Welcome to Litsy!

And…I now interrupt all in-progress reading to start this one. Russell never disappoints, always entertains. Look forward to a great read.

"What's weirder," Eugenie asked, "that Maureen has so many shoe-store guys after her or that they're all named Gordon?"
"Being surrounded by Gordons does seem to be a distinctly Canadian occurrence."

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It's possible I have too many books checked out from the library at the moment....

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The Antidote- Karen Russell

Book Review- https://www.boleybooks.com//the-antidote/

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This might be a wonderful book, but the audio is crap. The reader uses a monotone which doesn‘t even vary for characters speaking. I made it just over halfway through before I‘d had enough.

Early on in this novel one of the female protagonists says in relation to marriage and divorce: “And if it‘s too easy to get out of, who‘d bother trying? […] In my day the worst thing you could imagine was being unmarried - you just went with the first fellow who asked you.”

This is a character study of what happens when marriage is the only option. How does this influence the women, the men and their children?

An amazing read

Good dystopian book and I‘m curious about book #2. Lots of connections, innuendos, and main characters were believable and engaging. Good twists and turns, some felt overdone. Overall, good quick read.

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This one deserves all of your love, especially if you‘re into awesome Canadian literature. This gorgeously written, compulsively readable family saga, focussing around the disappearance of two women from a working class town, is layered with secrets, masterfully revealed.

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My February from Storygraph.