Welcome to Litsy!

I am so excited for #CampLitsy24 I had such a great time last year & really enjoyed the 6 books we read! 📚🏕️

Here are my 4 nominations for this year. I confess, they are all from my 2024 #BOTM & #AardvarkBookClub boxes & I need the push 😉 but I think they‘ll be good for discussion!

If you haven‘t done CampLitsy before, check out @BarbaraBB ‘s post for details. The books are great & the hosts are amazing! Barbara, @Megabooks & @squirrelbrain

This is a non-fiction story about a woman and her husband who spend their spare time rowing/kayaking in the high latitudes near the arctic circle. In their day jobs they are avalanche experts in Alaska. Some really interesting information about kayaking and avalanches. I can say without a doubt that while her experiences sound fascinating, I would not want to trade places and row for 10 hours straight in icy water.

This book is so interesting and the young man frustrating. The book details as much as possible the last days of Chris, a young man that goes out on his own to experience life. He makes his way to Alaska and wants to survive out in the wilderness. Trouble is he has few supplies and thinks he will be okay. The saddest part is when his parents go to the bus where he died and see how he lived for the last part of his life. Great true story.

This is one of those books that ruins the dreams and silly ideas you have in your head regarding if you had made different choices in life. Specifically, it shows the many ways in which being a park ranger is frustrating and at times even traumatic. The book started off as a series of stories conveying how hard the ranger life is. As it progressed, it focused more on the lives of two specific rangers with results both tragic and touching. 4/5

#ItTakesAllKinds #WithMap gotta love a book with a map! I don‘t think even in my hiking prime I could walk this backbone trail of California, as the map indicates Colin Fletcher walked north from Yuma to Oregon from March 8th to September 8th. book was published in 1964, not sure what year he walked it.

March 9 #ItTakesAllKinds Long Distance I had to go for a Canadian singer. @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Christine, thank you for the hot chocolate! I love raspberry 😋

Jill - I‘ll try to get the tagged to you by early next week.

#lmpbc

A very interesting Audiobook about the long hunters and the European deer skin trade out of what would become Kentucky and the Ohio Country during a 14 year period between 1761 and 1775. Long hunters including Daniel Boone. A trade that started from cattle disease in Europe and ended by the American Revolution which ended deer skin demand in England. This a story of the opening of the first far west.

Into the Wild is unlike anything I‘ve read before. It charts the true story of Chris McCandless, who in 1992 lived off grid in the Alaska wilderness but eventually died due to starvation. Krakauer become enchanted and obsessed by Chris‘ story and his mental journey and so in this book he tracks Chris‘ movements as he travels in his last years, (cont. I‘m comments 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻)

Started off reading this one quickly but lost momentum in the middle. Every book I read about thru hiking just makes me want to get my butt back out there. Memories of the John Muir Trail were swirling around in my brain. I liked his voice throughout this one but every so often found myself cringing at the absence of leave no trace methods of hiking. 🤷🏼‍♀️