Welcome to Litsy!

This book came across my radar several times in 2025 and each time I thought I wasn‘t sure. It was the only title on the #auldlangspine2026 list I received from @Lesliereadsalot so I decided to start with it. Wow, I am so glad I didn‘t miss this one. It‘s dark fo sure and deals with existential and real existence crisis themes, and yet it affirms life and love and connection. I was invested in the characters and I cried. #auldlangspine

One week into the new year isn‘t too late to post my 2026 reading plans, right?! And yes, like every year, I hope to read down my TBR. I hope to use #BookSpin, #192030, and #50x50 (which I‘ll post more about in a separate post!) to help me with that.

Taking stock of my 2025 reading, I did make a dent in my physical TBR: 53 print books +3 Kindle. ALMOST 1/2 library, 1/2 owned.
Own: 53
Own Kindle: 3
Own re-read: 14
Library: 78
Library re-read: 7
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What a ride! 🤣 This was unhinged, grotesque, and weirdly funny. The author makes even the mundane feel disgusting, and the MC is violently psychotic yet witty and amusing. Excellent deadpan audiobook narration that nailed the humor. Still curious about Ms. Notty‘s backstory, but overall this was a deranged, darkly comedic romp. Probably not a rec for the masses but I was appalled and thoroughly entertained. 🥲 Great start for #AuldLangSpine !

Fun, rollercoaster ride of a book! The premise is perimenopausal and menopausal women attaining superpowers. They use their powers for justice, of course. I keep recommending it to friends. One thing I do kind of wish it could have saved some of the ending for a sequel. It felt like a book and a half. 😅

Thanks again to my #AuldLangSpine buddy, @JamieArc for the rec! #wdncw peeps, you‘d probably enjoy this too! @dabbe

First book read from @Karisa ‘s #AuldLangSpine list! Cozy Sci-Fi: a genre I really didn‘t know existed but I really liked this one. We follow Detective Dorothy Gentleman who is placed in another person‘s body and works to solve a murder on the Fairweather spaceship. It even included a yarn shop 😊 Fairly straightforward? Not at all. It‘s sci-fi, so there is much more going on. I was happy to see that there‘s a second book in the works. #ALSpine

Started my first #AuldLangSpine from @LiteraryinPA list today. Only 15 pages in so far, but I am intrigued. 😊

While many talk about this book as one of grief and growing, life and death, and lifelong friendships, I found it to be at its strongest when it focuses on Ash. Because, while Edie is the one dying, this is really Ash's story, and she is a glorious mess of contradictions. She loves with all her being, but is also incredibly selfish. She is smart and thoughtful, but also makes completely dumb decisions with regularity.

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Third book of 2026 completed. #auldlangspine #litsyatoz #letterS @LeafingThroughLife @monalyisha

Review to come. Breathtaking.

Housewife & mother, Kathleen, opts for a day at the apartment pool on a Sunday the beginning of November. While rebuffing her family's pleas to leave & resume her socially assigned gender roles, she is listening to news updates of the launch of the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2. The live passenger of Sputnik? The dog, Laika
About halfway through this one and really liking it.
#weirdwords @cbee

I‘ve commenced #auldlangspine @thegreensofa @monalyisha and liking it so far as I always do with Jane‘s books. Perfect beach reads like this photo of me yesterday enjoying some sun between my 🩰 lessons in the morning and my pole dance class at night. I wish I could have enjoyed it for longer. Hoping for another chance today after my yoga class, ballet lesson and 2 hour photoshoot. Happy new year to you both. I got this 1 in the Black Friday sales