#LitsySciFiBookClub I read an article about this book a couple of years ago and thought it sounded interesting, so I added it to my Audible library. Three months in a row I nominated it for this buddy read. Now I‘ve listened to the first two chapters and I‘m finding it extremely depressing, even disturbing. This is not a review. I‘m not bailing. I plan to listen to the entire book. Because I haven‘t even gotten to the science fiction part yet.

#ReadAway2024 This is the book I chose for April‘s #TBRTarot prompt, “Choose a book which has become a TV show or movie.” My favorite adaptation of Frankenstein is a miniseries from the 1970s called “Frankenstein: The True Story.” Frankenstein is widely acknowledged as the first science fiction book. I‘m not sure what I expected but this was a pleasant surprise. Mary Shelley‘s writing is lovely. Victor, the so-called hero, wanted to (cont)⬇️

#ReadAway2024 #SeriesLove2024 Okay! Now I know what all the fuss is about. This was a very entertaining story. Most of this series is currently free on Audible (Yay for excellent free stuff.) This security droid calling itself Murderbot has attained free will. But rather than murdering anyone, it would much rather watch soap operas. I‘ll continue this series and I highly recommend that all science fiction fans start reading or listening.

#ReadAway2024 #SeriesLove2024 The first book in this series didn‘t contain a single murder, an interesting choice to start off a mystery series. This, the second book in the series, made up for that absence by providing us with multiple victims. I enjoy Amelia‘s character and the way she takes charge of every situation. And she has met her match 💯 in Emerson. And Ramses is simply marvelous!!

#Nonfiction2024 #BingoChallenge #ReadAway2024 This year‘s nonfiction challenge provides a list of books, mostly nonfiction, that have been banned for some reason. The challenge is to read a book of nonfiction about a similar topic. In this book teenagers at boarding school drink, smoke, cuss, and have sex. This book isn‘t about any of these things. It is about friendship, found family, death, grief, and survivors guilt. This is exactly (cont)⬇️

#LitsyLoveReads #AudibleFreebies I just started listening to this book and it is beautifully written. I believe I have a new author to add to my favorites. Books 1-9 and 11-19 of WKK‘s Cork O‘Connor series are currently free on Audible without a posted expiration date.

#LitsyLoveReads #AudibleFreebies I just started listening to this book and it is beautifully written. I believe I have a new author to add to my favorites. Books 1-9 and 11-19 of WKK‘s Cork O‘Connor series are currently free on Audible without a posted expiration date.

May 2024 #AuthorAMonth #AAM #ReadAway2024 This short novel packs a lot of wallop! It is spectacular. I love science fiction because it makes me think. All good fiction should make its readers think, but science fiction is my favorite genre. I had somewhat figured out the twist at the end but not nearly all of it. Highly recommended!

#NationalEggMonthChallenge @TieDyeDude Thanks for the tag!! 1) Tag a favorite mystery you‘ve read: This is the first book in the brilliant Armand Gamache/Three Pines series. Her writing is so poetic! 2) What is your favorite way to prepare eggs? If I‘m eating out, I enjoy Eggs Benedict or a good omelette. I‘m not really much of a cook but I will occasionally scramble up some egg with my cheese. Also deviled eggs or egg salad. Join in!

#ReadAway2024 #SeriesLove2024 I‘m not sure what I was expecting. It was more violent than I expected. The sacrifices made by the characters were interesting. And there were surprises about characters who became allies and their reasons for doing so. This is currently is free on Audible. The other books in this series are free until 5/31.

#ReadAway2024 #SeriesLove2024 This charming YA novel was quite enjoyable. This is free on Audible until 5/16. The mean girl was mean but I guess there‘s always a mean girl in YA. The second and third books will continue to be free on Audible for the foreseeable future.

On April 15th, I totaled my car. I‘m okay, no one was hurt. Today I picked up my new-to-me car. That‘s one thing I can cross off my “why does everything go wrong at once?” list. #WhatsNewWednesday

#ReadAway2024 This anthology was a bit uneven, but there were stories that I believe were excellent: Widows‘ Walk by Angela Slatter and How to Become a Witch-Queen by Theodora Goss. Recommended.

#BakerStreetIrregulars #ReadAway2024 #SeriesLove2024 A fun, charming mystery. I was not expecting everything to be tied up in such a neat bow. Just started book 2 in the series.

#SheSaid #ReadAway2024 An excellent, heartbreaking book. Several times I had to stop listening to this audiobook to reduce my rage and grief at the way Black citizens have been legally murdered by the police and private citizens. Read and be educated.

#LitsyLove @TieDyeDude Thank you for the fabulous postcard and for welcoming me to the group. Are you still reading Killers of the Flower Moon? What is your opinion of the book.

#LitsyLove @Bookwormjillk Thank you for the postcard and your warm welcome to the group. Are you still reading Demon Copperhead? How is it?

#LitsySciFiBookClub #ReadAway2024 #SeriesLove2024 This was a wonderful book! I‘m so glad I decided to start reading more science fiction again. I participated in buddy reads this month where the selection was by this author. I bailed on a dull fantasy and I couldn‘t stop listening to this one. This deserves a constellation of stars. ✨✨✨✨✨

#JaneAdjacent #BuddyRead #ReadAway2024 #SeriesLove2024 I wanted to love this. But I didn‘t. It was boring. #HailTheBail!

#ClassicLSFBC #ReadAway2024 What a hopeful tale! Highly recommended and deserving of millions of stars.✨ ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨

#InDeathLongReadalong #IDLR #ReadAway2024 #SeriesLove2024 The fourth book in the Eve Dallas series is the most enjoyable I‘ve read so far. The technology to exert control over the minds of others? Terrifying. And completely believable that it will be attempted by someone or someones.

#LitsyLove @Deblovestoread Thank you for your warm welcome! 8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster sounds interesting. I hope you‘re enjoying it.

I wasn‘t going to nominate anything but Audible is featuring the new David Baldacci book, A Calamity of Souls, and I would like to nominate it for #CampLitsy24. I haven‘t ever read any of his work but the description sounds intriguing.

#LitsyLove This arrived in Friday‘s mail but the weekend has been hectic so I‘m only posting now. Thank you, @Princess-Kingofkings for the lovely note and the wonderful bookmark. I believe it‘s a wonderful way of celebrating and honoring your mother.💕

#LitsyLove This arrived in Friday‘s mail from @TheBookHippie I‘m sorry that I only posted it today. You have made me feel very welcome and I look forward to getting to know you better. And thanks for hosting #SundayBuddyRead. I‘ve enjoyed participating in it since last summer. I confess that I haven‘t even started Zorrie but I will get caught up this week. I really like your 20 things about you and it makes me feel like doing something similar.

#ReadAway2024 #SeriesLove2024 Book 0.5 of The Other Realm is a short-short intro to this English Urban Fantasy.

#LitsyLove @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Look what came in the mail today! Thank you so much. The bookmark, stickers, and postcards are amazing. But I especially like the cat and books sticker on the outside of the envelope! You and I are both bibliophiles and ailurophiles.

I‘ve been using Libby to borrow audiobooks from my local library. Someone on here mentioned that they use Hoopla to borrow from their local library so I thought I‘d check it out. If both apps are using the same source library, why don‘t they carry the same books? My library is closed for a couple of weeks for some maintenance, or I‘d call them. Is anyone able to enlighten me?

#ReadAway2024 #SeriesLove2024 Wow! This was a terrific book! I give it aaalll the stars. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

#AuthorAMonth I had a difficult time when Nao was being abused by her classmates but when she started abusing someone else, I couldn‘t listen to the book any longer. I know that‘s usually the way things work but I hated it.

#MotivationalMonday @Cupcake12 Thanks for the tag @Princess-Kingofkings 1) The only specific plans for the week are to go to the Fiber Arts group at the library on Friday and to a Silent Book Club on Sunday. 2) I drink a lot of water and I have a cup of tea first thing in the morning. 3) I use a bookmark. Dog-eared pages are an abomination. 4) ✅ . I‘m tagging everyone. Please join in.

#ReadAway2024 When I first began listening to this book I wasn‘t sure whether I liked it or not. But loved it! Addie is such a clever woman.

Thanks for the tag @DieAReader - this is a tough one. 1) Paperback. 2) Yes. 3) Science Fiction. 4) Yes. 5) I love the taste and smell of coffee but it doesn‘t treat my gut well at all anymore. But I also love tea so I‘m still getting my daily caffeine hit. 6) Physical. 7) Audio. @TheBookHippie @StayCurious Wanna play?

March #TBRTarot #ReadAway2024 #SeriesLove2024 Jim Butcher never ceases to entertain and surprise. And he writes such wonderful cats.😹😻

#ReadAway2024 #SheSays Cecile Richards comes from political royalty but she doesn‘t just ride her mother‘s coattails. She is a leader and a fighter for social equality. This book is inspiring and I give it all the stars!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

#NancyDrew #NancyDrewBR As I was unpacking a box of old books I found four old Nancy Drew books. The copyright is 1959 but I have no idea when these were released. My parents gave them to me as a Christmas gift in the early 1970s. My brother suggested that I try to sell them on eBay in stead of donating them to the Humane Society‘s thrift store. If anyone sells them on eBay it will be my brother. Does anyone know if they have any financial value?

#ReadAway2024 When I first started this book, I found the teenage characters annoying. But they were just behaving like teenagers and by the end of this very enjoyable book Felix and his friends had grown up more than just a little. Felix is a 17-year-old trans boy who knows he‘s not a girl but is not quite sure he‘s a boy. As he questions his gender identity, an even bigger question becomes apparent: does he deserve to be loved? It‘s a (cont)⬇️

#ReadAway2024 Based on a true story, this was a wonderful book. It takes place in London during WWII when thousands of people who lost their homes to the Blitz lived in an unfinished Tube station. In Bethnal Green the library was destroyed on the first night of the Blitz and the Head Librarian is killed. Clara is the head of the library built in the Tube station. In spite of the sad things that happened, some things are happy. The author (cont)⬇️

#ReadAway2024 #SeriesLove2024 Very entertaining! I‘m looking forward to the next book in this series. Recommended.

#BakerStreetIrregulars #ReadAway2024 And I‘m going to add #SeriesLove2024 because I suspect it‘s the beginning of a new series. I enjoyed this very much. There‘s so much of the background of the three title characters and Helene left to learn. And of course, mysteries to solve.

#BakerStreetIrregulars #ReadAway2024 And I‘m going to add #SeriesLove2024 because I suspect it‘s the beginning of a new series. I enjoyed this very much. There‘s so much of the background of the three title characters and Helene left to learn. And of course, mysteries to solve.

#ReadAway2024 A friend recommended this book and I am grateful. I don‘t know what I expected but the surprise was a pleasure. I loved this book!! Speculative fiction doing what it does best, social commentary from a different perspective. Bravo!👏

#ReadAway2024 I knew I shouldn‘t trust that guy.

I found this at my local used bookstore yesterday and had to have it.

I am in Audible time-out. I didn‘t know there was such a thing until this morning. I‘m not allowed to return anything for six months. I‘ve been participating in multiple buddy reads. Sometimes what I buy is not enjoyable to me. #HailTheBail I guess that, starting today, any books I don‘t like will have to wait for six months before I can return them. That might be a lot to return all at once. I think this might be a good thing (cont) ⬇️

#ReadAway2024 #LitsySciFiBookClub #HailTheBail I‘m learning to go with my first opinion about many things. When we read one of Ursula K. LeGuin‘s books for the #ClassicLSFBC (and I guess you can figure out that it wasn‘t my cup of tea because I can‘t remember the title) it was a reread for me. The first time I didn‘t like it but I wanted to give it another chance because it‘s been a while since high school. I still didn‘t like it. When (cont)⬇️

#readAway2024 #SeriesLove2024 I enjoyed the relationships in this book, maybe because there are no developing relationships in Arthur Conan Doyle‘s Sherlock Holmes tales. I did have difficulty following Charlotte‘s train of thought in the deductions she made, which is pretty much the way I feel about the original Holmes.

#LitsySciFiBookClub Nebula Awards Nominees Finalists https://www.sfwa.org/2024/03/14/sfwa-announces-the-finalists-for-the-59th-nebula... @TheSpineView @Karisa FYI. Have you seen this list?

#ReadAway2024 #SeriesLove2024 I‘m still enjoying this entertaining and theologically unsound series after seven books. My favorite cookie is peanut butter just like it‘s Daisy‘s. Unlike Daisy, I don‘t have a friend like June to bake for me. Fun scene: teaching the angels how to speak Southern.

#InDeathLongReadalong #IDLR #ReadAway2024 #SeriesLove2024 I‘m enjoying this series more with each book. There is some wonderful character growth in this book and things from the past are revealed. Recommended.