Welcome to Litsy!

Starting a survival story of sailors held captive in North Africa.

I found another book shop today in Newcastle
The book Greengrocers.
They had a great clearance section outside so I got this chunkster for $4.
I was a bit disappointed in there true crime section but we can't have everything in life.

#Newcastle
#worldtravel
#Sahara
#readingontheroad
#nsw
#independentbookshops

My review of this book can be found on my YouTube Vlog at:

https://youtu.be/b5WE4dxH2_4

Enjoy!

#bookspin

Sometimes a graphic novel is really the best way to highlight a situation that is difficult to comprehend. This is the story of a West African man from #CoteDIvoire who is desperate to immigrate to Europe but he can‘t obtain a legal visa. So he does what so many Africans do, they attempt to enter the EU illegally. The simple prose and line drawings are harrowing and haunting. This book while short is very impactful. #Scribd #ReadingAfrica22

I LOVED this travelogue! Flavorful,comical,respectful!!!
Michael Palin, a British actor once part of Monty Python acting troupe began hosting a travel show for the BBC from 1989- 2012🌎 He vividly describes all the places he visited with rich details and a sense of pleasure #ReadingAfrica22
#Gibraltar #Morocco #WesternSahara #Mauritania
#Senegal #Mali #Niger #Algeria #Libya #Tunisia
Total pick 😀

Scrolling through my Audible catalog and found this one I purchased earlier this year🤦🏼‍♀️ more content for #ReadingAfrica22

Oh how I wanted to love this with so many things I love in a book… strong female characters, vibrant rich settings and an element of historical fiction that thought me something new. I loved the desert scenes and the richness with which they and the Nomadic Tuereg people but then there was also an epically annoying lead character in Izzy, some elements of unexplained mysticism and a ton of incredible leaps of chance. 📸 Moroccan sunset last night

This is a thriller trying to do too much with too little editing. It had a distracting lack of consistency (did Zara have a tinge or a heavy French accent? did the Vatican know about the eruption of a new island or did it not?). It often felt like the author juggled chapters & forgot to adjust the timing. Dialog early in the book was cringeworthy but improved. And it could be very confusing. Why a thumbs up? He‘s a good writer in need of a good ⬇️

#20in4 #readathon totals:

📚 Approx 13 hours read
📚 Dreams of Joy finished #authoramonth
📚 Nostradamus finished #readingAfrica2022
📚 Roots, page 530 of 888, chapter 82 of 120 #readingAfrica2022
📚 Afrikaans, 4 hours read, chapter 25 of 77 #readingAfrica2022
📚 Copperfield, no progress, holding at chapter 19 of 64 (still trying to free up space for it to load)

I‘m very pleased with the outcome. Thank you @Andrew65 once again for hosting!

Let‘s see how many new African countries the author can fit into this book because now we are in the #CentralAfricanRepublic #CAR (I just learned Bangui is its capitol). I do feel like this author has tried to cram every thriller trope into this novel (even the Vatican), and pretty much covered nearly as many Saharan and near Saharan countries (plus a few European countries to boot).

#readingAfrica2022 #Libya #Malta #Niger #DRC