Welcome to Litsy!

Mind The Trigger Warnings...and then dive in and get caught up in this spicy #chunkster RH read. A total binge worthy book. I loved all of these perfectly imperfect characters. Off to order the next book! #bookspin #LittensLoveRomance @thearomaofbooks

Very good, especially the concluding part of Rian Malan‘s piece

Granta 25. Not on Litsy, have suggested it but I don‘t know how long that takes to be reviewed.

An interesting set of stories, from the gripping account of the Gibraltar killings to a murder tale in South Africa which annoyingly continues in the next issue !

Here‘s my August Reading Report from #Bookly.
My favorite book of the month was The Caretakers, and my least favorite was Gerald‘s Game.

Better late than never?

🛏 Gerald‘s Game by Stephen King - currently reading along with a group in IG
✅ Granta 115: The F Word: (Feminism) - read
🌎 Granta 113: The Best of Young Spanish Language Novelists for the Monthly Key Word gxo challenge
🇫🇷 The Caretakers by Amanda Bestor-Siegal for book club
⚡️ The Change by Kirsten Miller with my sister

Wish me luck!
#tbr #AugustTBR

Day 3 of the #20in4 #Readathon went well. I got a lot of reading done today and am now at 155/204 pages toward my goal.
My favorites so far are a short story by Louise Erdrich, also an excerpt from A Train in Winter, a book about the women of the French Resistance sent to Birkenau during WWII, and a photo essay, Un-Possible Retour by Clarisse d‘Arcimoles.
I hope you‘re having fun too @Andrew65 !

The sun has set on day 1 of the #20in4 #readathon.
I read 34/204 pages toward my goal. I need to pick up the pace to get there, but now that the weekend is here I should have more reading time.

My photo is from my outdoor reading session this evening.

📖 @Andrew65

📖 It‘s almost time for our next #20in4 #Readathon!

📚 My goal is to read 204 pages, which would
finish the tagged journal, and
start me on another book, either Gerald‘s Game by Stephen King or The Change by Kirsten Miller.

📝 Busy week ahead getting ready to go back to school, so thanks for the push @Andrew65 !

It‘s time for my #JubilantJuly Readathon wrap-up!

My goals:
✅ finish The Ten Thousand Doors of January - 250 pages left
✅ read Less - 261 pages
❌ start Granta 115: The F Word (Feminism), 5 stories and 2 poems - 89 pages
🟰 511/600 pages

🌏 I had fun, and read 2 great books!
Thank you for hosting us again @Andrew65 !

The thing with anthologies like the quarterly Granta publications is that they‘re always going to be a mixed bag. There were 2 stand-out essays in this collection of 32 animal-themed works, Aman Sethi‘s Tyger Tyger (about the impact on villages of India‘s tiger reserve policy) and Cal Flynn‘s Winterkill, about management of the deer population in Scotland.

This was my #BookSpin for June @TheAromaofBooks