I told myself I would never read this but I am so starved for in person book chat I thought why not. And that is totally on me. I didn‘t care for it. Can‘t wait for bookclub tomorrow.

Soooo…. Eff Doug. Annie is a cuddle bunny AI bot who is owned by Doug. Annie learns all about what it takes to please Doug. Something happens with his trash ass friend Roland and all trust is lost. This gets intense and part of me was hoping that she would either kill Doug or hope she would throw herself out of a window so that people would know that an AI tried to kill herself just to get away from Doug. I liked this, it‘s very readable. Very👇🏼

I read this for my horror bookclub earlier tonight. This book is an ocean of sorrow. It‘s based off an actual woman who killed her child rather than let them be a slave. You know what she got charged and convicted of? Destruction of property. In the book, Sethe and her daughter, Denver live at 124 Bluestone Rd. A haunted house if there ever was one. A man from Sethe‘s past shows up and one thinks maybe the ghost is gone. That is until a young👇🏼

@psalva This is on its way to you. Should be there Monday they said. Written in the UK during the 1950s we follow a young Colin who goes around performing in a drag troupe and his two suitors. This was better than I expected and all the feelings and attitudes are still relevant today. Pick!

I actually read this over 20 years ago. Maggie Walsh-Garv finds out her husband has cheated on her and decides to leave Dublin to go stay with her friend in Los Angeles. Being the “safe” sister of the Walsh family it was fun to see her let her down as she tries to move on. I loved getting to reconnect with The Walsh clan. I forgot how funny they were. Might go pick up other Keyes when I need a pick me up. Pick!

This one got a little crazy, so crazy that I had to take a break and read a Marian Keyes before I came back. Cassie is in her new life in San Francisco at a toxic tech startup. There‘s homelessness, rising rents, people setting themselves on fire, a boyfriend who is not hers, and she has this black hole that accompanies her everywhere that sometimes gets bigger or smaller depending on her loneliness. This was wild and depressing. This belongs 👇🏼

I reread this earlier this week and I still liked it. The first 100pgs is hard because there are so many characters are introduced but Beukes threads them masterfully together against the biggest character in here, the city of Detroit. This was wonderful, and scary, and I went to a horror bookclub tonight at an Albuquerque library where wonderful people had some really thoughtful things to say. Pick!

I read this for bookclub next week. 2 timelines, Odile starts work at the American Library in Paris right before the German occupation of Paris. We find out what the staff of the library went through to keep it open while helping and protecting patrons. Then there is Odile in 1989s Montana living next door to coming of age Lily who just lost her mother. I enjoyed both timelines but I‘m not sure they fit in the same book. This was also a lovely👇🏼

Hi groupQ! These are my picks. Let me know what you‘re interested in cause all work for me. We have lesbian coming of age, Spanish gay, queer horror anthology, Arab drag memoir, late 1950s drag tale. The order is me to Peter, Peter to Margie, Margie to Krysta, Krysta to me. Mark, draw, comment, tell an anecdote, have a good time. All hands in, break!

Book #5 in #24in24. The writing gymnastics one has to have to have dry, witty and humorous, dialogue while still having this important weight of horrible history hanging over it is astounding. I found laughs bubbling through me on one page only to be so angry and sad on the next. The care certain characters got in here when it came to their murders while there was a whole century of people who sometimes didn‘t even get names to their bodies,👇🏼

Book # 4 for #24in24. This made me sad. I hate when kids are the victims of adult bigotry. We follow Rose Darling a 20yo member of The Kingdom of the Pine religion. Their claim to fame is Camp Damascus, a conversion camp with major results. It‘s funny because most of the book doesn‘t even take place there but it is no less compelling. Rose Darling starts to see scary apparitions and throws up mayflies every so often. What could be wrong? Pick!

Sarah Lotz has scared me off of planes and cruise ships and now we can add cave exploring and Mt Everest climbing. Simon, eager to get some hits for his fledgling adrenaline website, decides to go explore a forbidden cave with an unstable older guide. The guide does not come back. Simon does, with more than he bargained for. The first part of the book in these caves had my windpipe choking me while reading what was going on. It was harrowing. 👇🏼

I came back from my last break and a coworker asked me if I was okay cause I looked tired. I replied that I‘m at the point where I think everyone in my book is about to die. The 3 of us in our little room all laughed at the same time. lol. I loved this book. On the 4th day of a cruise, the engines blow up, the stabilizers fail, there is a murderer loose on the ship, there is the norovirus starting to spread, and a medium-psychic who has 👇🏼

Samantha, an archeoentymologist, has to go stay with her mother after her job gets put on hold. The house belonged to her grandmother, her mean grandmother. As soon as she gets there she discovers all is not right. There are vultures and creepy, blood thirsty roses and a mother who seems less than herself. Samantha is humorous and very knowledgeable about bugs. That was my favorite part of this book. Her passion for bugs. This was alright.

We meet Mars, short for Marshall, a gay genderfluid teen, being woken up in the middle of the night by their twin sister, who tries to murder them. They tussle over to the banister, fall over it, fall on the chandelier that breaks and they land on the sister, killing her. High drama! She should have been at camp. Now Mars goes back in her place to investigate. This book is a fever dream of wth is happening. I really enjoyed it. I enjoyed the 👇🏼

Loved this. Bridget Jones meets Blake Crouch meets a Simon Pegg comedy. Bee and Nick accidentally connect when his i-mail gets sent to her e-mail. They hit it off and soon try to meet each other only to find out they live in parallel universes. This a charming, romantic, sci-fi that made me chuckle so many times, unexpectedly. There just some really great epistolary email/imail back and forth. It also had great side characters. Pick!

Alexei is hiking the 2000 mile PCT, trying to work through his being disowned by his family for being gay. Ben is also hiking the PCT for a new start after a string of bad boyfriends. The two meet and fall in love. This was slow, but steady, and by the end had burrowed itself into me, encircled my heart, squeezed it, broke it, and put it back together. Pick!

Thanks for the tag @Deblovestoread The other night I was reading late at night on the sofa. And I hear a slow crunching of leaves right outside the window. All of a sudden I hear this not petite sounding guttural ,”MEEEEOOooooow.” And it scared the hell out of me.lol and the cat just kept doing it. It was like they were saying, I see you in therrrrre, why are you ignoring meeeee, feeeeed me. People at work think it belongs to a previous owner👇🏼

Olivia is getting to prove herself as an event planner being assigned a big account. What she doesn‘t count on is running into her best friend, Margot, from high school who she hasn‘t seen in a decade. The one she had that one special week with during spring break their senior year. This is 2nd chance with low stakes but I loved it because there were some scenes where it‘s just them 2 making cookies and it was lovely. The one thing I will 👇🏼

Logan starts off his senior year of high school broken hearted having been dumped by his gf of 3yrs. But a new girl shows up and she‘s tall, quirky, and fun. And no matter how much she tries to keep things platonic, Logan kisses her and that‘s when she has to tell him she was born a boy. I really liked this book a lot. There are complaints about Logan, we‘re in his head the whole way through. He‘s an 18 yo from rural Missouri. It‘s a double 👇🏼

I liked the last quarter of this almost 400pg book. So it gets a so-so. I loved the movie Practical Magic-I wished for you too!!…😭😭💔So I thought I would love this but the lovely writing doesn‘t support a strong story. There‘s a floofiness and flimsyness, a floofy flimsyness, lol, I didn‘t care for in here. I was missing the grit and heartache 1600s Salem Trials and being a witch ought to have. This was read for bookclub tomorrow. The best👇🏼

This is such a good book. This is horror but the horror doesn‘t come from the supernatural or made up monsters. Within the first 25 pages the racism of 1950s Florida comes and grabs you by the throat and doesn‘t let go. Half this book is 12 yo Robbie at the school for boys, the other is his sister Gloria doing everything she can to get him out. They both go through their own hell. Due is a great writer, her writing put me right there with 👇🏼

Of course I had to go down a rabbit hole because I didn‘t think she would throw something random out like that. I had no idea these women existed. Check them out: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/seventy-five-years-ago-militarys-only-all...

In the first 3 chapters we follow 3 billionaires who get an alert that an apocalypse has started and they need to get to their bunkers. I was excited. Then we don‘t see them again for 250 pgs. This had a lot to say about community vs the self. The role of the internet. There were 2 great female MCs in here, one a survivalist refugee coming from a fallen city and the other coming from a cult. This could very faintly be called a sapphic romance.👇🏼

Thanks for the tag @julieclair

1. I thought it was going to be North Woods but Tom Lake weeks later still keeps talking to me.

2. Just looking forward to a bunch of horror. The long list for the Stoker Awards came out so there‘s a lot I want to get to. Also- #justiceforMariannaEnriquez She didn‘t get nominated and I‘m pretty upset.

Book 3 of #24in24. Sooooo there was a lot of nyuhhh nyuhhh grinding teeth chewing the side of my check thinking about this book because I loved the first half. But then he has identity after identity after identity show up. Just give them a little bit more than “I‘m this identity.” lol idk. I felt some of the characters were shortchanged. Adelaide, a Black woman, flees to Montana in the early 1900s to homestead and hide. Little does she know👇🏼

I really liked this. Mason tells the story of a piece of land starting somewhere in the 1600s up to the future end, and a lot of its inhabitants. He‘s great at making each character not only having a distinct voice, but also a style pertaining to the time period. I laughed, I cried, I breathed deeply at the beauty in here. Bonus points for a certain lascivious beetle scene. lol. It reminded me of 3 stories that are near and dear to my heart. 👇🏼

Boom. 2nd book off of #24in24. Thanks @Jas16 for this signed book for Xmas and thanks @CarolynM for the nudge to read it. Rikker walks in to the locker room of the hockey team he just transferred to and no one is more shocked than Graham as they have a shared history that has haunted him. Queer hockey romance that at times felt like horror because of the prison Graham builds for himself by being in the closet. This was sweet and, of course, 👇🏼

Happy Saturday Littens! Today, at the laundromat I asked this girl what she was reading and it was a book about the 12 steps but the original ones more based in faith(?) because she had a friend who was an addict going through the program who asked her to read it so she could help them out. Later on while she was leaving she asked me what I was reading and I told her-gay hockey romance. Her eyes widened just a touch and her small, cute 👇🏼

John Paul Brammer is an advice columnist for Grinder that starts off as a spoof and then gains traction as more and more letters come in prompting him to cull from his personal life leading to shared universal experiences that are super self aware, funny at times, and touching at others, all well written which means that after this long ass sentence: It‘s a pick!!!! So glad queer books like this exist. 🏳️‍🌈

A liminal space horror story. 2 college students and 2 rock climbers will go in search of an undiscovered climbing space only to never return. You find this out in the first chapter. The rest is their story. I liked this purely based on this wretched valley that is the main character. However what‘s missing here is characterization. There‘s a guy who loves his dog, a girl who likes to climb, a girl who‘s a biologist, and some guy who might as👇🏼

My 1st book in my #24in24. I thought this collection was amazing. All the stories had a bite to them, full of anger and despair. There were 3 that had to do with how the line between having a life and having a job blurs and next thing you know your life is the job. The most affecting were the ones about race, abortion, and school shootings. Not easy stories but ones that will stick with you long after. Thanks again, Scott. Pick!

WTF @vivastory ! The Finkelstein 5 is a knockout. What a way to start a collection. Thank you my friend for the books and the bookmark.

I picked this up at the library because they said they were doing a bookclub on it tomorrow and it was only 230pgs. Of which the last 80 were only the good ones. Oh man I hate read that first 150. It‘s Coming of age, Laura has just been kicked out her school. She‘s been raised by her Italian immigrant grandparents because her father and brother are dead and her mother has never recovered. It‘s Christmas and the household is getting ready for👇🏼

Came to return books and saw this on a display. I loved this. Sammie, a trans woman, is best man at her college friend‘s bachelor weekend at an anything goes, in the future, in the middle of the ocean resort. While grappling with the fact that her buddies haven‘t caught up to who she is now, Sammie starts to notice that not all is right at the resort. There are a lot of details to love in here. The itinerary, the capitalism in here was👇🏼

I thought this was going to be fluff. I had no idea it would be so charming, funny, romantic, and have some mystery with a couple dashes of danger. Two gentleman in the early 19th century England lovers to enemies and back to lovers. There were times I was reading this at work and was cursing the clock that I had to go back from break already. Pick!

I loved this book. A family that owns a farm is stuck together during the pandemic. While picking cherries the mother will tell her 3 daughters about that summer she dated a movie star. This is about the look back you have on your life and realize how much you didn‘t know and all the avenues you could have taken and the ones you didn‘t take. So good. It‘s about mother and daughters, even that one who eats your lunch during their hormonal rage👇🏼

@vivastory thanks for putting this in my radar. This was fun. 5 women invited are invited to a writer‘s retreat. It is run by a female author who is huge yet has this aura of mystery to her. It‘s being hosted at an estate in the middle of nowhere. There is story upon story upon story in here and I couldn‘t stop chuckling at the inventiveness of the author and the audacity of a character in here. This could also be a queer novel. It‘s a pick!

These are my top 11 for the year. Our Share of Night is my favorite of the year. Cult, coming of age, a haunted house, fraught father son relationship, and an author who knows how to plant seeds throughout the book that turn into some great surprises. Fruiting Bodies, every story was a dark indulgent sorbet. Needful Things because King is King and he can make me laugh and horrify me and he just really knows people. Happy New Year Littens!

So I had to work tonight and people are crazy. I have to work tomorrow. My only saving Grace is that they have the tvs on the SyFy channel and A Nightmare on Elm Street came on. lol. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays my Litten friends.

Oh, I liked this. A porn actress is trying to go mainstream starring in a made for tv Christmas movie hoping no one knows who she is. A bad boy ex boyband member is trying to rehabilitate his image with this new wholesome movie. They meet and sparks fly. This was soooo hot and funny. There are so many small details that make this amazing. And as always, romance has a way of sneaking bigger, very valid conversations in their books. Pick!

I picked this up because of Jenny Colvin. I can‘t remember if she was doing the episode where she was talking about a book on the Hutterites or one where she was talking about romance where she mentioned that there was a lot of Amish romance out there. So when I saw this on display I had to give it a try. It was wonderful and the balm my soul needed while dealing with the usual holiday craziness. 3 stories all loosely tied by a bake shop. I 👇🏼

Sooo I‘ve been to one of the Albuquerque libraries 3 times this month and each time I saw this Christmas romance display. Each time there were the same books. And I just thought they looked like orphans begging to be taken home. Someone had taken the time to make the display so I thought why not. This is one of those books. I also picked it because my grandma used to make these cookies called cow patties which were just cowboy cookies made👇🏼

Hi Litsy I have a short window. I have an IOS phone. For the past 2 days Litsy comes up as the white screen with the logo minutes later just says can‘t connect. My internet is fine. I turned off/on my phone, uninstalled-reinstalled, let my phone totally die. Did the new iOS update. And it‘s still the same. I go to the desktop version on my laptop and it can‘t connect to the server even though I can do everything else. Any ideas. I can get 👇🏼

I got off of the app formerly know as Twitter because I was on there for horror authors but every month there was some scandal and I just got sick of hearing how rotten people are behind the writing curtain. However, I do love this booktuber named With Cindy and oh does she have a crazy tale of a crazy author. It‘s a real life Yellowface. Check it out: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FY4vgK9B8sk&pp=ygUPcmVhZCB3aXRoIGNpbmR5

We follow Anna, someone who reads as a tomboy. She is bullied at school, home life isn‘t going so great, and something sinister is going on at work. Then someone goes missing. The book is told in two timelines. There is such a foreboding pace to it. I wanted to read this every chance I got. Medina is Indigenous and is really spotlighting the issue of Indigenous girls and women who go missing every day. It‘s well written and my heart ached for👇🏼

Yeah, this is bad. The writing is way more tell than show. I gave it the good ol‘100 pg try and couldn‘t. I made to 25 years into the future where there are 3 settlements and the first one we read about he keeps writing there, you‘re like family. Everyone there, they‘re family. They hugged because everyone there, they‘re like family. I just started laughing. Shoutout to Olive Garden‘s marketing because when you‘re there, you‘re family. Lol👇🏼

I loved this. This was really a sad and whimsical children‘s book for adults about a big cat living in the Hollywood sign area who has many adventures and deep thoughts. Through the cat‘s eyes we‘re left to connect the easy dots of our inhumanity and our disconnectedness with each other. I‘m glad the cat got to go to Disneyland! Lol. Pick!

Cantú worked as a Border Patrol Agent for 4 years from 2008-2012. He talks about his other agents, the people comes across in the desert. It‘s very well written. He talks about his conscience and the guilt, the moral injury he starts to suffer from as a result of the job. Most of all I think he does the best job of showing you how people who try to cross the border are humans. He un-others them. Pick!

I liked this. There are 19 short stories by Black authors that also includes a 2 page forward by Jordan Peele that is just as good as any of those stories. There were devils, alien baby snatchers, a magical family who deals with addiction in a frightening way, there was this sci-fi story about ai that made me work hard and left me feeling rewarded. There were a couple of stories that made me wish they were written tighter. Other than that, pick!