Welcome to Litsy!

I stopped in at Toys R Us today and was delighted to find they‘ve expanded their books selection to include lots of material for older teenagers and adults! Some of the genre divisions don‘t make sense (for example, there‘s a weird amount of non-romance on the romance shelf), but whoever their purchaser is brought a lot of diverse books into the fold alongside the uber-popular stuff like Brandon Sanderson and Sarah J. Maas.

https://youtu.be/qxLEb2oiWm0?si=syifag5ww6h3rh9W

Actually my favourite chapter was the one with the two owls (Mowat used those owls in his fictional kids‘ story, “Owls in the Family”). The book was more like short stories, but that‘s ok. Mutt was a character. A lot of people seem to consider this a children‘s book, but I didn‘t think it read that way. A boy and his dog, sure. I suppose that would appeal, but it didn‘t seem particularly written for kids. I‘m rating it good.

5🌟/5🌟

https://youtu.be/IP8Tb6Qi9qs?si=1jrBeb8ypkoQKZ9-

Intro

A special guest

Weekly Highlights

The Most Secret Memory of Men by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, Lara Vergnaud (Translator)

Pearl by Siân Hughes

Tomorrow They Won't Dare to Murder Us by Joseph Andras

The Perfection of the Morning: A Woman's Awaking in Nature by Sharon Butala

Indians on Vacation: A Novel by Thomas King

After Julius by Elizabeth Jane Howard

Breakfast reading with Cooper. He‘s my little shadow, this guy. The other dogs sometimes wander off to do their own things, but Coopy‘s never very far away. I think he especially likes reading time because it‘s prime snuggle time.

#BookBinge
Day 7. Debut by Indigenous author
#DebutByIndigenousAuthor

#DebutByIndigenousAuthor

@AlwaysbeenaLoverofBooks
@Eggs

30 book recommendations in 30 days...

Day 30: Let's end the 30 days with a very intense yet very powerful and important novel. Again, it is fiction, but really allows people to get inside other lives and perspectives in a way I think we all should. It is *tough* stuff, so pretty much any content warning you can think of applies. #30recsin30days

I maybe made a mistake in listening to the audio. Maria herself read it, but she has a very monotone voice. I thought that I was still able to focus in the first half or so of the book, but I did miss things as the book continued, and I suspect I missed more earlier in the book than I originally thought