Welcome to Litsy!

I‘m back home in Canada & it‘s all Canadian authors in this December 18th episode! #booktube

https://youtu.be/lXJD3Exclio

a story about a kid who goes away to a juvenile detention center for a crime he didn‘t do. On top of that he is released at a time that coronavirus is spreading throughout the world. This book touched my soul in such a way that is so hard to describe. I could feel the pain and the suffering of the characters as I still remember when the virus was spreading and we didn‘t understand what was going on.

A non-fiction graphic work about the former workers' neighbourhood of Annikki in Tampere (#Finland) that's both informative and graphically creative, with a wide range of styles. Loved the art. Slighly sad that the solution to save the old houses was to have them bought and done up by arty newcomers, displacing former poor(er) residents. #gentrification

Will definitely read more by Tiitu Takalo

Photo by Eino Ansio: Annikki Poetry Festival 2018

Holy $h!t this was good! And anxiety inducing. And infuriating. This felt almost more horror than thriller to me. I couldn‘t put it down / turn it off. It was a read some, listen some for me because I couldn‘t just read all weekend. So glad a friend on IG posted about it since I‘d never heard of it before.

I am reading Que notre joie demeure, Kevin Lambert's latest, multiple prize-winning novel, and I have been so confused by his use of the word “plusieurs“ I had to google “plusieurs + québecisme + définition“ to get to the bottom of this. 😂 Here's what the Office québécois de la langue française has to say. Now I know that “plusieurs“ means “some“ or “several“ in Europe, but can be used to mean “many“ in #Québec. Live and learn...

Inventive and intense. I paced and hope for the best for these characters snd may have shed a few tears. This is one of my favorite books of the year.

Book #17 of 2023: “The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears” by Dinaw Mengetsu

A beautiful, sometimes melancholy, sometimes sad, sometimes hopeful story about a young man forced to flee his home in Ethiopia to build a new life in Washington, DC.

When something is for free it‘s usually too good to be true as Moore discovered. Moore was given a “free house” by a group in Detroit that was promoting free houses for writes. She was one of four people given a house. Moore realizes close to 2 years in that the organization is mismanaged & there are several issues that take years to fix. It was an interesting book & I enjoyed her retelling of her experiences. Her writing style was a little hard

Full of micro & macro aggressions I find 5/11 stories thought provoking. My favorites were the ones where our protagonist's attitudes or actions caused me to think-as opposed to what happened to them. Stand Outs were: Who We Are, All the Things You'll Never Do, Mambo Sauce, & Now This. Final draft of College Essay was poignant.