Welcome to Litsy!

I think I devoured this book in two sittings. Is it YA fiction? Yes. Do I care? No.

We were all 14 at one time in our lives, and the story of that time of unknowns, of being told to find yourself before you even know how to find yourself is baked into the history of every single person. This book is a sonnet of a tale telling us , not all love stories have the endings we expect, nor is the path that takes you there one you can plan.

Oh my @MommyOfTwo ! You really spoiled me! What a fantastic box of goodies! The books are great picks. The coffee/tea sounds yummy. Love the little coffee sign, the journal, the stickers, the bookmarks (so cute!), the candle. It is all so me! Thank you so much! 🧡🍁📚 #FallingForFallSwap

Thank for for organizing, @Avanders

I purchased this one years ago and it sat on my shelf for no particular reason. Love the 80s and coming of age stories? Love to see the geek win? This one is for you. 💾

A quick, fun read. 1987: 14-year-old Billy and his two friends are determined to get their hands on the new Playboy with Vanna White. Ridiculous caper, computer geeking, some petty crime, teenage romance, and a multitude of 80s pop culture references ensue.

In some ways predictable, but still managed to surprise me near the end. The teenage kids are a bunch of jerks, but that sort of makes it more realistic.

#MakesYouLOL #Booked2020

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I pulled this book off the shelf hoping it would work for the #MakesYouLOL prompt for #Booked2020... it is definitely working.

For example, this section where the 14-year-old boys in 1987 try to decide which cassette tapes to shoplift from the mall in order to resell them.

😂😂😂

Such a fun read! If you love everything 80‘s like I do, you‘ll enjoy this. (Commodore 64, anyone?) 💻 ❤️😊

80s nostalgia and remembering my computer programming summer camp back in 1989...this book was such a fun ya novel.

I had no idea what this was about going in and I loved it. Computer geeks, video games, teenage boys and the lengths they will go for stupid ideas, and young love. This is one that I would like to read again to catch some of the little hints in the code at the beginning of the chapters. As soon as my TBR is smaller... hahahaha who am I kidding. 4🌟🌟🌟🌟

Finished this one today. It was a fun romp through my childhood. Oh, the #BASIC ... #memories. Fun for computer #nerds, old #millennials, fans of boy posses a la StrangerThings. No sci-fi, but it has that vibe.

I have no recollection of how this geeky teen story came to be on my radar, but it was enjoyable enough. I liked the Will and Mary story line much more than the Will and everyone else parts.

Oh my gosh, @Smartypants you are so sweet for sending me this book! I had a rough last few hours at work, so coming home to some book mail definitely cheered me up. ❤

Thank you again, and good luck with your move! 🏠

Hello Littens! I am moving back to the Carolinas and have a bunch of FREE books I‘d like to gift to someone. They are in excellent condition! I will send via media mail at no expense to you! Please let me know if you‘d be interested in this one in the comments! A great coming-of-age story set in the 80s! #freebook

Had I known a square infographic was possible in Bookly I would have been sharing these ALL THE TIME. Also, great book that I randomly picked up from Target a few months ago.

I‘ll be spending my summer in my new hammock with a book

An enjoyable quick read with a good amount of coding lingo and character development.. kind of a ‘stranger things‘ meets ‘ready player one‘

I picked up the following today (plus the tagged book, which hubby already swiped) at my local independent bookstore with a coupon. I had abdominal surgery this week and it was my first time out alone...I definitely overdid it but picked up some good ones!

Free books I got this month! #bookhaul

I thought this was a good,
Sweet book- but surprised that‘s it‘s not categorized as YA!!

I finshed this one a couple of days ago I really enjoyed it. My wife had compared it to Ready Player One, but I disagree. It was a great coming of age kind of story set in the 80‘s. With a ending that I was really surprised by. Thanks for @MommyOfTwo for sending me this one for the Easter book exchange.

#virtualinsanity instantly made me think of this book. I read it only because of the #botmchallenge, as it was a pick spring of 2017. I was pleasantly surprised by how much I liked it given that I‘m not a huge fan of YA or video games. This had a huge 80s culture vibe though that I totally loved. #aprella

@MommyOfTwo Wow! Thank you so much I love it all! I‘m super excited about The impossible fortress, and I am Legend! The Jyn Erso is awesome. @JoeStalksBeck loves her book, and EmmaLynn is going to start hers as soon as she is done with the one she is reading now. Thanks so much! Happy Easter 🐣🐇! #easterbasketbookswap

@Jas16 !! Thank you so much for thinking of me! Unexpected #bookmail is the best mail, and I‘ll definitely #payitforward when I get to read this one!

A nice start to the long weekend ❤️

Well that was just f***ing charming. A fun and quick little tale for those of us who were geeks in the 80s before being a geek was cool. Does it compare to Ready Player One? No, very different. Should you read it if you liked RPO? Absolutely.

A fast YA read with oodles of 80s nostalgia but not a lot of depth. I tore through it but found most of the story pretty typical. Glad I read it but won‘t reread it.

Guyyyyssssssss I LOVED this book. I felt like it had the spirit of ready player one but minus all of the adventure. Pretty much just typical teen angst but add the 80s and video games to it. It was a sweet story and I loved all the characters in it. Im mad I let this sit on my tbr for almost a year before I finally read it!!!!

I‘m looooooooving this book and am going to power read to finish it tonight.

This is one of the most charming books I‘ve read and I would love to see someone adapt this for the screen. A great coming-of-age story set in the 1980s. #videogames #nerds

Next up on the list of books @vicgreentoriafield lent me six months ago.... 🤓 #currentlyreading

There‘s a sweet kid and his friends, an impossible treasure, and an elaborate plan for a caper, so, yes it‘s an 80‘s coming of age story! I really enjoyed following Will as he navigates standard teen obstacles although there were a few twists that seemed a little forced. Overall a lot of fun and a wonderful dive into 80s nostalgia.

Starting this one thanks to several positive recommendations on here. Excited to dive in! I‘m always up for a little 80‘s nostalgia.

I loved this book so much that I nearly cried when it ended—not because of the ending, which was perfect—but because I wanted the story to continue on forever. Such a great, funny read!

This book is hilarious and brilliant . It‘s all 80s

Yay & thanks Andrew Smith. This was the perfect read for the flight. I loved basking in the 80s in all its crazy glory—the music, the big hair, the beginning, in many ways, of the computer age as we know it. William Marvin longs to be a video game programmer— he‘s so focused he‘s about to flunk 9th grade because all he thinks about is gaming. An unlikely friendship gives him an opportunity to realize his dream if he can just stay out of trouble.

So, I was reading The Prey of Gods but book emergency! Friend‘s flight got cancelled and she wound up getting on a 5 hour train home. Couldn‘t do that without a book so I gave her mine. And for reasons, even though I planned on bringing two books, I only brought one. Fortunately, I saw this book was blurbed by Andrew Smith and that‘s good enough for me. Fingers crossed it‘s a good read.

Looking back over this year‘s reads and I realized I gave a lot of books four star ratings. This was the only book I was feeling generous enough to give five ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ at the time. #favoriteof2017 #jingleshelves

So we stood up there for a long while, watching the sunset and discussing how it was one of those things you could never truly capture in 8-bit, not with the simplistic definition of violet (CHR$(156)), orange (CHR$(129)), and yellow (CHR$(158)). There were too many other colors, thousands of colors. The hardware could never do justice to it.”
― Jason Rekulak, The Impossible Fortress

From Simon & Schuster: A love letter to the 1980s, to the dawn of the computer age, and to adolescence—a time when anything feels possible—The Impossible Fortress will make you laugh, make you cry, and make you remember in exquisite detail what it feels like to love something—or someone—for the very first time.

After reading the first chapter, I‘m super excited about this book! Rarely does an amazing first chapter turn into a dull book. One of the best opening scenes I‘ve ever read. I LOVE when a book just sucks you in! #greatbooks #goodfiction #funny

Great day for a huge turnout at the Collingswood Book Fair! Bought this one from the author at his booth.

The perfect home-in-bed, too-sick-to-think-hard book. It's a simple story about a boy, a girl, computers and Vanna White. It's like a book version of comfort food.
#litsyatoz #letterR #catsoflitsy

Up to letter R for #litsyatoz. Home sick today and my eyes burn. Have you seen how tiny the type is on the Rushdie book? With page-long paragraphs...not happening today. Switched to this 80's memoir. Already amused. #catsoflitsy

Q: What is your reading goal for this year?

I couldn't resist falling in love with this book. I'm not sure if it's my constant nostalgia for anything 80's related but I have to say I loved everything about this from the storyline to the characters. Very quick read.

Quick and fun! I should have read It sooner. 😊

Reading on the porch facing Jiminy Peak ski slopes in the Berkshires getting some reading in on a nice sunny, lazy day. The book is a little odd but getting in 'I' for the #litsyatoz challenge. I lost my google doc email of my challenge 🙁but think I have a list at work somewhere that I can look at in September.

Hopefully the new toys I bought the boys will keep them occupied long enough to start my new book. 🤞🏻

This book was a big disappointment. That's not to say it was bad, it's just that after a few pages I had such high expectations. I had already cast the kids from Stranger Things in the movie version of this 80's nostalgia coming of age story. The 80's are definitely there - the Vanna White playboy, the Commodore 64, the pop music, the clothes - but the story was ordinary, and the big reveal was not very believable. Meh

Book, water, eye drops. Ready to stay up way too late reading! 😂

I'm loving the trip back to the 80s in this wonderful book. Why was Vanna White such a big deal back then???

Oh my god, coolest addition in a book.