Welcome to Litsy!

I was pleasantly surprised by Taylor's book, enjoying it more than I'd anticipated. It combines her accounts of travels in the Scottish Highlands to spot wildcats in their natural environment with details of their evolutionary and cultural histories, their conservation status and the efforts being made both to save them and, sadly, exterminate them, the latter more through negligence and indifference, perhaps, than intent.
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#CatsOfLitsy #Skye

Set in Glasgow in the early eighties we meet Angus and Big Shug who have a volatile relationship fulled with anger, deceit and cheap larger.

Shuggie is the youngest of Angus and Big Shug's children.

I wanted to pull Shuggie from every page and remove him entirely from the situation. This character is a kid that could keep me up at night with worry.

“Heading back, a couple of cars and a van have joined our own in the small carpark, and standing beside the van is a man with waist-length dreadlocks, a beard and a camera with a very long lens... He turns to us as we approach, ambles over, and we get talking. It's quickly evident that this man, Hamza, is highly knowledgeable about the peninsula and its wildlife, and he's soon advising us...When I mention wildcats, he goes quiet... 👇🏻

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I finished Evenings and Weekends

I read The Country of Others and the Norwegian book Tung tids tale

I continued with my yearlong reads on the right

I continued with Little Dorrit #WhatTheDickens and on audio, The Flower Farm

Coffee & my kindle book this morning after an invigorating walk. It‘s peaceful at this hour, the only “noise”is bird song, interrupted by an occasional car going by. #coffeeandbooks #birdsong #porchlife

… until a little past the middle. We have our person on trial as the major point of view, and have a few others making comments about their character. By the trail we do have some repetition and the conclusion felt anticlimactic. While we need to remember the time frame in which this happened I was hoping for something more or different to really say I completely enjoyed this book. #FableBR

Welp, this won the vote on my Scottish selections for my longest running book club—& it‘s most definitely the most sexually explicit book the club has ever read together in its over 15 years of existence! From the cutesy cover & shapeshifting plot, I didn‘t expect this enemies-to-lovers romance to be quite so graphic (he can‘t control turning into Nessie by night, but manages to turn some specific body parts into something more monstrous!😳).

This was a lot of fun, I enjoyed the setting and the strong female characters.

Pleasant surprise to find this newly decorated crosswalk. #audiowalk

"Timing a trip to look for Scottish wildcats is difficult in a way, but in another way it's not: no matter what time you go, you're almost guaranteed not to see one."

About halfway through, and I'm really enjoying this book ?
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