pickThe book I needed in the moment. A warm blanket of a novel if there ever was one. Found family, light adventuring, abundant kindness...this is a balm for the soul book for sure!
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The Teller of Small Fortunes | 
pickThe book I needed in the moment. A warm blanket of a novel if there ever was one. Found family, light adventuring, abundant kindness...this is a balm for the soul book for sure!
pickA sweet, huggable, cozy, found family fantasy. I liked the characters, and I liked their growth and their growing vulnerability and connection to each other. Overall, the book felt a bit light and forgettable—but there‘s nothing wrong with a light, enjoyable cozy fantasy. That cover, too! 😍
pick#JumpStart2025 #Read2025
Read for #Roll100 as #57 Any #BOTM Cozy fantasy has become a favorite genre of mine & this was a sweet story with a found family, which I also love. Tao is a seer who masquerades as a teller of small fortunes to stay under the radar of the Guild. A loner except for her cart & donkey, she finds herself traveling with 3 strangers who become her friends/family on a quest to help one of them. Good balm for a dark January.
#Naturalitsy #HyggeHourReadathon
For #HyggeHour tonight, I was going to try to finish up this one for #Roll100 but thunder, lightening & heavy rain started & the power just went out after I took this pic, so I‘ll probably switch to something on my Kindle. I will eat my Lilikoi monk seal bread & finish my tea.
Mood is grumpy about no power & that tomorrow is Monday, but lilikoi cream makes things a little better. 😋
A little coffee shop time this afternoon
pick5/5
Tao is a traveling fortune teller who only tells small fortunes to avoid the mage guild's notice. She meets a thief, an ex-mercenary looking for his daughter, Leah, and a baker as they travel across Eshtera reading fortunes and looking for Leah.
This was a really wonderful book that did a great job including low stakes adventures, found family, and loneliness while feeling like a fresh cozy fantasy story.
#auldlangspine
pickThis book flirts on the edge between cosy low stakes fantasy and fantasy quite well. Coulda have gone either way right up til the end. Well done. 4.25 ⭐️
If a man is a reformed thief/bandit… is he still considered morally grey? Cause I have immediately fallen in love with Silt because he seems to be a chaos gremlin… and I respect that.
@wanderinglynn Thank you for hosting a birthday giveaway! Happy happy early birthday! The tagged book is on my TBR. 📚🎁🎉 #49bdaygiveaway
The tagged book was my favorite read of December. I‘m okay posting this since my current read is probably not going to be a favorite. It‘s also definitely not going to beat my 2024 Book of the Year, The Bone Shard Daughter! 💚💚
#2024readingbracket
pickThis was a nice cozy fantasy. Low stakes adventure with characters becoming family.
pick4/5 ⭐️ Audio. So that might be why the story was hard to follow at times. Otherwise, this was an adorable little fun book to follow along these ragamuffins. Sweet, no high stakes, story where a misunderstanding is really just that which changes the perspective. This is a found family trope for those of an aunts and uncles level. I wish there was more of those little parts to get their each 1v1 connections.
I‘ve decided I‘m done with challenge reading for the year and am only mood reading until the New Year. Starting the tagged today while I get a bit of outside time with the dog.
Book mail is the best kind of mail! The haul from my latest ThriftBooks spree, including a free Reading Rewards book. Happy belated birthday to me and happy early holidays. 😄 I‘m looking forward to reading all of these in the next few months and will probably start with the tagged book.
pickBeing sick has been great for my reading! I‘ve finished so many books in the last week. This is a debut light fantasy novel. It‘s a found family, traveling journey story. Tao is a fortune teller, but only small fortunes. She tried to keep her magic use to a minimum. She meets a bunch of characters and they start traveling together, looking for Mash‘s missing daughter.
This book was just lovely but at the same time deals with prejudices.
When you‘re sick you just need some tea, lots of supplies and a good book.
Was traveling for work this week and of course picked something up. So trying to be cozy this weekend.
Every year at Fountain Bookstore, we all have to pick our Top Ten Books of the year (published in the current year) to share on Small Business Saturday. Here‘s mine, and you can check all of ours on Instagram here https://www.instagram.com/p/DDAY1t_JYKB/?igsh=dDFoejk2OWg1Mncy
pickThis book is a warm hug and so sweet it could likely be substituted for a cup sugar in seasonal baking. I think what worked for me with this collection of misfits was it was less about how the world did them wrong as it was about how each believed themselves unworthy until they opened themselves up to friendship.
pick#VacationReading—the book I read (mostly on the plane)& the book I bought while in Key West! My husband and friends were nice enough to make the trek to both bookstores & I couldn‘t resist a signed book(& tote)! As for my November #BOTM pick, this found family fantasy made me feel nostalgic, would be great to read out loud to a younger reader & could‘ve used a map! I appreciated the thorough ending that tied up literally everything! Strong debut!
pickThis one was so good I had to buy a paperback when I forgot my BOTM copy at work on Friday! I liked all of the characters and the ending was cool, but I do think the twist of Tao‘s vision (all I can say without spoiling) went a touch dark for a cozy fantasy.
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Pub Day was 05 November
Tao travels the country in a mule-drawn wagon and tells fortunes. She is a teller of small fortunes, larger fortunes come with consequences and so she sticks to the small ones. On her journey she makes friends with a former mercenary and a reformed thief, who are looking for a lost child, as well as an apprentice baker and her slightly magical cat.
The story is like being on a low stakes ⬇️
Another preorder arrived! If i didnt already have it on preorder it definitely would have been my BOTM pick!
Today is a really hard day. 💙
So I'm trying to find little glimmers of joy where I can. For example - my #botm box arrived today, filled with fantasy goodies!
I started using Litsy daily right after the 2016 election, because I was feeling scared and sad and needed a community. Despite how devastated I'm feeling today, I'm really glad that Litsy is here and that we all have each other! 💕📚
Filled up my #BOTM box with a bunch of fantasy books! Really looking forward to all these!
pickA fairy tale atmosphere, a quest, friendship and magic with a large helping of creativity and humor make this a rollicking good time. It would make a good read alike to House on the Cerulean Sea. Thanks to Edelweiss and the publisher for a digital copy. Due out early November.
pickA must read for fans of Legends & Lattes and The Spellshop, this cozy, inclusive fantasy follows a foreign-born fortuneteller who flees home only to find it on the open road with an aspiring baker, a reformed thief, and the father of a missing girl. Read for a heartwarming, heart-opening story, pleasantly paced like a donkey-drawn cart full of baked goods, found family, and all kinds of magic, rolling on toward adventure—and you‘re welcome aboard!
