pick#roll100 plus book club read for this month. Really enjoyed this - although some pretty harrowing sections about Covid/Floyd George which made for difficult (but important) reading. I‘m looking forward to discussing this one!
Plus, first time I‘ve come across a dog in a book with the same name as mine!
Sunday morning reading, and I'm thoroughly enjoying this book!
pickThis a good book and covers a large range of themes. I think I‘m just not a fan of her writing style
pick4⭐️ 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
pickA 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.
pickLargely 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.
(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
