Welcome to Litsy!

I intended to listen to this novel while in Maine earlier this summer, but I didn't have time. I've been to Damariscotta, but this most recent trip, although we drove through, we stayed further up the coast. Based on the sense of the underlying community I got from overheard conversations and watching the town react to the discovery of a body in a ditch---an apparent hit-and-run victim---this novel seems to capture the vibe of the area well.

#weeklyforecast
I will be in Acadia as of Wed of this week & return on 8/6. So I do not have high expectations for my reading. 😁⛰️🚤🦞🎒👨‍🦯

She remembered being happy. Right? She hoped she had been happy. What she didn‘t know was if she had been happy since. But nobody‘s happy all the time. It‘s no way to go through life. If you‘re happy all the time, you don‘t appreciate anything. You have to have contrast, to have low moments to bring out the high moments in relief 🦞

This one started a bit uneven for me, and it took some time to get into. But the second half whipped by in a flurry of rapidly turned pages. Some POVs were more effective than others (EJ and Allie had the most intriguing sections, IMO). Overall, a worthy read, and one I'd never heard of before #auldlangspine

@Chelsea.Poole @monalyisha

⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 I found the timeline a bit disorienting; apparently I can be led through different years and decades without much difficulty, but narrow it to months or weeks or days inconsistently and I‘m like, wait, what? 🤔 Also, if not for the fact that I am geographically familiar, I think I might have been hella lost. YET: The book was good! Really! The acknowledgments tipped the scale to a pick. 11 years in the writing?! I bow to you, sir.

It‘s a wicked snowstorm here in Maine today! There will be hours of shoveling and swearing later, but until then we are going to attempt to achieve maximum snow day vibes. 🐾❄️📚

I often get frustrated with marketing that insists on comparing a new book to a past sensation (see: any of the million books that are the "new Bridget Jones" or "Harry Potter for grown ups"). But when a book is actually a retelling of a classic, it should probably be mentioned in the blurb! Marketing this as a crime saga does a disservice to the book. It's a Gatsby retelling. And once I realized that, it totally flipped the reading experience ?

Unfortunately I didn‘t like this book as much as I expected. It is a slow read, and it takes so long to get to the point. A point that was obvious from the beginning. So, more than fiction, the book was about exploring class in Maine. And this could have been much more interesting without the plot and half of the characters. So it felt like a mixed bag to me.

#WeeklyForecast 52/22

The last forecast of yet another year! I chose four book I am looking forward to but I am not sure how much reading time I‘ll have, staying with a group of 12 in a holiday home in the French Alps. I don‘t complain though, it‘s wonderful to have these people around!
In progress I am having Touch, which I am LOVING!

Happy holidays everyone ❤️❤️

Starting this one tonight.