Welcome to Litsy!

Sunday morning reading, and I'm thoroughly enjoying this book!

This a good book and covers a large range of themes. I think I‘m just not a fan of her writing style

4⭐️ Really enjoyed this #bookclub pick. Got into it much easier than the previous ones that I have read of hers. #2025 #indigineous #contemporary #fiction #covid19fiction

A historical thriller based on a true crime during the Gilded Age in Minnesota. Background is three young women staying at the Bethany Home for Unwed Mothers.

Alas, perhaps the first American serial killer is in their midst. Harry T. Hayward (c. 1865 - December 11, 1895) a man of status living a secret life as a gambler, arsonist, & murderer, and suspected serial killer the "Minneapolis Svengali" based on his ability to charm, con & manipulate.

Largely set in a haunted bookstore, the actual ghost is but a fraction of what looms over and around Tookie… addiction, incarceration, “rehabilitation” vs isolation; generational traumas both cultural and personal; the pandemic and the murder of George Floyd.

It‘s a lot to unpack.

But worth the emotional time and effort.

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(I love this Italian cover. It's so thoroughly wrong.)

Is Litsy turning me into a person who can understand literary fiction? Or has literary fiction just changed for the better? This is complex yet also so readable. Tookie is one of those unforgettably real narrators, and the old and new traumas she processes as she struggles through 2020 are infinitely resonant.

#BS July

Well, I really enjoyed the last Eskens but this....just not for me. An overwhelming male cast, all of whom are blah to unlikeable imho. Then there is all the sex-violence-death and I'm just not into it, thanks. It already featured in his other book but at least that seemed more quintessential to the plot. This seems like it's for “flavour“ but the flavour is giving one note and it's getting old.