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This was so different, weird, and wonderful! Very strange premise but it worked. (16)
⭐️: 4/5

This book is strange. I'm 100 pages in and I'm still uncertain as to what i think of it.

Thanks again @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks #acquiredViaLitsy2024

A strange, beautiful, sad story about a couple who faces a tragic diagnosis and where they go from there. Going fairly blind is the best here. Note there are live stories, but not a romance. Though at the beginning of this book I had doubts, I loved this! 5⭐️
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I really enjoyed this. It was refreshing to read something so original. Wren and Lewis have just gotten married when Lewis receives the diagnosis that within a year he will mutate into a great white shark. You would be forgiven for thinking that this is a horror story but It‘s actually a tender story of love and sacrifice. You could also presume to think that this is a silly story but it‘s actually very astute. ♥️ 🦈
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This was a weird weird read, but it was written well so persevered till the end.

Thank you thank you thank you @AlwaysBeenALoverOfBooks I am so excited to start this one soon (need to finish a couple of things first, but it is next on the list to begin).

I thought it was a sweet romance that Wren and Lewis shared and all the hardships they went through really got to me but in all the ending was satisfying and it made me cry (a little) 5/5⭐️

“As their saltwater tears combined with the sea, Lewis finally understood the log line of their love story: He was an aimless kite in search of a string to ground him to the world, but instead, he‘d found Wren, a great, strong wind who supported his exploration of the sky.”

This is a complete #blameitonlitsy grab from the library. And quite honestly I cannot put it down. Both equally heartbreaking and funny.

As an audiobook, I thought it was good. If I were reading it physically... I probably would have lost interest when the POV changed half way through.
I'm glad I stuck it out.
This was a very sweet but also very sad story about love, loss, and growth.
I liked that the ending wasn't how I thought it would be.
This is a soft pick for me.

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03.21.2024

When I first heard about this one I thought it would be ridiculous, but I was very wrong… I especially related to this story as my husband had a stoke 5 months after we got married last year… This book is about so much more… it explores the way relationships change when someone is diagnosed with a terminal/serious diagnosis. This is a story of love 🦈💔 and the journey of change…

Did Margaret C. Finnegan remind anyone else of Dory? 🐠

Finishing this one today and still processing… so many feels 🦈 💔 I heard this song this morning and it seemed to fit perfectly 🎶 😢

Can you think of a song to match your book? Play and tag friends! #BookNotes 🎵

https://youtu.be/osdoLjUNFnA?si=fh6iRGiq4kxtQsAT

Happy Monday! I hope you all have a great day!

Tux is jealous of books 🤣 as soon as I open one he‘s in my lap! 🤗🐾❤️

#Adayinthelifeoftux
#Catsoflitsy
#LitsyLove

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“Are we all just actors, performing some unbound art form for God, the audience of space? I wish I could have seen then what I know now. All along, I had the starring role.”

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This book 🥹💔

Enjoying a beautiful day on the porch reading and my granddaughter brings me this bouquet 💐 she‘s the sweetest 🩷

“I like to think we met in a daydream once, a long time ago, and decided to meet right here, right now.”

#LitsyLove
#LitsyLoveReads

I‘m already loving this one 🦈 💚

What should I read next?!?!

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#LitsyLoveReads

February #ISpyBingo didn't quite manage a bingo, but still had fun participating.

@clwojick @thearomaofbooks

A successful readathon. I finished all these and especially loved The Wager and Shark Heart. I also read my section of The Golden Notebook for #SundayBuddyRead. #20in4 #FabulousFebruary
@Andrew65

This was such a strange, different, good book. Who would have thought that a story about a man who changed into a shark would be this good? The story wrote of all different types of love. It also spoke of the ability to carry on and love again after a huge loss. I put off reading this book for a while. I figured I wouldn‘t like it. Boy, was I wrong!

I had the 4.5 star reads in February (What Feasts at Night, Paladin's Faith, and Shark Heart), but I think Shark Heart is the one that will stick with me for the longest. But it didn't quite manage to beat The Heiress.

#readingbracket2024 #bookbracket2024 @CSeydel

Oh what a month! My monthly pick + free #BOTY finalist + free birthday book!

I‘ve been really underwhelmed with the BOTM picks recently, so I was excited to see several interesting options for March! I ended up choosing A Fate Inked in Blood, but I almost picked Annie Bot. If I see good feedback on that one, I might add on later.

The BOTY winner and other finalists were really not my jam this year (plus I‘d already read 2 of them), but I feel like Shark Heart is one I might actually enjoy.

My goal is to finish these 3 books.

#20in4 #FabulousFebruary @Andrew65

Weird, beautiful, heart-wrenching, and poignant.

Thoughts on this year‘s BOTY finalists?

I had a lot of issues with the content and execution of Weyward, and I thought The Wishing Game was very mediocre with juvenile writing (despite a promising premise). Really surprised that they were voted that highly. Not interested in the romance or mystery/thriller options, so I guess I‘ll be choosing Shark Heart.

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4.5/5

This is a book about change and grief and love and family and motherhood. It was both sad and hopeful. While there are many characters, it centers around Wren whose life is transformed when her husband begins to turn into a great white shark. Habeck doesn't shy away from the horrors of a world where humans can transform into other creatures, but it's not about the horror, but about the lives people live through devastating change.

“LEWIS: In the early days after I left New York, I would ruminate, doubt all my choices.“ #FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl

LEWIS: In the early days after I left New York, I would ruminate, doubt all my choices. But when I met you, I began to thank my failure. Maybe failing was a kind of miracle. Maybe everything happened just right.

#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl

I am an outlier, I thought this was just okay. It started so promising, I for a minute thought this was going to be what I had wished The Lobster was, but I think those who think this is "weird" only read very real fiction. As a reader of "weird" books this didn't feel too out there. In fact I was a bit annoyed with the change of tone when we got to Angela's story - I got very annoyed quickly with the third person I couldn't read "Angela" 1 more x

I wasn‘t sure what to expect from this book when I picked it up, but it absolutely blew me away. I laughed, I cried, I cried harder. This will definitely end up on my faves list for the year. #huey #catsoflitsy #botm

New opportunities in my teaching career have been interfering with the blissful January of full immersion in @Deblovestoread 's #AuldLangSpine list that I‘d anticipated! 😝 However, I did already make time to read this and am so glad! Fantastic. I‘m not sure what I was expecting but this was far different and better than that. I especially loved the science-y bits about the mutations and some of the family stories. Thanks, Deb! 🦈❤️

I can officially declare Shark Heart the winner of my #readingbracket2023. This was hard because I always seem to save incredible books for the last couple of months of the year but The Caretaker really was my favorite in a month crowded with worthy contenders. Shark Heart is the book I have recommended to others the most and the one that most surprised me so it had to take my top spot.

I don‘t normally read romance, but this was very different! The author portrays the characters‘ emotions in a way that rings true even though the situation is bizarre. Great debut!

#Bookspin
@TheAromaofBooks

I loved this weird concept. Found it finally at the library bc how can a person turning into a shark be good in any way? Well, it‘s great in every aspect. Read it in two days,loved the writing style and the message. Look around you every day, love yourself and believe that what you have is enough. 🦈❤️

An amazing love story between Emily and Lewis as he transitions to a shark. I know it sounds hokey, but it‘s a really good story and you will love it. This one is special.

Totally forgot my #readingbracket2023 for November 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ This book stole my (non-shark) heart ❤️
@chasjjlee

Here's what the roll of the die gave me for December!

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@TheAromaofBooks

Absolutely loved this. Such an interesting premise that doesn‘t seem like it would work, but it just…..worked. I was hooked (booked? 😂) from start to finish 🦈 ♥️

I liked this! I read it based on so many positive Litsy reviews and I wasn‘t disappointed. I really liked the incorporation of the script format throughout the story. The metaphor of animal mutations works surprisingly well. I will say I liked the last part of the novel less than the first two parts.

I was really enjoying how clever it was and that the mutations seemed normal. But it felt rushed and alittle weird before the end.

I really liked how in this book, people can simply start turning into animals, quickly or slowly, and no one questions it. While I enjoyed listening to it and enjoyed all the characters, quite frankly I don‘t think it‘s going to stick. And I think a book with a premise this out there should stick firmly. So it gets a low pick for me.

I loved this book so much I could easily see it make it to the final matchup.
#readingbracket2023

Count me in as a Shark Heart fan! This is a fantastic example of magical realism that‘s highly original and yet deeply felt, rooted in reality, with meaningful symbolism of people turning into creatures rather than suffering human disease as we know them. A study in grief and love. At times quietly funny and often moving. One that will stay with me.

I absolutely adored this book. Yes, it is about a newly married couple who learns that the husband is mutating into a great white shark, and yes, in the book mutations are just a thing that can happen. But as I read I realized the mutations could easily represent the isolation and grief cause by any disease or illness. It was a beautifully strange book filled with love and grief and will undoubtedly be one of my top reads of the year. #booked2023

What a wild & beautiful book. The summary sounds strange but if you accept the premise & lean into the lyrical writing, it's lovely. It‘s less about a mutation that turns you into an animal, & more about how love & loss often shape who we become. Just when I wasn‘t sure where the story was going next it took a turn into a different character‘s life.

“So maybe love wasn‘t an unwieldy accessory in times of peril. Maybe it was the key to survival.”

Y‘ALL. Got my BOTM box yesterday, it was totally open and looked like it got tossed around in a blender. But LOOK at this poor book! Painful 😓 (And yes, I‘ve contacted BOTM about it).

The physical #TBR books I read in September! Not bad. My faves were Shark Heart and Demon Copperhead.