Welcome to Litsy!

I read this book slowly over many lunch breaks at work. A Reese‘s Book Club pick. It‘s a pretty familiar story one sister moves to the big city the other stays in the small town. Big city returns , rivalries and immature behaviour occur egged on by the producer of a reality show. I quite liked it - in between a pick and a so-so - 👍💚🐉

My first reaction was, there is so much fighting. Things were taken too far and it was quite ridiculous. Then I thought it was wrapping up because they were talking about announcing the winner the next day. So I thought maybe the book would be salvageable with the ending. I was at the 52% mark.. and I really had a Winnie-the-Pooh "Oh bother" moment. Ending: All that really traumatizing stuff? Yeah let's pretend that didn't happen. 1.5/5

This was a nice fluffy family drama set in my original home state of Kansas. It was entertaining and a nice easy read. Not extremely memorable, but it did knock out my prompt “About Sisters” for #Booked2022 as well as #SamoanSun and #SpicyMustard for #Pantone2022

⭐️⭐️⭐️💫🎧 Sisters play out a generations long fried chicken feud on a food reality show. At one point I hated almost all of the adult characters. Everything came together at the end but it ended abruptly. This would have benefited from an epilogue.

To read or not to read? Jolene is sleeping so good on my book but I just want to read...what to do??🤣🤣

#LitsyAtoZ #C✔️

I finally finished a physical book! I enjoyed this book, which loosely based on two sisters from Kansas who had a falling out and split their chicken restaurant into two competing restaurants. This grudge was perpetuated over generations and the book is centered around Mae and Amanda and a tv show called Food Wars.

It was a fun fairly light book and a good time. Just what I needed right now!

1. I have more of a plane of tbrs than a stack lol.
2. Not yet but hoping to read Violeta soon.
3. The Chicken Sisters - enjoying it so far
@eggs #wondrouswednesday

HAPPY 2022!
1. Mostly just to read more and spend less time on social media.

2. I'm going with Fortitude

3. Tagged! So far yes!
#thoughtfulthursday @MoonWitch94
@Jerdencon

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Reading about a food competition reality show is right up my alley! Expect lots of family feuding, an uplifting ending, and a strong craving for fried chicken! 🎧 #reesesbookclub

This was just so charming! I thought it captured the dynamic between sisters so well and brought a believable backstory and plenty of angst to work through, all with a side of fried chicken. I had to make sure to get some Nashville hot chicken while I was reading.

#pop21 #booksetinarestaurant #litsyatoz @BookishMarginalia

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Two sisters are pitted against each other in an episode of Food Wars. This book was like reading a terrible reality tv show. I wanted to like this book because I enjoy those terrible, predictable reality tv shows but I could not stay invested in the storyline. The behind the scenes of recording parts were great. Drama between the sisters was genuine and frustrating. The social issues the author tried to squeezed in were a turn off.

Starting my IRL Book Club pick, The Chicken Sisters by @kjda, with my IRL Book Club bookmark that I hope to not need since the chat is tomorrow. 🤪

This story felt like it toooook forever. Reality show theme drama but felt like 700 pages instead of 350 to get the story told. Also, unplanned second title this week featuring hoarding so that may have played a factor in why it felt so slow...?

I like that reading is included on this list, 9 pages seems kind of light 🤣 but audio books can overlap on a few of these and provide fuel for the 7 minutes of laughter ✅ I LOVED The Chicken Sisters! A family drama with estranged sisters in a small town full of misunderstandings and assumptions, you cheer for everyone and I recommend it ( you will want to eat fried chicken)

The weather today has been humid, gentle rain, cooler, sunny, over cast, pouring rain. I‘ve gone through some clothes, done a grocery run, and had my audio book on. Happy Wednesday

Some audio gardening has been going down. Dirt delivered and a plant nursery run later, all the things are planted and dirt & mulch is spread. It‘s gotten too hot for me to have ear buds in anymore 🤣 so I‘m glad it‘s done

This starts off as letters to enter a food network competition and I was laughing right off the bat 🎉🎉

I would say ⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2. I didn‘t mind the story but thought it was much longer than it needed to be. Though I won‘t ever read it again, I am glad I read it.

⭐️⭐️⭐️ A decades-long chicken restaurant feud comes to a head on network television. Family secrets spill. So much sadness. So much drama. Maybe a little too much, but I suppose that‘s life sometimes. Unfortunately, I didn‘t care for these underdeveloped characters and couldn‘t really pick a side. The story could‘ve been reined in a bit, but the predictable happy ending at least felt right.

review here: https://debbybrauer.org/#the-chicken-sisters

A cute, fun, family dramedy. Liked it, didn‘t love it, but a solid 3.5 stars, and definitely a feel good read, perfect for when you want something lighter. I wanted to eat chicken the whole time...🍗🤷🏻‍♀️😂 Didn‘t have any chicken, so wine had to work. 🙃

Rainy day reading and a latte.

This starts tonight at 8 EST/7CST! Join us if you're free for some enlightening conversation about debuting, the Midwest, and our novels for Raven Bookstore or stream later at this link: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/butterflychicken

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I enjoyed this one much more than I expected. It's not my normal genre, but it was a sweet little story. I didn't always love Mae or Amanda. At times I hoped someone would walk up and turn the garden hose on them. But they grew on me, and the ending was really satisfying.

Ah! I'm so excited I can finally announce this event. I'll be speaking with KJ Dell'Antonia for Raven Bookstore on March 18th. We're going to chat about sibling books, The Midwest, what it was like to have The Chicken Sisters selected as a Reese's Book Club selection, and more!

Free registration/link to view here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/butterflychicken

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I loved this book!! Mae and Amanda are sisters who have a difficult relationship and are very different from one another. Mimi‘s and Frannie‘s are two fried chicken restaurants in their same small town that were originally run by two sisters. Amanda gets the tc show Food Wars to come to town for the 2 restaurants to compete. Relationships are changed and people grow during the competition.

Well interesting story and I love fried chicken, but sadly the books about 100 pages to long. At 341 pages it was dragging at the end. Nice story about family dynamics hard to believe everything lined up so nice. It‘s was a Sunshine Book Club read and usually Reese picks great books this one about 2 stars

#realtorreader
#sunshinebookclub

The story was OK. I enjoyed finding out how the two restaurants came to be but I was not much of a fan of the sisters. I did like the cover though.
#chickensisters

Here‘s my #weeklywrapup #weeklybookreport and what‘s up next.

Really enjoyed the tagged book, set in a small town and featuring rival chicken restaurants and rival sisters. Lots of good reading ahead for this week, and I‘m so close to finishing The Committed I can almost taste it.

Good morning! Enjoying some peace in the semi darkness of morning. There is a beautiful blanket of new snow, which I typically hate, but it‘s lovely on this Sunday since I don‘t have to drive in it ☺️

When you have to go to Wal-Mart, might as well make the trip worthwhile. But I super duper hate those freaking stickers. 🤬

A Kansas family has been at odds since the late 1800s. The issue? Fried chicken? Who makes the best? Chicken Mimi‘s or Chicken Frannie‘s? This has been a generational family feud for this family. In present day, Amanda applies to “Food Wars,” a reality show that features culinary rivalries. With a prize of $100,000 both owners accept the challenge but the show becomes a comic disaster.

This was very entertaining. Sometimes I rooted for Amanda & other times for Mae (but always for Andy*) & I think the author did a great job of fleshing out all her characters. Even those without much screen time seemed very real to me. If this poor family had better communication skills they'd have saved themselves a ton of grief but I was happy to be along for the ride & appreciated how everything worked out in the end. *All the men were ⬇️

A question for those of you who participate in A-Z challenges: do you only count the first usable word in a title, after things like "an" or "the," or do you allow the use of any word in the title? For instance, I'm reading the tagged book and my first thought is that it had to count for "C" but if any of you already had a "C" book would you use it count for "S"?
Thanks in advance!

It started off really good and I kinda didn‘t like the ending. Part of me wants a sequel.

This book made me super hungry for fried chicken 🍗 😋

The characters were too terrible to each other to buy the ending. I wasn't rooting for anybody.

Book 184 of 2020.

Starting this one today! I‘ve been so busy and have not read or listened to a book in a week!

There were a lot of misunderstandings and squabblings happening in here. Also lots of fried chicken 🍗.

Trying super hard to get into this one but I think I still have a book hangover from #Thisclosetookay 😂😂

This book made me dream of fried chicken all week and then I finally gave in 😂 and had to get some

Audiobook painting 🎨 the jury is out on if I am liking this book or not.

Just ok, I loved the premise of this one. I‘m a food network fan and a reality TV fan. It just didn‘t do it for me.

I am on the fence on this one. I found both protagonists to be so immature. Inevitably the author did get to the ending I wanted, but I found the reading experience not to be so fun.

Boom! I‘ve read all 12 books picked by Reese Witherspoon for her 2020 bookclub, and this is one of my favorites. Although it‘s not a Christmas book, It has the feel-good vibes that I prioritize this month. Sometimes those sorts of books focus primarily on romance, but this one was about family. I loved it.