Home Feed
Home
Search
Search
Add Review, Blurb, Quote
Add
Activity
Activity
Profile
Profile

Welcome to Litsy!

Litsy is a place to share and discover your favorite books with your favorite people.

Litsy is available on the web, for iOS and Android.

It’s fun.  It’s simple.  It’s all about the book. Sign up and get a little Litsy.

To respect member's privacy and keep things awesome, most of Litsy is hidden from Google. We let humans see and share pages, but not machines. Find out more.
This page is: Hidden

Trending Hashtags

See More
#JuneSpecials
17 users recently
#haikuhive
14 users recently
#haikuaday
12 users recently
#camplitsy25
21 users recently
#PoetryMatters
5 users recently
#audiobook
12 users recently

Trending Books

See More
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
37 users recently
Audition
Audition
Katie Kitamura
27 users recently
Flying Lessons & Other Stories
Flying Lessons & Other Stories
Ellen Oh
15 users recently
Wild Dark Shore
Wild Dark Shore
Charlotte McConaghy
10 users recently
Nancy Drew 20: The Clue in the Jewel Box
Nancy Drew 20: The Clue in the Jewel Box
Carolyn Keene
6 users recently
About | Help / FAQs | Privacy | Terms | Press | Resources
Loop Tracks
Loop Tracks | Sue Orr
6 posts | 4 read
It’s 1978: the Auckland abortion clinic has been forced to close and sixteen-year-old Charlie has to fly to Sydney, but the plane is delayed on the tarmac. It’s 2019: Charlie’s tightly contained Wellington life with her grandson Tommy is interrupted by the unexpected intrusions of Tommy’s first girlfriend, Jenna, and the father he has never known, Jim. The year turns, and everything changes again. Loop Tracks is a major New Zealand novel, written in real time against the progress of the Covid-19 pandemic and the New Zealand General Election and euthanasia referendum in 2020.
Amazon Indiebound Barnes and Noble WorldCat Goodreads LibraryThing
blurb
shawnmooney
shawnmooney
Loop Tracks | Sue Orr
post image

https://youtu.be/MX2j6NSO100

Introduction
Mystery guest
Weekly review
Shawn has bookmarks for sale
Loop Tracks by Sue Orr
Where I Live Now: A Journey through Love and Loss to Healing and Hope by Sharon Butala
Dream State by Eric Puchner
During the Reign of the Queen of Persia by Joan Chase
The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 5 by Beth Brower

18 likes
review
Hooked_on_books
Hooked_on_books
Loop Tracks | Sue Orr
post image
Mehso-so

Abortion is illegal in New Zealand and clearly sex ed isn‘t the best, as 16 year old Charlie sits on a plane waiting to go to Australia for her abortion. But the plane is long delayed and her choices, which she doesn‘t truly understand, reverberate. Parts of this book were great, but it delved into COVID in a way that felt got it off track from the otherwise tight narrative. Ultimately, I found it uneven.

38 likes
blurb
Lindy
Lindy
Loop Tracks | Sue Orr
post image

Friday Reads September 29: Orange Shirt Day; Shorty September; picture books; NZ fiction
https://youtu.be/VP7P1VUU3VQ

24 likes1 stack add
blurb
shawnmooney
shawnmooney
Loop Tracks | Sue Orr
post image


https://youtu.be/UvXj47kX5WI?si=KOg2uTd8OtpcHI34

#shortyseptember
#strayaseptember

Intro

Weekly Highlights

Loop Tracks by Sue Orr

Some Tame Gazelle by Barbara Pym

Cecily by Annie Garthwaite

Dot & Ralfie by Amy Hoffman

The Rider by Tim Krabbé, Sam Garrett (Translator)

Pearl by Siân Hughes

shawnmooney The President and the Frog by Carolina De Robertis

Voting Day by Clare O'Dea

Santa Rosa by Wendy McGrath

A Bit Much by Sarah Jackson
 2y
Hooked_on_books I just heard you talk about the tagged book on the Books on the Go Podcast. I enjoyed the episode and you‘ve sold me on the book! 2y
shawnmooney @Hooked_on_books It‘s so good! 2y
23 likes3 comments
blurb
shawnmooney
shawnmooney
Loop Tracks | Sue Orr
post image

https://youtu.be/AjePaaBiUng

A playlist of all episodes in the Bite-sized Book Chat series: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU-61cZp1pQdBH5V0Zb9q-2ujl4PY8nhf

Chat #1: with Olivia from Auckland

Loop Tracks by Sue Orr

tagged users iconHooked_on_books
shawnmooney Chat #2: with Peter of P. English Literature - from Nigeria

They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan by Benson Deng, Alephonsion Deng, Benjamin Ajak, and Judy A. Bernstein

Disturbed in Their Nests: A Journey from Sudan's Dinkaland to San Diego's City Heights by Alephonsion Deng & Judy A. Bernstein

Chat #3: with Holly from Hawaii

Brick Lane by Monica Ali

Chat #4: with Freddie from Malaysia
 (edited) 2y
LeahBergen Yay, @Hooked_on_books ! 2y
38 likes2 comments
review
ClairesReads
ClairesReads
Loop Tracks | Sue Orr
post image
Pickpick

Well well well, New Zealand fiction, and pandemic literature truly is alive and well. Orr‘s novel is at its heart about choices and connection. Against two stark political backdrops (1978 abortion debate, and 2020 pandemic and general election referenda) Orr explores the impact that the loss of choice has on individual human experience. The concepts of autonomy and the greater good are weighty ones and Orr grapples with them authentically.

35 likes