WHAT! @Silent_Whispers I hit the secret Santa lottery! Look at all these amazing books and goodies! No wonder everyone loves Litsy secret Santa time. This is the best Solstice ever! Thank you thank you thank you Roselyn! #ssgp #secretsantagoespostal #wintersolsticebookexchange

Horror book mislabeled as sci-fi! 🙈

Finally getting to this backlist. It‘s on sale with audible for $5 right now! #audiobook #jkrowling #audiblesale

The best time of year is here! Only 72 books. (Doing maths on how many I‘ve read and how many I can read before March...)

My most favorite “beast” Saw her at the Memphis zoo this weekend and she‘s pretty much exactly my speed 😂 #beastsboxgiveaway

Been saving this book for just the right time. I‘m stuck in bed with a very sore throat, not able to sleep. So here we go... #hogwarts #harrypotter #firstline

I have checked off a few in #tbrbingo world! This Phryne Fisher story was set up with flashbacks of her time in Paris during WWI so I used it as a book set in Italy or France. It was a cute little mystery. Not the cleverest tie together at the end but still satisfying enough.

If you have some time, please help me plan my holiday reading and shopping! #litsychristmas #booksinthedelta

Tried to be original but this is actually harder than it seems to find books that qualify!

I am on a witchy kick lately ☀️ 🌚 🌏 I tried the winter witch by her a long time ago and couldn‘t get into it. This one is much better!

I'm interested in writing at least a few letters the old fashioned way. Anyone else looking for a pen pal? I feel like this community is a possible resource for similar literary minds!

A little upside downside here... Hannah has done quite well to mimic Christie's Poirot character. The dialogue and actions from Poirot are familiar, even evolved perhaps. But, the plot was not the perfect combination of comfortable suspense and surprise that I turn to Christie for. One of the characters here even defends her own slightly clumsy mystery stories. So, I'm happy there are more Poirot novels, but there's a small crack in the universe.

I'm back from a two week vacation but am actively avoiding real life by listening to this perfect story about kick ass women who don't live by anyone's rules. #TeaAndSympathy

I'm on vacation but spending downtime mostly chatting with my family, so not a lot of reading going on. But I opened this up on my Kindle tonight then quickly realized poetry is perfect for travel. Reflective but short, leaving you feeling even more impacted by the day. #paris #milkandhoney #travel #paris #poetry

Just finished this in prep for my trip to Paris this weekend. Ready for all the champs in France! #thelostgeneration #amoveablefeast #paris

I fly through these Phrynie books! (Pun well intended 😜) They are just a few hours to listen to and fun, history minded investigation stories. Definite pick!

It's Halloween month AND I'm going to Italy next week! Right book at the right time. #october #murder #halloween #italy

I'm home sick today, diving into this audiobook. Hope it's good; I don't read terror, usually. #sleepingbeauties #stephenking #horror

Timequake is my favorite read from September 2017. It's profoundly thoughtful and funny. Put it at the TOP of your list! I read 5 books in total. Not bad but I can do better!

Started listening to this audiobook. So far, it definitely has my attention. #litsybuddyreads #thehateyougive #angiethomas

My second or third time finishing this one. LOVE these type of mysteries. Sherlock, Poirot, "Cozy Mysteries" of all varieties. Even though they are mysteries I find them to be soothing and an easy break from heavier material.

Have any of you read this? I am thinking of adding it to my list of 2017 releases I want to get to by the end of the year. Needs to be REALLY good to move that far up my TBR list.

Some very light reading! Got this audio on sale and it's intriguing enough... not a masterpiece of course but I'm not too good for an easy, fun story! #readforfun

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Ting-a-ling! To be fair I had started Timequake before I made this #tbrbingo card, so this was just finishing it up. But I had been dragging this book out longer in order to savor it. It's rare to know while you are finishing each chapter, rather than at the end of the book, that this one is worth slowing down. Easily a solid 5 stars.

2 of 25... beep bop boop #tbrbingo

Excellently engaging book that everyone should read. I came at this a little skeptical but was on almost every point completely enlightened on the often overlooked complications in the racial system of the United States. There was slight minimization that jailed people did in fact commit a crime, BUT the information presented here explains well (in a non confrontational way) why it's still an overwhelmingly unfair and oppressive system.

If you're reading Little Fires Everywhere (which seems like everyone on Litsy), this episode of All the Books is for you. #littlefireseverywhere #allthebooks #podcast

@ChasingOm @Avanders Here we go! These are my #fivestarpredictions (6, not 5, because I'm weird about liking symmetrical photos 🤷🏼‍♀️)

Police can stop you for traveling with or without luggage, driving an expensive car, a car that needs repairs, out-of-state license plates, a rental car, with mismatched occupants, acting too calm, acting too nervous, dressing casually, wearing expensive clothing or jewelry, being one of the first, middle, or last to deplane, paying for a ticket in cash, using large or small-denomination currency, traveling alone or traveling w/ a companion. WHAT?

"The United States now has the highest rate of incarceration in the world, dwarfing the rates of nearly every developed country, even surpassing those in highly repressive regimes like Russia, China, and Iran."

#jail #prison #racism #jimcrow #usa #book #read

Finished first square on #tbrbingo! (This is going to be a long game.)

This person, though, wanted to break me down, which became interesting because I didn't know I could be broken down further. Who knew? They did, I guess. They smelled it on me...I was in my 20s and desperately insecure, so I thought this was what all relationships were like. I thought this is what I deserved because I was so worthless.

Should be required reading for all people of all sizes and genders. Enlightening perspective on waking through life in a large body.

"Everybody can't be wrong all the time. Sometimes it's gotta be you."

This podcast is so good with discussion and analysis and author insights. Just listen to a random episode if you don't see a book or author that you know. It's all entertaining! #somanydamnbooks

"Lost and weary, Caitlyn Stark gave herself over to her Gods."

#got #book #read #audiobook

My #tbrbingo is ready to go. Some of everything on here based on my current reading list, upcoming travels, Halloween, and books I've been hoping to get to soon.

I bailed on #harrypotter and the cursed child a while back. It's remained at the bottom of one of my #TBR piles. I LOVED the rest of the series and don't want to ruin it. Anyone read it and wish they hadn't?

"The longer he lived, the more Tyrion realized that nothing was simple and little was true." Listening on Audible... difficult to adjust to the voice when the actors on the show are so memorable.

Cannot stop thinking about this story... Can't put my finger on why but these characters are living inside my head now.

"She‘d always seemed to take pleasure in the quietness of my life, as if I‘d become what she thought I would, which was not much of anything at all. This tugging was very old and powerful, and I knew I could easily give in to it, in to nothingness. Or I could push with everything I had the other way."

Though I often looked for one, I finally had to admit that there could be no cure for Paris.

"A sister is more valuable than rubies."

I somehow now feel a need to be a part of the real time experience when pop culture is almost all reading the same book. So I fell victim to the hype and here we are again, unreliable narrators and implantation of doubt into otherwise solid reader instincts for a Paula Hawkins double header.

"I am eternally grateful to him, and indirectly to what Harvard used to be, I suppose, for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else may be going on."

Finished a while back, and never followed up, what a riot! Loved the beginning, not so much the way the end was wrapped up. But a fun read nonetheless. Watch for an eBook deal and grab it cheaply, then fly through it... don't expect a masterpiece but enjoy it for it's quirkiness and fun structure.

Finally finished this. This was such a slow burn but the ending was worth it. I had Anne Franke like feelings after finishing. The war blew through the world in ways we cannot fathom as millennials, but this book gets you just a glimpse and a few examples of how it could have felt. Worthy of the prizes.

Bookish humor... totally entertained that two books I ended up reading right now are both titled Brave Enough. #readharder

Been waiting to get my hands on this since I read Without You There is No Us. CANNOT. WAIT.

I found all these in a Little Free Library! All already on my list.... The book universe is good!