Thank you for this #Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView 😊

1️⃣ Truth be told, I‘m happy to visit any bookstore! But “The Last Bookstore” in Los Angeles sounds especially fascinating with its half-archway made out of used books… I‘d probably try to make out every book title before passing through! 🤓

2️⃣ I do sometimes bring a list with me when I go to a bookstore.. but I don‘t think I‘ve ever left a bookstore with ONLY items from the list I brought! 🙈

Thank you for this #WondrousWednesday @Eggs and thank you for the tag @DarkMina 😌

1️⃣ I haven‘t read them in a long time, but anytime someone mentions Nancy Drew or the Hardy Boys, it instantly takes me back to all the kid mysteries I read as a child. I remember especially loving the tagged book as it had a supernatural slant and a ghost on the cover! 👻

2️⃣ Rainy days! 🌨

3️⃣ I‘m grateful for Litsy & friends, and especially Litsy friends! 🤗

“He stepped softly through the library. Honorspren liked their books, judging by the extensive collection—but he rarely saw them in here. They seemed to enjoy owning the books, treating them like relics to be hoarded.”

Hoarding books but not getting around to reading them? Apparently if I were a creature from a fantasy novel, I‘d be an Honorspren! 🤦🏻‍♂️

Thank you for this #Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView and for the tag @Branwen 😀

1. I‘d gladly read about both witches and wizards! 🧙‍♀️🧙‍♂️

2. I‘m cheating a bit and instead of a book, I‘m going with my favorite series… Harry Dresden! Sure, most people would pick that “other” Harry‘s series, but the tagged book was my first foray into urban fantasy, and I loved reading about a snarky wizard interacting with all kinds of paranormal creatures! 👻🧛‍♀️

You know you‘re a true book dragon when you feel compelled to visit bookstores even while you‘re playing a video game! 🐉🤓📚🎮😂

Special thank you to @RaeLovesToRead for convincing me to finally play Bioshock Infinite! You are very wise, Rae! 😊

Hi, everybody! 👋

I had to take some time off to care for my father in his final days and to grieve afterwards, but I‘m feeling more like myself now, so I‘m planning to be more active again on Litsy. I‘ve missed you all! 😊 Looking forward to chatting with you all again! 😀📚

Thank you so much to all you wonderful Littens for the support you‘ve sent my way while my father was battling cancer. Unfortunately, we lost him on Thursday.
Dad, you were a wonderful father and a wonderful friend. We were so afraid we were going to lose you back in 2015 when you fought cancer the first time, and I am so grateful for that extra time we got together. I will always cherish my memories of you.
I love you, Dad, and I always will! ❤️

I wanted to let you all know why I‘ve been inactive. My father was hospitalized after a fall last week, and now it looks like he will be battling cancer a third time. 😢 He has a biopsy scheduled for tomorrow, and we are also looking for short term rehab for him to regain his strength. Any prayers, healing energy, and positive vibes you could send him for a full recovery and another successful battle against cancer would be greatly appreciated! 🙏

Thank you for this #Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView and thank you for the tag @DarkMina 😊

1️⃣ Not sure if this counts as a fairy tale, but I always loved “The Starfish Story”. If that doesn‘t count, I‘ll go with “The Princess and The Pea”. It‘s a fun absurd story and it also inspired the hilarious musical “Once Upon a Mattress”!

2️⃣ Once Upon a Time the dogs were brought into the house and they were all good! (Awww, sounds like a happy tale! 🐶)

Thank you for #WondrousWednesday @Eggs and thank you for the tag @DarkMina 😀

1️⃣ The Challenger explosion. I still remember the teacher sitting us all down to tell us what had happened and honoring the astronauts.
2️⃣ Bookstore. I want to have my own copy and know it‘s available to me at all times!
2️⃣ Tagged! As a kid I loved mysteries (Encyclopedia Brown, Three Investigators, Hardy Boys), but this one was like none I had ever read before! 😱

Thank you for this #Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView 😀

1️⃣ Hmmm…🤔 When I think of chunksters, I automatically think of the Wheel of Time series, so since the “shortest” book in the main series is around 700 pages long, I‘ll say 700 is the magic number of pages that makes a book a chunkster.📖

2️⃣ I prefer to read one, mainly because if the audiobook narrator isn‘t very good, it can make for a long listen! 😴

Also, tagging the largest book I‘ve read!

He stepped away from the wall. Syl stood in the air beside him, inspecting the fabrial.
“So?” Kaladin asked her. “What do you think?”
“I think you‘re going to look extremely silly using it. I can‘t wait.”

Syl is THAT friend who enjoys her friends‘ embarrassment just a little too much! 😂🤣

Thank you for this #Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView 😁

1️⃣ Sylphrena (Syl for short) from “The Stormlight Archives”. 🧚🏻‍♀️

2️⃣ Humor! I love a book character that can make me laugh! Urban Fantasy especially has so many snarky characters with laugh-out-loud dialogue like Joanne Baldwin, Harry Dresden, Justine Jones, and from the tagged book, Kate Daniels! I still chuckle when I think of how Kate met the Beast Lord… “Here, kitty, kitty!” 😂🦁

“The various humans continued their packing, storing everything in wagons for the day‘s storms. The humans were good at judging the arrival of those - though they were often wrong on the hour, they were usually right on the day.”

We‘re good at predicting the weather?! This book really is high fantasy! 😂🤣

Thank you for this #Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView 😊

1️⃣ Pictured: My Kindle Oasis! 🤓
Also pictured: Absolute terror! 😱 (in the form of a Stephen King Funko and one of the very few books by him I DON‘T have on my Kindle)

2️⃣ I love how ebooks save me so much room in storage. If ebooks had never been invented, I may have had to get a second house just to store all my books! 😳

Thank you for this #Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView and thank you for the tag @Branwen 😊

1️⃣ Tagged! Star Wars was a big part of my childhood, I even had SW toys and action figures. When this book came out, it featured the classic characters and portrayed them so authenticity, I felt like I was a kid in the theatre waiting for the Star Wars theme to start playing!

2️⃣ No preference, I‘ll read stories that take place in any country, real or imaginary!

Thank you for this #WondrousWednesday @Eggs and thank you for the tags @TheRiehlDeal @MoonWitch94 @GreenGrl87 😊

1️⃣ Illinois.
2️⃣ Massachusetts.
3️⃣ One older sister. She‘s a big reader too, although our tastes are completely different, she mostly reads nonfiction and romance.
4️⃣ Tagged! My parents used to have cassette tapes of me reading this book out loud when I was only two-and-a-half years old. I started reading very early in life! 🤓

Thank you for this #ThoughtfulThursday @MoonWitch94 and thank you for the tag @Branwen 😀

1️⃣ “That” death from “Mistborn: The Final Empire”. If you read the book, you know the one I mean! 😢

2️⃣ “The Inheritance” by Tom Savage. I have a problem with twist endings that make no sense or don‘t hold up under scrutiny, but this was a twist ending done right! It blew me away, and it made perfect sense when I looked back at the story. 😱

3️⃣ Done! 😁

Thank you for #Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView and thank you for the tag @DarkMina 😊

1. Not at the exact same time, but for long books (like the tagged one), sometimes I‘ll split them up, listen to some chapters on audiobook while I‘m driving and read some chapters later.

2. I have a fairly long commute to work so listening to audiobooks can really make the trip go by quickly. Sometimes I hope for traffic jams just so I can get another chapter in! 😁

#OppositeDay #Light

Some people prefer light reading, but not me! I love heavy books that tackle heavy topics. Although there is one problem... since I prefer books in the 1,000 page range, it doesn‘t do my back any favors trying to lug these tomes around with me! Ouch! 😣

Out of this pile, I‘m tagging the Stephen King book since his novels are usually the exact opposite of light, both in tone and in page count! 😳

#OppositeDay

For today‘s Opposite Day photo prompt of #First I‘m going with the last book in the Wheel of Time series! I‘m halfway through the series and I absolutely love the characters, so I have such mixed emotions about when I read the last book. While I really want to know how it all ends, once I‘ve finished the series, that means there will be no more books left starring these characters. I‘ll be heartbroken to say goodbye to all of them!🥺

Thank you for this #Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView and thank you for the tag @MoonWitch94 😊

1️⃣ Not yet 😢💿

2️⃣ I do! I love to play symphonic metal or power metal in the background while reading fantasy novels, the orchestrations often blend perfectly with the story. I‘ll always associate Epica‘s “The Quantum Enigma” song with the tagged book since I read listening to it while reading the climactic battle at the end of the novel! 🤘🎤🎸🎶

Thank you for this #WondrousWednesday @Eggs 😁

1. My family has no choice! 😂

2. My father and sister both read a lot but they are huge history buffs and mostly read nonfiction, so we rarely read the same books. Also, they tend to read much shorter books, both of them stared in amazement when I got the 1,200 page “Rhythm of War” for Christmas! 😱

3. Tagged! I loved the first book so much, I can‘t believe I still haven‘t read the sequel yet! 😳

Thank you for these #3WordReviews @ShyBookOwl and thank you for the tag @Mavey 😌

Staggering! 🤯
Fascinating! 🖖
Unique! 🦄

If you‘d like to play, consider yourself tagged! 😀🏷

Thank you for this #SundayFunday @ozma.of.oz and thank you for the tag, @Branwen 😀

1. I‘ve read Dungeons and Dragons books, but I can‘t think of any books based on video games that I‘ve read. I keep meaning to read the tagged book, which is based on one of my favorite video games ever, Bioshock! 🎮

2. No, I think they‘re adaptations, like movie tie-ins are. 🎥

3. The world of “Red Dead Redemption I/II” would make for a fantastic novel! 🤠

“That is the most ridiculous thing I‘ve ever heard! Robbing Jasnah.”
“Isn‘t it though?”
“Robbing JASNAH?!”
“I know!”
“She‘s never mentioned this, so I bet you did it, didn‘t you? At least, you fooled her for a little while.”
“I totally did! I almost escaped. Except, you know, she‘s Jasnah!”

Rule #1 of the Stormlight Archive... Never EVER mess with Jasnah Kholin! 😳

Thank you for this #WondrousWednesday @Eggs and thank you for the tag @Branwen 😁

1️⃣ eBooks! I love being able to highlight passages in my eReader, especially when I‘m keeping track of clues to a mystery in the story! 🕵🏼‍♂️

2️⃣ On the Kindle app on my phone in the bathroom at work! (It was either that or listen to people badmouth each other... I made my choice!)🙈

3️⃣ Today I finished a project at work that was causing me a lot of stress! 😅

Thank you for #WondrousWednesday @Eggs and thanks for the tag @TheSpineView 😁

1. Voldemort! Wait, that‘s too easy! I‘ll go with Holden from “Leviathan Wakes”. Holden tries to do the right thing, but he‘s also impulsive, narrow minded, and makes so many bad decisions I wanted to smack him off the page!

2. Tagged! Fun book, but a lot of questions were raised about the world of The Hollows and almost none of them were answered!

3. Fairly often.

Thank you for this #Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView 😊

1. I‘m fine with any setting as long as the story is good! 😁 But I do have a special weakness for gothic settings... foggy streets, chilly cemeteries, looming mansions! They make my spooky soul smile! 😱👻

2. I prefer books with female protagonists. There are so many books with male leads, it‘s refreshing when a female is the star. I‘ve tagged a book featuring one of my favorite sassy heroines!

Dalinar glowered at Shallan.
“What?” she said.
“He was never like this before you arrived,” Dalinar said.
“Stormfather help us,” Shallan said lightly, sitting beside Adolin. “A Kholin has learned to relax once in a while? Surely the moons will stop orbiting and the sun will come crashing down.”

I‘d laugh, except I have an even harder time relaxing than the Kholins do! The above meme is an accurate depiction of me trying to clear my mind! 🙈

Thank you for this #WondrousWednesday @Eggs and thank you for the tag @TheSpineView 😀

1. For the tagged book, I‘m going with “Ziggy Stardust”, since it involves humanity‘s savior traveling through space and spiders from another world! 🕷

2. I love figures based on book characters like Funko Pops.

3. It doesn‘t matter to me if characters are my age. I enjoy the Stormlight Archive series and some of those characters are hundreds of years old!

Thank you for this #Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView 😊

1. Elayne from the Wheel of Time series. The other characters sometimes write her off as haughty and assume she looks down on them because she‘s royalty, but she is really compassionate, and she is much kinder and more capable than they give her credit for.

2. Tagged! I wouldn‘t have minded the ending so much... except it was the same exact ending as one of his earlier books so it just felt lazy.

I was tagged for #FiveFingerBookChallenge by the wonderful @RaeLovesToRead 😊

👍 Book you love: “Ill Wind” from the Weather Warden series. R.I.P. Rachel Caine! 😢
👆 Book you often recommend: “Good Omens”
🖕 Book you didn‘t like: “Hannibal”. So disappointing! 😒
💍 Character you‘d like to marry: Nynaeve from the Wheel of Time series!
🤞 Book you pinky promise to read soon: “Aleister Blake”. Just look at that gorgeous cover! 😍

Tagging @Branwen

Thank you for this #Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView 😊

1. Iago from Othello. He is so detestable, ruining people‘s lives just because he can. Yet he is also so clever and Machiavellian, I find him fascinating to read about.

2. This is a toughie! Usually, I care more about the characters than the plot. Still there have been books where the plot was so good, I was fully invested even if the characters were a bit bland (“Children of Time” comes to mind).

Today is the celebration of a man who dreamed of peace and equality for everyone. We still have a long way to go before his dream becomes a reality, but I hope with all my heart that one day we will wake up in a world without racism and prejudice and we won‘t need to dream anymore. Wishing everyone a peaceful and happy Martin Luther King Jr Day!

Thanks for this #WondrousWednesday @Eggs and thank you for the tag @TheSpineView 😁

1. Tagged! This was one of the first books I received as a gift from the wonderful @Branwen and I loved how the story blended fantasy and horror!

2. “Othello”. I expected Shakespeare to be boring but found reading this play to be mesmerizing.

3. “Hannibal” by Thomas Harris. I loved the first two Hannibal Lecter books, but this one left me bitterly disappointed!

Kaladin about spat out his drink. “He doesn‘t need fixing up with anyone.”
“That‘s not what Syl says,” Veil replied.
“Syl used to think human children came out through the nose in a particularly violent sneeze,” Kaladin said. “She is not an authority on this topic.”

Syl‘s theory sounds ridiculous at first... except I‘ve experienced sneezing fits like that! 🤧😂

Here is another wonderful #ThoughtfulThursday from the wonderful @MoonWitch94 😌

1️⃣ Living in so much uncertainty when I‘m the kind of person who generally likes structure and familiarity. 😳

2️⃣ This year I learned that despite my depression and anxiety sometimes making me doubt myself, I‘m stronger than I give myself credit for! 💪

3️⃣ Less. I had trouble concentrating on reading at times this year. 😔

4️⃣ Tagged! Been on my TBR forever! 🤓

When you already have the book on Kindle, but your sister gets you a physical copy for Christmas so you can go through the book‘s maps and illustrations easier! 🤓😂

For all those who celebrate, Merry Christmas! 🎄🎁 And whether you celebrate Christmas or not, I hope you are having a wonderful day today and that 2021 is a much better year for you than 2020 was! 😊

Thank you for this #Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView and thank you for the tag @MoonWitch94 🙂

1️⃣ Yes, thanks to the kindness and generosity of @Branwen who sent Christmas presents to me earlier this month! 🤗🎁🎄 Branwen‘s thoughtfulness inspired me (after I received her gifts before I even STARTED my Christmas shopping 😳), so I have since sent out some early Christmas presents too! 😁

2️⃣ Most definitely! 🤓

“If we knew that secret, Rushu, we would not only be able to restore Urithiru, we might be able to power these airships. We might be able to create fabrials beyond what anyone has ever imagined.”
Rushu cocked her head. “Neat,” she said. “I‘ll write down my thoughts.”
“That‘s all? Just... ‘neat‘?”

Note to self - Rushu does NOT impress easily! 😂🤣

As many people reflect on what they are thankful for today, I want to let you know how grateful I am for all of you! I first joined Litsy looking to chat books, but since then I have made so many wonderful friendships here. Thank you all for the kindness, laughter, and support I‘ve received here, you all have really made a positive influence in my life. I‘m very thankful for all you Littens! 😊

Thank you for this #WondrousWednesday @Eggs and thank you for the tag @TheSpineView 😁

1️⃣ There will be a theme to both my answers, but I really admire Brandon Sanderson‘s mind, his ability to create such magical and intricate worlds and fill them with such deep and captivating characters!

2️⃣ Since I‘m a notoriously slow reader, my time will be dedicated to “Rhythm of War”! I‘m buddy reading this with @Branwen whose kindness I admire, too! 😊

Thank you for this #ThinkPositiveBePositive @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 😌

I see good in people every day that I‘m on Litsy! 😀 The people on this site are always so supportive of each other, and you all share your enthusiasm for reading with everyone. I have seen and felt so much kindness since joining Litsy, and I have made many treasured friendships as well. You are all such good people, Thank you all for being YOU, Littens! 😊

Thank you for this #Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView 😊

1️⃣ Most definitely! Since Thanksgiving will be somewhat minimized this year, I plan to use some of the extra time to read more of “Rhythm of War” this weekend! 😁

2️⃣ Usually the weekend after Thanksgiving. I am one of those “don‘t start promoting Christmas until Halloween and Thanksgiving are over” people! 😒

If you‘d like to play, consider yourself tagged! 😀

Thank you for hosting #KindnessAndPositivityWeek @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Andrew65

Since joining Litsy, I‘ve never had a bad experience here! Everyone is so kind and thoughtful, and I am honored to be a part of this wonderful community! There simply aren‘t enough characters to thank everyone who has ever been nice to me, but I‘m tagging some very special Littens below:

@Branwen @Meaw_catlady who I have become friends in real life with as well!

4 out of 5 dragons for “Palom” by @l.l.mcneil 🐉🐉🐉🐉

L.L. McNeil has crafted a much different tale than the story that came before it. Instead of the citizens of Linaria, the world itself gets explored more this time. While I did miss the fast pace of the first novel, unexpected twists and fulfilling character arcs still made for a brilliant read.

You can find my full review on Goodreads here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2316005863

Offering respect, admiration, and gratitude to all the brave men and women who have ever served, are currently serving, or will ever serve. Wishing everyone well on this Veterans Day! ❤️🤍💙

Thank you for this WondrousWednesday @Eggs and thank you for the tag @TheSpineView 😁

“And then some exciting things happened!”
Pretty exciting story, no?! 🤓😂

If you‘d like to participate, consider yourself tagged! 🏷

Thank you for this #DailyTarot @Annie1215 and thank you for the tag @MoonWitch94 😁

#ThreeOfClubs #Preparation

I immediately thought of the rogues from “The Palace Job”! These notorious con artists have got to make many preparations in order to stay one or two (or 300) steps ahead of their mark! 😉

@Branwen @Meaw_catlady @ErinSueMreads Would you like to play? 😀