Litsy

#Queer #LGBTQ #trans history, #Indigenous lit, #CanLit & #comics in this 07/11/25 Friday Reads #booktube episode

https://youtu.be/dPPH51rSw-g

Eggbeater Your Magpie Reads is wonderful. I'm going to check out the Game of Giants and the Trans History. Thanks! 22h

Lindy @Eggbeater I am glad to hear you like my channel and I hope you enjoy the books! ☺️ 20h

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Fr3NcHtOaSt

The Saturday Night Ghost Club: A Novel | Craig Davidson

Just picked this up today at my local Barnes and Noble. It‘s a coming of age story more about your own ghosts than literal ghosts. I‘m a sucker for these type of books. It‘s a similar vein to McCammon‘s Boys Life.

#TheSaturdayNightGhostClub #TSNGC #craigDavidson #book #novel #comingofagestory

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Schwifty

Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture | Douglas Coupland

so-so

This novel is okay; I‘m not sure how else to pinpoint my feelings about it. As a late Gen Xer myself, I couldn‘t resist reading the novel that lent the name. The main characters seem to convey big ideas in parables to each other, the aim of which is to commiserate on the feeling of living in a future of diminished career prospects, boomer criticism, apocalyptic war and ecocide, rampant ads and commercialism. Can confirm; I relate well.

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BarbaraJean

Emily of New Moon | Lucy Maud Montgomery

“The happiest countries, like the happiest women, have no history,” said Dean.

“…like all female creatures, you form your opinions by your feelings.”

Every time I read this, I discover more reasons to hate Dean Priest. #LMMReread #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead

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Trashcanman I‘ve never met a wise man, if so it‘s a woman. 3d

TheAromaofBooks On top of being a total creep, he's sooooo condescending 2d

kwmg40 He definitely comes across as a creep! 2d

rubyslippersreads 😡🤢 2d

lauraisntwilder The. Worst. 2d

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ShyBookOwl

Fight Night | Miriam Toews

🤣🤣🤣
Had to share.
Tagged the last book that made me feel this way.

ChaoticMissAdventures If it doesn't make you devastated is there even a point?? 😂 5d

Ruthiella 😂😂😂 5d

KadaGul 💯 Relatable. 🩵🤣🤍 5d

Blueberry Love it 😄 5d

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Lindy

The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman | Niko Stratis

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The author reads her own memoir-in-essays in this #audiobook about growing up in a hyper-masculine environment, working in her dad‘s glass repair shop in Whitehorse Yukon. Music helped her survive and to eventually come out as a #trans woman. A tender tribute to her father and to the ways music can save us. #LGBTQ #CanLit

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BarbaraJean

Emily of New Moon | Lucy Maud Montgomery

Goodness, I love Father Cassidy so much. I wish we had more of him than we get!!

How is your reading coming along this week, Kindred Spirits? What are your favorite parts in this week‘s chapters? #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead #LMMReread

rubyslippersreads, JenlovesJT47, lauraisntwilder, kwmg40, TheAromaofBooks, willaful

JenlovesJT47 Thank you for reminding me!! I absolutely love this trilogy but have only read it once. Will try my hardest to get to it this week but I‘m so behind on everything. 😭 7d

JenlovesJT47 And I love Emily, she‘s so feisty. 7d

kwmg40 I love the interaction with Father Cassidy too! 7d

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BarbaraJean @JenlovesJT47 I get it! No pressure, I know how busy things can get and how the self-assigned reading piles up 😆 7d

BarbaraJean @kwmg40 He's such a delight! And I wish he could be more part of Emily's life. She needs more adults like this! 7d

TheAromaofBooks Father Cassidy - finally a good adult!!

One thing that struck me this week was how much of this book is actually from Emily's first-person POV. Compared to the Anne books, where we don't get anything from Anne's direct POV (except in Windy Poplars, which hadn't been published at this point). However, this mixture of journals and narration does remind me of the format of Rilla. I really appreciate how, despite writing a story about another ⬇ 6d

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) orphan girl, LMM has created a character completely different from Anne. Imaginative and creative, yes, but Emily is really just so so different from Anne in so many ways, beyond just her circumstances. Even at this young age (younger than we meet Anne) she's ambitious and goal-oriented vs Anne who did love learning and studying, but also at some level seemed to do it for the joy of learning more than because she had a specific career ⬇ 6d

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) in mind. While Emily does sometimes get in a bit of a temper, she also tends to keep things in more until she can “write it out“ vs Anne's temper flashes and chatterbox tendencies. All that to say, even though I don't really objectively like this book - it's just too sad for me to really like it - I do appreciate LMM's incredible skill in character creation. 6d

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Lindy

Book of Records | Madeleine Thien

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I haven‘t been posting links to my booktube videos lately, mostly because the Litsy app no longer works properly on my iPad, making its use inconvenient. Anyway, Madeleine Thien‘s remarkable book is in the latest episode. (Please let me know if you want me to continue posting links.)
Hope & empathy are the hallmarks in this 07/04/25 episode — #LGBTQ #kidlit #CanLit #WomenInTranslation #audiobooks

https://youtu.be/tdG6Vf4k_NE

LeahBergen Keep posting links! Have you tried to reload the app? 1w

AnneCecilie Can‘t wait to watch this video and your views on Thien‘s latest (edited) 1w

Butterfinger Yes, I was thinking of you the other day. Children at camp were being taught about folk art. I was giving examples of weaving and dying the wool. 7d

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Lindy @LeahBergen Thanks for your encouragement. 😊 Yes, I have tried deleting and redownloading the app. No luck. It‘s partly functional but I can‘t include images in Litsy on my iPad. 7d

Lindy @AnneCecilie Thanks! I even have a Norwegian author included in this episode. 🇳🇴 7d

Lindy @Butterfinger Hi Tammy! It‘s nice to hear that you think of me. ☺️ 7d

marleed Oh yes, I enjoy your posts! 7d

Lindy @marleed Thank you Marlee! ☺️ 7d

Butterfinger The concept of claiming empathy hurts civilization. That is the scariest thing I have heard. 7d

Lindy @Butterfinger I know! 👿 7d

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BarbaraJean

Emily of New Moon | Lucy Maud Montgomery

I don‘t generally advocate drinking your feelings, but tonight this lady needs a drinky drink and a comfort read.

ncsufoxes I have been having a few Surfside Vodkas & we watched an Adam Sandler movie tonight to laugh. 1w

BarbaraJean @ncsufoxes sounds like a good way to self-soothe—you have to take what comfort you can get! 1w

dabbe 🎯🩵🎯 1w

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perfectsinner

Fall On Your Knees | Ann-Marie MacDonald

bailed

DNF @ ~300 pages. Snooze fest. I looked the book up on Wikipedia and that helped cement my decision to abandon it.

Now I need to (hopefully) pick out a different (better 🤞) book

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