Hi everybody!! Long time, no see! I had a bit of a rough winter, and wasn‘t reading much, but now that things have settled down again, I finally feel like reading again (hurray!!) I‘m starting off with something I‘m pretty positive I‘m going to love. Baby steps after major depressive episodes 😉 puppies help depression too 🐶

Look what else came in the mail today!! 😍😍😍 #signed #specialedition

So I totally forgot this was in my closet until I got tagged this morning and omg @Eyelit everything is so great!! ?????? both comics are actually in my TBR thou insexts might have been on the "TBR you forgot about until it comes up on your litsy again." I'm so excited to read both of them later! #halloweengoespostal

Look what came today!! I love the stickers! 😍 #halloweengoespostal

Top emojis: 😍😂😱 +💕 bc that should be on there but Oct bumped screams up

Top Authors: N.K. Jemisin, Maggie Stiefvater, and Rebecca Solnit

Weekend plans: writers group and knitting

Birth order: oldest 👴🏻

#friyayintro #friyayintroers

On its way on this v rainy fall morning! #halloweengoespostal #fallbookexchange

So this is a thing that just happened.. 💸💸💸💸

On the bright side, that means I can gift my soft covers to a friend 😍

Enter to win a NYC literacy tour courtesy of ReadItForward!! 🍀🍀🍀

http://www.readitforward.com/giveaways/new-york-city-literary-adventure/

#humpdaypost #gettoknowyou
🐫 knitting and tea (coincidentally in a mug from my fav indie coffee place)
🐫 left
🐫 writing, language/linguistics, and pop culture
🐫 pasta and fake-bread toast
🐫 equal human rights

@beccaeve this made me think of you 😂😂 #dailydeal #ebook

Officially ready for October!! 🦇👻🎃🍂😍

Wearing my new cat socks @River_Voice sent me to class bc I need the extra cat fortification today 😸😸

I was tagged by @River_Voice for the #5fordinner prompt. I feel like these five would have awesome dinner conversations (top down. Left to right.)

⚡️ Daniel José Older
⚡️Saladin Ahmed
⚡️Kamron Hurley
⚡️V.E. Schwab
⚡️N.K. Jemisin

I tag: @beccaeve @CrowCAH and @Seekingtardis ?

Omg thank you so much @River_Voice! Everything is amazing. The candles smell so good and the wrist warmers fit great 😊 I'm keeping everything, even the yarn used to tie the packages because I'm secretly a flock of magpies in a trench coat 💕🍁🍂☕️ #letsgethygge @Tiffy_Reads @The_Bookswaps

Pardon my messy desk 😳 But look what I rescued from the post yesterday! Thank you so much @River_Voice! I'm so excited to open it next week! 😍 I also got to pick up the door prize I won at the local yarn store's anniversary party that I stumbled into last weekend #hygge all around! #letsgethygge

🍁 Apple
🍁 Horror
🍁 Hayride
🍁 Both!!
🍁 Pumpkin Patch
🍁 Bonfires
🍁 no football, except the real football ⚽️⚽️⚽️

#falltimefavorites

I got the Grishaverse! ✨🗡 which feels about right. It was going to be that or White London 😂

http://torteenblog.com/2017/09/what-magical-ya-world-do-you-belong-in/

#quiz #YA #magic

Daily eBook deals continue their streak of being perfectly suited to the season 📚🦂🔮🦇📚

#welcometonightvale #kindledailydeal #ebooksteal

I just wrote about Scorpio Races on my blog, and the reading gods have answered with a #ebookdeal! A great autumn read about family, fear, and fae horses with a #badassheroine 🐎🐎🐎 #kindledailydeal

This #kindledailydeal is so on point! Night Watch is one of my fav weird vampire reads. Perfect for this time of year! 🦇⚰️🖤 Also this cover is great!

My TBR list for the #ripxii reading challenge. I really liked @RealLifeReading 's idea of reading only ladies, so I decided to try too! Maybe if I finish all of them, I'll reward myself with a copy of Oyeyemi's What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours

#litsythisorthat #halloweenbookexchange #fallbookexchange

🦇 Both
🦇 also both. Also bats 😜
🦇Binge read
🦇Sweet
🦇 WW and X-Men 💕
🦇Wine (or cider 🍎)
🦇Talk
🦇Hot 🔥
🦇Treat 🍡

Another #recommendsday post! It's a new goal to write and maintain the book blog I've started, so I'm aiming to post at least a recommendsday and a "feature-length" post every week. This week's post, four of my favorite #fairytale retellings ???✨ http://bit.ly/2wIOpLQ

homepage link: http://inkstainedwitchery.blogspot.com

The book nearest was a textbook, but page 117 happened to be a reading excerpt:

"There are two reasons not to buy big lobsters," he said. "They make more babies, and they don't taste good."

????

Once I figured out the game, this was a lot of fun. It's not about whether I like the cover, but if I think I (or Goodreads rather) would like the content inside 😜 lovingly stolen from @EchoLogical

Only filled in two spaces in August, but I'm getting close to a cover-all! I've had a really hard time finding something interesting published in 2007. Anybody have any suggestions?? #lrc #litsyreadingchallenge

It's off and away!! The lovely woman at the post office also magically got it upgraded to express for free 😊AND I bought eclipse stamps (I'm turning into a stamp collector 😱) @River_Voice it should arrive approx around the 11th! #letshyggeswap #hyggebookswap

Lately I've been reading all of the new Star Wars universe books coming out while waiting for The Last Jedi to come out. This one came out today and I can't wait to get my hands on it 😍 #starwars #galaxyfarfaraway #fallintobooks

August wrap-up! Got back into the swing of things after a slump in July. I'm ready for the hot cider of September, but not the weather! 🍁🌬🍂

Total books: 11
Fiction: 8
Non-fiction: 2
Short story collection: 1
Women writers: 7
Writers of color: 2

Favorite read: The Geek Feminist Revolution

I don't want to wait until 2019 for the final season of #GoT!! Until our fix comes back thou, I put together a list of books to read based on your favorite GoT bad ass ladies. Add yours below 👇🏻 #recommendsday bit.ly/GoTRec

"You packed this for me to sit on right? Not to ship to a friend." ??? #catsoflitsy #bookswap #bookmail

Oh man, I feel so spoiled!! Thank you @inwhichHeikereadsharder!! I loved the little notes on each book. Also, I think you can read minds?! I did get Grace of Kings from the library and I wanted to finish it but I was out of renewals. I'm so thrilled to have my own copy. I'm excited to read all of these! 📚😊📚 #biblophilebookexchange

I had one hold in.. One!! I should have known better, but their "new arrivals" section always seems to have everything I want to read conveniently curated for me!! Photo featuring Paczki the cat ? #catsoflitsy #libraryordeath

I was having a crappy day today, so I swung by B&N on my way home from work. I walked out with four #space books and two knitting books from the sale section. AND THEN when I got home The Stone Sky and my new shoes had arrived in the mail!! 😊😊

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I really loved the characters, all of them, and in that way that is both simultaneously the best and the worst where you just want to protect them from themselves and the (sometimes stupid) decisions they make. My heart broke for everyone at least once, but especially Lada and Radu. I didn't realize it was an almost 500 page book until I went to add it to Goodreads. I blew through it in an afternoon. 👇🏻

I just started this this afternoon.. did anyone else get a really strong feeling of Deja vue?? Is there another novel similar that I might be confusing it with??

"The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you." This is like everyone's favorite quote, but it's a REALLY GOOD quote.

#bookishwouldyourather 1. Cafe, I need the excess noise, even with headphones in ? 2. I'm not sure on this one, as I can't pick a def fav of either, but most likely character. I'd (probably) enjoy living in a fantasy novel (at least the ones I read wouldn't burn me at the stake) 3. Also hard, bc I never cry "a bit". When it rains, it pours. But I'd also hate never LOLing at a book again ??

I had forgotten I put this on hold. A great book to break my audio slump. Tyson tells the story of the universe in a relatable voice, with tons of science snark. 🚀🌎☄️⭐️ #audiobook #science #nonfiction

@inwhichHeikereadsharder look what's on its way!! Yours arrived safe and sound while I was on vacation and is patiently hiding in my closet for the 20th 😊

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ It almost wasn't worth putting this one on my "reading" list since it went from reading to read so fast! But l love this little duology and getting to spend more time with Pilar and Loup as they continued their adventure was a great end to my vacation. I have some more thoughts about this series, about the ways it mirrors and refracts our current society, but they're still percolating ? stay tuned!

@inwhichHeikereadsharder It's finished and ready to ship, but my printer is all jacked up and I can't print the shipping label!! 😖😖 I'm on vacation starting tomorrow, but as soon as I can get to a work printer, I'll print the label and ship it out, but that probably won't be until the 11th. You should still get it in time to inbox on the 20th thou!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 3.5/5 definitely a "Bro book," but I enjoyed it nonetheless. Despite being a male fantasy spy thriller, Chu also digs into action/spy thriller tropes and explores how they might play out in a real(-ish) world setting. I was pretty impressed for a debut novel, but on principle, I couldn't give a book with such an ending a 4 star rating. #scifi #aliens #spies #action

Hooked on page 8 📚😍

#thisorthat by @beachbookworm7 plus extra questions from @Jess7 1. Couch, thou I've been reading in bed more lately. 2. Female 3. Sweet 4. Quartets 5. 3rd Person 6. At night. I love the feeling of only me and the book being awake at 2 am (thou I usually kinda regret it in the morning) 7. Bookstore 8. Colorful 9. Plot 10. Female 11. Both. I love new-to-me authors thou who have an established bibliography 12. Multiple 👇🏻

Man, what a wild ride! I'm glad this is the book that is going to break my reading slump. A story of intrigues, space travel, metaphysics, and the ethics of interaction with aliens.

TFW you only have twenty pages left and the plot is nowhere near resolved 😱😱😱

Stats for the month! I've been reading so much since I started my new job (having a consistent schedule helps), I'll probably have to raise my year goal again. Or maybe I should challenge myself to read harder books? 🤔 . . . . Additional stats: 4 series (finished 2); 9 diverse reads; 1 memoir; 7 audiobooks top reads: A Taste of Honey and Aftermath

Started this yesterday and continued during breakfast today for #litsypartyofone before heading into town for garden supplies. The internet up at my family's cabin is spotty, perfect for reading all weekend 📚💕

An interesting read and added to my never-ending TBR #monsters #sexuality http://www.tor.com/2017/06/20/five-monsters-that-explore-gender-sexuality-and-ra...