Welcome to Litsy!

Set in the office of a “Weekly World News“ sort of paper, this series is so fun, especially in audio. The narrator uses dozens of distinct British accents for the huge cast, and also does full justice to the humor. It's a bit like a paranormal, British Donald Westlake. Also, although creepy/sometimes horrific things are happening, it's overall a cozy sort of story -- the oddball main cast always manage to protect each other, if not everyone else

This is hard to review because the book does not match the synopsis. I would not describe this as dark academia or Gothic. It was pretty cosy and light for a book about grave robbing.

There were several elements fighting for time which meant nothing got explored. It made the book feel YA even though it's not.

It's a fun story if you enjoy light queer historical romance.

Thanks to #NetGalley for the #ARC

Kind of an odd book. Boylen isn't that much older than me, but grew up in such a different world, it's hard to make sense of all the pieces of her memoir put together. I found myself questioning, “is this real?“ a lot. But she has a dry, Vonnegut-esque sense of humor, and there's an underlying poignancy that touched me very much. It's interesting as sort of a period piece and heartbreaking as a story about family.

This was very disappointing, I did not enjoy it at all and I was expecting this to be a highly rated book for me.

I can see why people enjoyed it but I didn't take to it at all, it took far too long to get interesting, I didn't like the writing style, and a lot of it was pretentious twaddle.

This was too young for me. It's on the lower end of YA and read more like middle grade.

It's a fun paranormal mystery with a side of romance. It just wasn't for me.

Wow, what a cover. I wish I could turn it into a Dixit card.

An intriguing but somewhat disappointing Cinderella retelling. (I'll put why in a spoiler comment.) Our Ella is sadly a ghost, and how this affects her life is told in a very visceral manner, consumed with how much Ella wants to feel and experience things and the strange, limited ways in which she can. Some of it really gave me the ick, to be honest, but the prose is beautiful.

A really interesting take on the magic boarding school story, because it's from the perspective of an adult and moreover, the adult primarily in charge of the safety of the kids. (How many times have I read one of these books going, “WTH is wrong with all the grown ups in this school?!)

I felt there were important issues raised around the nature of demons that weren't sufficiently explored, so I didn't love it as much as I might have.

Little over half-way update. I‘ve gotten a little over 8.5 hours reading time in which isn‘t bad for me. Finished Roadwork and made some progress in Grotesque and Cujo. Wasn‘t actually planning on reading any Cujo for this readathon but I was running errands earlier and I had this audio handy. #deweys24hourreadathon #deweysoct25 #HauntedShelf #GrimReaders #OneSnackToRuleThemAll #Chocolatiers #BirthdayBashReadathon #LosersClub

Here‘s a #monstrous recommendation. Super cute and would be a great read aloud. +4 scavenger hunt prompts for #HauntedShelf #GrimReaders #OneSnackToRuleThemAll #Chocolatiers #BookSpinBingo

This was the first book I read this month. Libby is an actress trying to hide from the limelight and rumors about her at Mohegan Island, a solace of her childhood. Weird things start happening to her and her single dad grump neighbor steps in to get to the bottom of things. ⬇️