October funnies! #scarathlon #teamslaughter @Clwojick @StayCurious
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Pardon the language. 😂 October funnies! #scarathlon #teamslaughter @Clwojick @StayCurious
Pardon the language. 😂 October funnies! #scarathlon #teamslaughter @Clwojick @StayCurious
I only got about 8 hours total for #20in4 but I still made a lot of progress, especially for #scarathlon. I finished An Unfortunate Demise, listened a lot to Good Omens, started #teamslaughter #buddyread Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder and made progress on a few others.
True crime #tvshow tonight for #scarathlon. Vengeance: Killer Millionaires. It‘s crazy; it‘s about a man I knew 20+ years ago from my old job in Austin, who was murdered in 1999 while I was in law school, and I had no idea. #teamslaughter @Clwojick @StayCurious
#scarathlon #bucketlist #teamslaughter @Clwojick @StayCurious
Visit a Halloween store
#scarathlon #bucketlist #teamslaughter @Clwojick @StayCurious
Visit a farmer‘s market
It was crazy hard to find candles on a book cover! Found ‘em, lower right corner.
#scarathlon #ominousoctober #teamslaughter @Clwojick @StayCurious @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs
#candle
VE Schwab shares her spookiest reads! I may be readjusting my October tbr list. #scarathlon #teamslaughter @Clwojick @StayCurious
https://www.instagram.com/p/CjNuFXaD_4z/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
I‘m starting this book tonight for #foodandlit #Haiti. It should also work for #Benin #readingafrica2022 @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB @Catsandbooks @Butterfinger
Free ebook today for all y‘all playing in #scarathlon @Clwojick @StayCurious
It took me long enough (thanks to a stinking headache for days), I‘ve finally assembled my #scarathlon event tracker. It‘s awesome! I‘ll show you the inside when I‘ve got more things happening in it. #teamslaughter @Clwojick @StayCurious
One more post for this book. I have figured out the #PromptMaze and I'm really looking forward to it!! 😎
I'm obsessed with color coding, so orange will mean I've completed a square, and green will indicate my next square to complete. Whoohoo!
This is fun @thearomaofbooks !!!
#scarathlon @teamslaughter @clwojick @staycurious
Having finished the tagged book, I have officially finished #LitsyAtoZ for the year!!! I‘ve been playing since 2017 and I‘ve always finished. But this is my earliest completion yet!! So, I‘ll keep playing because I have some books planned for those harder letters I still hope to read by the end of the year. BTW, those are the letters of the alphabet getting blown away!! 🎉🎊🎈
pickA lady‘s maid solves a murder while recovering from a murder in book 1. It could have described what happened in book 1 rather than assuming the books were read in order. Ladies‘ maids are always meek so I find these stories frustrating but it was well told even so. A fine book for its genre.
#20in4 #31by31 #autumnatoz #autumnbingo2022 #bodycountbingo #litsyatoz #octoberreadathon #promptmaze #spookoween #witchathon #scarathlon #teamslaughter
Do I get to count twice since there are two cats on the cover? 😉 #cat for October 1
#ominousoctober #scarathlon #teamslaughter @Clwojick @StayCurious @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs
I was an unfortunate victim of a nasty headache much of yesterday and sadly didn‘t start all my #scarathlon posts! But I am making up for it today starting with yesterday‘s photo challenge, black (& you see how it picks up fingerprints 😞).
#scarathlondailyprompts #black #teamslaughter @Clwojick @StayCurious
pickIndiana is in a loveless marriage when she falls madly in love with a Parisian for whom she‘s ready to abandon all. Set contemporaneously when it was written, 1831, you have to imagine that Indiana‘s actions would likely destroy her life. The romance is over-the-top, apparently common during this period. But the author, a woman writing under a pen name, was on the cutting edge of women‘s rights and she held very strong beliefs about women in ⬇️
I started a #scarathlon point tracker in Word(I need to fix the title). It‘s manual, no lovely formulas adding anything up. I‘m happy to share if anyone wants a copy. I think it can easily be converted to Excel. Just comment with your email address below if you‘d like a copy.
It‘d be super easy to recreate as well. The most important part for me was having the points available at the top and I can update that as activities are added.
And this from Sarah Addison Allen. I follow her on Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/p/CjEmhQTLmPT/?igshid=MmIxOGMzMTU=
I‘m loving my decision to listen to the original Dracula on audiobook and reading this Swedish version that was only recently discovered and translated into English. It‘s more than twice the length of the original and still early in there are notable differences, like here: Harker‘s meeting and talking to 1 of the witches on occasion. In the Swedish version, Dracula has an old woman who is his house servant but he has none in the original. ⬇️
I'm setting up my TBR list for the #AutumnAtoZ readathon. To join in the readathon for October, see my previous post under the tagged book. As you can see any book will count. If you get half the alphabet, you get an extra 50 points, and the whole alphabet lands you 100 extra points in the #AutumnAtoZ contest. I hope you'll play along!
Your time also counts as a readathon for #Scarathlon
This list also is an update for my #Scarathlon2022TBR
In defense of reading
Brought to you by two of the best characters in the universe
#twofortuesday @TheSpineView
1) Absolutely! Historical fiction is my go-to and ancient history, if well written, can be among the best
2) Tagged and anything by Rutherford. Also all of Sue Harrison‘s books set in the ice age, & W Michael & Kathleen Gear‘s ancient North American historical fiction
I‘ve been absent from all the weekly posts for a long time thanks to a demanding work schedule. I‘m hoping to get back into the groove again!!
When asked to hide the wound caused by her husband‘s stomping on her face, this was the wife‘s (Indiana‘s) excellent reply. Reminder this book was written in 1831, when women were NOT “allowed” to stand up to their husbands. No wonder this book was so heavily censored.
#Reunion #readingafrica2022 @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB
For the month of October, each letter completed counts 10 points! Finish any unique lucky 13 letters and that‘s 50 points! Winner gift tbd. Tag #autumnatoz & me for all posts to get credit. Play along with #scarathlon!
I‘m new to hosting a readathon so please ask questions or give me helpful hints. I can‘t wait to see y‘all play!
And thanks to the incredible @BookishMarginalia who hosted the inaugural and the best #LitsyAtoZ challenge!
Île Bourbon is the former name of #Reunion
Our characters are finally on the island having fled Paris and living in the house inherited by Indiana, and this is the first description of the island
#readingafrica2022 @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB
pickA terrific jaunt across English and New England history: a nitwit is sent to the colonies to hunt down two judges who‘d signed King Charles I‘s death warrant and instead he stumbles into far bigger, interesting, and terrifying intrigues. A unique take on the earliest history of New York, in which the larger facts are true but the smaller pieces are a fun (& sad) imagining of what happened behind the scenes. Highly recommended. #letterJ #litsyatoz
pickThe author recreated Marco Polo‘s trek from the Vatican to Xanadu. His own trek through tyrannical Iran and communist China was likely as perilous as Polo‘s. It‘s an interesting travelogue but not as well written as Bernard Ollivier‘s books about walking the Silk Road. The narrator spoke so softly & fast I had to slow the audiobook down & hike the volume. There also were odd musical interludes that just didn‘t work. #letterX #litsyatoz
I‘ve started rereading this (for the umpteenth time), but this time I‘ve decided to listen to it. I want to compare it while I‘m reading the Swedish edition*, which is double the length so I can pick up the differences in real time. The Swedish edition is a chunkster, so I‘m hoping this will be enough of a head start to finish for #scarathlon. #teamslaughter #chunksterchallenge2022 @Clwojick @Amiable
Who knew there was a Spanish version of Dracula? This is fascinating!
https://www.instagram.com/p/Ci8hu-JPau7/?igshid=MmIxOGMzMTU=
Pepys plays an important part in the tagged book, so I decided to Wiki him. I found this excerpt from his diary about the plague in London, proving history continually repeats itself.
![[tagged book]](https://image.librarything.com/pics/litsy_webpics/icon_taggedBook@3x.png){kind=icon}