Welcome to Litsy!

Delighted to start my annual reread! Deliciously nasty, quarrelsome family party that culminates in a murder on Christmas Eve. 🎄 Golly, I love this book! 😂

Starting my first #cloakanddaggerchristmas read.

A mystery book from some lovely Litten… I‘ve been meaning to try this author for so long. Perfect 👌🏻 Who do I thank? ❤️

Finally getting started on a holiday read! Snagged this off the shelving cart the other day. It‘s supposed to be -25 degrees by tomorrow night with -40 wind chill, so I‘m planning my warmest work outfit and thinking warm thoughts.

These two arrived in my letter box at the same time and I‘m pretty sure from the same person. Thank you so much, Paula 😘😘 I am slowly collecting the Georgette Heyers in hard copy and this is a lovely addition. And I‘m going to keep the other present to unwrap on Christmas Day.

#DivineDecember #Party @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Not my favourite of the series, but any mystery that's solved with the help of a missing library book is ok with me.

Loved this cozy, Christmas tale. There's no better time for a murder mystery!

#murdermystery #Christmas #Mysteries

“Stephen can't afford to quarrel with Nat.“

I love a good English manor home Christmas murder, and this is a great one. I did peg the murderer pretty quickly, but that didn‘t matter, I still enjoyed it all the same. I read the last half while having my car serviced today and spent my wait time laughing out loud. I was clearly having more fun than everyone else in the waiting room!

After finishing not one but two BIG books (Great Expectations and Wolf Hall-feeling very accomplished!) I‘m up for a holiday themed read...

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#DearDecember #goodwill

All Joseph wants when he invites his motley crew of relatives to his brother‘s home for a festive Christmas is to spread #goodwill. Instead his best laid plans are thwarted when murder occurs.

This was the perfect read as I recovered from a cold in bed. Deliciously bitchy, gossipy crime fiction: Christmas, unbearable relatives, murder. What's not to like? Plus a subplot involving a missing book that I found really amusing. Maud was a scream & she had the best lines. Heyer's as cynical as I am, it appears, so I was happy to learn that the person I suspected from the beginning was the right one, but it didn't lessen my enjoyment at all.

#LaughOutLoud! #HolidayCheer
Very short excerpt from ch.4- a hilarious account of aspiring playwright Roydon reading aloud his first play(set in a brothel)to an motley, unlikely, puritanical cast of characters thrown together for Christmas at their wealthy uncle‘s house. I could not stop laughing out loud which felt wonderful! Maybe the hour, 2 a.m., contributed to my giddiness?!

#weeklyforcast
Making good progress with Say Nothing- its so engrossing I have read 44% so far. #nonfiction. 25 pages my goal.
Started A Christmas Party #holidaycheer- hope to read at least 30 pages.
Might start either of the other 2, but this week is busy at work, holiday party, day trip to NYC- don‘t know if I will get Much reading done. 📚🎄🎅🏻

#holidaycheer #fullberry #firstsentence #GeorgetteHeyer

“It was a source of great satisfaction to Joseph Herriard that the holly trees were in full berry.” Great opening sentence to this holiday novel.

In the end, only Mathilda responded to his appeal for assistance. She asserted her undying love for tinsel decorations, and professed her eagerness to hang innumerable coloured balls and #icicles on to the tree. ‘Though I think, Joe,‘ she said, when the company had dispersed, ‘that no one else feels any sympathy with your desire for a Merry Christmas.‘ #QuotsyDec19 #icicle

#HollyJollyReading #HolidayBook #bookadventcalendar

I'm so used to Georgette Heyer writing Regency romance that I was not expecting a detective story between these pages (library copy, no cover clues.) It wasn't the best - I had the crime solved halfway through, and the POV switched maddeningly with no character getting much substantial development. But I did actually want to follow some of the characters after the book ended. (Having read other reviews, should I have read this as satire?)

Since the twelve days of Christmas will soon be over I wanted to get this book finished under the wire. I think this is my first Georgette Heyer but I will read more. A classic manor house, snow, locked room mystery- to a point. This is also full of farce and such smart renderings of the “types” you normally find in these book- quite funny in many parts and, most important to me, I didn‘t see the solution until the end! Really enjoyed this!

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In the end, only Mathilda responded to his appeal for assistance. She asserted her undying love for tinsel decorations, and professed her eagerness to hang innumerable coloured balls and icicles on to the tree. ‘Though I think, Joe,‘ she said, when the company had dispersed, ‘that no one else feels any sympathy with your desire for a #Merry Christmas.‘ #QuotsyDec18

This one falls squarely in the #blameitonbatsy pile. 😂 I saw this in your feed @batsy and needed to read it. My first Georgette Heyer! It suited my mood perfectly because I had been feeling tetchy about Christmas plans and here was an unlikeable high society family snapping and grumping at each other until somebody ends up murdered. Made me feel quite chipper it did. 😉 3.5 stars but I‘d give it an extra one for cheering me up 👌

Nothing says #December like a Christmas murder mystery with a #WinterWonderland setting 🌨️☃️🗡️🔫💀 Here's hoping I read one of these this month 😆

@TrishB @Cinfhen

Love this book. ❤️ I reread it before Christmas, and I wasn't ready to stop reading it, so I read it again. The holidays are for indulging, right? A truly dysfunctional Christmas gathering, filled with selfish unlikeable characters, then a locked room murder.

Thanks for tagging me @Bookzombie
1. Holiday spirits
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5. @TheKidUpstairs @Andrea4 @TheNextBook

I got quite a few books this month, but most of them are from Hachette because I finished up my internship and they kindly gave me a bag of books 😍📚😍

Even knowing how funny she is, every time I read one of Heyer's books, I'm reminded again how freakin' hilarious her humor is. So dry and witty and British. And her character sketches can be as biting as Austen's. This one is a Christmas house party with a guest list of people who mostly can't stand each other in entertaining and highly humorous ways. There's a murder, of course, and an inspector who isn't fooled by the list of likely suspects.

I already like Mathilda. Clever and subtly sassy, she reminds me of so many of Heyer's wry Regency heroines. This was recommended as a fun #Christmasread, since I love Heyer. British Christmas house party mystery.

Two #Christmassyreads I was hoping to get to this year! I've never read either, has anyone else? #seasonsreadings2016

My sentiments exactly! 😀🎄

Ready for my work #christmasparty with my "book" bag!

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"It was a source of great satisfaction to Joseph Herriard that the holly trees were in full berry." #Dumbledwarf #bookgnome #openingline #georgetteheyer #enviouscasca