Welcome to Litsy!

What an amazing story and the illustrations were wonderful.

For the rest of the review, visit my Vlog at:

https://youtu.be/BvqzjwlzWp8

Enjoy!

#SchoolSpirit Day 14: Only six days after our #Homecoming from Paris - now traveling again in a few hours to Moominland. Naturally, I brought these books with me.

It‘s become a new tradition for me, reading slow books set in cold climates during our annual end of summer beach week.

One of the rare cases of movie is better than book.I saw Juho Kuosmanen‘s adaptation&was not aware that he‘d taken some liberties which make the film compelling&emotionally engaging.The book is not convincing bc the girl character is too aloof&the man-much older than her-a despicable misogynist,antisemitic drunk who beats his wife.In the movie the girl and man are the same age&he‘s rough&rude but also kind&gentle&thus believable that 👇

Yikes !Am I not saying in every post I need to downsize ? There is a 20%off sale at Half Price Books that lasts through Monday.These Sillitoes are not considered as good as The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner ,but looked interesting. Also , have been on the hunt for Lawrence Blocks first Matthew Scudder novel for a friend,there it was.I have an excuse for 7 brothers a major novel of Finland sure, why not ? early Forrester I haven‘t read 👍

This collection of short vignettes shows a child and her grandmother throughout a summer on a Finnish island. Another gentle read, but beautifully descriptive and full of humor and heart.
#24in2024

I'm not gonna lie, passive absorption of popular culture meant reading the first Moomins book was a bit of a shock as the story was a bit less standard little kid pablum in narration than I was expecting, and the Moomins don't yet look like the Moomins I've seen on the internet (I believe an animated show was produced as well?). 1/?

I'm so sorry to clutter your feed with a picture of a lemon ?, but I couldn't resist buying this amazing fruit, it looked so tempting! Now, to justify buying it, I'm making a White Lady cocktail ?, and to justify posting about it, I'm going to read the story in which I first came across the drink, Tove Jansson's eponymous "White Lady" from the tagged story collection ???
#BooksAndBooze

https://youtu.be/q_vh4fLZnVk?si=Aaatp2VVoO9C0JBA

Introduction

Mystery guest

Week in Review

An experiment

Cormorant Lake by Faith Merino

Summer by Edith Wharton