Frannie is a house-girl at a Jamaican estate. She is transported to London by her master who gives her away as a gift to a friend. She becomes a maid in the house of a rich and influential man. But then one day she's woken up by police and accused of murder.
This book was a bit weird and unrealistic at times, but all in all good.
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#hisfic #lgbt #adult #thriller

"It's one thing protecting oneself from the dead, but only too easy to forget the damage that the living can do."
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#catsoflitsy

This book is rough.
#wwi #germanauthor 🇩🇪 #catsoflitsy
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Lazy Sunday reading with Loki 🐾💙
#catsoflitsy #hungarian

"Somehow, through it all, Churchill had managed to teach them the art of being fearless."
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#catsoflitsy

„Wisdom comes when we acknowledge what we can never know."
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?: Loki and his shoe fetish ?

"Amid the tales, the smokescreens, and the deceptive mirrors of life's unsolved mysteries, truth resides, waiting for someone to enter its sanctum, then leave, without quite closing the door behind them. That is when truth may make its escape."
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My favorite pastime is being Sirius's pillow. ??

"The Institute is like what they say about the mafia — once you're in, you can't get out."

After reading the first page of this book, I felt that I'm going to have to give back my advanced English language certificate. But after finding webpages with titles like "Where does McCarthy get his words?" and "Words McCarthy Uses in His Novels" I felt a bit relieved. Still it was too much right now. I loved all his other novels so I'll definitely give it another go later.

Another exciting and creepy paranormal/crime/mystery novel by St James. I loved The Sun Down Motel and this one was almost as good.
#paranormal #gothic #thriller

"If we were living in a simulation, how would we know it was a simulation?"
Very smart, very neat time travel story.
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Couldn't find it either here or on Goodreads, but apparently there's a second book with some short stories.
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#japan #catsoflitsy

Such a lovely story. ♥️
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#catsoflitsy #japanese

I don't think I've ever read a modern military novel before. It was fast-paced and intense until the end, but there were quite a few things I didn't understand and it was overwhelming at times. It was very professionally written, but I don't think this will become my favorite genre.
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#catsoflitsy

A heartwrenching young adult novel that's a mandatory reading for pretty much every student in my country.
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#hungarian

I don't usually read mythology retellings, and it didn't become my favorite genre either, but it wasn't bad. It's about badass women. 💪🏻
#fiction #mythology #greekmythology #retelling
#catsoflitsy

I enjoyed this book immensely. Fast paced with clever twists along every corner.
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#classics #travel #adventure

Some interesting short stories set in the world of the Arc of a Scythe series.
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#fiction #dystopia #fantasy #scifi

This story is awful. It's about an abusive mother torturing her kids and her husband and her friends. Couldn't finish it.
#truecrime #nonfiction

This book was a bit weird for me, the writing style not very engaging, and I didn't completely understand all of it. 🤷🏻‍♀️
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#scifi #alternatehistory #dystopia
#catsoflitsy

"Believing in nothing is still believing in something – and only by reaching eternity will anyone know the truth of it all."
#scifi #arcofascythe
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The feline on the photo is one of our newly adopted cats, Sirius ?? #catsoflitsy

"Even the greatest sultan recognizes his better when he at last comes along."
#fables #graphicnovel

In the future there are no wars, no diseases, no corruption, everyone is immortal and has nanites in their system that quell pain and control extreme emotions. That means there's no natural death either. The job is done by scythes and it's called gleaning.
A very interesting world and a fast-paced story that kept me rooting for the MCs.
#dystopian #scifi

Several female secret agents worked in WWII France, trained and sent there by the British Special Operations Executive. Many of them gave their lives for a free France. I read a lot about WWII nurses and they were always treated as noncombatants, and while these women were never actual soldiers, they directly and indirectly killed many Nazis, and they were not treated differently from male agents.
#historical #nonfiction #espionage #women

"Growing up, I thought faith was about believing Jesus died for us, and that if I held on to that, I'd get to meet him when I died too. But faith doesn't mean that to me anymore. Now it means someone seeing something in you that you don't, and not giving up until you see it too"
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A very interesting history of the 26 letters we currently use in the English alphabet, how each of them came to be used today, as well as other interesting topics concerning language such as the many different methods of teaching kids how to read, encrypted communication and ciphers, fonts, different forms of handwriting, how the qwerty order came to be, signs and symbols, and many more.
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#alphabet #language #LitsyLoveReads

Third book in the series 'Before the Coffee Gets Cold'. There's going to be a 4th one even, but it's not yet translated.
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#beforethecoffeegetscold #magicalrealism #timetravel #japanese

A few more heartfelt little stories about the café that allows you to time travel. The main idea of these stories is that everyone deserves to be happy, that you must try to live a happy life even after the death of a loved one, because that's what they would've wanted for you too. You also get to know a bit more about the main characters in this sequel. ☕
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#magicalrealism #timetravel #japanese

An interesting take on time travel: there's a hidden little café in Tokyo that has one single seat that allows you to travel through time. There are many rules, but one of the most important is that you must return to the present before the coffee before you gets cold. ☕ Oh, and another rule is that no matter what you do in the past, the present won't change.
#magicalrealism #timetravel
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My TBR jar (or more like cube) 📚💜
#tbrjar #ithasspoken #toberead

This was the book I least like in the trilogy. Clever, but a bit too much drama.
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#mystery #thriller #crime #murdermystery

"When the successors to our time appraise Winston and this awful war, as they surely must, I know that they will see Winston's hand on the pen that scribes history. But, I wonder, will they see that my hand has also been on the pen all along?"
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#historicalfiction #wwii #women

A forensic pathologist's memoir about his own life, his career and his most interesting and intriguing cases.
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#dogsoflitsy #medicine #pathology #truecrime

A very fitting sequel to #AGoodGirlsGuideToMurder 🔪
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#murdermystery #thriller #crime

Hilarious and so, so adorable. 💕
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#LitsyLoveReads

I've never read a book before where paranormal is mixed with murder mystery, but this one had me on the edge of my seat all along. So good! 👻
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#paranormal #murdermystery #LitsyLoveReads

#fables #graphicnovel 💕

Dogsitting this weekend 💕
Lincoln Rhyme is after an omniscient serial killer.
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#crime #murdermystery #detective

A fun prequel to A Good Girl's Guide to Murder 🔪🩸
#murdermystery #youngadult #crime

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#murdermystery #youngadult #crime

„We spent our lives helping people, and we did it with honor and love and never looked back.”
The incredible story of Army Nurses serving on the Philippines during World War II. They spent three years in Japanese prison camps, never quitting, they kept tending the sick and wounded.
Norman's writing is impeccable.
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"The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it. Impossible, of course."

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"He needs to hurt nearly enough to kill him," he said, "because that's how we Goddamn live."

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I'd love to hear your opinions / experiences about Scribd. I'm thinking of cancelling my Audible subscription because I don't use it that much. I'd mostly use it for audiobooks. 🎧

New short story coming soon! 💕
#KateQuinn #hisfic

"You really don't understand, do you?" she said. "I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted? Just like that, and it didn't mean anything. What then?"
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"The thing is — fear can't hurt you any more than a dream."

A sick little book indeed.

"A moment can be an eternity, if we let it."

"The things I valued had changed. My frame of reference was Vietnam, and nobody wanted to hear about it."

"We are all unreliable narrators of our own lives, crafting stories about ourselves that omit unsavory truths and highlight our invented identities."