This romance was so-so for me. A Jewitch in a small town beset by an antiSemitic group meets a man with amnesia who she thinks is a golem she created. Shenanigans ensued, I guess. It was fine.
BUT - having Stars of David on the cover, it fills the very large square in the very last month of #ISpyBingo #ISpy @TheAromaOfBooks
I'm done!
The only wall space without bookshelves has a piano, so the tree's just going to have a bookish backdrop. Tree skirt is the 6-Day Supernova Blanket. Ornaments to follow. Photo bomb by Miss Charlotte.
Excuse background mess, we're fixing things and decluttering this weekend.
#litsycrafters
#Pantone2026 #readingchallenge is GO!
This challenge is based on Fashion Week seasonal colours, this time for the N. hemisphere Spring and Summer Note there are TWO grids - for London (green border) and NY (purple border). Make sure you get both,
To play, just find a colour in a book cover, & plonk the cover into the grid. There are no other rules! Share and enjoy. There will be a second Autumn/Winter challenge down the track.
@litsyevents
#Pantone2026 #readingchallenge is GO!
This challenge is based on Fashion Week seasonal colours, this time for the N. hemisphere Spring and Summer Note there are TWO grids - for London (green border) and NY (purple border). Make sure you get both.
To play, just find a colour in a book cover, & plonk the cover into the grid. There are no other rules! Share and enjoy. There will be a second Autumn/Winter challenge down the track.
@litsyevents
I've just finished this absolutely marvellous graphic biography of the Mitford family. What an incredible, talented, hot mess they were! Recommended heartily.
#WickedWords @AsYouWish #Diary
I'm reading Magical Meet Cute, so of course the word “magic“ is everywhere. Off and racing for the last month of the year
#WickedWords @AsYouWish #Magic
#LGBTQIA2025 @Kenyazero #readingchallenge
My one outstanding prompt was Autistic Rep, and what better book for that prompt than Hannah Gadsby's memoir?
I did this one in audio to hear it in Gadsby's own voice. It is brilliant, of course, and devastating.
Getting a jump on my December #MonthlyNonfiction2025 @julieclair
Tried this in text earlier but I've switched to audio since Gadsby herself is narrating
#audiocrafting : picked up my Poppy blanket again #litsycrafters
It's my ninth litsyversary!
Things I've been making for my niblings while reading this week: a simple scarf in Faded Black colourway of Bendigo Woollen Mills Dolce (wool/bamboo)
And freehanded a houndstooth beanie in hand dyed Skein Cushy tonals
#litsycrafters
I had to read this a couple of times back-to-back to make sure I got everything. Dense, beautiful, so much world-building packed into a very short space.
And with #Husband in the title, I'm down to one prompt to go, and I've already picked up that book (Magical Meet Cute)
#DonebyDecember #ISpyBingo #ISpy @TheAromaOfBooks
Another “just fine“ read. Small-town autumn-vibes insta-love, “just talk to each other“ romance. I'm so confused by all the people who complained that this was way too spicy - there's maybe two two brief vanilla sex scenes?
Anyway. #Wreath #ISpyBingo #ISpy @TheAromaOfBooks
Progress on #ISpyBingo #ISpy @TheAromaOfBooks
Remaining prompts: Husband or wife, Menorah or Star of David, and Wreath. I have books lined up for all of them (though recs are always welcome!)
This small-town holiday romance is ... fine. A perfectly cromulent story.
More importantly, though, it has a Santa hat, a snowglobe, AND an emergency vehicle on the cover! That's three prompts filled from #ISpyBingo - fully half of my remaining fills - and September done.
#ISpy @TheAromaOfBooks
Next up - Pumpkin Spice Cafe, which has a #wreath on the cover.
Raven Boys graphic novel! I loved these books way back when, so I jumped at the chance when my library got the graphic novel in.
And I'm up to date with #FictionalTraveler too! @julieclair
Unfortunately I really didn't like this book. I was expecting a sweet forbidden lesbian romance set in Iran, and instead got a couple of naive selfish drama merchants -[cont in comments]
Also, be aware, though sold as a romance this is NOT A ROMANCE NOVEL.
I've actually read a whole FOUR nonfiction books this month so far! Picking this Elon Musk critical graphic biography for the Nov square of #MonthlyNonfiction2025 because I think it's the best one I read.
@julieclair
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.
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