Since I‘m reading this book for #foodandlit I feel obligated to describe what these starving men had to do and eat as they trekked across part of #Greenland. I picked this one because I liked the analogy of the “snowball on the fires of hell.” @Catsandbooks
Ebook on sale today. #authoramonth @Soubhiville
There‘s a 3-week wait for the next June book for #camplitsy. So I thought I‘d check for both the print and audiobook versions at my other libraries. Doesn‘t look like I have a better choice!! I may be listening to this one sometime in July—unless I get lucky!
pickAn actress tells us about her son Xavier in 2 parts and in various ways, any of which may be real or not. A few constants: she‘s an actress married to Tomas, and she works with Anne. She lives near the theater and she buys breakfast at the same cafe everyday. But she‘s an unreliable narrator. What is true? What‘s not? This is an excellent author and I enjoyed the different narratives by a main character who overthinks everything! #camplitsy
World Pet Memorial Day
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Daughter of a Greenlander mother and a wealthy Dane, Smilla is a most unusual character. In Denmark, alone, she befriends a lonely boy Isaiah. A huge stuttering man, the Mechanic, becomes her lover. Isaiah, afraid of heights, dies falling from an apartment building leaving only his footprints in the snow: Smilla‘s remarkable sense of snow tells her this was murder. This brick of a novel follows her attempt in painstaking detail with help from ⬇️
How many of these bookstores have you been to?
Just one for me, the one in Venice
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Oh no! So much for the gorgeous fireworks in the ice (see previous quote I posted)!
#Greenland #foodandlit @Catsandbooks
Nine years!! I ♥️ Litsy!! 🎉
The lengthy library hold somehow got shortened and I got this book today and have read chapter 1. A little nervous going in after reading the reviews…
#camplitsy @Megabooks @squirrelbrain @BarbaraBB
I did. Have you? A very important day!!
#summersolstace #bucketlust #junebucketlist
My birthday month! We‘re taking a mini-vacation to North Carolina to see the Blue Ridge Mountains and a game in the Club World Cup where my daughter‘s favorite team, Bayern Munich, will be playing. And I hope to read lots, take care of my plants (especially my 🍅), and spend a lot of time with my cat.
@Chrissyreadit
#two4tuesday
Even though the tagged book was written in 2018 and set in 2045, it so nailed the 1980s for me. I loved it. And it‘s been much longer since I‘ve read Eleanor and Park, but I remember really feeling my generation‘s vibes.
Thanks for the tag @TheSpineView ! 😁
#wondrouswednesday
1) being a lawyer, I have to ask you to define “good life” 🤣
2) 📚🪴🐝 & bonus ♥️🐈⬛
3) Years ago, I was in the drive through at the dry cleaners. I told daughter in her car seat behind me I was picking up my suits (see no 1 above about being a lawyer). Daughter asks: “Does that mean we can go swimming now?” Me: 🧐 A client is a big dry cleaner chain in town and I got to tell them this story today. They loved it! 🤣🤣
And this tropical vegetation is exactly what the characters are facing in my #authoramonth book The Kaiju Preservation Society in #Greenland! So weird having these two books in the same country. #foodandlit @Catsandbooks @Soubhiville
pickBook 2 of the trilogy: the civil war has ended in a brand new country #Bangladesh, but war wounds deeply affect siblings Maya and Sohail and their relationship with one another. Told in 2 timeframes, just after the war in the early 1970s, and in 1984, when Maya returns home after a decade fleeing home in anger at what her brother has become. Their stories unwind through time. Tying their stories together is Sohail‘s young son Zaid, and Maya‘s ⬇️
pickMany years into the future, Earth has welcomed countless alien immigrants. Main characte/human Ashley is on her first day of the job serving the myriad aliens with constituent services—a sort of help desk—for the Third District. She helps a number of them right off the bat, with an upbeat, can-do attitude putting her on a collision course with a terror no one else in the city is aware of. Unbelievably all the little threads of stories come ⬇️
Isn‘t it the best when two of your Litsy challenges meet? #authoramonth #foodandlit #Greenland @Soubhiville @Catsandbooks
I borrowed this from Insta and tagged the first book to deeply affect me. What is this book for you?
I‘ve also decided to start this audiobook between listening to Kristin Lavransdatter. #Greenland #foodandlit @Catsandbooks
I just finished the tagged book and it was excellent (review to come)!! And it was an excellent reading month—14!!
2 books wrapping up last month‘s #authoramonth
4 Percival Everett books for #authoramonth
1 John Scalzi for #authoramonth
1 wrapping up #Rwanda for #foodandlit
3 for #Bangladesh #foodandlit
2 for #Italy #Jubilee #foodandlit
1 for #Greenland #foodandlit
I couldn‘t possibly pick a favorite! Half of them were 5-stars!
Hey Texans! I just learned that any Texas resident can get. Houston Library Card! So I got one so I can have access to more ebooks and audiobooks than just those in San Antonio on Libby!
I‘m starting this audiobook tonight. I‘ve read it before and loved i! And I‘ve even been to the author‘s hometown Lillehammer, Norway and took photos of her statue. So I‘m excited about the #LavransdatterBuddyRead #BuddyRead with @BarbaraJean
Whoa! I think I know where the idea of the DOGE came from!! Read this chapter fall! It is ominously prescient!
#whattheDickens @Cuilin
pickI want to save a lot of you a lot of trouble reading this book:
Attila and the Empire have numerous talks, a few battles, a few demands for wives and tribute, a lot of fighting with their neighbors (the Goths and the Vandals)—that had it all not happened, Rome wouldn‘t have “fell” when it did. Well, ok. If a butterfly flaps its wings…
Probably well written and researched but boring. Unless you are really into a lot of ancient bureaucratic ⬇️
I‘d love to hear how many you‘ve been to and which ones!
I‘ve been to two, but now I have a long bucket list!
My two were the Trinity in Dublin, Ireland and the NYPL.
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#wondrouswednesday
1) sadly, anything but my current name Karen 😞 I‘ve always liked my name, especially with my middle name: Karen Ann. But regrettably many people still abuse it; it can be disheartening for me and all the lovely Karens I know
2) too many cats to name so I‘m just listing the names for all the black kitties I‘ve had: Twelve (for 12 o‘clock midnight), Jedi, Madouc, & Midnight
3) Lorien, Eowyn, & Galadriel (like @dabbe ‘s picks)
I‘ve picked out my next book for #Greenland #foodandlit @Catsandbooks
pickThis very short book, a novella in fact, is set in #Greenland. A young constable Petra is assigned to a missing person case up the far northeast coast. At the airport she meets a handsome Dane serving his compulsory service, and whose base is also up the far northeast coast. He‘s assigned to assist her, so love is in the air. The story is fast-moving, action-packed, fun (Petra and the Dane are young!), and there‘s an excellent explanation of ⬇️
pickWhat an excellent memoir of a year in the life of an amazing author! Doerr won the Rome Prize, an expense paid year in Rome to write and for his family to live there with him. He‘s clearly working on All the Light We Cannot See while there, but this memoir is also a result. He writes about his four seasons in Rome. I only spent a week there, but I was able to picture most everything he described and it was absolutely wonderful “re-living” it. ⬇️
Not much on the map of #Greenland! #foodandlit @Catsandbooks
I‘m starting my first book for #Greenland #foodandlit. @Catsandbooks
This book doesn‘t often mention food so I just had to jump on this reference. Photo of a phuchka from the Internet.
#Bangladesh #foodandlit @Catsandbooks
