Welcome to Litsy!

Calling all Marlon James fans! His first step into writing/ producing television is a detective show where the title character is after a missing child. It's a 5-episode limited series that James uses to take all the detective/police show tropes he likes while throwing away anything predictable or stale, leaving only the good parts. It's intense, with a killer performance by Tamara Lawrence. On Max or Channel 4 in the UK. I highly recommend!

Wow! Powerful, stark, brutal, brilliant. This #chunkster shares a glimpse of Jamaica in the 60s-70s from multiple perspectives: a ghost, gangsters, journalists, the CIA, and a woman with various identities, following the story to NYC in the 80s. An epic examination of the impact that governments, criminals, and artists can have on a community that is just trying to get by. Dark and upsetting but worth it. #BookspinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

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A fun list, kind of weird given how it was created. Really didn't like the number one book.

Tempting.
(Can't believe it's been ten years since he won the Booker!)

#BookBinge #SchoolSubjectInTitle A highly praised title I need to read!

Cedella Marley adapted Bob Marley's song into a children's book! Soooo cute. 🎵 don't worry about a thing 🤗

🌹A toss between Fredrik Backman and Elena Ferrante
🌹tagged book - Brief History of seven killings
🌹Must I persist? Misogynistic mess.

I am 300 pages in and I really don't know what is going on. There are so many characters, and while some of them have interesting stories many are just a mess. There is a ghost that just talks gibberish with lots of violence against women, and another who is also ranting which about 50 pages ago I started to skip. I am not even at the half way mark and I just don't want to anymore.

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