Welcome to Litsy!

I‘ve been away from wi-fi since Halloween 👻 but I also had the chance to get home in time to go to the Portland book festival great time there and I purchased some books

Young Ryn is a gravedigger in a small town where risen corpses roam the forrest due to a decades-old curse. When a new mapmaker arrives in the town, the corpses start attacking the town, and Ryn and the new mapmaker have to uncover the secrets of the curse.

Just starting this one for the #scarathalon, and it's a perfect pic for #AutumnPlease prompt #bones

Me and the book I optimistically bought with me to the laundromat

Does this book have an intriguing synopsis? Yes.

Did I initially get it purely because of the cover? Also yes.

Now the trick is to get around to reading it…

#scarathlonphotochallenge #magicalmonsters #bones

short and sweet story with fairytale vibes. A bit in the young side of YA but still with lots to ponder and consider abt life and death ☠️💗 and the best part: there‘s a goat!!!

First readathon in a long time! I‘m ready! #deweyoct

There‘s a bone goat! ❤️
Our heroine is strong and capable. Our hero lives with chronic pain, but doesn‘t let it hold him back. Plus, did I mention the bone goat? Loved it!

There are zombies and dancing and lost family and mild horror, plus hope and determination, and a slow burn romance that doesn‘t interfere with the quest or overshadow the story. Slow, sweet, fun read. Also, there‘s a bone goat! 🥰

#YA #Fantasy #Zombies #Horror #audiolisten

This is an entertaining blend of creepiness and humor. I love the goat!!

⭐⭐⭐💫

I would rate this as one of my top three favorites this year.

Nothing about the Litsy blurb speaks to me 😂 but I was excited about this one (so I must have seen it on IG?)

This is the last of my bookmail, from the other day (more is definitely coming 😅)

#Screamathon @4thhouseontheleft #BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

More YA fantasy than horror, but it was still an enjoyable read. The town has a curse and it's up to the main character to save everyone. I enjoyed the folklore created for the town's history, but I could have lived without the predictable romance.

I absolutely love this cover though. 💚

4 💫💫💫💫 This was an entertaining cute story. Not scary, but some really good fight scenes with the dead and a little romance. The town has a curse, there's a strong female main character and a unique friendship with a man from out of town. It's predictable at parts but entertaining. #BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

These are all potential #TBR for #Scarathlon and #Screamathon options from my Kindle library. Some of these will also end up on my October #Bookspin.

#fortheloveofbookmarks
Day 26: book themed
@aperfectmjk

I don't know which one to read next. I want to read them all this month but I'm struggling to choose which one. 😂

Here is my TBR for August! I'm hoping to read at least three of the five. Can you sense the genre I'm into at the moment?

To put it simply, I adored this book. I read it in one sitting because I didn‘t want to put it down. I love the characters, the atmosphere, the lore, and I especially love the bone goat. If you‘re a fan of YA fantasy, I highly recommend this book. Check out my full review: https://amysbookreviews.com/2021/05/30/the-bone-houses-by-emily-lloyd-jones-revi...

@LibrarianRyan Here is what I have for YA.
Any stand outs for you?

The bone and sea theme was not intentional 🤷‍♀️🤣

#BonusMiniLMPBC #LMPBC

Wow I LOVED this book! The writing was gorgeous and the plot was great. I loved the Welsh mythology. Our main characters, Ryn and Ellis were a joy to read. We follow Ryn and Ellis as they set out to end the curse of the Bone Houses. Wonderful book please read.

🎧 🐐 < BONE GOAT! The book caught my attention 100% with the entrance of the bone goat 🤪

Started slow but it picks up & suddenly you can‘t put it down.

Something magic breaks, the dead walk the earth & while they aren‘t eating you they are trying to kill you. Ryn (gravedigger) & Ellis (mapmaker) team up & set out to fix the problem. Ryn is a badass with an ax & she saves the mild mannered Ellis repeatedly. Enjoyed it! Fairytale-like. ⭐️⭐️⭐️4/5

It took me a bit to warm up to the story, but then it took off! Thanks to @Endowarrior21 for including this on your #newyearwhodis list! I don‘t think I would have found it on my own. #bookspinbingo

Thank you so much @rsteve388 for the amazing #LLWS box!! I can't wait to dive in to the hot cocoa and books!!!! 💕❤💕❤💕

A stunning novel that I immediately wanted to reread. Filled with clever quips and thought-provoking commentary, it handled multiple simultaneous issues gracefully. It left off with no loose ends, and none of them had been unsatisfying to see tied.

“Pain doesn‘t make a person weak or strong,” she said. “Pain just-is. It‘s not a purifier, it‘s a part of living.”

Ryn and Ellis are so cute together the book was fantastic

Great book, very interesting story. Read as part of The 1000 Doors Readathon on Youtube 5/5

1. Beowulf, Once and Future Witches, Teen Killers Club, and Plain Bad Heroines

2. The Bone Houses

3. Watching halloween movies with and making spice tea and pumpkin bars with @sebrittainclark , dressing up as Wednesday and Pugsley with my puppy, and reading

#weekendreads

I rarely get bookish on my Instagram but couldn't resist this template from @theclockworkbook 📚

"'Appalling. The cook told that to you as a child?'
'She did.' He sounded fond. 'What stories did your parents tell you?'
'Monsters,' she said at once. 'Dragons. Pwca. Dramatic battles.'
'And that is any better?'
'Yes,' she answered. 'I grew up thinking monsters could be slain.'
'Ah,' he said. 'And I grew up thinking people were the monsters.'"

I can‘t believe it‘s almost time for #24B4Monday again! I‘m not sure what books I plan to read (other than the tagged book) but my goal is to read 24 hours.

Such a great Halloween (or anytime) read! Resurrected skeletons plague gravedigger Ren and her family at the edge of the village. Along with a map maker searching for his parents, she sets out to destroy the magic bringing the dead back to life and threatening the living. Great spooky fantasy, a lovely slowly developed romance, and awesome disability rep. So glad I finally read this one!

1. The Once and Future Witches, Plain Bad Heroines, and The Bone Houses

2. Chai with espresso and spiced tea (a family recipe mixing tea and juice and spices)

3. The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

#weekendreads

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I honestly wouldn‘t have read this book if it hadn‘t been one of my Owlcrate books, and now I regret waiting so long to read it. I loved this book and I would change nothing about it except for possibly adding a book map and an epilogue. Ryn was a strong and badass female lead that ended up saving Ellis a majority of the time and I loved their relationship. Overall, the best part of this book was honestly the goat 🐐

A very Halloween appropiate audiobook

I'm thrilled with how much I was able to read during October's #cyoreadathon. I'm especially pleased that I finished 7 off my own shelves. I enjoyed most of them, but the best book of the bunch was The Bone Houses.

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I'd never have picked this up if it hadn't been in my Owlcrate box. But I loved it. Great characters, especially the goat, and the story was terrific too.

Total time for #cyoreadathon: 5 hours, 41 minutes
Points for #scarathlon2020 #TeamHarkness:
15 for the book
50 for the readathon hours
1 for the post
Post total: 66
Final total: 66

@StayCurious
@Sace

Gonna give this one a try!

“If a goat could look pleased with herself, she did.”
“You daft, beautiful, rotting thing,”

I am posting one book per day from my extensive to-be-read collection. No description and providing no reason for wanting to read it, I just do. Some will be old, some will be new. Don‘t judge me - I have a lot of books. Join the fun if you want.
This is day 104 #bookstoread #tbrpile #bookstagram

My June wrap up 😊

Currently reading for school and having a heck of a time focusing. :(

New listen as I take up doing more walking again.

A gentle horror story in a setting that could be medieval Wales; family ties; dead folk who won‘t stay dead; teenage romance between a gravedigger and a mapmaker on a shared quest; a zombie goat... this YA fantasy delivers more than the sum of its parts. I enjoyed the #audiobook narrated by Moira Quirk.

On the surface, this book has it all...and yet...I found my mind wandering whilst listening to this and generally not that into it, no matter how many self-admonishments I gave myself. Overall, I wanted to like this more than I actually did.

See My Full Review Here: https://leahsbookishobsession2.blogspot.com/2020/02/review-bone-houses.html

Starting this today!👀

3.5 stars. This is a pick, but barely. The characters were good and the setup was interesting. However, there was all this build up and setup of the world, that just didn‘t go anywhere. I was a bit disappointed by figuring out one of the main twists a quarter of the way through the book. The ending wasn‘t bad, but it could have been much better. Is this her first book? It reads like a first book, writing is good but needs improvement.