Welcome to Litsy!

When Mr. Schwalbe and his beautiful, hardworking mother found out she had a treatable, yet incurable pancreatic cancer, they started a book club. The books they chose to share were old favorites, hopeful books on death, and anything else that struck their fancy.

I fell in love with Mary Ann. She worked tirelessly on a mobile library in Afghanistan and her refugee work while she was slowly losing her energy. She became one of my heroes.

Wild horses are the same as young men - wild, stubborn, and independent. I didn't appreciate this novel the first time I read, but now it may be one of my favorites. I love John Grady Cole, Rawlins, an Blevins. So many sad moments, but without those sad moments in life, are young men and wild horses ever truly trained?

#PopSugar20 western

I hope The Crossing is just as well written.

#MidYearRush @Clwojick

My Stats:
#Booked2020 - 22/24
#PopSugar20 - 40/50
US - 21/50
Century Reads - 54/100
#ReadHarder20 -15/24
#MandMChallenge2020 16/16
#ReadWithMrBook 6/12
#Jennyis30 - 23/25
#ReadingEurope2020 - 11/50

My goal is to finish I Was Anastasia and Boy and His Dog at the End of the World and read Poet X, All The Pretty Horses, and The End of Your Life Book Club

I'd checked out two graphic memoirs and came close returning this one without opening. I'm glad I read. Only days before her #summerwedding, Marisa finds out she has breast cancer. You witness her disbelief, her tears, her breakdowns, her acceptance, and her humor in this amazing book.

#SummerFunBingo - summer wedding and road trip - For the honeymoon, they drive the Maserati to Montreal @4thhouseontheleft @StayCurious

This book has so much...
*A neurodiverse character who identifies as a genderqueer
*A doctor who identifies as transgender
*A generational ship that is divided by race and each race has certain jobs/shifts
*Dictator who plays god - leads topdeckers into dehumanizing and degrading the bottom deckers
*A rebellion

And it was BRILLIANT!

"All she wished for was perfunctory respect paid to the fact that she was, indeed, alive."

#BLMReadingList

Yippee!! I'm done. I have been reading since January 1.

+ Fictional account of Joseph the abnoxious shepherd to repentant slave to top statesman of Egypt.
+ Dramatization of intense scenes
+ Was written by Mann in Germany about the origin of the Hebrew faith during the rise of Nazis. So brave of him. Mann never returned.

- Very dense. Read in places like an essay.
- Repetitive explanations.

I finished this behemoth. It is not a book for everyone. If you appreciate avant garde art, you would enjoy Murikami's brilliant writing. It's a smash-up of different genres that works. It took 4 months and I am so glad I am done.

#mandmchallenge2020 @BarbaraTheBibliophage mashup
#PopSugar20 set in Japan #Booked2020 PanAsian Author

Bk2 of May is done! I listened to the audiobook on Scribd(which I‘m loving btw, I‘ll link to join in the comments👇)The Book is very different to the movie, was it just me or was anyone else hoping a Dino would eat that annoying granddaughter?😂Other than her it was a really good read. #LitsyAtoZ2020 #LetterJ #PopSugar20 #InACountryBeginningWithC #AudiobookBingo #NoPersonOnTheCover #MayBookBingo #Audiobook #PageAThon #448pgs #StartOnYourShelfAThon

Bk6 of April & Bk3 of my #EasterExtravaganza #readathon is done🙌 It‘s 3 of the 4 in my goals, 968pges of 2,000 & 3 off my #MountTBRShelvesOfDoom. I think the only goal I won‘t reach is the 2,000 pages! This book was a great read, set in Norway, it‘s about Viking folklore, Yggdrasil & a girl descended from Odin & a weaver. Loved it♥️ #PopSugar20 #MCWithAVisionImpairment #ReadHarder2020 #MCWithADisability #ReadingEurope2020 #Norway #JennyIs30

Bk5 of April & Bk2 of my #EasterExtravaganza #readathon is done. That‘s now 723 of 2,000pgs,1 SciFi plus 1 Dystopian off my goal of 4 books in 4 genres & 2 books off my #MountTBRShelvesOfDoom. Loved this novel about a world obliterated through Climate Change & a new Dinè(Navajo)Nation that‘s risen up, filled with monsters & gods. Maggie Hoskie is a monster slayer, one wounded in spirit, trying to overcome the past. #PopSugar20 #FaunaInTheirName