I‘m really enjoying the art in the new Wizard of Earthsea graphic novel . Atmospheric and beautiful .
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I‘m really enjoying the art in the new Wizard of Earthsea graphic novel . Atmospheric and beautiful .
Found the sixties in this graphic memoir! #WickedWords @AsYouWish
Also my August nonfiction for #MonthlyNonfiction2025 @julieclair
Is this a cheat? Nah, it's a flexible challenge! #WickedWords @AsYouWish
I picked this up for the Goodreads debut challenge, and I'm quite enjoying it so far.
Cute, magical, queer graphic novel.
#WickedWords @AsYouWish
I was tentative going in, but ended up really enjoying this! It's not super pace-y or anything, but I thought Collins adeptly trod the balance of writing a character who we all know turns out terribly.
#WickedWords @AsYouWish
Finally found #lightning ! And I have a book out of the library with a piano on the cover.
#ISpyBingo #ISpy @TheAromaOfBooks
#dogsoflitsy
That is all
Finally found a Z book! #LitsyAtoZ #LitsyAtoZ2025 @TexReader
Only X to go now, and I know what I'm reading there (XO, Xena by Kate Healey)
This was a sweet, magical graphic novel. Good fun.
The 2nd half of the #Pantone2025 #readingchallenge is HEEERE!
This challenge is based on Fashion Week seasonal trend colours, this time for the northern hemisphere Autum and Winter. Please note there are TWO grids - for London (orange border) and NY (mauve border).
To play, just find a colour in a book cover, then plonk the cover into the grid. There are no other rules! Colours are listed in text in comments. Share and enjoy.
@litsyevents
The 2nd half of the #Pantone2025 #readingchallenge is HEEERE!
This challenge is based on Fashion Week seasonal trend colours, this time for the northern hemisphere Autum and Winter. Please note there are TWO grids - for London (orange border) and NY (mauve border).
To play, just find a colour in a book cover, then plonk the cover into the grid. There are no other rules! Colours are listed in text in comments. Share and enjoy.
@litsyevents
Another entry for the lettering hall of shame, but I am excited about this new project on the hook. Malduguns Fen Fire Sweater by Linda Skuja. I'm doing it as a light cotton top. #litsycrafters
I'm not sure what to say about this, except that I don't think it's as clever as it thinks it is.
Words springing to mind are “leaden“, “trite“, “superficial“, and “gimmicky“, but if I said all of that you'd think I hated it. I didn't. It was just meh.
I think I just like my books about stereotypes and marginalisation to have at least a smidgen of intersectionality. A tiny nod. A soupçon.
BUT it did fill Acclaimed Titles in my GR challenge.
Beautifully illustrated book of creation stories from the Yindjibarndi people of northwestern Australia.
#MonthlyNonfiction2025 @julieclair
More than halfway through and still waiting for this metafiction to live up to its hype. I'm not sure whether it's just me, or whether I still judge every author using 2nd person in comparison to NK Jemisin (and none of them are NK Jemisin). Maybe it will all come together before the end?
Anyhow, I've finished #WickedWords for July @AsYouWish
MG Australian riff on AYTGIMM. MC is a comp swimmer whose teammate and BFF wants to ask her out, but she is not ready . She gets her first period at his house, which she's also not ready for.
The drama lies mostly around school r'ships, a new kid, MC's rival on the swim team (who has troubles of her own - child abuse mentioned, not sexual) and dealing with having been abandoned by her mother who has run off to India.
#WickedWords @AsYouWish
This was a rather lovely little graphic novel set in a magical Benin-inspired fantasy world.
With Okupe being Nigerian, that's a wrap on the Formidable Reading Challenge! #urc2025 #URC @Faranae #frc #frc2025
I've put all the other prompts into a grid for the Ultimate Reading Challenge - and have only three to go there.
Making a woollen baby pinafore as a followup to my recent baby blanket. Have I acquired a baby in the meantime? No. Have any of my friends? Also no.
#litsycrafters #crochetandabook
Also finished this week: Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers. It was fine, a decent cosy mystery. It did drag a bit for me, though I'm not quite sure what was missing.
Filled the England prompt for #WickedWords @AsYouWish , also Poolside Puzzlers for the Goodreads challenge.
This is an excellent graphic novel adaptation of Williams-Garcia's classic novel. Recommended!
#WickedWords @AsYouWish
Tag is current read, just started. Mostly posting to show you my finished beanie! #litsycrafters
Tag is current read, just started. Mostly posting to show you my finished beanie! #litsycrafters
I really really disliked this book, so I'm glad it at least filled a prompt!
Little rich kids and their hateful family gather on a private island and *waves hands* twisty blahblah I really don't care because the only likeable characters are the dogs.
@julieclair #FictionalTraveler
Beautiful art in this illustrated book of creation stories
pickGorgeous little sapphic (?) romance novella featuring an ace heroine and a robot who runs a tea shop. Examinations of SFnal AI personhood, ethics, nurture, and autonomy.
And I'm done! Nine graphic novels, nine text novels/novellas, and a poetry book.
#LGBTQIA2025 @Kenyazero
so-soGorgeous cover, cute title, liked the mooncake contest storyline idea. The rest was just meh. Theo was a dick, and there was no chemistry between them. Took me ages to read because I kept falling asleep a few pages after picking it up.
I did get the #Autumn prompt for #LGBTQIA2025 @Kenyazero - one to go! As well as Cake, finishing March for #ISpyBingo #ISpy @TheAromaOfBooks
After a long period of chaos and homelessness, Dan‘s alcoholic mum abandons him at his Meemaw‘s place in the Smokies. It‘s not a very queer-friendly town, but there is also joy to be found. I‘m loving this graphic novel so far.
on page 28 :
- Terrible Lettering Hall of Shame award
- That's not how retinal detachment works
- That's not how disability diagnosis works
- That's not how anything works
Impending DNF
Cute MG graphic novel with a bit more going on below the surface.
And with scissors on the cover, that's February done! #ISpyBingo #ISpy @TheAromaOfBooks
Four grids are fully completed; 15 prompts to go.
Murder by Memory - a generation-ship murder-mystery with a nod to knitting? There's really no way I wasn't going to like this.
And I finished my Goodreads seasonal challenge! #goodreadschallenge #readingchallenges
I'm not particularly enjoying the artwork in this graphic memoir so far, but I did spot an Italy!
#WickedWords @AsYouWish
Absolute banger of an opening page
Two-thirds of the way through. I love Ursula Vernon, but I feel like this book would benefit from slashing 100 pages or so out of it. The pining is repetitive and the roadtrip overly long without good justification.
Fingers crossed it speeds up from here.
Guess what's on Hoopla now? :O \o/ #graphicnovel
On my hook : a Marinus baby blanket #litsycrafters
so-soThis was a cute-ish graphic novel on a Beauty & The Beast theme. OK, but a bit forgettable I think.
#WickedWords @AsYouWish
And I just realised that with the rainbow on the cover, this book also gives me a finished grid for June!
I now have nineteen unfilled prompts for the year.
#ISpyBingo #ISpy @TheAromaOfBooks
Really lovely counting picture book about a little child whose parents take him to a pride parade after he is bullied for liking rainbows. Lots of diversity on the page in areas other than sexuality & gender, too. The child learns a lesson about the joy in just being yourself. A good one to stash in little free libraries especially if you're in a book-banning area!
I'm really enjoying the second book in the Paladin series!
Plus, word one from #WickedWords knocked off on day one of the month. @AsYouWish
panSo I hate-read the rest of it. This was DIRE.
Terrible characters making even worse decisions. Completely non-believable situations. Zero character growth, something that is essential in a young-adult series that ends in adulthood. No introspection. And for a series that bills itself a “romance“, having the final getting-together part take place completely off-screen was ... certainly a choice.
Ooh, just realised this dud of a book also fills my last Read Harder prompt, reading a holiday romance that isn't Xmas. So there's that!
#readharder2025 #readingchallenge #readingchallenges
I've finished #Bookchain2025 @TheAromaOfBooks !
Unfortunately the tagged book was not to my liking. Superficial insta-love, unformed minor characters, dynamics that made no sense, slow-burn/angst with an abrupt unearned third-act breakup and no payoff. The MC needed therapy, not a boyfriend.
May done - a bit easier this month!
#WickedWords @AsYouWish
It's Paloma's first trip to Mexico City, home of her long-deceased father, and she doesn't want to be there.
Until she meets new friends, is intrigued by Frida Kahlo, and finds there is a mystery to be solved.
Last Wicked Words for the month! #WickedWords @AsYouWish
And Spanish-Speaking country for @julieclair #FictionalTraveler
Also a GORGEOUS cover.
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