Welcome to Litsy!

Really liking this new Moriarty book after not liking Nine Perfect Strangers. I‘m only 50 pages in, but so far, so good. It was nice to have a little quiet reading together before the week starts.

Definitely a tad too long, but overall I really enjoyed this one! Joy & Stan used to run a successful tennis coaching camp, while also parenting their own 4 potential tennis prodigies. But now in 2020, the business has been sold and their children long grown have no love for tennis or each other. When Joy goes missing old resentments and secrets surface. I thought the audio narration was fabulous and I really liked the family dynamics.

My chill moment double dips today, for my Dr. Zhivago #buddyread and #WinterGames2021 - I‘m chilling with my book before we tackle some holiday shopping. #festivephotochallenge and #DecemberChill #TeamGameSleighers @Cinfhen @BarbaraBB @StayCurious @Clwojick

Move on. Once you‘ve hit a ball there‘s no point watching to see where it‘s going. You can‘t change its flight path now. You have to think about your next move. Not what you should have done.

I‘m enjoying this audio, since dysfunctional families are a satisfying jam…BUT this story needed better editing, it‘s LOOOOOONG!!! I feel like the old Liane Moriarty is back, her prose is cracking and the story/ suspense is 🔥🔥🔥 Audio narration is 🙌🏻♥️🎧#AudioCooking

Up next 🎧 My library hold came in ♥️🙌🏻

From today's walk...a nearly leafless tree laden with bright shiny apples.
Seemed to fit with my current read. 😏

Joy, the matriarch of an Australian family who were brought up in the world of tennis, disappears one day and all sorts of family secrets come out into the open.

I listened to this on audio (it‘s quite a chunkster!) and thoroughly enjoyed it. It‘s reminiscent of Malibu Rising (lots of detail about minor characters as well as major ones, jumping to and fro in time) so if you liked that, you‘ll like this one too.

I am excited because I have joined a book club in my new town. 👏🥰
(I'm just not super excited that our first book is a Liane Moriarty. 🤫🙊)

I've always admired Moriarty's writing. Her newest book is perfect! The characters are dynamic, relationships - complicated, a lifetime of various experiences well written. It is an excellently tangled family saga!

This story was nuts! The characters were all so quirky - made even more so by the narrator - and I really enjoyed trying to figure out what the hell was actually going on. I can‘t say that any of the characters were particularly sympathetic but I honestly didn‘t mind. Just a strange, twisty, and at times pretty sad story. 🌟🌟🌟🌟

I received this book from a work friend. Previously I read Big Little Lies and The Husband‘s Secret from this author so I am looking forward to reading this.

Pick. So-so? This was much too long!! Should have come in under 300 pages in my opinion. I love a good chunky book. Have bought a massive ton of them this year (and last) but too many have not needed a huge page-count at all. This was one of those for sure.

Enjoyable for everyone, especially women of marrying age and their moms.

Getting started on this one! This is for #bookclub.

11-10-21: My 112th finished book of 2021! The Delaneys are a tennis family. Joy and Stan, the parents, were tennis players & then coaches & raised their 4 children to play. When Joy goes missing, the Delaney siblings must rally around their father who may or may not have had something to do with it, but could it have been that strange girl Savannah who infiltrated their life the year before? A family saga told from everyone‘s point of view.

First of all, yes this book is too long. But after I got over that I did enjoy it. I was uncertain about how it would be resolved, which kept me turning the pages. It probably also helped that I like tennis so those details were good to me. The resolution of the mystery required some suspension of disbelief but I did like how she tied it all together and the ending was satisfyingly creepy.

My current read: Apples May Fall😄📖 #taylorswiftreadathon

A nice little distraction, which I needed at the moment.

I love Moriarty‘s books. Even when the plot is a bit meh (the case here), the writing and characters are so warm and real, it‘s easy to get lost in her little melodramas.

I have really missed doing photo challenges, so I figured I would try one this month! Playing catch up already though.. 😝

#apples #gratefulharvest @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

It‘s taken weeks to move up on the library hold list from 191 to 100. It‘s gonna be awhile. #Apples #GratefulHarvest

#GratefulHarvest #Apples
I have enjoyed most of Liane Moriarty‘s books, and I look forward to reading her latest, highly anticipated novel, which the TV rights has already been sold.

On vacation in CA I decided to poke in to the Costa Mesa Public Library, as a reader does. They had a gorgeous wall of used books for cheap - score!

Apples Never Fall is exactly what you‘d expect of a Moriarty novel: perfectly paced and totally readable, with town gossip and parallel timelines that keep you guessing. There‘s a cast of characters bound together, but each harbouring their own secrets. This is exactly what I'd hoped for when I picked it up: https://keepingupwiththepenguins.com/new-releases/

Well that was a great read … such an enjoyable page turner. I might start another one by this author tonight. It‘s nice & easy reading when one is too tired at night to concentrate on heavier material .. and it‘s good 🍎 🍎🍎🍎

Moriarty is back in top form. A wrecked bicycle, a missing mother from a family whose whole lives revolved around tennis. Four children who all have hang ups. A stoic father who should have been the trainer of the world's best tennis player. A strange girl shows up at the mother and father's house one evening and everything changes
Read the book to know how everything fits.

⭐️⭐️ I love Liane Moriarty books usually so I was surprised with this one. Just too ridiculous for me 🤷🏼‍♀️

Great book. I‘ve been involved in sports a long time and so I particularly liked the focus on tennis/coaching/parents of athletes. I liked how the author occasionally moves the story along through the viewpoints of minor characters. She did a great job of showing how various family members have different recollections of past events. I also appreciated the main characters doing some self-reflection as it improved their relatability.

I‘m a long time fan of Moriarty books, but this might well be my favorite. Keeps you guessing until the final word

“People are awful. People are wonderful.”

Finished this today right before #bookclub . What a read, and my first Moriarty. I loved the character development and I‘m told that‘s one of her trademarks. I‘ll have to check out the rest of her backlist.
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Not too far into this, but it is shaping up to be a good one!

I‘d put this between a “Pick” & “So-So”.It was my first book by the author and based on this, I think I‘ll borrow her other books before committing to buying them. Not sure why this needed to be 450 pages long (the middle dragged on), and for some reason the “twist” annoyed me. Maybe because I felt like after such a commitment I wanted more? Pretty much all the characters besides Joy annoyed me too. Definitely a ‘borrow not buy‘. 3.5 stars⭐️⭐️⭐️💫

Pumpkin beer in hand? Check. Book? Check. ASMR room? Check. Helpy-Helperton? Check. #currentlyreading #greatdane #humphrey

I love the way this author weaves a story and had an apple bucketful a good time reading this book. Joy, the 69 yo mother was a fascinating MC. Her grown-ass children were fun and complicated and demonstrated how four kids can be raised close in age within the same environment yet grow to be unique in personality. And Savanna - I don‘t have enough characters to go there!

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4 star for me i enjoyed this book!!!! I liked the read and enjoyed the fact that it was not predictable.. This wasy first read by this author and plan on reading more !!!!

OMG, it LIGHTS UP!!! A jack-o-apple lol thank you @StaceGhost

OMG thank you sooooooo much @StaceGhost for the wonderful #LLFS box of goodies!! Can't wait to dive in (and so sorry for the late post!)

What an annoying family! I was to bail. 🙄

The trick to this book is just to forget that it‘s by Moriarty. I loved her early books, wasn‘t a huge fan of the last two, and enjoyed this one. That being said, this one feels nothing like her early books. It‘s a slow meditative look at motherhood and family ties. It‘s about how our childhoods shapes us and the delicate line between our memories and adulthood. Recommended with that caveat. Expect a quiet, leisurely read.

Started this yesterday for #bookclub on Saturday. I don‘t think I‘ll have a problem getting it read by then. I‘m breezing through it! My first Moriarty! #currentlyreading

Overall this story kept me on edge. I enjoyed the character development and pacing. The ending was not tidy but I actually prefer that when appropriate and it was appropriate here. Enjoyable, quick read or should I say listen. Loved the narrator‘s Australian accent which added to the pleasure of listening.

A septuagenarian goes missing in Sydney, Australia and her adult children are worried. I loved the broad cast of characters, which, beyond the complex family dynamics, includes police detectives, neighbours, exes, a hairdresser & a mysterious house guest. Moriarity is a reliable storyteller; I know I can relax and go wherever her story takes me. #Audiobook read by the equally reliable Caroline Lee.

First, she tried Amy‘s breathing exercises but they always reminded her of being in labour. And as her labours had all been aggressive and fast, those four children of hers barrelling their way into the world, that wasn‘t exactly relaxing.

Not my favorite of Moriarty‘s, but I definitely enjoyed it! There was definitely a lot of tennis references so if you‘re into tennis that should add extra appeal. There is some suspense as you try to figure out what happened to Joy. The ending was satisfying. If you‘ve read Moriarty‘s other books then you should enjoy this one. It‘s not as absorbing as Big Little Lies or The Husband‘s Secret, but is definitely readable.

This was a well done mystery. It wasn‘t a thriller but a good mystery that you would be hard pressed to figure out early. It was also a well done family drama or examination on family. What is loyalty and what is an accessory? It also shows that love is messy. Excellent read and recommended.

Moriarty has a way with words, no doubt, but this dragged on and on and on while very little actually happened. I can't for the life of me figure out why it needed to be 450 pages long (spoiler alert: it didn't) 🍎