Welcome to Litsy!

Still getting used to audible. I find it a bit disconcerting when the reader uses different voices.

Onto the next audible.

So glad I didn‘t miss letter W. So many faves 😍

📖 Why Johnny Doesn‘t Flap: NT is Okay!, What If It‘s Us, What I Meant When I Said I‘m Fine
✍️ Dana K. White, April Halprin Wayland
🎞️ Waitress
📺 Wishbone, Wayward Pines
🎸 The Wombats, The Wrecks
🎶 What You Know (Two Door Cinema Club), What Were You Hoping to Find? (Vistas), Wired Differently (The Wombats)

#ManicMonday #LetterW

I love Jen Campbell's booktube and she has spoken really highly of husband and wife team Nicci French. Jen recommended reading 'The Red Room' as it would be a great litmus test to see if you would like them. Well I did, and I have just finished Blue Monday which is the first in their Freida Klein series. There's great writing, plot, and characterisation. French satisfies with twists but also gives the reader enough to solve parts of the crime.

I loved this first book in the Frieda Klein series and the first book I‘ve read by Nicci French.

A 5 yr old boy goes missing and the police does everything they can to find. Dr. Klein treats a patient that has dreams about a young boy. 20 yrs ago a young girl disappeared and was never found.

I loved the tension and the solution to this story and has already ordered the next book from the library

This is my #BookSpin for October

#WeeklyForecast

Finish Four Hundred Souls #400Souls and Emily #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead and continue Hood Feminism #SheSaid

I also want to read the tagged book together with Whose Body? and Patina.

A 5 y/o girl disappeared 22 years ago and case never closed. Now a boy disappeared and Dr. Frieda Klein will be involved in the investigation of these two separate cases. Are they connected? Why a psychiatrist is involved in these investigations? I like Frieda as a character, so peculiar, different. But many of her clinician actions/decisions could be questionable, many ethics concerns here. I was told the series is getting better. 3.75/8⭐️

#bookspin #doublespin #TheAromaofBooks

A missing girl in the middle of a busy street. Twenty years later a boy also disappears. In the first entry in Nicci French's Frieda Klein series there are initially a lot of moving parts as we are introduced to the characters. Things soon settle, subsequently we are treated to a masterful & unnerving story. As a character, Frieda Klein is fantastic & I loved this one. Cleverly told & compulsively readable with sinister undertones.

Really enjoyed this psychological thriller. I loved the unusual story and the different twists. Also really liked Frieda and I‘m looking forward to reading the series. Unfortunately the library only has a few of the titles so I‘ll have to buy a few, hoping kindle daily deal comes through for me sometime soon 😅

It‘s Blue Monday at the park. I‘m listening to blues but I also have my book out. #multitasking

Day 7 #Top20series #20series20days Love this series! Love Frieda Klein! Dean Reeve has to be one of the worst arch enemies anyone can have! Great strong female lead, and quirky characters. The first book was not the best read, but after that the series got really great!

I liked Frieda and walking through London with her, but the story was only ok ...

Started this series today, so far...so good.

#24B4Monday I only got in about 3 hours yesterday.There is a lot of Litsy love for this series @Andrew65 one of our hosts, had posted about the series, showing one of the maps. Glad I tried it!A psychological thriller with many twists and turns, & well developed characters. Frieda Klein , psychotherapist, gets involved in a missing children‘s case because of disturbing dreams of one of her patients.2nd book finished , more time to read tonight.

#TeamSlaughter #PsychologicalThriller @Clwojick Finished my first Nicci French book written by a husband and wife duo. Psychoanalyst Frieda Klein is bothered by the dreams of a patient that she thinks reveal something about a child abduction. This book sets up a series of complex characters and give just a glimpse of a backstory. I will be reading on into this series-excellent on audio.

Vivid characters. Tight storyline. Can‘t wait to read more in this series.

I love starting a new series.

#GetOutTheMap
I love books that start with a map, brings the book to life - especially if it is a fantasy world. I like how the Freida Klein books by Nicci French each figure a map from London‘s underground rivers. River Effra was my favourite one as covered the area I was brought up in London as a child.
A great series!
#LilithJuly

Thanks for the #PreMondayVibes @pepsicola 😁

1️⃣ Saturday 🥳

2️⃣ Jimi Hendrix 🎸🎶

3️⃣ Work, work, work! 😩

4️⃣ “Lost Stars” by Claudia Gray. This Star Wars nerd loved it! 🤓

I truly hope the story in this book is as magnificent as the cover!

The #LondonCalling tag made me think of the brilliant Frieda Klein Series which is set in London, and each one is centred on one of London‘s hidden rivers. In fact each one has a map of the London river at the beginning of each book.
#MarchIntoThe70s

Started this last night and before I went to sleep I was 75% through. French is a new-to-me author, more like authors since it‘s a husband and wife team writing under a pseudonym - something I only realized when I started reading the book!

It's October third and I am still able to do some front porch reading! How?! I did need a sweater today though. Also my tomatoes won't quit! 🍅🍅🍅 Let it be clear: I am not complaining. #neverendingsummer

I decided to read only books I own in September. I got through four. This will be number five but I'm not going to finish it today. I still have quite a TBR pile to get through so I'm going to continue reading only books I own in October if anyone wants to join. 🤗📚 #readwhatyouown

I collect hats, one of my four Funko Pops, a book I‘ve been meaning to get to and local creamery ice cream. #ManicMonday #Blue

#heyjune #eightdaysaweek
The eighth one is out next month (Day of the Dead)- a great series 👍🏻

Freida Klein Series by #NicciFrench is my #ThrillerThursday choice. I have read this whole series except for the last book #TheDayoftheDead which comes out in July. Freida Klein is a London-based psychotherapist in her mid-30‘s. Excellent series you don‘t want to miss! #may @Jess7 #readingresolutions

1. hard rock but old hard rock. Like Zep
2. Up till about 10 I was all about Nancy Drew and history and Scholastic books. Then I was introduced to Stephen King
3. Books. Or something amazing I've wanted for a long time
4. Books
5. Finally getting some spring temps. About 60 and sunny (both actual Monday since I'm late) and today
#magicalmonday @Seekingtardis

So I finished the book and it was very exciting. The beginning is a little bit long and some encouters of new characters are very confusing, but at the end it is a page turner. A book for my #tbrbingo #thriller

I enjoy the sun and a good book. #spring #PocketBook

Next one will be a thriller. I hope it is a good one. #thriller

Sick on this Monday — hence the tagged book, which was a decent audio.

1/ Apple phone
2/ Kindle Paperwhite (primary), Kindle, Nook Glowlight, Kindle Fire
3/ Facebook (less and less as I‘m tired of all the political fighting), Endomondo, and MyFitnessPal
4/ Of the above, I have a desktop, an iPad, and a tablet.
#MANICMONDAY @JoScho

My morning routine... straightening my hair and reading before work! Loving this book and i just started. And it's part of a series! Love a good series even though I'm in the middle of about 8 of them! happy Friday! 😀

1. whatever I'm in the mood for
2. babysitting
3. senior production editor at Penguin Books
4. if not my current job (which is pretty close) it would be either physical anthropologist specializing in bog bodies or some sort of job dealing with wolves or otters
5. tea
#manicmonday @JoScho

1. Fun, like Dr. Seuss, or light poetry
2. Consulting with an IT services company
3. Consulting with another service provider corporation
4. So many! Open a bookshop and cafe at a hill station; or become a coffee connoisseur (work with coffee plantation farmers, source it and open a coffee chain); own an ice-cream shop 😀
5. Coffee with a li'l dark chocolate! ☕
Thanks for this cheery get-to-know-each-other, @JoScho!
#manicmonday, seriously!

1. Smutty romance or middle grade fantasy. Complete opposites, but they serve a similar purpose.
2. Counter girl at a bakery
3. Administrative assistant
4. Art therapist or technical writer
5. Coffee in the morning, tea in the afternoon

#manicmonday Thanks for the questions, @JoScho!

1. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly- a wonderful book, an even better film.
2. Heathers. Did you have a brain tumor for breakfast?
3. "So bad it's good" films like Samurai Cop and Beastmaster.
4. Popcorn. Most movie theatre candy has ?.

Fun questions. Thanks, @JoScho!
#ManicMonday

Book #9 for the year (I need to catch up on sharing with the other books I‘ve read this year) and the first book that I read entirely in one day. It was the perfect read to keep me immersed and distracted while my husband had shoulder surgery. I need the next book ASAP!

Loved this one, a good mystery! Will definitely be reading the next one!

Wow, I flew through this one, unable to put it down. I did manage to see most of the twists and turns before they came but I was still totally absorbed. I‘ll definitely pick up the next books in the series.

First in the series, had me at “psychological thriller”. Let‘s see how this goes!

3.5*: I enjoyed the 1st book in this mystery series where the intriguing heroine is a psychotherapist in London. It was a page-turner, and I do plan to continue the series. But I‘m a stickler, so points off since I guessed twists too far in advance of the characters (you know when you yell at them for not spotting the obvious?) and had to suspend disbelief since no real therapist would behave this way and cross these boundaries. Good, not great.

I so wish I could do this. I have the Monday blues and am not looking forward to work. Off to get some coffee ☕️ 😴 Hope everyone has a great week.

Ive a few reviews to catch up with so ill begin with a thriller i really enjoyed as it introduced me to freda klein psychotherapist. I will definitely following her next outings and whilst there were a few devices i wasn't entirely convinced about the writing had me on the edge of my seat which is ultimately what matters - we've just had a hot drive across the m62 and tomorrow is appropriately a bank holiday Monday hence the beer 🍻 +colour match

#anditsaugust #twoworldtitles
I was so absorbed in the tagged thriller last night that i didn't put anything in for this thread so i hastily grabbed a few from my tbr piles before leaving for work

I've not tried any books by this husband /wife combination although have often fancied reading one of their novels so was chuffed to pick book 1 in this series for 99p in a charity shop and so far im really enjoying it.

Book 2 of 6 from Book Depository! #bookmail I'm beginning to think our postman thinks we buy online too much! I still have 4 more books plus my #botm coming!

Current read. I loved Nicci French a few years back. About halfway through this & loving it. I've got a shelving unit full of books I've not read yet! Will slowly get through them! 😊