Thank you for this #Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView 😀

1️⃣ I‘m in the process of selling a house and finding another, so I‘ve been too exhausted to read much lately. 😮‍💨 A graphic novel might be easier to read, so I‘ll try the tagged book that the brilliant @Meaw_catlady gave me! 😊

2️⃣ I love playing symphonic metal while reading. Bands like Nightwish and Epica with their soaring vocals and dramatic compositions are the perfect soundtrack! 🎶

Since the wonderful @hannah-leeloo actually posted about this literary shirt today, that seemed a perfect excuse for me to show off my own version of the shirt! I suspect everyone on Litsy can relate to what it says! 😂📚

“Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. A new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me. No father could claim the gratitude of his child so completely as I should deserve theirs.”

YIKES! I knew going into this that Dr. Frankenstein had a God complex, but I didn‘t realize to what extent! 😱

4 out of five wind sprites! 🧚🏻‍♀️🧚🏻‍♀️🧚🏻‍♀️🧚🏻‍♀️

It‘s a few days since I finished this buddy read with the wonderful @Branwen and I‘m still processing my feelings. While I enjoyed the book, it is my least favorite of the series so far, as I felt the heroes stories went in unsatisfying directions. But while the protagonists got short-changed, the villains shined brighter than ever, thanks to the introduction of the fascinating Raboniel!

Thank you for this #Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView 😀

I just realized I still haven‘t posted a review of this book! 😳

1. Raboniel. She‘s everything a book villain should be: charismatic, clever, formidable, and usually at least three steps ahead of the heroes. She‘s so good at being bad, I almost started rooting for her!

2. I‘d like to see the main characters all get happy endings, but since it will be a Sanderson book, that ain‘t happening! 😭

Thank you for this #Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView 😌

1️⃣ Tagged! It can put a lot of pressure on a character to have the whole book named after her, but fortunately Moroda was up to the task!

2️⃣ Hmmm… good question! 🤔 I think usually longer book titles catch my eye more, but there is something admirable about a book that can grab your attention with just one word, like “It” or “Deathless”!

Thank you for this #WondrousWednesday @Eggs 😊

1. Multiple POVs. I love getting different characters perspectives on things, especially if their points of view on events in the book are different from one another.

2. I can only read in English.

3. I‘m a mood reader… but that doesn‘t stop me from making numerous reading lists that I never adhere to! 😂🤣

Thank you for this #Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView

1. I‘m hoping to finish both the tagged book and “Frankenstein” this month! I only have 50 pages left in Rhythm of War!

2. As someone who reads a lot of fantasy, I am so sick of everything being described as smelling of “jasmine”! C‘mon, fantasy authors, there are other scents out there! Also, like many readers, I‘m so sick of characters releasing breaths they didn‘t know they were holding! 🤦🏻‍♂️

It‘s so sad when we have to say goodbye to a member of our Litsy family. 😢 @sharread was such a sweetheart and she will be missed dearly.

Thank you to @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Professional_Book_Dragon @Bookwormjillk for organizing this #SharreadsReadathon Sharing for anyone who‘d like to participate

To honor Sharon, I‘ll be reading Frankenstein, a book she had listed as one of her Fall Favorites. Rest In Peace and fly with the angels, Sharon!

Thank you for this #WondrousWednesday @Eggs 😊

1. “Starless Sea” by Erin Morgenstern, which I recently received from the wonderful @Branwen

2. “Eon” by Alison Goodman, which I recently gifted to the wonderful @Branwen

3. Tagged! In this alternate history, Jean Grey disguises herself as a man to sneak on a ship, and Angel finds himself falling in love with her.
(More in comments).

The blizzard is in full effect here in Massachusetts! 😩🥶🌧 On the plus side, I should have some extra time for reading today while waiting to start the snow removal! 😁📚

Thank you for this #Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView 😁

1️⃣ Not often, but every once in a while, if I‘m at an appointment where I‘m waiting longer than expected and I didn‘t bring a book with me, I‘ll start reading on the Kindle app on my phone. Desperate times and all that!

2️⃣ I love my Kindle Oasis, it even has a warm light option to read comfortably in the dark, so I don‘t have to stop reading for some silly reason like it being past midnight! 🤓

Thank you for this #Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView 😁

1️⃣ Oooh, this is a tough question for me! Usually, I prefer books to have a quicker pace. However, there is something magical about a slow burn done right when the payoff is worth it!

2️⃣ Tagged! I‘m happy when a book has one great twist, but “The Palace Job” has one in almost every chapter. What started as a seemingly breezy heist story turned out to have many more layers than I was expecting!

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

❄️ “The Winds of Winter”! Just kidding, if this post was made in the year 2032, Winds of Winter probably still wouldn‘t be out yet! 🙄 But the tagged book is a lot of fun with a sassy heroine battling a sassier villainess!

❄️ Not gonna lie, 2021 took a lot out of me. ☹️ This year I‘m hoping to get back into more fun things like reading.

❄️ My friends! 🤗

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

❄️ I‘m spending the day at my sister‘s. Last year my niece had a job where she had to work holidays, so we‘re happy she can join us on Christmas this year!

❄️ Brandon Sanderson, Gail Simone, Christopher Moore.

❄️ “A Chair of Anxious Fish”! Not exactly “A Game of Thrones” (or even “A Feast of Crows”), but I‘ll take it! 😅🤣

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!