Welcome to Litsy!

Well, I finished this book today and I‘m still not sure what to think. It‘s a story-within-a-story-within a story which is very creative. It‘s also an example of ergodic literature—the author plays with the text itself, which you can see in this photo. Sometimes the text is backwards, written in a swirl, or maybe a whole page with only one word. Again, very creative, but I‘m not sure what it all added up to in the end.

This book is SOOO divisive!!! Either you totally hate it or you're obsessed and can't stop thinking about it... I'm quickly becoming the latter!! I love the sketchy lore being developed, I love that Johnny is so unreliable, I love that I'm questioning what I'm even reading!

Used the first day of #20in4 #readathon to finish this weird book. @Andrew65

What ever was this? I didn't like it and only finished it for this challenge.

#ChosenBecauseOfAWeirdReviewOrBookWasMoreWeirdThanYouExpected
#Booked2023 @alisiakae @BarbaraTheBibliophage @Cinfhen

This was the most interesting and frustrating book I've ever read. It took me a long time to get thru it. Would I recommend this book.....No. there's a lot of reading in there that just felt like a waste of time and in my opinion added nothing to the story.

Still SLOWLY chugging along with this book. On page 384 out of 528. The rest is exhibits (seen above).

A good read but boyyy is this long. Been reading this for 2 years but I always come back to it!

I had a great Independent Bookstore Day! I visited three stores, and purchased five books! Two of the stores were giving away ARCs, so I picked up another two books!

House of Leaves, or When Houses Attack!

Thank God that's over.

The Pan relates to my reading experience. I do have respect for this book's originality, complexity, and creepiness, but boy did the whole thing give me a headache.

I hated most of this, and yet it is something of a creation.

Esoteric, unconventional, genre-defying, masturbatory, sanity-draining - this is a book that will truly divide opinion.

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So, after 3 years of fortunately avoiding COVID, I've finally been infected 😭 Feeling very sorry for myself.

I can't do anything useful, so it's reading time.

Considered starting something new to cheer myself up, but no... back to my old nemesis 😵

A tortured-soul tattoo artist becomes unmoored from reality as he diligently edits a blind man‘s pretentious commentary on a fictional(?) documentary film chronicling the terrifying experiences of a family who discover that their house is bigger on the inside than on the outside. Much, much bigger. This visionary, unclassifiable novel is a maze of footnotes, parallel frames, astounding imagery, fear, satire and psychedelic imagination. Amazing.

This is more my kind of page 😁

Danielewski finally giving my eyeballs a rest. Thank you.

#BookMail I blame on @RaeLovesToRead

I have the eBook, but the regular Paperwhite doesn't do colours, so I got the remastered full-color edition in print as well.

You ever get the feeling a book is trolling you?

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Personally, I like a bit of inscrutable physics in my bedtime reading. Pickles is out though.

Good Lord, I should have taken the "This is not for you..." to heart. This book is making my head hurt.

Along with use of the second person, detectives chatting up their suspects and anything by Chris Cleave, one of my biggest literary bugbears is FOOTNOTES ???

And this book is endless footnotes!

Plus every time I think I understand what's going on, there are pages of weird babbling to decipher.

Send help! ??

#bookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks

I haven't peeked at the grid or selections yet, I promise! Got plenty of books for challenges this month... let's see if I can make some headway 😁

Well OK then...

My Pickles challenge this year will either be:

House of Leaves

The Tale of Genji

Infinite Jest

The Second Sex

Sooooo big and daunting 😱😱😱

I‘ll admit I was daunted by this book. It‘s been on my nightstand for a couple years, and I‘d randomly pick it up and thumb through it and be like, “Not ready yet.”

It‘s a demanding read, but I wouldn‘t say frustrating. The experimentation with typography is cool, and by the time it really starts going all out, you‘re invested.

Parts of it drag, especially Johnny Truant‘s rambling, but all in all, I‘m glad I finally walked down this staircase.

#Leaves 🍁 🍂 #OminousOctober 🎃👻🐈‍⬛🧡🤍🖤

#BookNerd 🤓💙📚

I imagine this will be a popular pick for #Leaves 😂

I haven‘t read this, but I am so intrigued. It has been sat on my litsy tbr for years, so maybe this is the year I buy it for myself 🤔

#OminousOctober #Scarathlon2022 #TeamMonsterMash

Went on a bookstore date and finally got a copy of House of Leaves! Excited to dive in but tbh I'm not sure if I'm clever enough for it hahah. We'll see!

Husband picked up the new James Butcher novel which he was really looking forward to.

Hopefully you‘ll be able to make sense of what I can represent though still fail to understand

This is the only book that I recall feeling #scared by as an adult. It wasn‘t a “run for your lives” sort of scared, but an unwavering sense of dread that some of the terrible things that happened in the book were going to happen to me…it‘s really a fantastic book! 😂

#scarathlon #scarathlondailyprompts #TeamMonsterMash
@StayCurious

A mystery thriller? I like the combination like those written by Alice Feeney and Carol Goodman.
Haunted house books are one of my favorite genres.
I like the tagged because it's two books in one. The footnotes add a whole new dimension.
#ThoughfulThursday @MoonWitch94

I‘m not very far into this and it is already a very uncomfortable read. I can‘t read it at night. The sense of dread is overwhelming. 🙀

House of Leaves was probably the only horror book that made me feel anxious and somewhat scared. I felt unsettled for a couple days after finishing it. It was probably the most unique reading experience that I‘ve had based on both the plot and the way the author affects the feelings of the reader by how the book is printed and how words and passages are placed on the page at times. My favorite horror novel to this point!

#Alphabetgame #LetterH

I didn't think I would be satisfied by the end of this book, but honestly it ended as well as probably could. Some trigger warnings that I remember that aren't obvious for this book:
- animal death/disappearance
- descriptions of sex
- drug use
- descriptions of a panic attack
- descriptions of child abuse

Highly recommend read this in print and not e-book! Turning the book upside down to read the crazy parts is part of the experience.

Ever so slllooowwwwllllyyyy making my way through this fascinating and spell binding book.

I currently have 2 bookmarks in it to stay on track! I love this writing style it keeps me on the edge of my seat for sure. But definitely have to read other books in between reading this so I don't lose my sanity to the house of leaves!

I enjoyed it. Something different. Can definitely see the influence to new work such as “Tanis“ and “You should have left“

I can't wait to read House of leaves with @Dismal_Blues 🍂

@mushroom_Miu we are doing a book reading we have set goals to read the book thank you @paperwitchs for your suggestion #bookdisscusion #spookstopics #intresting

I had heard many great things about this book over the years and was eagerly expecting to be blown away, but wasn‘t. Don‘t get me wrong—I admire what Danielewski does with form and style, and how he uses format to mirror the events and atmosphere of the story. The horror part fell flat for me BECAUSE of the format. I felt that the format held me at arm‘s length from the action and I never got to experience it with the characters. That‘s just me!

Bookspin card for May!

I've been struggling to concentrate on reading these last few weeks - first with the excitement of holidays and now with the anticlimax of being back from holidays and exhausted. Fingers crossed I'll be able to immerse myself in imaginary worlds again pretty soon 🤞

Bookspin & doublespin this month are both #pop22 titles and #roll100 included Voodoo Histories which is the book that I've had the longest on my TBR...

"Ever see yourself doing something in the past and no matter how many times you remember it you still want to scream stop, somehow redirect the action, reorder the present? I feel that way now, watching myself tugged stupidly along by inertia, my own inquisitiveness ... "

Update to ch 2 and I‘m terrified

Finally tackling this big boy. So excited, and a bit intimidated that it‘ll go right over my head #tbr #2022 #bigbook #chunksterchallenge

What did I just read?! It was creepy and I enjoyed it but also it was hard to get through.

Took a little while to get through this one. This was a strange novel, a little aggravating at times, but was definitely an interesting read. Some of it was pretty creepy. I preferred the parts about the house and the Navidson family.

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The book was insane, and you feel insane reading it. The more you engage with the book, the more insane you get, and the book knows that. That‘s what the book wants.

I really almost spit out my drink 😆

Trippy haunted house story...Of course I liked it! You don't have to read the footnotes to enjoy the book, but they definitely add to the story.
#horror #hauntedhouse

Currently reading House of Leaves. I started it back in September and kept setting it aside for the holiday books. Now I‘m working on finishing it and finally on the last quarter of it. It‘s a chunkster and not like anything I‘ve ever read. Also still reading The Shadow Over Innsmouth in the Kindle Lovecraft collection.

#WeekendReading

Thanks for the tag @MoonWitch94

✨ My goals are to read 70 books for GR Challenge, catch up on reviews, read more of the books I already own, and work on series I haven‘t finished yet.

✨ Mindful

✨ Yes, it‘s definitely interesting.

#ThoughtfulThursday

Finally got the nerve to buy this book. What's always been intimidated is now an addition to my #tbr pile. 2022 goals!

I really honest to God found this book wonderful. If you are looking for an dark, weird, rule-bending novel that is somehow still fairly accessible, I would recommend this book. The world building, with its faux footnotes referencing authors, films, books, & magazines both real & imagined is truly immersive. I may not have thought I was looking for a book that combined Pynchon, DFW, “The Ring” and “The Blair Witch Project”, but it turns out I was!

My #WeeklyForecast for all of December. Ambitious. But I do have some time off coming up. The top row is all books I'm committed to: #doublespin (@TheAromaofBooks) #OokBOokClub (@JulesG) #IRLBookClub #NYRBBookClub (@vivastory) #ARC #bookspin.
The second row is mostly #LibraryLottery but I'd also like to try and fit in a couple for #cloakanddaggerchristmas (@merelybookish) and some #inprogress.

We'll see where things end up I guess!
@Cinfhen

#GratefulHarvest #Leaves People love this book, hate it , or are just plain confused by it! Still on my TBR , wondering when I will eventually dive in.

#Leaves #GratefulHarvest