Welcome to Litsy!

I just filled in my form for second quarter‘s #booked2023. Yes I am reading out of order, call me a rebel 😆. Don‘t forget to do your entry if you‘re participating in this challenge! Find the form on the host‘s pages: @Cinfhen and @BarbaraTheBibliophage 🙂📚.

#bookreport
Loved A Day of Fallen Night ❤️
The Patriarchs was very informative and interesting.
Birnham Wood - I bailed.
The Bandit Queens- just about a pick- loved the humour and women just thought it got a bit samey.
Just started The King‘s Jewel and enjoying being back in the 11th Century 😁

So I‘ve finished the shortlist….sort of 🙈I‘ve read 14, skipped 1 ( The Passenger) and bailed on 3!!!
From the 14 my favs are Babel, Dinosaur & Rabbit Hutch but honestly none of these books would make my yearly best list. I enjoyed other books on the long list MUCH MORE. Overall a disappointing rooster but I look forward to chatting with the tournament crew.

Banned Books Week! And my selection was the top challenged book of 2021 🤬. Including a whole diatribe and campaign against this book by my state‘s LT Gov (who sits on NC‘s State Board of Education)

I am grateful to Maia‘s courage to publish this memoir, and I have seen first hand it‘s impact on non-binary genderqueer and exploring teens in my kid‘s friend group. This is MJ‘s favorite book of the year, and I can see why. It also provides ⬇️⬇️

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Spiegelman‘s second volume focuses on his father Vladek‘s time in the camps. It‘s a brutal read, and as with volume one, we also glimpse the aftereffects. Surviving is a lifelong challenge. I can‘t stress enough how essential these books are to better understanding what so many innocent people experienced. It‘s within the pages of banned and challenged books, that empathy flourishes.

A harrowing memoir of all the complexities of escaping an authoritarian regime for another. And persistently pursuing a more complete defection and freedom. Lee‘s story is well-told and propulsive. Every time I thought she was settled in, there was a gut punch and a “plot twist.” Inspired by her resilience.

Full review https://www.TheBibliophage.com #thebibliophage2021 #readingasia2021 #northkorea #notchristmas-ey #rebelreader

I have to admit part of why I celebrate #BannedBooksWeek is that it makes me feel like a Rebellious Teenager again sneaking books past my mother.

But having grown up in home that thought the only thing you needed to read was the Bible and religious literature I know the importance of Books to open your mind to new ideas and other people's stories.
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Hi #Booked2021 Friends! Thought I‘d share my completed prompts to remind you that we are now tallying completed prompts with a form submission🖥📚💻Every book read, earns you a chance 💕 You have until midnight, April 3 to fill out the first quarter form to be entered in our drawing 🎉
https://bit.ly/3b7rK1E

And starting off this years #Booked2021 is the above tagged book. I‘m sorry @Cinfhen @4thhouseontheleft @BarbaraTheBibliophage I‘ve started on Autumn 😬 But I accidentally found this book on Litsy and it doesn‘t have any ratings yet (literally underrated!). It caught my eye as it is based in the town I moved from in March. So far I am enjoying the story and the fact I know so well the destination. #hiddengem

For the first time, I read completely out of order this year. Seems fitting for 2020, when mood reading was a dire necessity. Here‘s my full run-down, since I‘m not entering the drawing (obvi). If you‘re posting a #Booked2020 #FallWrapUp, please just include completed prompts you haven‘t submitted before. You have until Jan 3, 2021 and we draw / announce by the 5th!

1. Millennial - The Bone Season
2. Hat on Cover - Women Talking
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