Welcome to Litsy!

The book follows Elsa who lives on the great plains with her family and zones into the migrant experience of this particular environmental disaster.
I didn't know about the dust bowl and while I didn't feel any real bond with the characters, I was really interested in the events in both Texas and the migration to California. The government's response, action and the Communist movement really did draw me in.

This was okay, but not great. I wanted to like the characters, but I never fully got there.

#ReadYourKindle

25-5. A little slow to start, but by the half-way point I couldn‘t put it down. I learned a lot about the Dust Bowl and Okies and California work camps 🤯.

I liked this, but I found it horribly depressing and sad. Normally I don‘t mind books like that, but it felt really heavy and I was kind of glad to be done so that I could move on to something else.

4⭐️ Really enjoyed this book. Even though it felt like it dragged in places, the story kept moving forward and I felt like I understood Auntie Em more. #2025 #greatdepression #historicalfiction #1920s #fiction

3.5⭐️ It was a well told story that was very cute to read. My issue was that there wasn‘t a way of really knowing where one was, whether one was in the more contemporary storyline or the flashback. Overall a pretty solid story. #2025 #bookclub #canadian #fiction #wwii #greatdepression

I‘m posting one book a day from my massive collection. No description, no reason for why I want to read it.

#ABookADay2025

116/100🎧📖
1st Kristin Hannah
#thefourwinds #kristinhannah #ebook #audiobook #goodreads #goodreadsreadingchallenge

A few hours ago the sky opened and it rained buckets. A little later the sun came out and I took an unscheduled nap. Just now I took an abbreviated walk around the neighborhood because the rain left behind some humidity.

Seen on my walk: an
Upside down flag and mushrooms
Sprouting from the rain

#haikuaday #haikuhive #welcomenewmember

June was a big reading month for me, with eight books finished and several really good four star novels, my favorite is tagged but What Kind of Paradise is a very close second!