Welcome to Litsy!

My dad passed away 20 days ago. Dad loved history, and NYC TV shows, so I think he would have loved a visit to the city. I have a small urn of his ashes, and I‘ve decided to take him on little East Coast excursions with me. I was in the wrong lane and ended up on the Brooklyn Bridge. I was annoyed at first, but then realized it was 15 minutes well spent if my dad got to experience the bridge.

I confess I actually watched the movie version of this before reading the book. Both were highly entertaining and heartwarming. And the movie was very close to the book.

Boy I‘ve discovered some excellent audiobooks lately. This is my latest!

My next audiobook. I loved the movie.

Watch the movie

There was no bad guy. Very interesting A quick read

#MarchIntothe70s Happy St. Patty‘s Day 💚A beautiful #ImmigrantSong and tale of a young woman coming of age in Brooklyn as an Irish immigrant.

Can there be a Brooklyn sequal or something??? So good...a real coming of age and feeling comfortable in your own skin kinda read.

Brooklyn is partially set in #Ireland. The audiobook is excellent as is the movie. And how about that Nick Hornby?! Is there anything he can‘t do? #literaryluck

Heard about a library book sale close to my work and decided to stop on my way home.

45 cents later...📚👏🏻😍

Beautiful and nuanced story of a young immigrant woman finding her own voice and future.

Saw this movie before I knew it was a book and loved it. I‘m amazed at how perfectly synchronized the book and movie are!

Definitely recommend!
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I started reading this book more than six months ago. After reading half, I put the book down. I thought it was boring. And today #Brooklyn caught my eye! And then... Boom! 💥 I read the book in a couple of hours! I recognized myself in Eilis! There is no intrigue or mysticism in the book, but there is something elusive and important! 🍀🗽 #ColmToibin

Thanks @OrangeMooseReads - they arrived today!! 📚

While well written and very well narrated, I did not really enjoy this. The whole time I wanted to shake the main character for her foolish choices. Also the book just ends. But another book down for 2 reading challenges! #Booked2019 #irishauthor and #LitsyAtoZ

1. My husband, me and our dogs on our Fall camping trip
2. 165 books, read books I already own, #litsyAtoZ #Booked2019 Challenges
3. Best-RV camping, Worst-lost our dear old cat
4. Be more frugal, buy less books 😜
5. Currently listening on audiobook.
#humpdaypost @MinDea

Starting off the new year with a cute romantic comedy, a new spin on Wonder Woman and my first #Booked2019 challenge read #setinireland #irishauthor
@Cinfhen @4thhouseontheleft @BarbaraTheBibliophage

#FirstSnowonBrooklyn #WinterWonderland @Cinfhen @TrishB

#FirstSnowOnBrooklyn
#WinterWonderland
Still TBR.
@Cinfhen @TrishB

Enjoying some Caturday reading time with Frankie.

Paperbacks and Crosby‘s tail . From the Library book sale , 14 bucks for both posts! Plus , had the pleasure of singing happy birthday to a volunteer at the Library who is a fit and happy 93 !😯😁

1. Won't You Be My Neighbor?
2. Laugh!
3. 13
4. For no particular reason. 🤷🏼‍♀️ I plan to give it another chance... and restart it in the process.
@jesshowbooks #friyayintro

They've revealed the poster for this year's Brooklyn Book Festival and I love it! I'd say it reminds me of my neighborhood but I live in Brooklyn so... duh. Haha. The main festival day is Sunday, Sept 16th - it's free to attend and always a good time. Let me know if you're planning to go and would like to meet up 🙋🏽‍♀️ #BKBookFest

Continuing with what I started during the readathon... Really enjoying this so far.

Brooklyn
Blueberries
Beatriz Williams
Beauty and the Beast
#manicmonday
@JoScho

The story of a young Irish girl, who moved to Brooklyn. For six months I can not read the book! I usually like these stories, but this book is hard for me to read!

Book 6 for #MountTBR - This lies between a pick and a so-so for me. It was enjoyable for the most part but at times dragged a bit. I thought the end was going a direction I didn‘t care for but that turned out not to be the case.

Read in March.

My haul from @strandbookstore on my first visit. Had to get a book on NYC (that is my rule when I go to bookstores while traveling) so I got “Brooklyn.” Was visiting with @Aimeesue and we both snagged the same #nyrb of “The Juniper Tree” by Barbara Comyns. Yes #ookbookclub that is a first American ed of “Night Watch.” Bought the tote too of course. Been lugging it around ever since. #booknerdfashion #bookhaul

Books read in March, plus I put a big dent in Lonesome Dove and The Terror.

The struggle is real! Which book do I read next? I believe I‘m leaning toward Brooklyn. #whycantijustreadalldayallnight

Mark your calendars NYC area Littens! I've gone the last few years and this FREE festival is always a good time! 💚 #BKBookFest #savethedate

My oil change place has a taco bar inside, carne asada fries for breakfast.

Time to unwind after a busy weekend with my three current reads. I love this blackberry cucumber sparkling water.

Some books written by Irish authors ☘️ off the shelves. A few read, others TBR.

#magicalmarch #ireland

Some books are a treat. This one is that kind of book: immensely beautiful and full of understanding of and compassion with its characters. The description of the MC first arrival in the US gives a great idea on how beeing an immigrant must feel. The insight in the fifties decades in NY from the female point of the MC is interesting. Overall: a joy to read. Not an heavy classic, but well worth the time.

I am finishing this today! I promise! I read the first part of this a month or so ago and just switched to other things but now I‘m racing through it today. Such a fantastic sense of time and place, which is something I‘ve noticed Toibin consistently does really well.

It wasn't at all what I expected! From the promo pictures of the movie I was expecting your normal romance of "girl is torn between two guys".
It was sooo good to read a story about a *woman immigrant* trying to find a better life in America. I loved Eilis character even if sometimes I was exasperated by her lack of decision. Everything *happened* to her because she was too shy or modest to say anything.
If you haven't read it yet, go for it!

I was expecting more from this ☹️ I couldn‘t really relate to the main character, she felt so distant and two-dimensional, she never really showed a lot of emotion so I couldn‘t empathise with her!
I would like to check out the film though to see how different it is!
#brooklyn #colmtoibin

I managed to read a lot today at the hairdresser while this was happening. I needed a change.
#soverylooselybookrelated

I've just started it cause it's the second book I have to read for my CPE, but I'm enjoying it. I haven't seen the movie either so I know zero about the story. Did you read it?
#currentlyreading

When your sweet husband brings you a second cup of coffee (to your 3rd floor attic bedroom) in the mug you gave him last Father‘s Day... and you remember why you still love him after 38 years ❤️❤️❤️

1. Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders 2. Colm Toibin (Brooklyn). 3. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. 4. Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus series by Faye Kellerman. 5. Lincoln in the Bardo. 6. News of the World by Paulette Jiles 7. Mr. Rochester by Sarah Shoemaker #GoodThings @BillBlume

This will have to the last of my Toibin binge as the lecture series begins tonight. I was hoping to have time to squeeze in a reread of Blackwater Lightship, but oh well. This is another quiet, slowly moving story but felt more taut and better paced than Nora Webster. Eilis Lacey goes back and forth from 1950‘s Ireland to Brooklyn, trying to forge a happy life, and a place of belonging, in a time when women didn‘t have much agency.

Tomorrow I head to Queens, Brooklyn and Manhattan for various work meetings. So, book called Brooklyn it is.

I wanted to love this, since I usually enjoy this type of book. But it was a flat liner read for me...

I began listening to this while scrubbing my floors. It‘s good so far, and I actually learned how to pronounce the author‘s name!!

I didn‘t love it. I‘m not even sure how much I liked it. It felt lacking and the end left me wanting a lot more. The writing was decent, but the story just didn‘t have enough substance for me. It felt contrived. I only stuck with it because I thought there would be more. ⭐️⭐️

Hopefully this will be a quick read. It is my letter B for #litsyatoz

True story- my husband and I rented our apartment sight unseen. The day we got the keys and walked in the door all my anxiety over renting a mystery apartment dissolved because it came with its own bookshelf!!! #Shelfie #riotgrams

Meh...it was ok. Not super interesting, just enough to keep me listening. The narrator was pretty good, so it had to be the story. Maybe just not my thing.

Greetings from the BK Book Festival! 📚