Welcome to Litsy!

#Read2025

This week work is totally kicking my butt so I‘m behind on reviews, book clubs, posting—all the things.😵‍💫

Posting a quick review for this book, my third #Roll100 pick of April (#24 Any short stories or essays). I have been meaning to read this since it came out & overall I really enjoyed it. The stories explore the experiences of Native Hawaiian & mixed race women in Hawaii & are a mix of speculative fiction, horror, magical ⬇️

Here we go again. Headed to Kona today, the first of 3 day trips this week. I should finish the tagged book in transit.
The airport lounge is hopping this early morning. I think it‘s a Monday thing.

Off to Hilo for the second time this week. 😵‍💫 There will be much caffeine involved…

#Two4Tuesday

1️⃣ Hah! Close—I did them this weekend because procrastination is my name. 🤦🏻‍♀️

2️⃣ Folklore 🌺

If you want to join in, consider yourself tagged. 🤗

This one, stories set in Hawaii, is my pick for #FictionalTraveler April #Island & it‘s one of my April #Roll100 picks (#24 Any stories or essays ).

It‘s good incentive since it‘s been in my TBR since I bought a signed copy from a local book store when it was released.

The DNFs on Blind Date books is 2 for 2.

DNFing this one because I'm not a fan of short stories, and literary fiction tries my patience; the two together are nothing but a recipe for shit reading for me.
#HailTheBail

12/80

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

#ReadingMyTBR #Reading2025 @DieAReader

Starting my second "Blind Date" book and hoping for better luck with this one ????

Well, that‘s an “ugh, my rival” glare if I‘ve ever seen one! #catsanddogs #dogsoflitsy #readathon #hauntedshelf #flerken

Not sure how I felt about this book. I think I missed the message.

#AboutABook

I find this to be a very #StunningCover with its corpse flower. I bought it last year partially because of the beautiful cover & still need to read it.

If you‘re looking for a terrific short story collection about a marginalized group of people with a little magical realism and/or dystopia mixed in to some stories, this is the one you‘ve been looking for. It‘s so good! I liked each an every story and some of them made me “oh!” out loud.

#BookBinge

For today‘s #DebutByIndigenousAuthor prompt, I‘m going with this debut collection of stories written by an author who is “Japanese and Native Hawaiian with deep Moloka‘i roots” according to Honolulu Magazine.

It‘s being published on 8/29 & I pre-ordered it last month through my local indie bookstore in part because I love the cover & they were offering a limited supply of the corpse flower enamel pins with pre-orders. 🤷🏻‍♀️