Welcome to Litsy!

Thank you @LittleBearReads for this fun #nlhs package! I'm very excited to read the books!! And taste that chocolate! Thank you for the cool bookmark, candles, and trinkets! #naughtylistholidayswap @tiedyedude

#12BooksOf2025 Book 3: Moon of the Turning Leaves by Waubgeshig Rice

@TheEllieMo

I needed an audio with no holds! IYKYK 🤣 I chose where Wolves Don‘t Die by Anton Treuer and what a delight! This is a YA coming of age story through the eyes of 15 yo Ezra and his Native family. Treuer is an amazing storyteller who also narrated the book and his voice is one I could listen to on repeat. This story has just the right amount of adventure, mystery, history and life lessons to keep any age engaged. I‘m glad I stumbled upon this one.

Recommend this on audio. Tagaq is an Inuit throat singer and she sings between chapters.
This is part poetry, part short story, and I am unsure how much is fiction. It is a unique and hard read (review trigger warnings, there is many dark abuses)

Rating for the originality and craft event though it was a bit dark for me.

#12Booksof2025 February

My pick for February is Indian Horse, read as part of @Jess861 ‘s #OCanada group

I liked how the time jumps were handled. I loved how everything was connected and explained. It wasn‘t too stereotypical and not to flowery. Good book.

In my latest booktube episode: Do you read Canadian? Do you use your public library? (I do!! )
#ReadingLife #CanLit #librarylovers #Indigenous #kidlit #MiddleGrade #InTranslation

https://youtu.be/bulZ_uD_VYQ

Horror hits different when it‘s built on real history. SGJ‘s The Buffalo Hunter Hunter is a brutal, layered reckoning with colonization, genocide, and stolen memory. Bloody, yes—but also intimate, literary, and unflinching. The vampire angle is clever, but the real horror lies in the history we‘ve whitewashed. A haunting confessional you won‘t forget. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I finally started the patterned part of my aunt‘s lefthand mitten while I finished Richard Wagamese‘s memoir. It doesn‘t look like much of anything yet, but I feel like it‘s coming along faster than the righthand one did. We‘ll see if I still feel that way now I‘m past the first ten rows. #audioknitting

More snow this morning. 🙄 Good excuse to read this quirky Canadian novella for #ChristmasCrimeChallenge
@Ruthiella @RaeLovesToRead