Currently reading Lovecraft Country. Such a good book. After I read, I hope to watch the series on HBO. Has anyone watched the series? Is it true to the book?

It's been a long time. I put down my phone for a while, social media was becoming so hectic. So of course I immersed myself in books. I decided recently to read some books I was never allowed to read when I was younger, and the first set I went with is the Hannibal Lecter books by Thomas Harris. Currently trying to read them in chronological order. I am in love with these books and it's the perfect time of year ❤

It's been a while, that's ok. I still creep Litsy throughout most days and add books and click hearts ❤. This book is amazing. I only started reading a few hours ago and have not been able to set it down, even as night creeps on and I should really take myself to bed. I have my favorite duo on my headphones and this great book in my lap, bring on an all night read-a-thon 🥰 I have nothing to do tomorrow after all.

I've finished Circe. I read books like people drink water, and I love every one of them, even the one's I don't like so much, but there are few books that dwell in the chambers of my heart that I continue to touch upon time after time and use to shape my days that lay out before me. I have added circe to that library of love. I've started the tagged book, hoping I don't cry, remembering how loved Michelle was and how many lives she touched.

It's been a while. A lot going on these holiday times. But I'm taking a little time to read Circe. And it's a wonderful book to take time out with. For some reason in my minds eye, I imagine Circe to look like a young Bea Arthur, an unconventional beauty, a voice like grit, smoky bourbon, and cigar smoke. A tall wonderous woman. A woman who, at her pinnacle, could open you wide with just one look.

A comfy blanket and a good book.
I never finished cover crush, I wouldn't know where my head was if it wasn't attached.
Fall has me feeling sullen and moody. The holidays pass by too quickly, I never feel as if I can enjoy them properly. Also, I need a book on how to make friends as an adult. I'm too much of a hermit these days.

#5 for #covercrush
I've yet to read this book but I took a picture of it at my library so I could remember to go back and check it out 😆

Number 4 for #covercrush
Man I'm really bad at keeping it together 🤣🤣🤣

7 days, 7 covers, no explanation. I still have no one to tag 🤣 #covercrush

Day 2 of my #covercrush. And as with most things in my life I'm a little behind 😆

Can I get in on #covercrush ? I have no one to tag and I know it's been a while since I posted. 7 days, 7 books, 7 covers.

I finished Hap and Leonard and now I'm reading the second book of the arc of the scythe books by Neal Shusterman, one of my favorite YA authors. Also my lovely mother's day card from my daughter as a book mark that I've used for the past few years 😂 I'll have to laminate it soon so it doesnt fall apart! Who else uses random or personal little things as book marks?📚🔖😍

This is how I feel sometimes. Sometimes for my mental health I have to curl up with a kitty, a coffee, and a good book 😂

I watched this series on Netflix, and to my delight found out it was a series of books. So I've started down the path of Hap and Leonard in written form 🙂 I was a little leary at first, because I loved the show. It was unlike anything I'd ever watched and was sad to hear it had been canceled. But that just gives me more reason (and time) to read the series of books.

I love Joyce Carol Oates. Her dark tales are always written with something terrible just lurking under the surface of a regular story. I can understand why some might find her tales drawn out, might not connect with them, but I feel JCO writes in such a way as to make you become the outsider looking in. You're on the otherside of a two way mirror unable to intervene in what's to come. And that's the point, to force the reader to become a bystander

This is an amazing book. So rich a tapestry. Woven words and worlds to create a novel that transports you straight into Inys. I do hope, that maybe there might be a sequel one day. This is truly a book that deserves one.

There are few things more infuriating than someone using a pencil in a library book to mark their ending point, instead of using a book mark 😡😡😡

Such a good read, I love books set in the early 1900s. Amy Stewart's use of sensory imagery plops you right down into 1914, I can almost touch the painted bread box, run my hand over the home made doilies, smell the factories. Thanks to Litsey and all they wonderful reviews I read on my timeline for this book! Oh yeah, also this cat 🐱 who can't seem to keep her nose out of a book either!!
#catsoflitsy #Cecilthecreasel

How I feel for the rest of this weekend!! This book takes a bit to get through, it doesn't capture your attention in a fast pace like a normal thriller or horror story. But it is a beautifully written piece that show's a woman's decent into her own madness, her decent into her past that she struggled so hard to forget, and the struggle to hang onto a life that was condemned to a death sentence from the begining.

If you have the patience, this is a good read. Beautifully written, Joyce Carol Oates has a way with making you understand so completely the complex feelings of a character. And my cat Cecil says this book is...a-paw-roved....I'll see myself out 😆
#catsoflitsy

"Don't rust it up, Essun. Innon and I didn't love you for nothing."
And at that sentence I cried and cried and held the book to my chest remembering all the times I too, never felt human enough for love.

I finished the Jane Hawk series, I wasn't disappointed. I always love a bad ass woman fighting for good (sometimes evil too haha). Now I'm onto the The Fifth Season trilogy. I was confused when I first started the first book, but it quickly pulled me in and I couldn't wait to read the next one. I have a few good reads I picked up from the library so I'm excited to enjoy a shady spot with something cold and dive right in.

It's been a month, have had so much going on that didn't allow me to be online but Litsy and the Litsy family was never far from my mind. I finished this book while I was away and it was amazing. Thank you for the recommendation. I'd love more recommendations on books of any kinds at this point. So much on my mind and I wanna slip away into some good books.

I scored a few more books from my library's book sale shelf. I was excited to find Pride and Prejudice, I've seen the movie but never read the book. Blackout looks like an interesting read and I've heard good things about Wicked.

This will be me this weekend. It's only Monday, I'm already ready for Friday!

I scored big at my library's annual book sale. Bags were 5$ and you fit as many books in as you can! I picked up some Clive Cussler books that I don't already own and tried to pick up some authors that I've never read and branch out some in fantasy and science fiction and mystery.

I tried really hard to like this as it was was my first Michael Crichton book. It gets bogged down in the specific details of the students experiments and the Nanigen technology. I was skimming past quiet a few paragraphs. It also felt sloppily written, using the last names of the characters every other sentence or so. I really wanted to like this book, I've only bailed on a handful of books in my life, but halfway in I still couldnt like it.

I'm feeling lousy with depression lately. Can't seem to snap out of it. This is my first Michael Crichton novel, I've heard good and bad. I keep setting it down and just staring at it thinking "I sure do want to read you"

Library haul! Thank you @wanderinglynn @TheSpineView and @julesG for your recommendations. I got a few from my small neighborhood library, the rest I have to request from other libraries. They all look like amazing reads.

I'm going to the library later, anyone have any recommendations on some sci-fi? Or fantasy?

I have anxiety coupled with complex trauma and PTSD, books have always been a getaway from my own mind and also a calm in the storm that is me. I have an inspection for the townhome I rent today, and I don't do well with strangers in my home. Alas, I am quite worked up. I haven't slept well, so I've made myself some comfort food, grabbed my comfy quilt, and this book by one of my favorite authors, hoping to ease my mind over the next few hours.

This was amazing. It reads like a horror movie should look. Beautifully written in a flow that keeps you on the edge of your seat and the characters written with dimension. My only complaint would be that the tension was written so well that I sailed through the pages craving the next sentence, the next paragraph and before I knew it I was at the end! As always, Ania Ahlborn had my heart pumping and me shaking my head saying "amazing ending".

I love, love, LOVE Ania Ahlborn's books. I've read all but this one and one other. A lot of people don't like her books because the endings aren't always full of the closure one expects, and that's what I love most about her books. I borrowed this book from the Inter-Library Loan, as my library has sadly gotten rid of a lot of the science fiction and any books older than 2015 that aren't checked out regularly.

Put the book down mom and let's go to bed!
I still haven't finished Last Days by Adam Nevil. I've been busy today just being all around mom. I am quite tired but this book has me engrossed and captured, after a hard start. Perhaps just one more chapter...

I took my daughter to see Captain Marvel today, and I was emotional. To have a strong female superhero who always gets back up when she was knocked down and said "I have nothing to prove to you". We bonded over getting back up in the face of adversity as women in the world. I'm not ashamed to say I cried a little.

My purrrrfect reading companion ❤

It's been a year since I've been on this app which I love so much. It's been a hectic sort of time for me, but I'm back in full swing. I've made a little area in the corner of my bedroom a reading nook so I won't disturb the hubby while I read late into the night. It feels good to have a small quiet corner of the world

There's just something to be said about being the first person to read a book that the library bought, and that they bought it from your recommendation. So far this is a great read. Has me asking straight away "what's going on here?" and wanting to read more to find out.

"...the system goes down, the lights blink out and there you have it, another body on the floor surrounded by things that don't mean much to anyone except to the one who can't take any of them along."

Good music and a good book on a cold night.

I honestly don't know where to start!
(yes those are all library books 😀 the ladies behind the desk all know me by name, I love it ❤)

It's been a while, and it took me just as long to finish this book. Not because it was a bad read, just a hard start. I thought a few times I was going to have to put it down and just let go. But I'm glad I didn't. The book hits home, having a daughter of my own who is on the fast track to becoming a teen. And in these pages I found myself bonding with Kate, the mother of Amelia. The twists and turns, the emotional grabs, make this worth the read.

"The game worked because the more Josephine played the victim, the more a person wanted to victimize her..."
Ahhhh, reading this is becoming frustrating, seeing as I have a "mother" who is very close to the character of Josephine.

"Those eyes will go for a high price."