Welcome to Litsy!

I had a great December reading month, buoyed by days off at the end if the month. I finished 22 books A couple were short stories & the cumulation of a year-long daily read but I also had one chunkster of an audiobook.

I finished books for #SundayBuddyRead #ChildrensClassicRead2025 #NancyDrewBR
#BobWhiteBuddies #EBBR #MonthlyNonFiction #ThematicCozies
#FictionalTraveler #Rol|100 (3) #AuthorAMonth
#Naturalitsy & #SeriesLove2025

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Our January #AuthorAMonth is T Kingfisher. I‘m pretty excited for any of you who will be reading her for the first time. There is the opportunity to stack several this first month of 2026, as she has a lot of novellas. For the second month in a row we have an author with a pen name- she also has some children‘s books under Ursula Vernon, feel free to read and count those as well.

Do you know what you‘ll be reading?

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August 2025 Book #13 last book read for this month

The new cover can get the attention for a read who likes to read summer topics, mine is an old copy. This novel…😳was so bad for me😐it didn‘t work for me at all🤦🏽‍♀️If this is the author writing style and common topics, I‘m not interested then to read anything else. Sorry for the fans out there. 1⭐️

#AuthorAMonth announcement time!
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We had a total of 27 participants in #AuthorAMonth (who completed the form anyway) in 2025. We read 251 books! Wow! The most read author was Percival Everett; there were 29 readings of his books. He was also most voted for as the favorite of the year 😁.

🥁 And the WINNERS are: 🥁
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After crashing and burning on all challenges and most buddy reads last year (has anyone been more glad to see a year end than 2025) I feel hopeful and excited to be reading the above books.

#USPresidents2026 - Washington: The Indispensable Man
#BookedinTime - The Rival Queens
#SundayBuddyRead - Mob Queen
#AuthorAMonth - Nettle & Bone
#EuropaCollective - The Hottest Dishes
#AuldLangSpine - The Lilac People & The Girls Who Grew Big

May 2026 shine!

December‘s Christine is cruising along into 2026 with my January TBRs. Being a night shifter I‘ll be marathon reading until the wee hours of the morning.
#LosersClub @BarkingMadRun
Snuff #OokBookClub @julesG
What Stalks the Deep #authoramonth @Soubhiville
Snow White retelling Forest of a Thousand Lanterns #fairytalereadingchallenge @Charityann
Damsel #withthebanned @jadams89
IWTV Fable Bookclub The Vampire Chronicles

I‘ve just started my first book of 2026. #authoramonth @Soubhiville

This stand alone book by T. Kingsolver is another for which I must say thank you to #AuthorAMonth. A great horror story that focuses on both birth family and found family. Recommended.

I really enjoyed this first book in T. Kingsolver‘s Saint of Steel series. Thank goodness for #AuthorAMonth nudging me to finally read one of their books. Another “must read” author.

This was my first Nora Roberts book and it did not live up to my expectations. Maybe it's just this book? I don't know. I'm not eager to try another one.

The story was simple and boring. The characters were annoying and I couldn't get into the love story. I had to force myself to finish the book. This was not my cup of tea.

#authoramonth @Soubhiville