Welcome to Litsy!

This was a miss for me. In 1800s in the Black Swaps of Ohio the Goodenough family struggles to survive with their small apple orchard. The characters are miserable, but at least their spite is interesting. In the second half we follow just one of the children, Robert, to the gold rush in California, as he explores the redwoods there. He feels like an absence of a character. With no depth or distinguishing characteristics besides his emptiness.

that'll teach me to order things online at night! accidentally ordered from .com instead of .ca. at least they offered ability to charge it in my currency, we'll see how it goes.

#haikuaday #haikuhive

#rockefellercenterchristmastree

The Rockefeller Center's Christmas Tree for 2025 arrived today. I remember my visit to NYC with my family back in 1988, and we went to RC on our first night just to see the magnificent tree. Then I saw this pic today, and I saw things differently. 🎄

Enjoying this so far. One part autobiography and one part educational tome.

#Read2025 #SeriesLove2025

Finished for October‘s #FictionalTraveler #Trees prompt, I quite liked this first book of the Crown Colony series set in 1930‘s Singapore. Su Lin, a young Chinese-Singaporean woman whose childhood bout with polio has made her walk with a limp & be considered “unlucky.”. Her uncle is trying to marry her off while her dreams are bigger. I like Sun Lin & her perspective on race & class & colonialism in Singapore. The ⬇️

Everything I could want in a wintery, deep woods fairy tale. Loved it!

This was my October selection for #FictionalTraveler #Trees

#HauntedShelf #BlacCatCrew @BookwormAHN
#OneSnackToRuleThemAll #CandyCornies @Bookwormjillk

Starting this heard good things❣️

“Sometimes bad things happen and you have to tell everyone; sometimes terrible things happen and everybody knows.”

#FirstLineFridays

@ShyBookOwl