Welcome to Litsy!

This was a vacation purchase, found in a delightful Oxfam store (you Brits are mighty lucky!) This is an ominous novella filled with foreboding. Sylvie is 17 and spending a summer with her parents and a university group living as ancient Britons and getting a glimpse outside her life with her extremely strict and abusive father. The book veers towards its inevitable climax and was a compelling examination of our continued primitive nature.

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More Murderbot!!

Mensah is in trouble and Murderbot (a bot programmed to protect clients and kill those who attempt to hard them) uses its free will to decide to help.

Dry humour & science fiction, I love this series so much.

#lgbtqia2025 as Murderbot sorta counts as asexual? @Kenyazero

The writing is beautiful. No denying that. But I also cannot deny being lost quite a bit and just blindly fumbling through this one. #wickedwords - scar

February wrap up! Not a bad reading month. My favourite was the tagged. Let's see what March brings.

The audio on this is only 3 hours, and if you liked Horrorstor or like the idea of a story that takes place (partially) inside an IKEA-like store, this is for you. It‘s less horror that Hendrix‘s book, and leans scifi and multiverse. LGBTQIA young adults searching for a missing grandma. Good times!

Went to China in 2016, what an experience. I was sick sick 80% of the trip..ugh, but I did tour the Labrang Buddist Monastery. That was INCREDIBLE. So peaceful. Couldn't photograph inside, but I took a picture with the monk who was providing the educational tours. Such a rare feat. And that sculpture is handmade with yak butter. It's so incredibly detailed.

Anyways, this audiobook reminds me to slow down and reminisce on these old memories. 🥰😍

A cozy sci-fi for anyone who needs a reading brain break. The audiobook was wonderful. I love how slow-placed and soft the book was. It was perfect for the moment and helped me to feel refreshed in my personal life and in my reading journey. It reminded me of my trip to China in 2016, we got to tour a Buddist Monastery. Just beautiful. Wow.

Listened to this a while ago. Starting book 2 A Prayer for the Crown-Shy now. 😁

Anyone else enjoy these?

First 2 months of #readingbracket2025

Dex was having an existential crisis that led them to leave the life they had known, twice.They embarked on a journey with a robot who lived in the wild. The lack of world building had me rereading pages trying to get my bearings and understand what was going on. The overuse of they as Dex‘s pronouns was distracting. Sometimes the story would summarize years in just a few sentences but then spend pages lingering on just a few days. Book#21 in2025

I read 8 books in February. A slow month for me. Pictured is my reading journal where I like to draw in their spines next to a star rating. I write the full title and author name on the left page.

Favorites were my rereads of Moon Called & Blood Bound with A Closed & Common Orbit being a close second.

Finished out the month with a couple of Ruby Dixon books from her Aspect & Anchor series which is one of hers I have not yet finished reading. ⬇️