1. Only if it‘s all I have with me.

2. I like reading on my iPad. I use the Bluefire app to read Advance copies from Edelweiss. I like it because it tells me next to each title how many days I have left to read it.

I haven‘t read science fiction in years and this was so much fun! Mickey7 is an Expendable on a colonizing mission. His job is to do the dangerous stuff. If he dies doing it, they just generate a new one.
In this book, we get a good story along with a thoughtful treatise on immortality. Is a new Mickey the same as the old Mickey.
Read it! It‘s good. Release date: Feb. 15

Great middle grade book about a middle school boy who gets a rare eye cancer, and the weirdness of negotiating it with his friends, family and health staff. Along the way he makes new friends, learns guitar and learns to accept himself. ❤️

1. The Alex McKnight mystery series by Steve Hamilton

2. Tahquamenon Falls
Pictured Rocks
Mackinac Island

@megnews

I don‘t exactly know how I feel about this book. It was a fairly light, quick read, and I enjoyed it, but I felt the present day character‘s backstory was there without a good reason. I gave it 3⭐️

Loved the story and illustrations. Release day 2/7

This book was SO GOOD! 5⭐️ for sure. My 2nd book of the year.

I adore snow!! When I snows I sit and watch it come down. Fascinating.

As for a favorite winter activity? Reading in a comfy chair watching it snow, of course.

Climate change is really putting a damper on snow in SE Michigan. As a kid we got lots, now we seem to get so much less!

These are the books that entered the public domain on Jan. 1. Personally I‘m hoping for an amazing leather bound copy of Winnie the Pooh, to go with my copy I still have from Christmas 1957.

Book #2 of ‘22

I have the worst memory! I hit an online book sale in July. When the box came I pushed it into a corner unopened. Guess what? I just opened it! Glad I hadn‘t bought any of these again in the meantime.

4⭐️ Jess goes to Paris to visit her brother and finds him missing. What is happening in this apartment building? Lots of twists as Lucy Foley usually does. Release date 2/22/22.

My favorite thing to do? Watch out the window while it snows. I‘m pretty much an indoors lady.

As a former children‘s bookseller, I sold so many of these every winter. I so love this book.

I‘m grateful for blankets. I‘m addicted to blankets and throws. And, since I‘m always cold, I almost always have one on my lap.

#wondrouswednesday @Eggs

I couldn‘t make up my mind, so I picked two! #botm

I have been spending my reading time catching up on ARCs. Here are three I‘ve rated 5⭐️.
Wish You Were Here comes out 11/30.
Yonder release date is 1/11
A Sunlit Weapon drops 3/22
Adored all three!

1. Marble (but it‘s not heavy) with a sticker on it. St. Sweatpantsia. This is my iPad.

2. Ease of downloading advance copies.

@TheSpineView

#two4Tuesday

4⭐️
Good writing
Perfect characterization
Highly recommended
Release date: August 10

3 1/2 ⭐️
Pub date: 7/13/21
Worth the wait

And I haven‘t even opened the box of Target B2G1. The top book was the winner and the next two finalists for the 2021 Canada Reads. (I‘m not from Canada) Delphine is a middle grade fantasy. Professional Troublemaker is the March pick for the Fantastic Strangelings Book Club. This is Chance is about a female reporter that covered the 1964 9.0 earthquake in Anchorage.
C.R. The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix.

So excited to get an advance copy of her new book!!!

I‘m really bad at this. My picture is on top of another picture. And the whole thing is crooked. 🤷🏻‍♀️
1. This LEGO kit!
2. One of too many I‘m currently reading.
3. Does eating too much count?
4. In order. Milk, dark, white.
@4thhouseontheleft @howjessreads

If you read The One and Only Ivan, you‘ll remember Bob, the dog! Currently reading. Comes out May 5.

I am a big fan of Mo Willems, and see he is doing doodle classes during the isolation. My 8 year old next door neighbor sent this to him tonight. I love it!

#20thingsaboutme

#20thingsaboutme

1. I‘m practically a hermit, so not much.
2. I have enough for a couple of months. I always order ahead.
3. Ignore it?
4. The Address Book by Deirdre Mask. It comes out next month.
5. I know I watched a movie in the last month. I have no recollection of what it was!

Received this month‘s Fantastic Strangelings book club choice. Ginny is excited. 😀

I haven‘t posted in ages! I‘ve been reading a bit more. In fact I‘m reading two books right now. Hope to jump in here more often. Hi everyone! Here‘s one of the books I‘m reading....

My book tree. Hope everyone‘s December is going well!!

No one can replace my Tink, but I fell for this little girl last week and brought her home. Her name is Ginny. I think she thinks she‘s a dog! So very different from Tink! 🤣🤣

Haven‘t been on Litsy in ages! Hi everyone!

1. Currently reading: If You Tell by Gregg Olsen and The 17th Suspect by James Patterson
2. “My mom could be sweet when she wanted to be”, Sami said. 😳😳
3. Decaf coffee and Sparkling Ice.

#weekendreads

I haven‘t been here much lately, my reading has been extremely scarce. But, so many of you were fans of my Tink, that I wanted to share some news. She crossed the rainbow bridge tonight. They believe she had a ruptured bowel and became septic. I held her close and reminded her of all the lovely times we had together. #catsoflitsy ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ I got to hold her for a long time as we shared our last time together.

Happy Easter from Tink and me!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ A prequel to Lilac Girls, although it definitely stands on its own. Set between 1914 and 1920, we follow an American, the daughter of a Russian diplomat and a Russian peasant girl through the turbulent tines after the Bolshevik Revolution. Great historical! Comes out Tuesday.

It‘s my year of (mostly) non-fiction. This is my fave so far this year. Very interesting story of the author‘s journey through DNA and family.
#bestbooksofar2019

1. I‘ve done a few swaps. I enjoy daily prompts, but run hot and cold on doing them.
2. Hmm. Hard to surprise myself when I hardly go out in the winter. 😩
3. “She offered coffee and he asked for an orange soda.”
4. @Ellybug92 One of my newest follows.

#wondrouswednesday

Book - Tagged. My favorite series.
Movie - it‘s a Wonderful Life Clarence!
Song - Johnny Angel by Shelley Fabares. It was on my first record album, purchased at age 10. (1962)

#manicmonday

1. WARMTH! I‘ve been sooooo cold!
2. Allergies. Bah!
3. A good book haul.
4. Sit on the porch!!
5. A spring book I read to my grandkids.

#HelloThursday

Book mail continues! An ARC from Penguin Random House (tagged) two middle grade books, and a fairly new book by a Canadian author. (tagged below).

I love Elephant and Piggie. I‘ve missed them so much. I saw an ad for these and they sounded similar so I decided to try them. Monkey & Cake are great! They‘re by the author of The Day the Crayons Quit. I‘m so excited!

1. There are too many to count. Growing up in Detroit in the 50‘s was amazing!
2. Two brothers and two sisters. The three oldest were 21, 22 and 23 years older than me. They have all passed. My remaining sister and I are both avid readers. She is 7 years older. All from the same parents.
3. July of 2016.
4. Tagged above.
5. @BooksandCats14 @Stephuhhnieee

#wondrouswednesday

1. Tink. ❤️❤️
2. Tracy‘s Dogs Gotcha Day. Around 4 pm EST on their Facebook page. 66 dogs who were set to be euthanized get forever homes with fully vetted pet parents from all over the country!
3. Road rallies. Solving clues that lead us from place to place.
4. Alaska. My lifelong dream. Houston to see my son and family. And anywhere in the U.P. Of Michigan, my favorite place on earth.
5. What job is your dream job?

#friyayintro

Tink can‘t believe I‘m reading a Patterson. 🤣🤣#catsoflitsy

Definitely thriller. I‘m not much of a fantasy fan.
Hardcover.
Bookshop for sure. As a retired bookseller, I love ‘em!
I‘ve never enjoyed mythology, so it must be Harry. Although I‘ve only read three.
The Notebook is the only book I‘ve ever thrown across a room. Romeo and Juliet is wonderful!
Ebooks hide from me, so they don‘t get read! Give me a REAL book everyday!
@BooksandStitches @Soozee (some of my newest friends here!)

Nerds by Michael Buckley
The Nutty Professor with Jerry Lewis
Science Song by Josh Ritter

#manicmonday

I‘m in Westland, Michigan, USA. (Just west of Detroit) I have never lived in a house farther than 13 miles from here. I grew up in Detroit, my dad and both brothers were Detroit Police officers. 👮🏼‍♀️ 👮🏼 👮🏼‍♀️ 🚔

Mystery/thrillers are my jam. I used to manage a mystery bookstore.

Michael Connelly.

I‘m going to go with my favorite book rec for book groups. The Persian Pickle Club by Sandra Dallas.

#socialsunday

1. No controversy, kindness.
2. More bookshelves, ability to search your own posts
3. #catsoflitsy #friyayintro
4. More diverse reading.
5. @Elma

#Litsyedition

I love, love, love Elephant and Piggie, so I‘m excited for this take on them! 🤣🤣🤣

1. When I think of cartoons, I think of the shorts from my childhood. So Felix the Cat. “You‘ll laugh so hard. Your sides will ache, your heart will go pitty pat”. For animated films, it has to be Toy Story.
2. Felix and Woody
3, Since I used Felix, I‘ll have to go with Master Cylinder! (Look him up)
4. I guess I lean towards cats. Felix or Top Cat.
5. There were ads during WWII starring Donald Duck. They were for prophylactics. 🤣🤣

#frideas