Welcome to Litsy!

“I would do it a thousand times over, heart; you should know that. I will choose you over the world every single time.”
#July2025

Okay. OKAY! Did I almost tear up 😢 at the end and then laugh at myself for it? Yep.

#TeamBrittle and even some #TeamMadKind❗️
I just like the term “madkind”, I think. #bookclub #scifi #existentialism

NOTE: the narrator is a woman, female, so to me Brittle is she/her. Does it matter?

“Destiny, Vera thinks, is something to be hunted down and grabbed tightly with both hands and shaken until it gives her exactly what she wants.”
#July2025

Book club was last night. I can‘t say I enjoyed the book. I thought the main character was annoying? Something just didn‘t gel in the story and from the discussion I think everyone had issues with too many possible plot points going unexplored. But because the author is local and it‘s a debut, I feel horrible giving it only two out of five stars.

#July2025 Book61 #BookClub #eBook

So I was loving this book in the first half but my cynical self kept casting doubts on a few silly plot points. Soft pick, and certainly a recommended book if you like family drama. Everyone was likeable and I cheered for a positive ending. Sad stuff, though. Marriage is hard. Humans are complicated. #July2025 Book60

“I‘ve been stabbed a thousand times…but none of that hurts more than hearing you say goodbye.”
#July2025

This book… is SOMETHING.

The image above is the really cool book circle sculpture at the Kansas City Public Library.

Please, if curious abt this book, check out @monalyisha ‘s post and comments. I am still wading through the words, like bopping through a slow river of molasses. Yet so intrigued! 💖

Loved this collection; includes a powerful series of poems in conversation with Gravity. Her poems of grief and fear of relating to and with her elderly parents were incredibly moving.

#DogsofLitsy #CopperBopper #Agingparents #poetrymatters #APoemADay #July2025 Book58