The author referenced Litsy in this book! How cool?!! I don‘t know if she has a Litsy handle so I can‘t tag her.

@jploves2read put together such a great swap! Thank you so much! I love it!! #Blitsyswap #BlitsyHistoryMonthSwap #BHM

I received my #blitsyswap package today! All the way from Bermuda! I can‘t wait to open it! #blitsyhistorymonth #blitsy

So in my haste I forgot to take a pic of the package before I sent it, but my #blitsyswap is officially shipped as of this morning! #blitsyhistorymonthswap

Apparently it‘s my 5 year Litsyversary! I haven‘t posted in a long time! Just finished this book last night and it was great. I recommend to everyone.

I love NK Jemisin‘s writing. I listened to this on audio and read some of it in print to make sure I was following along correctly in some areas where I got a little confused. I really enjoyed this. Not as heartbreaking as The Broken Earth Trilogy but still very good!

Okay so I am a huge Harlan Coben fan, HUGE. But this didn‘t grab me as much as his Myron Bolitar novels or his other standalones. Maybe it‘s because I hate rich people problems. Idk. Win is definitely better as a character in small doses. So many of his comments had 🙄 Over all it was a decent read but I don‘t know if I‘d read the whole series. Glad I didn‘t buy this one and checked it out of the library. It‘s between a pick and so so for me.

1. Philadelphia, PA
2. New Jersey
3. 2 brothers
4. Green Eggs & Ham
@Eggs @Chrissyreadit #wondrouswednesday

Really great read! Thanks for the rec @Chelleo I listened on audio and really enjoyed the narrator. I can‘t want until the next installment is released!

Really good read. Interesting and timely. Back and forth between traumatic events for communities in LA.

This was disturbing but very good. I recommend. I listened to the audio version which I think really contributed to the experience.

Just okay. I get a little frustrated with self-destructive characters but it wasn‘t just that which kept me from fully enjoying this book. I guess it didn‘t quite feel like a mystery or a thriller to me. It also seemed to progress slowly and then speed up at the very end so the pacing could have been better. Not a bad read but I‘m glad I didn‘t spend money on it and waited for the library hold.I won‘t be watching the show. Just not for me 😐

@Gissy Thank you so much! This is amazing! I love it all but especially the picture! I want to frame it and find a nice place for it! Homegoing and The Hate U Give have been on my list for a while. I was happy when Concrete Rose came out but wanted to read THUG first! The bag, mug and bookmarks are just chef‘s kiss! #BlitsyHistoryMonth #BHMS #BlitsySwap

@Gissy I‘m getting ready to open these goodies! #BlitsyHistoryMonth #BHMS #BlitsySwap

@Gissy I got my swap package. Can‘t wait until Feb 28th! Thanks so much! #BHMS #BlitsyHistoryMonth #BlitsySwap the post office really beat the box up! 😳

After a crazy snowstorm and being stuck inside for a few days until the plowing was sorted out I finally got to the post office to send out my #BlitsyHistoryMonthSwap #BHMS #BlistySwap #BlitsyHistoryMonth

I enjoyed this on audio. Very funny but also deeply introspective look into R Eric Thomas and his struggles with his intersectional identity. I recommend!

1. Sci-fi, mystery/thriller
2. Other bookish items (socks, stickers, mugs, magnets, buttons, etc.)
3. Backlist is perfectly fine! There is so much to read!
4. T-shirts, scarves/head wraps, accessories
5. Both, I‘m interested in learning about new authors but still haven‘t read any Octavia Butler. Newish authors include Angie Thomas and Yaa Gyasi. #BHMS #BlitsyHistoryMonth #BlitsySwap

To my fellow #BlitsySwap participants, Happy New Year. After this week, I need a pleasant distraction! February is fast approaching. I know we need time to shop so we can ship, esp if you‘re shipping international. Complete this quiz with me! #BlitsyHistoryMonth #BHMS @Chelleo

I like Ben Philippe‘s writing. I really enjoyed listening to this book. The narrator is really good, same narrator of his other novel. It was a quick and easy listen.

Great book. To say I enjoyed reading it would be misspeaking but, it was a great fictional account of two women and their lives on the plantation pre and post civil war. A really tough read and many CWs but well researched and well written. I would have liked to read this a little slower but it was a 14 day ebook loan from the library. I will be absorbing and processing this one for a while.

A heads up if you haven‘t started already. The book is good but gets very heavy. I‘m about 65% in and there are some CWs in there. I‘ll label them as spoilers in the comments in case you want them, but you don‘t have to view them if you prefer to go in fresh @GreenGrl87 @Chelleo

@BookNAround The tagged book will be my last book of the year - Conjure Women by Afia Atakora and my first book of 2021 will be Here for It by R Eric Thomas #lastfirst

1. Unity By Any Means Necessary unitybamn.com
2. I don‘t really collect anything but I like t-shirts and fridge magnets.
3. Tea - my favorite is Mint Tea but I also enjoy other fruity or herbal teas
4. Janet Jackson, Lizzo
5. Coretta Scott-King, Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton - I would just like to talk to powerful women and learn from them about love and life. #BHMS #BlitsySwap @GreenGrl87

I started this last night. I‘m one chapter in so far and it is very interesting. This is a good pick so far! @Chelleo @GreenGrl87 I also really love this beautiful cover.

I really wanted to like this book because it had some good content. However, the writing was not good. It felt really choppy and like the author tried to accomplish too much in one book. I wish she had picked a couple of elements to focus on.

I liked this book but the characters frustrated me so much. It was definitely one of those cases where you wished people would just communicate with each other.

Hop on over to @Chelleo to sign up. I‘ve participated every year and have not been disappointed. #BHMS #BlitsySwap #BlitsyHistoryMonth I‘m all signed up and ready!

So amazing

This was a quick and easy read. I really enjoyed it.

Tiffany Jackson has not disappointed me yet. This was a great read. Unpredictable in the best way.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ loved this book! This is such a good series.

This was a good read. I had to finish this, I started a while back. Still staying away from election news for now. This was my current events reading for the day.

Did not like. Struggled to finish.

I love Tiffany Jackson! She writes about serious and disturbing topics in a really accessible way. It‘s considered YA and I love YA but I really think this transcends the YA genre. CW about drug abuse, sexual assault, rape. An intense but very good read. I recommend.

Good but very tough read. Very very tough. It took me weeks to get through this book.

This was such a good mystery/thriller! I felt so much for both of the main characters. They were both well written. I also loved that I couldn‘t figure everything out in the book. Solid read.

It took me a while to finish this because I kept picking up other things. This was a delightful tale. I really enjoyed the plus size character being the Main Squeeze (the book‘s version of The Bachelorette). Authentic character who showed the ups and downs plus sized women have with their body image and people‘s responses to it.

This book was very good. The characters were well written and often times frustrating. I recommend.

Based on this cover, I would have never chosen this book. I know, I know we‘re not supposed to judge books by their covers but I can‘t help it sometimes. Anyway I read this for book club and it was hilarious. I enjoyed all of it!

I finished this but forgot to post. I really loved this book. I listened on audio and it was amazing. I can‘t wait to listen to the next title.

I‘ve never seen any of the James Bond movies so I didn‘t have much background to go on. This was an okay book. The plot was pretty good, I just couldn‘t stand the sexism in the book or the sexual relationship trope. I would‘ve been more interested in the story from 16‘s POV, she was the lead female character. Listening on audio helped.

I really enjoyed this book. I know the reviews have been pretty mixed on this one. I‘m not exactly sure how I feel about the ethics of let‘s make believe someone‘s major life decision didn‘t happen gets written from someone else‘s point of view while they are still alive but I still liked this book. The narrator sounded like Hillary - she matched her voice and cadence so it was believable. Ymmv but it was a pick in my book!

This book was inspiring. It is about the Thunberg Family and Greta‘s passion for solving the climate crisis. It was really disheartening to hear about her struggles and her sisters struggles as well and the lack of support they received from the system. This book just wet my appetite to learn more about the climate crisis and what I can do to help. She didn‘t go in to a ton of detail on the climate crisis but you can tell that it is dire.

I‘m still reeling from this book! Shirley Jackson is so good at writing weird, creepy thrillers that have you questioning everything. Is this real? Did that actually happen? Part of the fun is that the questions aren‘t fully answered but the ride is wild and interesting the entire time.

Really great but tough read. So many trigger warnings apply here. If you can handle it I definitely recommend.

I‘m loving this book so far! 😁

Listening to this on audio was everything I needed with what‘s going on in the world. I loved it! Ymmv. I‘m a direct person and always appreciate it when another person is that way when telling their own experiences. She is hilariously direct and pulls no punches.

Did not like this book.

This book frustrated me to no end....I have mixed feelings about it overall so I‘m going to rank it as a so-so. It was a bit of a ride and anxiety inducing.