Thank you Waterstones! 🙌🏼

Lazy bum. #DogsofLitsy

I loved Here Comes the Sun so much that I‘ve been letting this sit for 5 months because I feared it would be a let down. 200 pages in I can unequivocally state that it‘s even better. I ❤️ Nicole Dennis-Benn.

Had to purge that nastiness from my soul so paid a visit to my favorite bookshop. #bookhaul

I feel like I need to take a shower in bleach. 🖕🏼Harvey, 🖕🏼Matt Lauer, 🖕🏼Noah Oppenheim, Andy Lack and all of the suits at NBC, 🖕🏼David Pecker. All of you,🖕🏼very much. 5⭐️.

David Jackson went D-A-R-K in this installment. I‘m not a big scaredy cat but this freaked me right the hell out. Probably my own fault for making it my “before bed” book. 😬 Another series up to date! ✅

Nickolas Butler is such a special author. I am a 100%, true blue city girl (like even the suburbs make me twitchy after a while) but he writes so beautifully about the Midwest that I find myself completely captivated by the story AND the setting. He is a master at writing truly lovely depictions of regular folks leading regular lives - novels for grownups, if you will. Loved it. 4⭐️.

“Lyle often thought that the world, so loudly and violently governed by...”

YEP!

Otis speaks the truth. Well, my truth.

It‘s too cold to do anything else.

You know the best part of coming to a series late? No waiting when the book ends on a cliffhanger! Moving immediately on to book 3 as this has quickly become one of my favorite series. Also thrilled to discover that there is in fact a book 4 already. I had thought there were only 3. #SeriesReads

I know this has many big fans but sadly, I was not one of them. The story is provocative and challenging, and horrifying but I found the telling of it to be lacking. I think the author did a bit of a disservice in “filtering” it through the lens of a somewhat neutered male. I think also I‘ve become somewhat numb to stories reminiscent of Handmaid‘s Tale even though this one is based on real life events. 3⭐️

#bookmail #BOTM

I should probably get around to Brain on Fire. 😬

Holy moly. So bleeping good. All the stars, all the tears. This was my #soldiersstory pick for #booked2019.

Thanks loves. Such a wonderful Sunday morning surprise. 😘

Camping out here for the day.

Read this in one sitting today. It opened my eyes to a culture I admittedly know little about and broke my heart wide open. There are no quotation marks which I normally HATE but I soon didn‘t care. In addition to following Ana‘s journey in the U.S., we spend a lot of time in post-Trujillo period in the Dominican Republic, another subject I was woefully uneducated about. Because of that this is my #politicalintrigue pick for #booked2019. 5 HUGE ⭐️

As much of a horror novel as it is a procedural. We spend a LOT of time with the terrifying psychopath. Already have the second book on hand but I am chilled to the bone (no pun intended) so I may leave it for a bit. #StartASeries

Also I ordered this book 3 years ago from Book Depository because I was impatient for the U.S. publication. 😂

Happy Halloween!

I did a WAY BACK Litsy scroll yesterday and found this post from 2+ years ago. I‘ve still only read 2 of them 🤦🏻‍♀️ but I did rate them both 5 stars. #fivestarpredictions

And now, we wait. 😩

Was it predictable and mildly cheesy? Yes.

Did I care? NO.

I have been in a capital M M-O-O-D and this was the most perfect pick-me-up.

LOVED IT.

An absolutely remarkable mix of memoir and dissertation on substance abuse and creativity. Jamison also expounds on the socioeconomic forces that influence our country‘s approach to addiction and who we tend to see as victims vs. who we see as criminals. It is a VAST undertaking that I spent about a month with but it will stick with me far longer. 5⭐️ 👇🏼

This book gutted me. Less about the House of Xtravaganza and more about how this group of black and brown and gay and transgender and queer people found one another and formed a family. I had to set it aside for several weeks because it is HEAVY with racism, discrimination, homophobia, addiction, etc. but I ultimately found its message beautiful. 4⭐️.

In an effort to be a bit less overwhelmed by the sheer number of series I‘m either in the middle of or in possession of, I‘ve been trying to focus on one at a time when the mood strikes. Over the last 2+ months I‘ve powered through books 3-8 in this series and am thrilled there is a 9th coming in Spring. This one may be my favorite of the series. One more series up-to-date! 👍🏼

TRUTH!

It is cold and rainy and I am in fuzzy sweats, fuzzy socks, and a MASSIVE sweater, drinking hot apple cider tea, with an apple peel scented candle burning. AND I HAVE BEEN READING FOR 2 HOURS. So basically being a basic bitch is what my reading mojo needed.

SUPER SALE ALERT!

I really enjoyed the first book in this series tagged below.

Happy Friday, Litsy fam. #DogsOfLitsy

I‘ve barely read a word all week so I‘m returning to my old standby.

#GiveawayKerfuffle Congrats on your Litfluence @RestlessFickleBookHoarder

As a born and bred Philly girl I think I have a pretty finely tuned BS detector. And I‘m not shy about calling it like I see it. And I‘m also not shy about giggling every time I hear someone (cough Joe Biden cough) say, “Oh that‘s a bunch of malarkey!” Personally I would just say, “Oh that‘s a load of bullshit!” but do you, Joe. 👍🏼

Did a little shopping during lunch. Can you tell what type of mood I‘ve been in? 😈

SUPER SALE ALERT! $1.99 each. #KindleDailyDeal #KindleDeals

UK Kindle deal alert! #99p

You guys, I can‘t stop looking at it. 😍

I might lick it. So what. Shut up.

#bookmail

“I no like you Monday.” #dogsofLitsy

YES! Happy Friday! #bookmail #BOTM

Achingly lovely writing. YMMV depending on how you feel about religion but I found this reminiscent of Marilynne Robinson‘s writing. It is a gentle exploration of marriage and faith spanning several decades. It is a “quiet” novel so those looking for something plot heavy will be disappointed but I thought this was just bursting with humanity. 4.5 ⭐️.

Continuing my “stick with the books you have in front of you lest you have to navigate stairs” binge of the Maeve Kerrigan series (I‘ve read 6 this month.) I‘ll likely take a small break before I dive into the latest and I hope Maeve gets a “How Stella Got Her Groove Back” holiday complete with Taye Diggs in between. Clever plot, interesting character development. 👍🏼

#BOTM picks are up!

May I blow off work for the rest of the day? #currentread

Summer #booked2019 prompts.

In an effort to get my #seriesreads under control a little, and because I‘ve been rather immobile over the past 2 weeks, I have been binging Jane Casey‘s Maeve Kerrigan series. Love my badass British (or in Maeve‘s case, Irish) detective ladies. 👍🏼

Delightfully charming and warm-hearted. Will induce severe beer craving. 🍺 4⭐️

Here you go @Lynnsoprano

I hate when there is no blurb on Litsy!

3-day weekend plans.

Emma Donoghue is one of my all time favorite writers. No 2 of her books are ever alike. The scope of her creativity is truly amazing and the depth and breadth of research she does when writing fiction that contains true historical elements is awe-inspiring. In this she recounts the heroics of the Marcel Network who saved hundreds of children from death at the hands of the Nazis in Nice. Magnificent. 4⭐️

#7Days7Covers #CoverCrush Day 7.

And on that note, I‘m out. Thanks for the tag @LeahBergen and the fun idea @Cinfhen !

#7Days7Covers #CoverCrush Day 6