Welcome to Litsy!

A deliciously beautiful picture book about Evelyn Glennie, a deaf woman, who became the first full-time solo percussionist in the world.

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Memoir by debut author Katie Fugett, who was thrust into widowhood in her early 20s when her husband suffered limb loss from an Iraqi IED, followed by PTSD/painkiller addiction. Mix that with the author‘s abusive chaotic childhood and you get a serious struggle to survive both within and without marriage 💔

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Enjoyable, engaging, but...
In my view, Sager has a script that he adheres to for all his books, and once figured out, it reduces the suspense.

Still I'll keep reading/listening to his work because it offers great escapism.

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“Those memories press into me like rude, insistent fingers, as I try to push them away."

Chief Kate Burkholder is investigating a brutal double homicide in the Amish community of Painters Mill. She‘s tough as nails but understands families‘ pain, despite having grown up Amish and later leaving that religious life…

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“Gratitude was a lost art, she felt. People accepted things, took them as their right, and had forgotten how to give proper thanks.”

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“But every person has to learn to accept what has happened in the past. Without bitterness. Or there is no point in continuing with life.”

Hidden ice world meets light of day wider world! Setting: Greenland, in the future beyond…

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“…but to be on my own again and free. The thought is a dangerous one, though, and I know that I mustn‘t let it grow too large.”

HF dual timeline - midWWII and postwar 1953. Louise tries to connect clues and memories based on a lost then rediscovered necklace, a department store-turned-Nazi venue for selling seized goods, and her friend Franny…

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“Life is a thread, connecting us all in unexpected ways.”

After losing her mom, Emmalee, a single mom, becomes a friend of coworker Leona, who wanted to be a mom but couldn‘t, at the sewing factory 🧵. When Leona dies suddenly, Emmalee is determined to craft Leona‘s funeral dress 👗

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“Nourish the tree that lives in you.”

Beautifully painted picture book🌳🩷🌼

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I recently finished two delightful magical realism books, and it dawned on me that I could write the same review for each. Both were lighthearted feel-good reads, had characters that I could be friends with, and featured main characters who were trying to leave their past behind and begin to live in the present, trust themselves, and look forward. The Coffee Shop of Curiosities was for my book club. Lost Lake was for July #FictionalTraveler #Water