A sort of whodunnit, classic remote house full of guests & mystery, strong connection to WWI, with seances & spiritualists.
I liked Kate & Donovan and the supernatural element but it didn't quite come off like I would have hoped. Maybe too much WWI trying to be connected for me? 🤔

Loved the #audiobook narration and really enjoyed the story; I found it had a Gaiman feel to it. To me the nature of these witches was a different take and it really made it for me.

The extra story about the ash born boy was fun but did any one else find all the constant names confusing? Maybe I'd have followed it better in print lol.

@FantasyChick only doorstep when I arrived home just now. Some little critter definitely tried to poke his head in the bag because look at this amazing candy haul!!! Woo Halloween in Disney and now Halloween at my door! So spoiled!!! Thanks ☺️☺️

#LMPBC #groupx #teamcanada
@StayCurious @BookishTrish @StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego

I enjoyed the narration and listened to this in about 3 main chunks so I would say I obviously found it compelling. I had 2 possibilities for the end result and my 2nd choice turned out to be correct. I liked Finn because I found him to be complicated and not completely likeable, nor necessarily reliable.

I love the movie, I love Del Toro, so of course I love this book!!!
I enjoyed the multiple POV, I loved how everyone's story was both separate and connected. The invitation is there, connect your individual story, become part of the living picture; we are all one, we are all everything and nothing. Love is love 💙💙💙

We will love these small, unhappy trees...

Coincidentally @StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego I also just finished #LMPBC pick for this month and I'll be sending it out tomorrow! @StayCurious
LOVED IT😍😍😍😍😍for so many reasons!
#teamcanada #groupx @FantasyChick @BookishTrish

Finished this #audiobook while #audiocleaning #audiowalking #audiocooking and importantly EATING! lol
I'm on an elimination diet (no gluten, dairy, or added sugar) so this was a "what can I throw together because my GF pancake mix has dairy I need to eat now" kind of dinner sans recipe. Conclusion: like rice pasta, that was actually a lot of spinach, yay I finally used the xanthan gum i bought ages ago!

I enjoyed this quick audio read (narration was great btw!)!
Many review this as being darkly humorous but, oddly, I didn't find myself chuckling too much- here and there sure but I found it more just straightforward. I found less darkness in the murders than in what motivated them and perhaps, still the question of justification.
This is another Nigerian set novel I loved- culturally, I adore seeing the differences.

Look what I spotted in a local bookshop! Definitely on my TBR now!!!

Well I LOVED it and it was a quick read even though it's a bit of a chunkster!!! And I had to kick my ass in gear this week to get it done (mmmm lately I've been a wee bit of a social butterfly- I think I made a comeback from being stood up😉😂). Anyway, needless to say, curling up with a great book for a quiet evening in has well been on my to-do list!
Thanks @FantasyChick it should makes it way to you soon @StayCurious

This book is getting returned today because I know 2 people who want to check it out of the library! Lol
You know a recipe book is good when your coworkers comment every day on how good/healthy your food looks and smells and demand recipes. I copied a bunch of the recipes at work yesterday and every coworker that walked by the book snapped a photo or two!

Well, my dear littens, it seems (unless some excuse is coming) I got stood up today. So I decided, if no one else is going to take me out, I'll do it myself. Didn't do my hair and put make up on on a Sunday to not go out.
At least Dracul is entertaining, interesting, mysterious- guess it makes up for a date 🤷‍♀️

As good as the 1st? Maybe not but still good. I liked the complexity of the relationships- especially between Watson and Holmes. But every relationship was complicated and different from one another which is more true to life.
Of course an unexpected ending, Holmes-style.

#LMPBC #teamcanada #groupx
@FantasyChick well about to dive in to this chunkster!!! So excited!!!

@FantasyChick
😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
THANK YOU!!!!!!

I've decided I love the way Capote writes, this paragraph being an example of why.
Ranking the stories in this collection:
1) Breakfast at Tiffany's
2) A Christmas Memory
3) House of Flowers
4) A Diamond Guitar

Basically all these stories will break your heart. 💗

Started yesterday as my hold came in over the long weekend- anyone else find it oddly appropriate/satisfying that it came in for August? Haha

And your soul that I awoke
So that it could go on
Singing until the end of life.

💗💗💗💗💗💗
#poemaday #NerudaEveryDay I know I was slack in this for a long time but finally finished this little book and oh how I adore it! It truly is a love story in poem form.

Goddamn.
Punch. In. Gut.

Review of just this story - hella high!

Sometimes this feels so true. Other times, I wonder if it should be.

Oof, I wish I could tell people to get off their effin high horses with as much poise.

#LMPBC #teamcanada #groupx
@FantasyChick @BookishTrish @StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego @StayCurious
Finished and going to send off soon! I'll be including a little something in the package too 😘
I won't say much here but I enjoyed this (if even I found it a little chronologically jumpy at times) & now I want to create a wall of witch depictions for fun lol

What's the difference btw being dead & having a boyfriend? ....Death sticks around.

I cannot describe how much I loved this and wished it would continue, telling all these women's stories!! I'm a sucker for retellings, especially those from the overlooked POV. I loved Polly's story b/c it was chilling; is getting someone to like her for 5 min a superpower or is it a sad reality that it is that easy to manipulate the tropes that surround a woman?

It didn't feel so bad. Human contact is a terrible drug.

Yes! This banana bread bowl is like if a hug had a flavour!!!!
I used steel cut oats instead of brown rice and my toasted pecans from last night.
Good morning, Litsy!!!

Really enjoying this recipe book so far! I love "bowl" meals and being somewhat accidentally, primarily vegetarian it's quite useful. I also love recipe books that emphasize the idea of "use what you have on hand" and "make it your own"! Anyway, these pecans smells delish and the maple-sriracha sauce is extremely good! As was the tahini sauce recipe.

Yes, we call that anxiety now.

#bookclub @llwheeler

Like many people with a bold fondness for volunteering intimate information, anything that suggested a direct question, a pinning-down, put her on guard.

...it was still a place of my own, the first, and my books were there, and jars of pencils to sharpen, everything I needed, so i felt, to become....

#bookclub @llwheeler

#LMPBC
@BookishTrish @FantasyChick @StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego @StayCurious
#teamcanada #groupX

Starting🙌🙌🙌

Omg my library has this adorable reading challenge - one for July and one for August. So, these will check off 2 of 6 necessary. @llwheeler did you know?
#bookclub

Finished this morning. I enjoyed the first half or 3/4 and then the supernatural element just made me feel like I was really missing something. I generally enjoy supernatural twists and inexplicable events but in this particular book, it made it hard to get through the climax and muddied the otherwise compelling stories (IMO).

#audiobook #ontario #beachday
Yay!☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️

How morbid is listening to an #audiobook about a serial killer in a cemetary??

Did this book seriously just ruin my desire for a septum piercing?! Goddamn it! I don't know if I should be upset by that or happy I won't end up spending that money?! Lol

Soaking in this long weekend summer sun ☀️🇨🇦☀️
Started this #audiobook this week and the very beginning made me make this face 😬😬 so, you know it's good. Lol

I RARELY bail on a book but honestly my loan on this is expiring in less than a day and I'm just over half way through and I honestly don't care how the story turns out. I really thought I'd like this book so this is a shame. I don't mind the quilt-like quality of the chapters, I think the characters bother me- I just find them too flat. Maybe it's the structure & the turning point will come but I think I've given this all the attention I can.

#LifeGoals ???
But for like real. 😂

@llwheeler @FantasyChick

As a Classicist I think I was destined to love this; as a one who enjoyed The Song of Achilles, I think just so.
I loved this more. I think I'm reading this at a time when I can relate to retelling stories, retelling your own story, reshaping yourself, letting go of the past so as not to simply repeat it- essentially, transformation.

Who was lucky enough to find one of their TBR books in a little library at random today?!☀️😄☀️

A friend called me a goddess this week and instead of shrinking from what feels like a way over the top compliment, I decided maybe I'll just try to embody what that could mean (take a cue from Circe?).

I finally slept 7/8hrs last night for the first time in at least a week and I spent most of the day walking outside (hit 30k) in the sun with a friend. Tired again, in the best way💛☀️.
To all the goddesses, shine bright☀️☀️

Sleep has been a particularly elusive creature this past week so I've been up since the witching hour. But hey, did my workout for the day, got my steel-cut oats made, am enjoying the choir of birds, and can get a bunch of reading in!
Sometimes it's easier to accept the sleep loss than toss and turn getting frustrated.

This is Bob, Bob The Bee. He is my companion right now.
I'm having one of those nights where I kind of wish I could be cuddled up beside someone. Anyone out there feeling the same way tonight? At least there is comfort in knowing you aren't the only one that feels that way.

Hello. My name is a little bit of a sudden change.
You killed my brother.
Prepare to be a good night.

I don't even have a brother! 😂
#hello Thursday @wanderinglynn

Enjoying my #audiobook and the rare summer like weather on a little secluded courtyard at work 😄

A bit of piece on a day when I'm feeling annoyingly low and anxious is very much welcomed.

...Her hair went from sexy murderer to electrocuted hedgehog.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Oh gurl, I feel ya!!!!

Guys!!!! I finally have a couch!!!😮😄😄😄 only took 7 months 😜😜😜 but now I have a cozy place to curl up and read - perfect on a day when I'm exhausted both in brain and body and the weather is all 🌧🌧🌧🌧
Anyone wanna come curl up with me and read? Lol

...to prove my skin was still my own.

I know that feeling.

Couldn't sleep so picked up Circe at 4am, somehow knowing that chp 14 would probably be the unfortunate chp. So for all those who need it, TW rape for the end of chp 14.
This technically may be a spoiler for the end of that chp but I think people will be ok with that.