Welcome to Litsy!

I‘ve finished for Christmas….I survived this semester.
Meeting friends for tea but I‘m early, so reading it is.

#WhereAreYouMonday

Very promising, this book that I just started. Three sisters are spread across the world but the death of their fourth sister brings them all back to the place they grew up, NYC

My first #HyggehourReadathon turned into a family reading session with the pups. Made myself a virgin hot toddy, lit a candle, and wrapped up in a blanket and my LL Bean slippers. A delightful end to a busy holiday weekend.
@AllDebooks @TheBookHippie @Chrissyreadit @jenniferw88

And thank you @JessieKB for this wonderful box of Christmas cheer!! I loooove moose munch, the tea smells amazing, and I love Lindt truffles! The socks are so cute and I can‘t wait to wear them (today), and I‘m so excited to read these books!! The tagged being particularly timely 😘.

I also love the themed wrapping!! Thank you so much; I love it all!! ♥️♥️🎄✨☃️🧦♥️♥️ #StuffedStockingSwap #sss

I was worried I might be in a reading slump when I ended up not loving Intermezzo which I‘d been so excited for. Happy to report it‘s not a slump, I‘m gobbling up Blue Sisters. Still too soon to say but it may just end up being one of my top books of the year!

❄️ Remote cabin with snow! Being a born and raised Floridian, and having only seen snow a mere one time, of course.
❄️ ❄️ English village, in a bookstore, in winter? Yes, please!
@TheSpineView #Two4Tuesday

This book has gotten a lot of love & for good reason! With an alcoholic dad & a distant mom , the Blue sisters raised themselves. When they lost sister Nicky, they went on with their lives in different locations with some success yet struggling with grief & addictions. When mom lets them know the apartment the oldest Avery kept paying for must be sold, they come together again to deal not only with Nicky‘s things + some of their own demons. great!

This is more of a will-they-get-away-with-it-dunnit than a whodunnit. I don‘t object to those, but it took forever for the murder to happen, and I found the company setting rather dull.

About 150 pages in , loving this book so far . Really well written. 👏

One sign of a great writer is that they can violate all the so-called rules of good writing with impunity. This is the second Anita Brookner novel I've read now, and I'm hard-pressed to think of another writer who does so much telling (about her characters' personalities and thought processes) in relation to showing, but it's so nuanced and well-observed that I immediately feel like I know and sympathize with these lonely introverts.