Welcome to Litsy!

Bah, I meant to get all my book challenges updated last night, but instead I had a friend over to ring in the new year. Fingers crossed that I actually finished a challenge!

I thought this had a weak start, but eventually I was completely drawn in to Alma Vanderbilt's fascinating life. I stayed up way too late researching Gilded Age mansions.

#booked2018 #newin2018 @Cinfhen @BarbaraTheBibliophage @4thhouseontheleft

Book 20 of #MountTBR- I may have to check out Stiefvater‘s other books as I loved this one. I love Puck. She is a feisty and strong character. It had just the right amount of a romance and no love triangle!

#Booked2018
#UnderdogHero - The Scorpio Races
#FeaturesaHoliday - A Redbird Christmas
#MCover70yearsold - Driving Miss Daisy
#Newin2018 - The Greatest Love Story Ever Told
#MCwithInvisibleIllness - Talking to the Dead
#SpookyRead - Dark Duets

#booked2018 #newin2018

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️I really overachieved for this prompt and ended up reading a total of 4! I'll post them in the comments section. Anyway, l loved this book in verse about a young girl finding her version God, her place in her family her voice and her way in the world.

With this last read I have finally completed my end season of reads for #booked2018! Just in time 🙌🏼😉
#underdoghero - The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
#featuresaholiday - Hocus Pocus & Sequel ⭐️⭐️⭐️
#MCover70 - The One-In-A Million Boy ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
#newin2018 - Pride ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
MCwithinvisibleillness- Turtles ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
#spooky - Blood and Salt ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Well, that was a strange story, but I enjoyed the ride! The resolution seems quite far-fetched and character reactions are almost silly, but I really liked the setting and comedic jabs at health and wellness resorts. And boy, was this a wellness retreat gone wrong!

This is also my last book for #booked2018 #newin2018, so now I am officially done with all of my 2018 year-long reading challenges!

Loved this modern-day Pride and Prejudice retelling! It was full of so much heart and beautiful messages. Sometimes retellings don‘t quite make the cut for me, but Zoboi truly took P&P and used it as inspirational framework to create her own unique story. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

#newin2018 #booked2018

My final quarter of #booked2018 is complete. Here‘s what I read—

#newin2018 Heartland
#mcwithaninvisibleillness Reasons to Stay Alive
#spooky The Elementals
#underdoghero Murder as a Fine Art
#MCover70 Three Things About Elsie
#featuresaholiday Better Not Cry

I loved this. The use of multiple voices from different generations was really effective in showing how the same struggles come up time and time again. Every voice was unique and the tension was literally felt through the pages. It‘s gritty and bleak but the writing is at times poetic. #newin2018 #booked2018

I loved this little Russian Christmas tale... it‘s actually really funny. I especially enjoyed the very busy and popular village witch, although as a 41-year-old person, I could have done without this line:

“Vakula‘s mother was no more than forty years old and was neither good nor bad looking (though, of course, it‘s difficult to look good at forty).”

Speak for yourself, Gogol! 😂

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I just thought this whole reimagining was heavy handed and sloppy. What makes Macbeth a great story is the finesse. I felt no sympathy for this Macbeth. Nothing more than a megalomaniac with no depth. #NewIn2018 #booked2018 #getreading2018 #26of36 #audiobook