Welcome to Litsy!

That kind, honest Odran Yates, becoming a priest to be good and to do good. Years later his world is shattered by the massive revelations of the abuse of young boys by men serving god and the catholic church. He has to find his way in this new reality and my heart aches for him, his loneliness and his pure heart. John Boyne wrote another masterpiece.

#Roll100 #ATY24 - Historical fiction

#WeeklyForecast 11/24

I am reading the tagged one and it is good. I just finished John Marrs‘s debut, a decent thriller. Now I am about to start Orbital, a 💯 #BlameItOnLitsy read!

Not my normal type of book but I read this for #Guatemala for #ReadingTheAmericas2023 @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

Despite this I did enjoy this book that told the story of Father Stanley Rother who was murdered in Guatemala in 1981, having been in Guatemala since 1968. In 2017 he was made into a Saint. A remarkable man, who was warned, and given option to leave, on the day he was murdered but refused to.

This committed the mortal sin of not being half as clever as it thought it was 😬 if you‘re gonna open with a prologue about how no one else does vampires in an interesting way, I really expect you to come up with something better than completely unexamined themes, a Mary Sue priest MC, a lot of gratuitous sexual assault but no actual scares or scary atmosphere, and completely unprompted Islamophobia and antisemitism

A priest, a rabbi, a nun, and an atheist lesbian walk into a.... fantastic book. I thought it was the inspiration for the Netflix series of the same name, but it's not. An excellent old school vampire story. Reminiscent of OG Stephen King. The first half was perfection, the second half was good.

Book club is Friday so I should probably not only start this one but actually read the whole thing. LOL!

3 ⭐
I enjoyed the story but all the different characters in two time periods was confusing.

#WeekendReads
@rachelsbrittain

The grass was white with frost on the shadowed sides of the reservation hills and ditches, but the morning air was almost warm, sweetened by a southern wind.

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@ShyBookOwl

I also managed to get a bingo in my #ispybingo or #eyespybingo I‘m never sure of the hashtags 🤦🏻‍♀️ but this one has an occupation, beard and greenery! (It says “a novella” but I‘m not sure I can count that as “a novel” or not 🤔 this was a good read and really my showed some things in my own life that I need to work on. #bookspinbingo #doublespinbingo