Welcome to Litsy!

This was a good read, I will admit I wasn‘t expecting it be so sexy (it‘s not over the top or too much, I just didn‘t anticipate it) 😶‍🌫️ I‘m intrigued enough to definitely continue with “First Frost” 👍

Got my fall decorations up and now sinking into the sofa with a blanket and my newest book 🥰 Hello, fall! 🍂🍁🎃 My mouth is watering so much with this book 😂

Book: Garden Spells

Author: Robert Goddard, Elly Griffiths, Robert Galbraith, John Grisham, Dorothy Gilman — i couldn‘t narrow it down further…and I see that they all write in the mystery genre! 😀

Movie: Ghost, Goldfinger, Goonies

Singer/Band: Genesis

Song: Grand Illusion (Styx), Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Elton John), Give Peace a Chance (John Lennon)

#manicmonday

Welp. It happened and now I‘m refreshing my email every few hours to see if I have shipping notifications 😂 Her books just seem like great fall, cozy up with a blanket and a cup of coffee type of reads 🥮🍁🍂☕️ Thank you @wanderinglynn and @Karisa for the recommendation!

#BasicWitchSwap

🖤 Favorite Things 🖤

1. Deep blue, like the ocean
2. the ocean, citrus, sandalwood, lavender
3. So many, but I loved the tagged
4. right now, the Princess of Swords from the Celestial Tarot deck
5. my birthstone is garnet ❤️ & I also love moonstones
6. Russell Stover marshmallow in dark chocolate
7. Lavender is the one I use the most
8. Bonfires & ghost stories

#AlphabetGame #letterG

Magical realism is one of my favourite genres & this book is at the top of my list. It‘s sweet, it‘s magical, it‘s whimsical & it has a fabulous garden that makes magical food. What else can you ask for!

1. Magical qualities
2. Tagged, this author is a favorite. 27 days until her new book is out.🥳
@TheSpineView @Kshakal #Two4Tuesday

“She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.” 🍑 🍌 🍏 🍎

Gotta love a Mississippi girl 😙🤭

#IncludesRecipes
#BookMoods

One of my favorite writers! The Waverly family is full of Magic✨

#ByYourFavoriteAuthor #BookMoods @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#Family #BigJuneReadathon @Clwojick

#sliceofsummerswap Summer Aesthetic. I love being in and near the water but I also love the greenery of my garden. @Catsandbooks

#wondrouswednesday. Thanks @Eggs for the tag & allowing me to post late

1) I love to garden but it doesn‘t always work out every year. As a kid my parents indulged me & found me spots to try growing things. As a child, my best gardens were one year gorgeous tomato plants with a bumper crop of tomatoes, and another year a garden‘s worth of marigolds

2) veggies, but I want to expand to flowers 💐

3) tagged

What about you @freeatlast1137 ?

#wondrouswednesday

1. 😆 no. I kill the unkillable plants. Also, since college, I‘ve lived in apartments in large cities.

2. I do love to visit botanical gardens. 🌼

3. Tagged.

May #BookSpinBingo.

Really enjoying this novel— as the youngest in my family, I love hearing the thoughts of the older sister ❤️ I also love the garden magic! 🌷

1. Tulips and lilacs
2. Tagged and also the Peach Keeper
Thanks for the tag @TheSpineView #two4Tuesday
@peaknit @Kshakal @BethM

Enchantment in the Waverleys‘ garden✨🍎🌿

#Garden #SavvySettings @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Thanks for the tag @TheSpineView !

1. I love getting fresh flowers (and books of course!)

2. The tagged book was my Valentines read a few years ago- it was a swap gift- and it was soo perfect for the evening!

#TwoForTuesday 💝

“She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.”

Being a Mississippi girl I had to choose this quote!

#BeginsWith
#Garden

#BeginsWith #Garden This was such a great book!
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

If you have read this one you know all about the apple #tree!! ✨ 🍎 💫

#WishesandBlessings

Day three of Allen‘s short holiday story on Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/p/CXBfTsnrA9U/?utm_medium=copy_link

I sure would like to find this place

Part 2 in Allen‘s short story on Instagram

Over on Instagram Sarah Addison Allen is telling a holiday story one day at a time starting with today. How cool is that y‘all?

https://www.instagram.com/p/CW8VyCgt6nX/?utm_medium=copy_link

“She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.”

I had to use this quote being from Mississippi ❤️

#GratefulHarvest
#Enchanted ✨🌟💫

What a lovely, quiet, calming mug of warm tea sort of a book. I enjoyed every minute of it and understand why it is so beloved by so many. Happy I finally got around to reading this one! Mollie enjoyed cuddling up to finish it too! #BookspinBingo #Doublespin #MountTBR @TheAromaofBooks

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Misty, you are too sweet! You just made my week. Thank you so much!! I‘m so excited to read this 💚

I‘m not reading as much as I would like, but this book is so good!! Thank you @Elizabeth2 😘 I may have to buy all of her books!

“She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches” 🍑

Mississippi girl here 🙋🏻‍♀️ and front porch reading is the best! 🧡🍑🍂📚

1) visiting Texas and meeting Sher @Eggs
2) Garden Spells, still reading it!
3) Tris from Divergent 🙄 and I would like to add Bella from Twilight 🙄 oh and Anastasia from Fifty Shades!!
4) a special person in my life 💙

#WondrousWednesday

I tag everyone who hasn‘t played!!

#LittensDressedInBlood Today's prompt is I Put On A Spell On You

A perfect read for those that love magic, and a great pick if you want to participate in all the October Readathons but don't love horror. Sarah Addison Allen is one of my favorite writers, and her stories are just lovely.

#QuotsySep21 #oak

So descriptive 🍃💚

“The two giant oaks in the front yard looked like flustered ladies caught mid-curtsy, their starched green leaf-dresses swaying in the wind.”

The #BasicWitch swap is my favorite swap (other than my own #HauntedHollowSwap 😉)

I look forward to this swap all year and I may have already started shopping for it. 🤫😆

Come join the fun! 🖤🌛🌝🌜🖤

Check out Jenni or Katie‘s post for all the details!

If you enjoy Sarah Addison Allen‘s books check out her Facebook page. Most Sundays she posts a short story and invites readers to continue it.

Thank you so much Elizabeth!! You made my day! I can‘t wait to read all about the Waverley‘s and their special apple 🍎 tree!! You are the sweetest!! 💞😘

#LitsyLove

**STRONG PICK** review here: https://debbybrauer.org/#garden-spells-waverley-family-1

#QuotsyJul22

I love this book & it‘s always good for prompts about nature, like #grass 💚

“…Bay spent several hours every day lying on the grass by the apple tree. When Sydney asked her why, she said she was just trying to figure something out.”

1. Oh yeah, quite a few. The ones I reread the most would have to be my Wheel Of Time series, my Dame Agatha books & my Phryne Fisher series. Lots more though, I‘m a big rereader!🙌
2. Yes. I‘m a total cover snob. But I do give the ugly ones a chance if it sounds intriguing🧐
3. The tagged book is one of a few that‘s nature based. I really love earth magic stories🌿🌳🍂
#ThoughtfulThursday

Tagging @CarolynM @Eggs @Cinfhen

An enchanted tree, and the extraordinary people who tend it. . . .it bears prophetic fruit, and its edible flowers are imbued with special powers. Generations of Waverleys tended this garden. Their history was in the soil. But so were their futures. This author‘s books are #mesmerizing #maycharacters @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

1. I‘ve read Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen many times and also the Tales of the City series by Armistad Maupin again and again since college.
2. Cover art is a factor if I am browsing at a book store and something grabs me.
@MoonWitch94 #thoughtfulthursday

#WindsOfMarch The Waverley sisters know that #Planting the right things in their garden and in people's lives can help them.
@Eggs

Absolutely adored all the magical imagery, delicious flavors, relatable emotions & lingering smells that bubbled and erupted from Sarah Addison Allen‘s writing in Garden Spells. This was a perfectly enchanting mixture of adult fiction & magical realism with a dash of romance and I enjoyed every bit of it. The added theme of food/cooking might have won a few bonus points from me too🍎

I enjoyed this. It has strong Practical Magic vibes, and I really love this author‘s writing and her characters. Can‘t wait to read the sequel. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

On my #bookquilt because I love Sarah Addison Allen and magic!

Bk28 & final book for #Scarathlon2020 #Screamathon2020 #Pageathon #Thrilloween #Sbooktober #TrickOrTreadathon #GothicReadathon #BookishishBingo #Supernaturalathon #RockyHorrorathon #ReadLikeHellathon #Strangeathon #Booathon #Sherlockathon & #Slaughterthon is done! Ive had a blast & have read more than I‘ve done in ages. My next post will be a complete wrap up with stats etc. I‘ve finished up with a reread of a witchy fave. 1,956pts #TeamSlaughter

A wonderful story celebrating home, sisterhood and family, love, commitment, resilience, magic, gardening, and legacy. I am overjoyed by Allen's novels and the empowerment she brings to my afternoons. I cannot wait to read more of her work! Which would you recommend? Novels at my library: 'Lost Lake,' 'Thr Firefly Dance,' 'The Sugar Queen,' 'The Girl who Chased the Moon,' and 'First Frost.'

When your husband brings home something special from the library just for you 😍

@wanderinglynn -- !!!!!! Too excited

My #basicwitchswap style- I think my style is fairly consistent 😊 also some books I LOVE with witches. #basicwitchswap

I love a little magic mixed into a story, and this one was great! Claire and Syndey deal very differently with the magic that has always been part of their family, but learn to accept each other and embrace the magic.
#BookSpin @TheAromaofBooks

1. Last night, my 2 best friends from college came over, and we sat on my deck and ate and drank and laughed for hours. My soul got filled.
2. My husband and son, our abundance, the 3 beautiful books I have out.
@LitsyBuddyRead @Mermaid82 @romanticreads

#magicalMay May 9 & 10: magical & Mother‘s Day

Since I missed yesterday, it‘s a twofer. Sarah Addison Allen‘s books all have magical aspects and most of the books are at their heart about families, and particularly mothers.

A lovely spring read.