Welcome to Litsy!

The one good thing about being sick is more reading time. Not a great work, but it had its moments. Alice the pig might be my favorite character. But you knew from the beginning who would come to a bad end and who would end up happy, so don‘t read it if you need plots to have twists.

My favorite thing about used books: the notes you find inside. Apparently a neighbor (Alice) was “ too young and too active to be sick but we never know what is in store for us,” as her neighbor Ruth says, who apparently delivered some breads and sweet rolls to her at some point in 1994. (PS the novel was pretty good…imagine Chekhov‘s Cherry Orchard set in 1990s Piedmont North Carolina).