I felt like I was floating through Where the Crawdads Sing but with Victor LaValle as my swamp guide. Creepy, yet beautiful, I loved the tension, action, & thoughtful characterization in Davidson‘s writing. A deftly woven tale of horror, myth, murder, and gritty Americana, TBD is a book I‘d highly recommend for late night reading on a bayou. Was that a catamount or a woman screaming? Think I‘ll lock the doors and turn out the lights! 4/5⭐️
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I‘m finally getting last round of #LMPBC book back to its owner! Sorry it took so long, but I added a treat to help sweeten its delay! I enjoyed this fast paced read and would love to see the Tundar landscape! I did get annoyed with Sena‘s actions but I‘ve come to believe that this is because I‘m old as dirt and have to really think outside myself to get some adolescent characters. I‘ll give this 3.5/5⭐️Thanks for sharing!

Second group! I have so many books to choose from. My TBR is OOC!!!

Finally! After a crazy week, I have collected some titles. Admittedly, a couple are more historical fiction but the setting evokes witches, trials, etc. I will go with majority vote here. Descriptions to follow in comments. #LMPBC #Round19
Edit: I have more books I‘d like to suggest. I‘ll make another list shortly. I‘m trying to select books that aren‘t huge chunks tees, but I have a couple that may peak your interests!!

Hi! Would you both want to be in an #LMPBC club of just 3 people?

One last ditch, last minute attempt to garner more interest in #LMPBC for #Round19. Check out @suvata page for the link to her Google Spread Sheet. It‘s such a fun Litsy Activity!

Thank you so much, @TheBookHippie I love everything you sent! The illustration on the journal is amazing and obviously you know how much I live Frankenstein! I‘m teChing right now and can‘t wait to bring it in to class to add to my collection of Franky academia and publications! The Salt Grows Heavy looks great too. Can‘t wait to dive in with a cup of classic black tea. The best!!! 🎃🎃🎃
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This is one of my favorite activities that lasts year round! Please join us for #LMPBC and exploring new book titles and genres! Lots of fun and low pressure reading! Go to @suvata ‘s page for the link to her Google Sheet of groups. Lots of room new groups and a few who need just one (or three) more to make a full group! Best Book Club around!

@BarkingMadRead I‘m so excited! I absolutely love everything you sent me for my #ModernWitchSwap ! I‘ve never had smudge sticks before. I lived in the Rocky Mtns of WY for years and sage is one of the scents I miss most! The oracle deck and book (Im needing a new book to read so perfect timing!) and bookmarks are simply perfect. I can‘t wait to start reading and gathering my energies for the coming winter solstice! Thank you so much!!
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OMG!! You have outdone yourself!! My little kitty has been sniffing this box so closely that I just knew there would be treats inside! I LOVE everything and, no, no allergies here! Just fast fingers eager to sneak treats! My family is hovering over me as I type!! You selected some great books and tomorrow is Character Day for Spirit Week, so now I‘m inspired by my lovely villain crown! Thank you so much for everything. You are so thoughtful!

My #HauntedHollowSwap package has arrived! Let the spooktacular season begin!! I don‘t know who sent it yet (I know someone told me on Litsy, but for the life of me, I can‘t remember). #HHS #HHS23

Anyone interested in joining a group for #Round19 of #LMPBC ? Just head over to @suvata ‘s page for more info!

Opened up my last book for #Round18 of #LMPBC . I have enjoyed this Sci-Fi themed round of my favorite Litsy event! Thanks for sharing such great books!!

My #NightmareMakerSwap package is scheduled to arrive tomorrow! I love this swap! So much fun to craft something special for Halloween! 🎃🎨👻🖌️🧙🏼‍♀️
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I received my #NightmareMakerSwap package this afternoon!! Very exciting!!! #NMS

I read this novel in just a couple of sittings and enjoyed it thoroughly! Not a cozy witch book, but also not too scary. I loved Corrag more, but Weyward was well worth the read! I liked the interwoven timelines and I felt that plot kept me well engaged and turning pages. I would recommend this novel to anyone who loves the human story behind the fantasy. 3.5/4 out of 5 ⭐️

My #HauntedHollowSwap package is in the mail too! It should be there by Monday! Happy Scary Season!!
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My #ModernWitchSwap package is in the mail! It should arrive by Monday/Tuesday! Happy Halloween Season!!
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My #LMPBC book is on its way to @KateReadsYA Happy Reading!!

So excited to receive a surprise in the mail! Can‘t wait for opening day! 🍁🧙🏼‍♀️🧹🌙🐈‍⬛🎃👻
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Basically, everything! 😂😂😂
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I enjoyed listening to the audio book of this novel. The allegorical aspects of the main conflict were well conceived and I didn‘t find their use heavy handed. Chbosky kept me engaged with the plot and the suspense was strong to keep me listening without diving into horror overkill. I did find myself spacing out occasionally and I‘m not sure why. Overall though, I really did enjoy the story and would recommend it to others. A solid 4/5⭐️

Not book related but just too beautiful not to share. I wish I could make my phone take a picture as beautiful and clear as the real thing!!

Just got this in the mail today! I had so much fun reading this book! Chambers does such a great job of writing her characters with humor, sensitivity, and insight! Some might say that SciFi is too “out there,” but she proved that aliens, rocketships, and space travel are just as engaging, exciting, and humanly relevant as any Earthly novel. I loved each character and the adventure was fun & exciting! Eager to read the next in the series! 4.5/5⭐️

I adored this novel. Semi-epistolary, this book tells the story of Corrag, an accused witch living in Glencoe, who warned the MacDonalds of the impending massacre by the Campbells and William of Orange. Based upon real events and people, this story was so beautifully written and both achingly bittersweet and philosophically pertinent to me that I‘m already planning a reread. The image reminds me of a trip I took to Scotland a few years ago. 5/5⭐️

#LMPBC #Round17 I just mailed out the final book for #GroupV and the 3rd book for #GroupA Still eager to read Hood Feminism once it arrives (no pressure! Reading is meant for RELAXATION!). I‘ll read it whenever it arrives, so no worries whatsoever!

I simply adore my #Naturalitsyswap gifts! Those socks are the best! I will think of you, @TheBookHippie every time I wear them. Even my daughter said that they looked just like me! I can‘t wait to get outside and paint, but first I will be exploring the other books you sent too. Perfection!! #SummerSolsticeSwap #Naturalitsy #MidSummerSwap

My #NaturalLitsySummerSwap package is on it way to @TheBookHippie I can‘t wait for opening day! I forgot to take a photo of the package, but here are the last of my peonies. Aren‘t they pretty!?!

#NaturalLitsySummerSwap I‘m finally getting around to adding my own aesthetic images grid. To be honest, I could make dozens of these with very different themes. But since summer‘s almost here and I head to the Canadian Maritimes for my break, I wanted to focus on this special place!

My #LMPBC book is on its way! Review to follow soon!

I‘m nearly finished with Dracul! I hope to have it mailed out by the 25th! #LMPBC

Just letting my team know that I received my next #LMPBC novel day this week. I‘ll be starting it asap!

I found this to be an intriguing, deeply contemplative literary work. What struck me most about it was its ability to encapsulate the multifaceted nature of relationships. Through the narrator's encounters with friends, lovers, & acquaintances, the book offers profound insights into the intricacies of human connections. It reminded me of the various people who have passed through my own life, leaving indelible marks & shaping my journey. 4.5/5⭐

This was a great roadtrip read & palate cleanser after a heavy novel. I enjoyed KBB, but don‘t know that I‘ll read the next in the series. I enjoyed the world building & the morally grey love interest, but the heroine was frustratingly pigheaded. The🌶️🌶️🌶️was fine with me 😉, but Isolde kept making such dumb choices that I questioned why Adrian would want her as partner & co-regent. Not bad, just needed more character development. Overall 3/5⭐️

This fast read kept me on my toes and turning pages! Tieg and Prentiss are filming a documentary about Siberia‘s Road of Bones but are thrown off course by a parnee, supernatural wolves, and antlered beings. Add a strange little girl who may not be what she appears and it wasn‘t just the arctic setting with subzero temps that kept my hair standing on end! Interesting folklore and I learned a bit about the gulags and local people of Siberia. 4/5⭐️

Today‘s view: thriller, Bloody Caesar, relaxed dog and husband. Spring break is a wonderful thing.

5/5⭐️ What a beautiful historical fiction novel! An indigenous mother & daughter are caught in the turmoil of the 1600s French/English colonization of Algonquin territory. Told from 2 POVs, each woman expresses their hopes and dreams while struggling to navigate the demands of the Catholic Church and their own desire for autonomy. Beautiful and haunting, I will not forget Marie and Jeanne‘s love for each other and their hopes for the future.

4.5/5⭐️ Quiet & introspective with enough suspense to keep me hooked! But it was the beautiful writing that kept the pages turning. Reminiscent of Atkinson‘s Life After Life, Anya is an immortal blood drinker compelled to protect those she loves, haunted by tragedy, and hunted by a dark entity across time and continents. Artist and teacher, Anya will stay with me for a long time. Highly recommend for those looking for something a little deeper.

I meant to post last week but wanted to let my #LMPBC groups that I received my books! #Round16 #GroupJ and #Round17 #GroupV Thanks!!! I‘ll be getting my books out very soon for Round 17.

Reread this novel in order to start Hell Bent. I loved it just as much as the first time. If you‘re interested in an alternative New Haven CT history and all things Yale, then this might be the novel for you. Exciting and suspenseful with elements of reality and magic juxtaposed with delightful world-building and a slow, slow burn romance (maybe, hopefully?). 5/5⭐️

Okay, Team V, here are my options. At first I was really into The Radleys (I‘ve heard great things over the years and it‘s been on my TBR forever), but then I saw this brand new novel, The God of Endings. Definitely seems like something I‘d love, so I preordered it (will arrive at my house on 3/6). I can‘t decide!!! Haaaaallllpppppp!!!!!
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Bookmarks in comments.

@ncsufoxes I absolutely LOVE my #Blitsy box! Thank you so much! The Changeling is one of my FAVORITE books (yes, I‘ve read it before), but I suggest it to my 12th graders so much that my copies keep walking away! This is perfect timing because I have a student right now who wants to read it but I had no copies to share! I haven‘t read Peaces yet, so I‘m starting that tonight. Everything is perfect: the sleeve, the puzzle, the book marks. I ❤️ it!!

I‘m resharing @Meshell1313 ‘s post to help us find a 4th member of our group! Come join us with @persephone1408 for some blood-sucking fun! 🧛🏼‍♀️🧛🏼‍♂️🧛🏻

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Hello #LMPBC #Round17 #GroupA Excited for a new round! Here are some of my possible TBR selections. I have many, many more if nothing here looks interesting! I‘ll add bookmarks in the comments below.

A classic SAA novel! Like Garden Spells & The Sugar Queen, I left Other Birds feeling like I‘d just visited a beautiful location. Set on a southern coastal island, its multi-character perspective of mysterious events and watchful ghosts was just suspenseful enough, just cozy enough to keep me reading all day! I finished reading in a single day at home. Thanks for sharing with our #LMPBC group, @Johanna414 I‘ll be mailing this out asap. 3.5/5⭐️

@Karisa I finally received my last item for you. It‘s in the oddly shaped box in the photo. I had to mail it separately from the main box because it would have been damaged otherwise. I hope it‘s the right one! I was so eager to mail it that I just kept it in its original box and changed the label! I hope you enjoy everything! Everything should arrive for you on about 4 days. Happy Black History Month! #BLITSY

I had so much fun reading this magical-just-cozy-enough-mystery! The dialogue between spinster-like Hulda and eternal-bachelor Merritt was smart, witty, and not saccharine at all! I thought Holmberg did a nice job with her world-building and plot development. While there were no major surprises for me, I still enjoyed the storyline and give this a solid 3.5/5⭐️ I‘m a full 2 weeks late mailing this out so I‘ve added some treats for @Johanna414

Hi #GroupJ I‘m a little late sending out Enchanted Rooms (January seemed filled with too much to get much good reading done), but I will mail ASAP. I have received Other Birds and, now that things have calmed down a bit here, I‘m very eager to read that too!! #LMPBC

My #LMPBC book is on its way to its destination. Should be there in 2-3 days! #Round16 #GroupJ