Litsy

Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression | Mildred Armstrong Kalish

pick

Iowa farm life growing up during the depression. Far from feeling deprived, Mildred looks back with affection on her rich & vibrant experiences as a child. This isn‘t one of those woe-is-me memoirs. As to be expected, she felt some things in society had changed for the better, others not.

CSeydel I should get this. My husband‘s grandmother, also named Mildred, grew up on a farm in Iowa during the depression and always spoke fondly of her childhood. 2w

Tamra @CSeydel Mildred must have been a popular name because it was my grandmother‘s name as well. 😄 2w

Leftcoastzen My mom really loved this book . She was a farm kid growing up in the Midwest in the depression as well. 2w

Tamra @Leftcoastzen it‘s a vanishing way of life - the family farm. 😒 2w

Leftcoastzen Sad but true. Still have one cousin whose son farms in Iowa ! But worried about his year with all this turmoil. 2w

44 likes1 stack add5 comments

LitsyEvents

Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World | Vicki Myron

Reposting for @MatchlessMarie

29 likes

MatchlessMarie

Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World | Vicki Myron

https://www.instagram.com/p/DPri8ZqkRAy/?igsh=MXdhc29uNXJ5dGQ5

28 likes

MatchlessMarie

Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World | Vicki Myron

I don‘t think the @DeweysReadathon Litsy page is active anymore but today kicks off the Dewey‘s 24 hours readathon over on IG. Here‘s their bingo board. I‘ll post the photo challenge next in case anyone is interested.

xicanti Alas, Litsy‘s one of the social media outlets the current organizers abandoned when they took over from the old guard. They‘re mostly focused on Facebook and Goodreads now. 3w

MatchlessMarie @xicanti I kind of feel like ppl who end up on Litsy are the ones meant to be here 😂 I try so hard to convert ppl but a lot of ppl can‘t get into it. 🤷🏻‍♀️ 3w

julesG @xicanti They also host a Discord server 3w

MatchlessMarie @julesG yeah but discord makes me twitchy i can never seem to keep up with all the replies speeding through 3w

julesG I check in from time to time, but like you I am often overwhelmed with the hundreds of messages that have accumulated. 3w

34 likes5 comments

Robotswithpersonality

Universal Harvester | John Darnielle

so-so

Well, I read Devil House, didn't love it and still decide to pick up another John Darnielle, so this one's on me.
From what I remember of Devil House, this book basically has the same issue, the premise, the synopsis, the cover hint at something darker and more intriguing, the book is mostly just sad.1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? And in this case, even that feels a bit of an overstatement. There's something about the strong, yet understated thread of American mid-west pragmatism woven into this story and all its characters such that melancholic feels too dramatic a word.
I'm frustrated primarily because I love where this author's stories start, 2mo

Robotswithpersonality 3/? and I'm truly impressed with his subtle conveyance of deep emotional ties, and detailed but not flowery establishment of a sense of place. There's so much here that recommends his writing, yet it never really pays off. I think part of the issue is that he's being advertised or trying to write in the wrong genre. It's a story of family much more than it is a mystery. 2mo

Robotswithpersonality 4/? Yes, there's a religious cult, yes, a woman disappeared, or rather, clearly abandoned her family to join a fringe religious group, but it definitely doesn't feel like the big moment when it occurs, when the characters find out, when the reader finds out, it feels like the book is focused on not letting any one moment be too big, too loud. 2mo

See All 7 Comments

Robotswithpersonality 5/? I could see readers getting frustrated that the storytelling keeps hinting at things and then changing POV, introducing a different character, perhaps in a bid to increase intrigue, but it veers off for lengths of time that don't fit the mystery genre. And it doesn't feel very satisfying or enlightening in the end, for what there is in terms of a reveal, versus what, in theme with the actual story being told, the reader never gets to see or 2mo

Robotswithpersonality 6/? know.
I was in the mood to enjoy the explorations of mother and child, wife and husband relationships, before grief and loss, the father and child relationships after, and how people react differently, how debilitating loss can be and how many not-therapist-recommended ways of managing that loss there are - some considered more acceptable than others 2mo

Robotswithpersonality 7/? the difference between knowing the final, too-soon, fate of a loved one and never knowing. But I can't say if I'd known what this was at the start that I'd have picked it up. 2mo

Robotswithpersonality 8/8 From the description, I can't help but wonder if Wolf in White Van, Darnielle's first novel, actually described as contemporary, might answer my questions about receiving his writing differently if I didn't go in with misled expectations, but I think it'll be another couple years before I give him the chance for a third strike. 💁🏼‍♂️ 2mo

9 likes7 comments

Robotswithpersonality

Universal Harvester | John Darnielle

Darnielle, you sneaky bastard, who's telling this story?! 🤔🤨

willaful I've run into that before! I generally figure an editor asked for a tense change and something got missed. 2mo

Robotswithpersonality @willaful Subsequent passages suggest it was on purpose...sadly not as intriguing as one would hope. 2mo

14 likes2 comments

Robotswithpersonality

Universal Harvester | John Darnielle

Darnielle: consistently getting me in the feels.

10 likes1 stack add

ShananigansReads

Summerlong: A Novel | Dean Bakopoulos

I did have success on one #14Books14Weeks boards. #LibraryEdition for the win! And on the bright said my list of library holds is down 14 books. It‘s still 40+ so we are still struggling.

Thank you @Liz_M for hosting this challenge I needed it.

Liz_M Your multiple boards were inspiring! I'm happy to see that you had some success. 2mo

12 likes1 comment

ShananigansReads

Summerlong: A Novel | Dean Bakopoulos

Unfortunately, my #OwnedEdition of #14Books14Weeks did not see completion either. But I tried and did get a few books (5/14) off my TBR so still a win, right?

@Liz_M

Liz_M You get to fill the empty spaces created, right? 😉 2mo

ShananigansReads @Liz_M absolutely 😉 2mo

17 likes2 comments

ShananigansReads

Summerlong: A Novel | Dean Bakopoulos

With one week left I can accept I‘m not going to read the 11 outstanding books in my #ARCEdition of #14Books14Weeks I did enjoy this challenge and I thank @Liz_M for hosting.

19 likes

Welcome to Litsy!

Trending Hashtags

Trending Books