Murder by Memory - a generation-ship murder-mystery with a nod to knitting? There's really no way I wasn't going to like this.

And I finished my Goodreads seasonal challenge! #goodreadschallenge #readingchallenges

I'm not particularly enjoying the artwork in this graphic memoir so far, but I did spot an Italy!

#WickedWords @AsYouWish

Only “Italy“ to go! #WickedWords @AsYouWish

This little graphic novel is pretty fun.

Absolute banger of an opening page

Two-thirds of the way through. I love Ursula Vernon, but I feel like this book would benefit from slashing 100 pages or so out of it. The pining is repetitive and the roadtrip overly long without good justification.

Fingers crossed it speeds up from here.

1. Always be learning. This includes learning about people who are not like you and backgrounds/experiences different from your own

2. 🧶📚👩‍🦼🐶🐔🌏 (i never have been obedient)

3. Dog videos on insta

@Eggs #wondrouswednesday

Guess what's on Hoopla now? :O \o/ #graphicnovel

On my hook : a Marinus baby blanket #litsycrafters

I'm having good luck happening across #WickedWords prompts in graphic novels this month. @AsYouWish

This was a cute-ish graphic novel on a Beauty & The Beast theme. OK, but a bit forgettable I think.

#WickedWords @AsYouWish

And I just realised that with the rainbow on the cover, this book also gives me a finished grid for June!

I now have nineteen unfilled prompts for the year.

#ISpyBingo #ISpy @TheAromaOfBooks

Really lovely counting picture book about a little child whose parents take him to a pride parade after he is bullied for liking rainbows. Lots of diversity on the page in areas other than sexuality & gender, too. The child learns a lesson about the joy in just being yourself. A good one to stash in little free libraries especially if you're in a book-banning area!

I'm really enjoying the second book in the Paladin series!

Plus, word one from #WickedWords knocked off on day one of the month. @AsYouWish

So I hate-read the rest of it. This was DIRE.

Terrible characters making even worse decisions. Completely non-believable situations. Zero character growth, something that is essential in a young-adult series that ends in adulthood. No introspection. And for a series that bills itself a “romance“, having the final getting-together part take place completely off-screen was ... certainly a choice.

I'm halfway through and this book is _dire_. Not sure if I'll DNF or hate-read.

Ooh, just realised this dud of a book also fills my last Read Harder prompt, reading a holiday romance that isn't Xmas. So there's that!

#readharder2025 #readingchallenge #readingchallenges

I've finished #Bookchain2025 @TheAromaOfBooks !

Unfortunately the tagged book was not to my liking. Superficial insta-love, unformed minor characters, dynamics that made no sense, slow-burn/angst with an abrupt unearned third-act breakup and no payoff. The MC needed therapy, not a boyfriend.

May done - a bit easier this month!
#WickedWords @AsYouWish

It's Paloma's first trip to Mexico City, home of her long-deceased father, and she doesn't want to be there.

Until she meets new friends, is intrigued by Frida Kahlo, and finds there is a mystery to be solved.

Last Wicked Words for the month! #WickedWords @AsYouWish
And Spanish-Speaking country for @julieclair #FictionalTraveler
Also a GORGEOUS cover.

Sharing my current crochet WIP, a Rain Boheme blanket in Hobbii Wool Blend Tweed. #litsycrafters

#firstlinefridays @ShyBookOwl

#ThreeListThursday @dabbe #TLT @TheSpineView

Oof, yeah nah. And my score would have been way lower if not for Austen!

I read the novel a while ago ; now reading the graphic novel.

Part YA graphic novel, part epistolary story, this lovely book tells of a rural Canadian girl who is figuring out who she is and how to be true to herself and her beliefs while her best friend is away at camp. It tackles queerness, masc/femme presentation, gentrification, and it has a great sibling relationship to boot.

Fourth #WickedWords down for May. @AsYouWish

This historical graphic novel is wonderful so far! It's a sapphic re-imagining of the true story of Helena “Nell“ Cusack, NYC stunt-girl reporter who exposed terrible conditions in garment factories.

#feminist #graphicnovel #lgbtq
#WickedWords @AsYouWish

The title is “Strong“ in English, but this is a better cover! Second word down for #WickedWords @AsYouWish

L M Montgomery's characterisation of Cousin Ernestine is just hilarious.

Another month down in #ISpyBingo #ISpy @TheAromaOfBooks

The Cartoonists Club was a fun read, part story of the formation of a new school club, part instructional book on making comics and zines, part Ms Frizzle style encouragement to budding artists and writers to “take chances! make mistakes! get messy!“

I love the librarian who facilitates the group meetings, she's great.

Anne of Windy Willows (Poplars) has never been my favourite of the Anne books, but I'm still enjoying this read!

First #WickedWords of the month @AsYouWish #bet

(this is a followup story to the tagged book)

And I'm done for April!
#WickedWords @AsYouWish

I've been struggling for ages to find a cover match for Where the Drowned Girls Go, and I reckon this works! Colour, ocean theming, portal in the middle, etc. @TheAromaOfBooks #Bookchain2025

This entire Teacup Magic series is so enjoyable! It is set in a Regency-ish but more LBGTQIA+ friendly set of islands. >>

#tlt #threelistthursday I scored 52 that I can remember from this list (I inhaled a LOT of books as a kid/teenager!)
there are a few faves on it but I‘ll pick out Anne, P&P, and Little Women as those I have re read the most often.

Link for quiz is from @dabbe original post

Massachusetts! #WickedWords @AsYouWish

This is a different book by Auntie Fay, not in the database.

Always Was Always Will Be is an excellent book of the history of First Nations protest movements in Australia. Suitable for middle grade and up, but I learned things also. Recommended.

Book 4 of the very enjoyable Regency-flavoured Teacup Magic series! Lady Liesl, two seasons out and still unmarried, hunts a missing diamond in the peculiar Bohemian artist's community her stepmother's seaside villa has become. She finds a much bigger mystery, and maybe also herself. Sapphic, crackling with magic, with nods to gothic fiction.

I love how different each Teacup Magic novella has been, the pacing, the banter. Looking forward to more

Took a punt that a graphic novel called “Portugal“ might contain the word #Portugese, and I was right! #WickedWords @AsYouWish 


Am I enjoying it? Not really. Angsty artist dude treats woman terribly because angst, travels to find himself.

Also, Lettering Hall of Shame, gold star edition.

Just another entry in the Graphic Novel Lettering Shame Files.

There I was wondering which book to read for the Island prompt... when I realised I was reading a book set in Taiwan!

@julieclair #FictionalTraveler #Island

#Bookchain progress!

#Bookchain2025

@TheAromaOfBooks

“Fish“ was in my current read, hooray. Don't know where I'm gonna find “Portugese“, though. Cruising Libby now...

#WickedWords @AsYouWish

I‘ve read a little bit of Oodgeroo‘s poetry before, but I didn‘t realise how funny she is.

This rather lovely graphic novel of Botticelli's “chicken girl“, who wants to be an artist but is stymied by attitudes about her gender, completes my first full board in 2025 #ISpyBingo ! #ISpy @TheAromaOfBooks

And I'm done for March! #WickedWords @AsYouWish

#WickedWords @AsYouWish. #meetcute

In this wholesome romance, the hero and heroine both have limb differences. He has a prosthetic leg, she has one small, atypical hand. So long as you can handle the surprise pregnancy trope, read this! It has stellar disability rep and banter and he's a secret giant nerd and there is all sorts of boundary respect and communication and stuff.

I read it in one sitting, and I haven't done that for quite a while. #romantsy #romance #disability

This is a sweet romantic fantasy-magic novella set in Englandtimes.

“Also, they say the ducal estate of Storm has the finest library in all the Isles. Three thousand volumes!”
“A fine library does increase the appeal of any potential husband,” Mneme conceded. She thought better of Miss Agnew, that she counted the library as a bonus to a gentleman‘s appeal. “If only one could be sure that he had ever read a book.”“

#WickedWords @AsYouWish

Finished these Goodreads challenges! #readingchallenge #goodreadschallenge

Well this was perfect.

#WickedWords @AsYouWish