Welcome to Litsy!

Major TW for rape.

Y‘all, this book is brutal—but if you can navigate the brutality (and tolerate the formatting, which I discussed in a previous post), it‘s also a gripping political thriller. Hogarth examines how two wildly different cultures might clash, connect, and ultimately bleed into one another. The text argues for compassion, for acknowledging personhood, and for adaptability. I loved it.

It‘s still free at most retailers, too.

I‘m pro-ebook, but this one has hammered home how much formatting matters to me. Hogarth doesn‘t use chapters in EVEN THE WINGLESS, and she‘s divided the text into large chunks that aren‘t accessible via the TOC. The only way to get to the next bit is to read your way there. This makes it really, really tough to gauge how long I‘ll have to read to hit the next natural stopping point, so even though the book‘s good I‘ve mostly been ignoring it.

On rainy nights, lazy people eat tinned stew and drink beer.

I've got a terrible weakness for digital freebies, and while I'm way better than I used to be I still accumulated tons of them last year. This year I'm keeping myself accountable with a checklist page in my bullet journal. Until this morning, I hadn't found a single freebie (or ARC) I wanted enough to mar that glorious blank space.

EVEN THE WINGLESS is also my very first TBR addition of 2019. Go me!