Welcome to Litsy!

I LOVED Black Butterlies, Home Fire and beyond that, the sea (the non capitalization of the title only drives me a little nuts) and highly recommend them all. A Very English Murder is the start of a new to me cozy series which was enjoyable. Preparing to read the 4th in the series with the #SundayBuddyRead in December. Read about 30% of I‘m Fine but wasn‘t feeling it.

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🎧 The News from Paraguay #ReadingTheAmericas2023 #FoodAndLit #Paraguay
🎧 You Can‘t Say That
🎧 A Small Place #ReadingTheAmericas2023 #Antigua
📖 No Place Like Home

#CurrentlyReading
📖 & 🎧 #DraculaDaily
📖 #Clarissa
🎧 Oscar & Lucinda #FoodAndLit #Australia

#WeeklyForecast
📚 Continue current reads & start Siddhartha

I only read a little bit from any of these books! I brought myself up-to-date on BQ and found some more books specifically for June.

Meanwhile, I‘m returning A Killing in the Hills to the library, as it appears from the cover to be an autumn book, and I have enough books I especially want to read this month. I‘m keeping Fire Storm though, since I‘ve already started it.

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Slow going this week. I‘m right where I‘m supposed to be in Bandit Queens. The Will of the Many is dense, so it‘s slow going and Gryphon is my current audiobook. I‘m not loving it and I‘m tempted to bail. I think I will just switch to something else for the weekend and save Gryphon for work when it can be background noise. #bookreport

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—read 20 books since my last #BookReport at the beginning of May (2 out of 9 forecasted; all on audio; 5⭐️ for A Promise of Fire)
—🎧 Flying Solo #bookspinbingo

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Good week 😁
Thought Yellowface was thought-provoking and a lot of other things and look forward to discussing.
The Last Dance was the start of a new series so we‘ll see how that goes for no 2!
This Could be Everything was a good read about grief and family.
Really enjoyed This Family.
Just started The Authority Gap, already fuming.

#BookReport @Cinfhen
My report is basically for the entire month of May. This month was all about reading books set in the south. Seven of my 11 books were for the #SouthernCharm readathon on booktube. I also continued the #LittleHouse series with a favorite, The Long Winter. @megnews #Maywrapup

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🎧 Ten Women #ReadingTheAmericas2023 #Chile
🎧 The Sorrows of Young Werther
🎧 The School that Escaped the Nazis
🎧 The Puma Years #ReadingTheAmericas2023 #Bolivia
📖 11 Effective Strategies for Teaching Math to Students Who Have Given Up on Learning

#CurrentlyReading
📖 & 🎧 #DraculaDaily
📖 #Clarissa

#WeeklyForecast
📚 Continue current reads
📚 Figure out and start June reads

Solito got more interesting once Javier and his grandfather left on their “trip,” but then Libby clawed back the book into Holdland.

I finished Desert Heat and liked it more than expected, so I‘ll add Joanna Brady to the series I need to follow.

Not much progress was made in the physical books. I spent a lot of time updating my long-neglected iTunes library and dealing with other personal administrative and domestic tasks.

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Thanks to C.J. Box and month end close, I got through a lot of books this week. I‘m hoping to finish one more today, since it‘s a dark, rainy day. I enjoyed everything I finished and bailed on one other book this week. I find bailing on everything I‘m not enjoying to be a very nice thing. 😂 It‘s also nice to have enough finished books to do both a #bookreport and separate #weeklyforecast. 🤣🤣
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Death of a Bookseller definitely didn‘t wow me like others, it was ok.
Deadly Fate was great- series hasn‘t waned yet.
Falling Animals just started this morning and loving it so far.
Old God‘s Time, beautiful writing, hard subject and difficult style of writing, but worth it.
Road Ends- lovely.

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🎧 Under the Lilacs #ChildrensClassicRead2023
🎧 Cranford #PemberLittens
🎧 Born to be Hanged #ReadingTheAmericas2023 #Panama
📖 Kitty, My Rib
📖 Piranesi - finished yesterday for #LitsyBookClub and still considering my review

#CurrentlyReading
📖 & 🎧 #DraculaDaily
📖 #Clarissa
🎧 Ten Women #ReadingTheAmericas2023 #Chile

#WeeklyForecast
📚 Continue current reads

This week I managed book club stuff, vacuumed 50 pounds of cat hair from the carpet, went to a weird ballgame, and finished two very different books.
-The Nickel Boys: brutal
-Tahoe Deathfall: ridiculous

I‘m making progress on the rest, except for the one that hasn‘t moved from the back of my car yet. Also mucked around a bit in Libby and the library catalog as part of managing book club stuff and Camp Litsy prep.

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#bookreport #weeklyforecast This was another slow reading week, but the highlight was definitely A Room of One‘s Own. As slim a volume as it is, there were sections I‘d either never read or didn‘t remember, and I was happy to be able to finally get to appreciate this in its entirety because it was a book that really spoke to me. @Cinfhen

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Thought Half Burnt House was a decent thriller
Still Born was good and worthy of the accolades. There‘s no difference in these issues worldwide is there- we all grapple with a lot of ‘stuff‘.
The Parisian was a bit too heavy for me this week- physically carrying round and mentally. Works been tough.
Settled on a detective book yesterday and it‘s doing the trick.

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📖 The Hothouse

#CurrentlyReading
🎧 Cranford #PemberLittens
🎧 Under the Lilacs #ChildrensClassicRead2023
📖 & 🎧 #DraculaDaily
📖 #Clarissa
📖 Kitty, My Rib

#WeeklyForecast
📚 Continue current reads - I‘ll probably finish Cranford & Under the Lilacs on my drive today.
📚 Choose a new audiobook

I saw the post this week about Love in the Library and went to Amazon to download it. While there I found another book that will appear on the forecast tomorrow. Two books for $2.10!

I finished Isaac‘s Storm at the book festival today between author presentations.

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I‘ve been combining #bookreport with #weeklyforecast for a while because I haven‘t had much to post even with the combination. This week, I finished a lot and bailed on even more. 🤪 Titanium Noir was my favorite. American Predator was disturbing. The Nature of Witches was surprisingly entertaining. The Princess & the Rogue was disappointing and Saga was Saga. IYKYK Here‘s hoping next week‘s reading is as satisfying. 🤞🏻

It‘s been a hell of a week….1000 + rockets indiscriminately launched into heavily populated cities since Tuesday 😳 luckily I had amazing books to help me stay close to home ( bomb shelter access) and focus on reading. I really enjoyed all of them but can absolutely recommend the top 4🤩

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You‘re Invited was just meh.
Close to Home and Enter Ghost were amazing. But probably not to read one after each other really- one set in post Troubles N.Ireland, one set in the Palestinian/Israeli conflict. Now reading Armada Legacy for a bit of light relief!

Due to trying to close out the school year, deal with a sick cat, and binge Madam Secretary, I finished zero books, gave up on our #Clarissa buddy read, and decided to save my reread of the sonnets and pick up Adrianne Rich, who‘s calling to me more strongly, instead. I did start this months #lmpbc book, and am loving the dramatic beginning! and I‘m still finding my #aam pick totally captivating. #bookreport #weeklyforecast

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🎧 The Glimpses of the Moon #WhartonBuddyRead
🎧 Enter the Body
📖 Life of Pi
🎧 The Sun Does Shine

#CurrentlyReading
🎧 Cranford #PemberLittens
📖 & 🎧 #DraculaDaily
📖 #Clarissa
📖 The Hothouse

#WeeklyForecast
📚 Continue current reads
📚 Choose a new audiobook

It‘s been a sleep-deprived migraine-y week, so I accomplished little beyond bailing on even more audiobooks. I listened to half of American Predator on Friday, though, so I might actually finish that one. I‘m still plugging away at Titanium Noir. It‘s odd and interesting, but my brain wants to just be done with it so I can read Puppets, which makes it harder to pick up and finish for some reason. Brains are weird. #bookreport #weeklyforecaset

I finished Blessing Way for an upcoming book club meeting. Other than feeling like I was reading two different books, it was fine.

Just when I was getting into the swing of VC again, it went back to the library. 🤦🏻‍♀️ Meanwhile, I returned Bandit Queens early on purpose so I can pick it up again for camp Litsy next month.

Isaac‘s Storm is interesting so far, and I‘m still making my way through the other two.

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I had a busy day between morning brunch with friends than watching the coronation ( loved all the pomp and circumstance) and a baby naming party in the late afternoon, I haven‘t had a chance to be on Litsy much. I‘m gonna catch up now after I share my #BookReport 🤓 A really good week, I really enjoyed my first Jamaica Kincaid, loved the Masterpiece and thought Clytemnestra was an impressive debut. Was disappointed with the new Maynard.

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Read A Small Place for #TitlesAndTunes which was fabulous! It‘s been way too long since I read Kincaid, & I‘d almost forgotten how much I adore her.

Started Devil In The White City for #AAM, which is just as good so far as all the littens promised me in would be!

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Have loved all my books this week.
The McDermid and Disher are great series.
The Memory Police was fantastic.
What Writers Read was lovely.
I started The Ferryman yesterday and would just like to be left alone to read, it‘s awesome so far.

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—read 10 books this week (4 out of 9 forecasted; 1 ebook, the rest on audio)
—🎧 Agnes and the Hitman

#BookReport #DaiseysReadingWeek
🎧 Killers of a Certain Age #LitsyBookClub
🎧 Eleanor Oliphant is Complete Fine
🎧 The Last Mapmaker

#CurrentlyReading
📖 #Clarissa
📖 Life of Pi
🎧 The Glimpses of the Moon #WhartonBuddyRead
📖 The Hothouse

#WeeklyForecast
📚 I‘ll probably finish The Glimpses of the Moon today and continue current reads this week.
📚 Start May reads, including #DraculaDaily and Cranford.

#bookreport: finished two books this past week and feel quite good about it. I didn't read a lot last week. My body is still healing and most of the time, I am maybe reading a few minutes a day, if that.

#currentlyreading: Got through the first part of The Polished Hoe during #deweysreadathon on Saturday and started The Glass Hotel. Continue to read The Long Winter for the #littlehouse readalong. The other two I will try to read.

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In non-reading news, I‘m done with PT! With (I hope) more consistent weather, I plan to pivot to more walking and more listening time.

Meanwhile, I finished Lying Game and bailed on Fuzz. I started Bandit Queens and Blessing Way.

All Are Welcome doesn‘t have chapter numbers, so I‘m switching to page numbers. So far it‘s not exactly a page turner, but it‘s a nice palate cleanser between other things.

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Enjoyed Her Lost words.
The Curfew was a junk food book but an entertaining enough read.
Black Butterflies was amazing, loved it.
Reading A Darker Domain now.
Been in Hay-on-Wye in book heaven today ♥️

I finished up several of my monthly reads this week. Winter Hours, The Power of Adrianne Rich, and Anne of the Island were all standout reads!!! I‘ve fallen way behind on our #Clarissa buddy read. I‘m giving myself a few weeks to try and catch up, but may end up bailing on that one in the end… Not sure what I‘m starting next, with a new month on the horizon so many things are beckoning at once. #bookreport #weeklyforecast @Cinfhen

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—read 9 books this week (5 out of 9 forecasted; all on audio; 5⭐️ for Unequal Affections)
—🎧 The Gold in These Hills #bookspinbingo
—📱 Spy x Family, Vol. 9

#BookReport #DaiseysReadingWeek
📖 The Alpine Path #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead
🎧 In the First Circle

#CurrentlyReading
📖 #Clarissa - behind schedule but still reading
📖 Life of Pi
🎧 The Glimpses of the Moon #WhartonBuddyRead
🎧 Killers of a Certain Age #LitsyBookClub - such a fun listen so far

#WeeklyForecast
📚 Continue current reads & hope to get to another planned read. Still #overbooked for April!

I loved Clap When You Land and definitely recommend the audiobook. Dominican Republic done for #ReadingTheAmericas2023 and moving on (in books at least) to Bermuda (All Are Welcome).

I need to clear some decks and then start Bandit Queens 😎

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Just driving back from seeing the play ALL with my fellow Litsy friends ♥️ I thought it was a brilliant adaptation of the book.
In other books, finished The King‘s Jewell, started a McDermid series and currently reading Her Lost Words.

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CRA was so fun & unputdownable! I‘d say it totally lived up to its hype even after all these years.
Ariel was the perfect reread! Plath was speaking directly to me, just as she‘s spoken directly to millions of other women over the years.
I did enjoy Mrs. Westway, but it also convinced me I‘m done with Ruth Ware. Whatever drew me to her years ago I‘m just not feeling anymore.
The others were impulse reads that prob won‘t stick with me.

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—read 15 books this week (8 out of 9 forecasted—currently reading the 9th; all on audio; 5⭐️ for The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy)
—🎧 A Haven on Orchard Lane
—📱 Spy x Family, Vol. 9

#awesomeapril

It's Sunday already ??? where did Saturday go?

Finished
? "great TCoSM re-read"
? Shit Cassandra Saw
? Natural History of Dragons
? Voices of the Dead (ARC)
? Defying the Earl (ARC)

Currently reading
? House of Leaves - that will certainly take a little while longer
? Love will tear us apart - third book in the Stranger Times series
? Witch King by Martha Wells (ARC)

#BookReport @Cinfhen

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📖 Red Menace

#CurrentlyReading
📖 #Clarissa
📖 The Alpine Path #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead
🎧 The Glimpses of the Moon #WhartonBuddyRead
📖 Life of Pi
🎧 In the First Circle

#WeeklyForecast
📚 Continue current reads & hope to get to another planned April read. I may have overbooked myself this month.

Witch‘s Guide was uneven and ultimately unsatisfying. Hope for the Best was highly entertaining. St. Mary‘s has only let me down once and I‘m not the only reader traumatized by that installment. Working on Austin Noir and Episode Thirteen this week. I figure crime at bedtime and the horror during the day. 😂 My next audio will either be the next St Mary‘s short or Hecate. #bookreport #weeklyforecast

It was another mixed bag of a week in life and in reading, but on balance good. I had another post-op visit, and everything is going well there.

I read Vish Puri in two days so I could return it to the library. It should generate a good book club discussion next week.

Meanwhile, I read bits and pieces of some of the others before they went back into the Libby ether. I really need to make sure I‘m borrowing for 21 days and not 14!

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Loved A Day of Fallen Night ❤️
The Patriarchs was very informative and interesting.
Birnham Wood - I bailed.
The Bandit Queens- just about a pick- loved the humour and women just thought it got a bit samey.
Just started The King‘s Jewel and enjoying being back in the 11th Century 😁

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—read 14 books this week (5 out of 9 forecasted; 1 ebook, the rest on audio)
—🎧 The Bachelor and the Bride
—📱 Spy x Family, Vol. 9

Happy Easter! 🐣
#BookReport #DaiseysReadingWeek
🎧 1919
🎧 Skandar & the Unicorn Thief

#CurrentlyReading
📖 #Clarissa
📖 The Alpine Path #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead
📖 Red Menace
📖 Life of Pi
🎧 In the First Circle

#WeeklyForecast
📚 Continue current reads

I finished Song of Achilles, read bits and pieces of the rest*, acquired more books, and did a lot of non-reading stuff this week. There‘s been a lot going on lately, but it‘s all (mostly) good.
* I finally brought this in from the car today…

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Enjoyed Carlotta.
Bridge to Burn- good addition to series.
The Patriarchs- will come back to later this week- am committed to A Day of Fallen Night for the long weekend!

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🎧 Our Missing Hearts #LitsyBookClub
📖 Winterkill
🎧 Alias Grace

#CurrentlyReading
📖 #Clarissa
📖 The Alpine Path #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead
📖 Red Menace

#WeeklyForecast
📚 Continue current reads & start April reads

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I‘m covering two weeks again. All were picks except for The Witch In The Well, which I gave so-so. I didn‘t review the children‘s picture books but I love all of Ryan T. Higgins‘ books. Pink is for Boys has lovely illustrations and a great message.