Welcome to Litsy!

“‘Joey loved it here,‘ he said. ‘Loved it. This place gave him something sacred. Gave his mind some quiet. This was his Thanksgiving table. His couch-cushion fort. He could get lost in here like nowhere else on earth. I‘m telling you this, Lydia, because in all his life, he‘d never really had that feeling before, not consistently anyway. Not to overstate it, but this store was the closest thing to a home that Joey ever had.‘”

While I was enjoying my book, Robin pounced out of nowhere and just stood like this with the corner of my book in her mouth. 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️

I can hardly put this thing down! It‘s amazing so far! I‘ll post a better blurb when I‘m done, but I had to share.

Overall, I found this to be enjoyable. It had some twists and turns that I didn‘t expect and some that I did. Not a bad read, folks!

Quick book stop on my bike ride. Yes...I brought a book.

When it‘s a rainy Sunday and you don‘t have a fireplace, you improvise. #NetflixKnowsBest

Just finished! I enjoyed this mystery of the hammer man. All the different events tied up neatly at the end except for Joey. I feel he needed a little more explanation with his codes. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

🌸 Yes. We were just passing through both times but I have been there. One time with no air conditioner.
🌸Absolutely! So was my mom and grandmother!
🌸Tagged book!
#succulentsaturday
@saguarosally
@ReadosaurusText

I could not love this cover more... #bookart

Thunderstorms, books, coffee, and my animals in bed with me. Lovely morning! 💙💙📖🐾

Love my bookmark!

#LitsyLove
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

On to the next! I would be lying if I said I didn‘t initially pick this up off the shelf just because I liked the cover. #LetsDoThis

Next up! I will start it tomorrow. Going to listen to my audiobook for a while.

I finished it and it was amazing!! I highly, highly recommend this great novel to everyone. I'm not sure what took me so long to finally read it bit I'm super glad I did 🤓

So wonderful! A very easy read with unexpected twists!

The sun is setting on my time here in Chile and I'm honestly not ready to go home tomorrow 😥 but alas, what can you do? So I finished this #audiobook while packing and I quite enjoyed it overall, beginning was better than the end I feel; parts were predictable but still enjoyable.

This was the 2nd book I downloaded for my trip and I was hooked at the start! I was listening to it during our #roadtrip to Pucon today :D
It's beautiful here in the more southern parts of Chile , so green with the rain and humidity! My mom and I found a secret path to a suprise waterfall and eventually the beach from our cabaña. I don't think I'm ready yet to return to Canada.

This has been on my TBR for a while, but I bumped it up after @MicheleinPhilly gave it a pick recently. Even though I had things figured out before the end, I enjoyed the story. The characters and setting just really clicked with me. #Booked2019 #RemindYouOfAHappyPlace #LLB19 #BookPickedByALittenYouAdmire

I feel like the best part of this book was the snappy title 😆Was expecting a tighter story and better writing. #MoreMehThanYeah #HighExpectationsLowProspect #Booked2019 #NightOrientedTitle

Meh! Not really feeling this one but I‘m using it for #NightOrientedTitle #Booked2019 #Spring

Me and Chico hanging out on #selfiesunday ❤️🐾 Some of my favorite authors are John Grisham, Stephen King and new discovery is Fiona Barton 🤙

1. My grandmother by my mother side. She just made my childhood a lovely, funny, secured, adventure one❤️❤️❤️❤️She will be in my memory for ever.
2. 1
3. I think a year and a half. 4. Skyward by Brandon Sanderson. 5. @mabell @Soubhiville @avantgarde @JoScho

1. One of my favorites is Girl Scout camp.
2. Yes
3. I think end of 2017?
4. Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore
5. @Gissy ❤️❤️❤️

#wonderouswednesday
@Eggs

Really liked this one!

1. Three dogs-Max, Makita and Chico, nine goats, 30 chickens and one very cute 2 week old calf -Brisket.
2. Relaxing and read, read and read!
3. Love bird watching, crocheting and I'm learning to knit.
4. Maine, New York and Boston.
5. Favorite time and place to read?
@howjessreads #friyayintro

This book, this book, this book!!! I'm so loving every single page and I don't want it to end. But then I have to know what the f*** happens! 😬Crazy right?
Thank you again Gisela @Gissy 😘

Birthday gifts...I love being surrounded by amazing books. Can‘t wait to read these.

I found this delightful. It was everything I wanted Mr. Penumbra‘s 24 Hour Bookstore to be. 4🌟. And with that I‘m finished with my #booked2019 Winter prompts! If your #HappyPlace is a library this could work for the prompt as well. On to Spring!

My final Winter #booked2019 prompt - happy place! I tried a different bookstore themed novel earlier today and made it 50 pages before bailing. But the first few chapters of this are VERY promising.

CW: suicide, spous abuse. I‘ve been looking forward to this one from the #whodunnitthesequel list, and it didn‘t disappoint. It wasn‘t exactly what I was expecting, much darker in fact, but I still thought it was great. This is my debut novel for the #popsugarreadingchallenge

Slow catch up on my reviews from #24in48 . First book finished...

At first, I wasn‘t impressed, but the further I got into this book, the more I enjoyed it. I figured out the mystery before the characters, but it kept me reading. #whodunitthesequel

Checking in for #24in48 . Finished this book, with hopes to write up my thoughts and get this to the post office this morning. Review here later. After this, I‘ll start an Agatha Christie.

My essentials are in place - book, rinse, and cat. Finishing up this one first in #24in48 . Here we go! #SebastianKitty #catsoflitsy

It had been my hope to finish this and mail out to @bookwrm526 today for #whodunitthesequel , but best laid plans and all that fun! So, I‘ll finish this up as my first read for #24in48 , and hopefully in enough time to send it out tomorrow morning. Off to bed for an early start time in the morning...if I can sleep (I‘m so excited for the reading challenge!).

#bookly
Um... I mean, I like how everything tied together in a way. I'm mad at some characters for not manning up sooner. But, yeah... its was entertaining. Took me a while to read. Not something I'll rave about later. But no regrets.

Ugh! From the moment I saw the rectangles cut out of the books, I thought " bet that goes over another book to show the words he wanted you to actully read. And that will be your message." And now the labels on each book point to another book, probably the one to put the rectangles over, I'm even more convinced that's what needs to be done. What kind of slow "puzzle solver" is David, to not jump to this conclusion when he saw it?! David, you suck!

This book is a fast read, but not particularly interesting to me. I am a not a mystery fan, but if you are, you might like this more. 2/5 stars

Next up. Again, no idea what this is about. In the military, we have this thing called " The Good idea fairy." Its a person who comes up with a way of doing things that sounds good but is compleatly ridiculous in practice. So the title makes me laugh because that's what I have in my head on what its about.

@iread2much thank you so much for my book & card from the #Christmasbookswap ! I‘ve been wanting this book for a while & so excited to have it! Merry Christmas! 🎄

Lydia‘s a bookseller trying to live an uneventful life. One of her customers takes his own life in the store, during her shift. And Lydia is pulled into his mysterious life. Which is ironic, because her own past is actually quite cumbersome also. The characters were well-developed, but the plot just wasn‘t as complex and twisty as I wish it had been.

Full review www.TheBibliophage.com
#thebibliophage2018 #pop18 #setinabookstoreorlibrary

Finished reading for the #25infive readathon. While it was an interesting concept, the first 50 or so pages were quite slow. Then the clues Joey left could‘ve probably been figured out within 10 minutes. And, I wished more of the mystery/suspenseful part of the book actually occurred in the bookstore.

New audiobook today! Third of four books I MUST read to finish #pop18. This is for #aboutabookstoreorlibrary. I‘m struck by how many booksellers this indie bookshop has working at any given time.

A good mystery involving a young bookstore clerk, her estranged father and a murder she witnessed as a child. All of which come to a head after a favorite customer kills himself in the store.

This book caught my attention right from the start! The mystery, the twist in the plot and of course lots of bookish references. My jaw dropped several times and the story kept getting better and better. Though a little rushed at the end I thought but still it worked. Perfect book to enjoy over my Thanksgiving break!

#SassyBookworm😏 #Libby #MidnightAtTheBrightIdeasBookstore #Mystery #Thriller #Bookstore #LateNightReading #LateNightReview

The perfect read for me just now. A gentle mystery set in a book shop with lots of talk about books. I really enjoyed it. The author has worked in book shops and is married to a librarian. @MrsMalaprop

At last, I have finished. I started during a Litsy Buddy Read and then just utterly failed to finish the book. Not sure why...I found this to be an entertaining story for the most part. The ending felt a little rushed & the interactions/relationship between two of the main characters didn‘t totally work for me. That being said, I think it‘s a good plane, vacation, library checkout read. The puzzle hype is overblown but the story is solid.

Current TBR...plus The Last Mrs Parrish on audiobook 📚😍

I finished this read in a day and solved the mystery! Woot woot. It was an easy one, the kind you could predict. The book is written from a third person perspective. It begins with the death of Joey and later on moves back and forth in time to explain the relation of his death to Lydia. For me, it was a slow paced one but the kind of slow paced read that won‘t lead you to a book slump. A 3.5 for me! Have a happy Sunday bookworms!

I really enjoyed this.. when all was said and done, maybe there were a few too many coincidences to be any sort of believable but it the mystery was gripping and I loved the characters.

Newest audiobook. I am really enjoying this so far!!