Welcome to Litsy!

So-So bc the tone felt confused. The majority felt causticly sarcastic a la Willy Wonka or Scooby Doo, but the stakes are serious…basically this book felt unsure if it was horror or a dark comedy. 🤷🏻‍♀️

A group of writers are invited to the manor of a legendary peer after his death to hear his will. A deadly escape room ensues. #OUABC #OnceUponABooKClub

“The body‘s been stripped of skin, muscle, hair — but its skull still sits cockeyed on a broken, mangled neck, its mouth ajar like its screaming.”

Second gift was this too pretty to burn candle!!! *My* mouth is ajar. This is gorgeous.

#OUABC #OnceUponABookClub

Got to open my first two of four gifts in my #OUABC box today!

Points for creative packaging for the first gift: a coral liquid lipstick akin to a shade one of the character‘s wears - but in knife packaging?!? Too cool.

“Stained with the shade Coral Number Two, Winnie‘s lips are the most dangerous weapon of retribution.”

#OnceUponABookClub

A moment for spooky meets quirky sprayed edges! 🤭 #onceuponabookclub #ouabc

She‘s arrived! I‘m trying something new by gifting myself #OnceUponABookClub‘s Nightmare box. Will probably start in tomorrow.

The box includes bookish gifts that you open once you reach certain page markers. I‘ll post photos throughout - should I do so with spoiler blocks? 🤔

#25Alive!

Is it a #Gift if you get it for completing a reading challenge? I received this book in the mail this week & it‘s from #OnceUponABookClub for finishing their 2024 40 Book Challenge. I‘m happy to have been gifted a book I haven‘t read yet & it looks pretty good. 🤗

Thanks to our hosts @Eggs & @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks for this month of prompts. I can‘t believe it is February tomorrow! 😬

#OutWithTheOldInWithTheNew #20in4 #JumpStart2025 #Read2025

My first finished book of 2025, I‘ve not read any Haig before but it was the book pick for the #OnceUponABookClub “Up All Night” box & came with a champagne glass, the #OUABC 2025 40 Book Challenge poster & 3 gifts that correspond to the story. I have some mixed thoughts about the book—I liked it but it took a while to get into & the magical realism was too heavy-handed for my taste. ⬇️

#Naturalitsy #MidWinterSolace #HyggeHourReadathon

Spending my #HyggeHour filling in my poster for the #OnceUponABookClub 2024 40 Book Challenge from StoryGraph so I can take a photo tomorrow to get my free book (Procrastination is my middle name). No snack tonight, but drinking tea & listening to the tagged book while I write titles/dates in. If I finish in time, I‘ll read some more on my Kindle.

Back to work tomorrow but off Tuesday/Wed.

Another late #5JoysFriday post but here they are:

1. I received my Black Friday Grab Bag from #OnceUponABookClub & the mystery book (shown) looks good. Book mail is always joyful.📚💛

2. Really yummy lilikoi cheesecake served with lunch at board meeting- tastes of joy.😋

3. Fresh fish I ate this week—two examples: Ahi Bibimbap for lunch—the ahi & egg were cooked perfectly 😋 Dinner of Mochiko-crusted Ono. The mashed Molokai sweet potatoes & ⬇️

#Naturalitsy #HyggeHourReadathon

Spending #HyggeHour starting this book & a peppermint crunch chocolate bar.🍫 It‘s not been a calm Christmas so far so hoping to find ideas in here.

I might finish the scratch off for my #OnceUponABookClub reading challenge so I can take a pic & send it in for a free book, but honestly, I‘m tired & have to get up ultra early to fly to Hilo so I might throw it in my overnight bag & do it at the hotel.🤷🏻‍♀️