Welcome to Litsy!

I can‘t begin to tell you how excited I am for this #BingoBoard ! #BookSpinBingo

#BookSpin breath of Earth, #DoubleSpin A Witch‘s Guide to Magical Inkeeping

#Roll100 Final Harvest, A Kingdom Strange, Breath of Earth

#OokBOokClub Feet of Clay (one of my favorites!)

#BobWhiteBuddies Mystery on the Mississippi

#BeyondTheYellowBrickRoad The Scarecrow of Oz and Rinkitink in Oz

#QueerBC Finna

#ThematicCozies Foul Play at La Playa

I'm a month behind on the #bobwhitebuddies Trixie read through, but hoping to catch up this month. This one was light on mystery and heavy on sailing, but I didn't mind. The kids weren't whiny and argumentative like that horrible one in the cave, so I'll take it! 😆 The ending was sweet, too.

Greetings from the house of sickness!

My son went on a school trip and the gift he brought home was Covid. None of us have had it before, but we're all fully vaxxed and boostered, so it isn't *too* terrible.

I committed to entirely too many things this month. I finished the May book for #bobwhitebuddies so I'm only a book behind. I did manage to finish this month's reading for #europacollective and #KLBR. I'm behind on #beyondtheyellowbrickroad.

The discovery of an old letter hidden in the Belden‘s attic leads the Bob-Whites on the trail of a lost necklace & an old plantation house. But they‘re not the only ones seeking the emeralds.

Such fun, & not just because I‘ve also traveled to Williamsburg & Virginia plantations. It‘s also a fun mystery with secret passages, friends working together, drama, & redemption. Some ableist language for a wheelchair user, but not too bad.🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑

#Naturalitsy #HyggeHourReadathon

I realized I didn‘t finish this one a couple of weeks ago 🤷🏻‍♀️ so once again I am spending my #HyggeHour with Trixie for #BobWhiteBuddies along with some chocolate & iced tea because it‘s humid tonight.

Mood is sad & tired & not ready for Monday but I leave Tuesday evening for a work trip to Boise for a conference & a stopover on Oregon for the weekend to see my family, so at least the week will go quickly.

I can‘t believe it‘s June 7th & I haven‘t posted my May recap or June TBR yet! While I didn‘t get to everything I wanted to read in a very busy month, I managed to read 16 books & took part in: #SundayBuddyRead #SheSaid #NancyDrewBR #BobWhiteBuddies #EBBR
#AuthorAMonth #ChildrensClassicRead2025 #Roll100 (All 6 books!) #FictionalTraveler #ThematicCozies #MonthlyNonFiction2025 & several books for #SeriesLove2025

Read 12 fiction, 4 NF, 2 Audiobooks

Happy Pride Month! #BookSpinBingo #BingoBoard

#BookSpin The Hanging City, #DoubleSpin Paris in the 20th Century

#Roll100 The Yiddish Policemen‘s Union, Quiet, Gwenhwyfar

#OokBOokClub Men at Arms

#BobWhiteBuddies Mystery of the Emeralds

#BeyondTheYellowBrickRoad The Patchwork Girl of Oz

#QueerBC Black Water Sister

#ThematicCozies Claws Out

#JuneOfARC The Hanging City, Written in Bone

#Naturalitsy #HyggeHourReadathon

Spending my #HyggeHour with Trixie & the gang for #BobWhiteBuddies along with tea & my favorite dried cinnamon Fuji apple slices.

My mood is sad that the weekend was so short & that it will be another crazy workweek—although hopefully not as bad as the last two weeks.

I really enjoyed the 13th Trixie Belden book. The banter and teasing between the Bob-Whites was just like I remembered - and just the right amount of flirting between Jim and Trixie!! 😍

@BookmarkTavern was saying how it would be fun to know who ghost-wrote which books, so I did a little research yesterday, but it just looks like that list doesn't exist! The best information I could find is linked below, but it's a lot of hypotheticals. ⬇

A summer vacation gets upended when the BobWhites find a mysterious letter hinting at a map & a lost fortune. It‘s up to the club to track down the money, only someone else is looking too.

A solid mystery, & a pretty good resolution too! I really wish I could find a list of the ghost writers. Who leaves out Dan, who tones down Mart‘s bullying. I also really appreciate how Trixie‘s empathy is forefront through this whole story! 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑