fried Winesburg, Ohio, for the 21st century. It‘s certainly my favorite book cover of all her works.

https://youtu.be/MglT0ITyPR4?si=Li25V4LlFAj5hMkU.

Introduction

Mystery guest

Home Reading Service by Fabio Morábito, Curtis Bauer (Translator)

Mild Vertigo by Mieko Kanai, Polly Barton (Translator)

Kintsugi by Anukrti Upadhyay

Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham

My Friends by Hisham Matar

All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories by Edward P. Jones

Prophet Song by Paul Lynch

Overloaded infographic! My spreadsheet suggest my reading has been far too straight white British so far this year!
9 books read (if you include the 90 page novella) in January. My favourite was The Goodbye Cat, though The Queen of Poisons was a close second; the worst by far was Love, Lies and Lemon Cake.

#JanuaryWrapUp
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My January Recap! These are all the books I finished for January. I had 7 DNFs total for the month.

Fav book of the month: All The Dark Places (1/23 finish date) by Terri Parlato & Runner-up is Only If You're Lucky (1/17 finish date) by Stacy Willingham.

Fav cover of the month: Dreambound (1/8 finish date) & runner-up is This Wretched Valley (1/19 finish date)

My January #wrapup
I read 8 books in total (~2300 pages + 15 hours)
1 comic, 1 audiobook and 1 nonfiction

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ White Holes by Carlo Rovelli
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Foe by Iain Reid; The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne; Eragon by Christopher Paolini

#JanuaryStats #monthlywrapup

#januarywrapup #JanuaryStats

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The one

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The pachinko parlour
Sorrow and bliss

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Held
Crossroads
Mix Tape

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Flights
We moeten praten (Dutch)
Sleep no more
North woods
The Heaven & Earth grocery store
My husband

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Same bed different dreams
The hole
Weasels in the attic
Lovesick blossoms
A frozen woman

#JanuaryWrapUp

I'm extremely please with the number of books I got to this month-Yay me! 😁

3 DNFs
#bookspin and #doublespin ✔️
1 #bookspinbingo
Best of the month: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks