Heck yeah, Bahni Turpin‘s part in the audiobook! 👏🏼💃🏻
Some of the characters from Morgenstern‘s books show up very literally in the Phantomwise tarot. #Eleanor
“Ghastly and obvious are my middle names” 💀😂
New book obsession! If Madeline Miller went feminist wry and rageful instead of making toxic masculinity gay and beautiful? Still workshopping the mashup/elevator pitch 😏 Listening to the author read the cast of characters, I paused the audiobook so I could go pick up a hard copy. This one‘s gonna get marked UP.
Not a spoiler but maybe a meta spoiler if you dig too deeply, so don‘t? 🤣
I honestly don‘t remember if I caught this on a previous listen, and casually book clubbing it with friends means I‘m actually putting things together and not just listening in the abstract. This series gets better and better with each new layer of meaning!
Had a lovely lunch date discussing the Locked Tomb series with two friends, complete with skull snacks 💀🍄
Narrated by Simon Vance. I try to be very discerning about what I pay Audible/Amazon for, and nearly 60 hours was the bang I needed for my fifteen bucks when I downloaded this one. Want something I can listen to without paying too close attention (hence a repeat title), and a production that doesn‘t have too much excitement, for bedtime.
Wow does this feel like NTs forcing neurospicy folks into their frameworks 🙃
Anyone else listening along with the BBC World Service‘s audio production of The Dark Is Rising? It‘s my first time reading!
Third time around, adding more fans to the cult as we go 😏
I caved and bought the last three books in the Witches series of Discworld, they were on sale and I have lost too much time over the last few weeks when my listening hasn‘t been engaging enough to jump to the head of my listening queue. This one has had me guffawing loudly enough that I worried I might‘ve disturbed my neighbors given the late hour.
It‘s 9:30pm and I just got out of bed for the third time today. I‘m not sick, just so, so tired and it is so dark all the damn time. I can‘t even blame [REDACTED].
Thankful for “familiar but new,” my comfort genre, perfectly fit by another Murderbot installment, which I‘m listening to on Spotify. Not the ideal player yet, but they‘ve improved their music and podcast interfaces so I‘m hopeful (though it won‘t replace Everand, just Amazon) 🤓
My best listening buddy, Xander.
I wanted something familiar but new, needing media to fill the heavy air but not having the bandwidth to process anything too close to our current reality. Enter the latest Martha Wells, whose Murderbot books have been easy, light reads without being “fluff.” I‘m listening to the audiobook but got the Kindle sample for the dramatis personae 😏
Any other Littens on Substack? I‘m at Kirsten‘s Kitchen Table!
Sometimes I can‘t tell whether an author‘s writing reminds me of other media, or if a shared narrator brings those previously-listened-to titles more easily to mind, but I‘m getting hints of N K Jemisin‘s Broken Earth for sure, as well as Octavia Butler and Martha Wells.
I‘m enjoying this series so much more, Marco Polo book clubbing it with a friend 😎
“There had been another girl who grew up alongside Harrow, but she had died before Harrow was born.” THIS LINE EVERY TIME
Okay, I finished the Tiffany Aching books (RIP Sir TP) and reread the Monk and Robot books besides listening to Gideon before remembering to post here. I‘ve been mostly off social media since changing jobs and it‘s been kind of amazing?
pickNeeded something familiar but not too well known, and this was perfect. Leaning into my own witch era and Tiffany is excellent company.
Anyone else doing #TransRightsReadathon? Anyone know Sim_Bookstagrams_Badly or know if they‘re over here under another name?
This one features at least a trans main character, there may be others I don‘t recall from my first time through several years ago.
Love the repeated callbacks to Bailey‘s early indignation that only girls get rescued from their mundane lives in stories.
It‘s been a rotten week, y‘all. Trying to enjoy something while exhausted by a pet health crisis and the general state of the world. What‘s your Friday night got going for it?
Loving the found family elements in particular this time around. 🫶🏼
SHE PUBLISHED THE DECK, AND I FOUND IT ACCIDENTALLY. Returning to the night circus, on audio this time, to celebrate.
Oh! I almost forgot: today was my #Litsyversary, 7 years along with a handful of other long-haulers. It‘s been fun to be part of Litsy in so many different capacities over the years!
Someone was not pleased with me for being away overnight. I‘m trying to make amends.
“Who is to say that plutonium is more powerful than, say, rice? One takes away a million lives, the other saves a hundred times as many.”
so-soIt feels almost unfair to rate this only 3 stars because it‘s still leagues better than so many works in this realm but compared to the rest of the series I found it very meh.
“…the air is hot with summer and the sky is bruised with the promise of a storm.”
pickOff to a great start with all these ~4h audios 😁
Reread, I‘m in a rut and a new one of these came out so I‘m doing the series. I‘m also still mid-Middlegame? 🤷🏻♀️
“When she breathed, it sounded like custard sloshing around in an air conditioner.”
😳 😂
pickThis one was DARK, holy hell! 🤣 My youngest board member, 19yo, recommended this to me. A great read but not my favorite listen; the narrator does voices and they grate.
Giving this another go as it devastated my partner and I found myself less annoyed with the blatant enemy to lovers energy the second time. Maybe not being at college with 20 year olds who don‘t realize it‘s a trope helped. 🙃
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