And done #WickedWords @AsYouWish
Two audiobooks, which is rather rare for me (I'm crocheting a blanket).
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And done #WickedWords @AsYouWish
Two audiobooks, which is rather rare for me (I'm crocheting a blanket).
I had put this audiobook aside, but picked it up again for the “Audiobook with Multiple Narrators“ prompt of #booklistqueenchallenge25 - the last one I need to complete the challenge.
Turns out it's also the last one i need to complete #WickedWords for November! @AsYouWish
#Wife #WickedWords @AsYouWish
Enjoying this reasonably well so far; bit too early to tell. Making amazing Wicked Words progress, though.
I'm listening to this audiobook from Libby - and it's got the PRH penguin on the cover! That finishes May of #ISpyBingo #ISpy @TheAromaOfBooks
Yay!
Six prompts to go - and I've JUST found a single book that fills three of them. Stay tuned.
They're coming very slowly now... finally got #Cobweb to finish October. Seven to go.
I just finished this book today, so I'm gonna double-dip by grabbing a word for the November #WickedWords as well! And this book was as gothic as a very gothic thing. Creeeepy.
@AsYouWish
I really REALLY enjoyed this House of Usher retelling! Gothic horror meets Last of Us.
And I'm now officially halfway through the Goodreads Fall Challenge.
#Pantone2025
#readingchallenge folks - and anyone new - there WILL be a #Pantone2026! I've already made up the grids, and there are some very pretty colours. Spring/Summer will release in December.
For new folks: all you do is find one of the colours in a book cover, then plonk the cover into the grid. There are no other rules!
Be sure to get both the London and NY colour sets, and watch out for the followup Autumn/Winter grid.
@litsyevents
And a surprise #Prince in this graphic novel means I'm done for the month!
#WickedWords @AsYouWish
Crocheting nerds unite!
I've just been sitting staring at this cover thinking how much I love it! Probably should actually read the book.
#coverlove #graphicnovel
On my hook : Radiance blanket in Daily Stitch Wool Blend Tweed #litsycrafters
I won four Firsts and four Seconds in my state Royal Show! Everything I entered won a prize. Here are some of them. #litsycrafters
I've started a new blanket - this is Poppy by Ineke Mooijenkind. #litsycrafters
Reading: Champion, a graphic novel about a high school basketball player who starts to discover a wide world of art and social justice while working on a project about the author.
Just checking in, because I've had a Pan or two lately, to say that I'm halfway through this sapphic Jupiter murder mystery and absolutely loving it.
panI don't get the hype. The translation was clunky, & it's repetitive & overexplained. Every single story involves women sacrificing themselves and their own lives & interests for others.
I guess that's what I get for breaking my guideline by reading a male author who doesn't come very highly recced by people I trust. And for reading SF by a non-SF author.
It did fill the swap shelf prompt in #urc2025 #URC though! @Faranae
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I never updated on that GenmaichaTea Shawl - it's done now!
Tagged is my current read (via Libby)
#crochet #litsycrafters
With Gouda Friends being the obvious fill for #dairyfairy, I'm done for #fourfoursin25 !
I‘m ashamed to say I know more about Tuskegee than about these abuses in my own backyard. Library borrow.
Plucked out of my Little Free Library. Thanks, unknown book friend!
On my hook: Marinus blanket in Sultan Pastello gradient cotton #litsycrafters #crochet
September is done! #WickedWords @AsYouWish
Best: Gouda Friends was a pretty fun romance.
Worst: Road Trip, URGH.
Graphic novel well worth checking out: The Puzzling Fate of Millicent Graves: this is really fun. Read it for yourself or gift it to a middle grade person in your life.
pickSurprise fill of the last prompt for September! Wait, how is it September already??
#WickedWords @AsYouWish
Well I got through 224 pages of Gouda Friends while we were at the emergency vet with this fellow tonight, so I'd say it's pretty good. Friends to lovers, and yes there is cheese.
Why vet? The elderly Mr Darcy took an awkward fall off a table and jarred his arthritic hips badly. No fractures thankfully and we took the opportunity to run bloods which were all good. He's on 3-5 days of bupe, nsaids and pregabalin then review
Cathy Yardley hasn't let me down before, so fingers crossed for this unicorn chaser. Hard to go wrong with cheese.
OK, Road Trip does have one redeeming feature, which is that the title is Damson colour, completing my New York autumn/winter #Pantone2025 #readingchallenge !
panHow is this book a snoozefest that also makes me furious? How are people calling it a “cute romcom“?
It features no chemistry btw MCs, dual timeline that doesn't justify itself, a road trip that doesn't make sense, miscommunication trope, a stalker, alcoholism, and an attempted rape. Every man in this book, the MMC included, is absolutely irredeemably toxic and should never be allowed a woman ever again. I loved The Flatshare, but hated this.
This was a cute little graphic novel about three monsters who are trying to fit in (and not be killed by monster hunters). Some allegory going on about systemic violence and the Klan, but I'm not sure how well it worked. Also found family, be yourself, yadda yadda.
#Mask #WickedWords @AsYouWish
This is a highly original take on Three Fates myths - I really enjoyed it!
#email #WickedWords @AsYouWish
Also done #FictionalTraveler already! September is English-Speaking and I read a greatly-updated graphic re-imagining of the Huckleberry Finn story. It's excellent. @julieclair
Off and racing with #MonthlyNonfiction2025 for September - this graphic nonfiction book about the Redbone rock band. It was just so-so for me, but interesting in parts.
@julieclair
Finally some movement on my #fourfoursin25 #fourfours reading challenge! My first prompt fill for months, #picketcricket . Only one to go!
How's your challenge going? @thebacklistbook @clwojick @TheAromaofBooks @lizpixie @AbigailJaneBlog @CoffeeNBooks @ReadingRachael @mcipher @AbigailJaneBlog @PageShifter @Jas16 @willaful @bekakins @ImperfectCJ
#WickedWords wrap for August. I think my pick would be Lost in the Moment and Found, though Ballad wins in the Exceeding my Expectations (which were low) stakes. @AsYouWish
"Happy birthday, Haymitch!"
#firstlinefridays @ShyBookOwl
Working on a GenmaichaTea shawl in this very fine and soft Sultan Deluxe cotton. #showandtelltuesday @Catsandbooks
pickAnnnnd... once again I just plain adore an Olympus, Inc book. This one's a sapphic (both MCs are bi) romantic suspense. It's set in an island festival, with the romance being between a single-mum burlesque performer and a fallen-from-grace influencer/photographer. It's body positive and sex work positive and fun. Also, there are murders.
Extra kudos to Healey for writing an X book to finish off my #LitsyAtoZ #LitsyAtoZ2025 @TexReader #LetterX
This is an absolutely superb graphic memoir of George Takei's life. I learned a lot more about his political activism, and about the forces that led to him leading most of his life closeted. The book brilliantly balances this sadness with fire and hope and joy.
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