Welcome to Litsy!

#ScreamTeam, my final points are 13,100.

I finished ~46 books and got 98 bingo lines and 7 completed boards. Got all the word search words, but not a single Cluedo. 😂

@PuddleJumper

(We should ask Litsy to make a “book“ for #HauntedShelf!)

That‘s book group for next year, finalized at today‘s meeting. #FirstSaturdayReaders

Blackout? I used Touch Not the Cat for the “classic book“ square, because it's an old genre classic, but I'll let @OutsmartYourShelf decide if that counts or not.

#SPNBookBingo2025

There were some disappointments, but overall an extremely good reading month!

@Read4Life

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/womenintranslation/longlist2025/

The judges said of the 2025 longlist:
“....the longlist... showcases the extraordinary range and depth of global women‘s writing now available to readers in English. The inclusive scope of this prize means that it crosses borders not just language and space but of time as well... Our longlist travels from Argentina to South Korea, from Haiti to Romania, from Sweden to Slovenia.”

Friends, please welcome @AuntieJulie to Litsy! She's a friend of mine from another website and I persuaded her to give this a try.

I love these chap books. So much temptation...

https://www.strangers.press/product-page/kanata-full-set
#Japan #InTranslation #StrangersPress

I think I'm on track!

#10BeforeTheEnd @ChaoticMissAdventures

Relatable.

Me contemplating my #HauntedShelf pile and the six remaining days.

Will the last week of the month have a great book? Here's hoping!

#threelistthursday #tlt @dabbe

Not really my area, obviously, though pretty much all of my reads I liked.

Favorites not on the list: We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson, My Cousin Rachel by Daphne Du Maurier, Defekt by Nino Cipri, The Hollow by Agatha Christie, Miss Pym Disposes by Josephine Tey.

I wonder what it means that all of my favorites this month have been by YA authors. And all of the latest books by my favorite adult authors are not hitting the mark.

@Read4Life

Images aren't working for me 😞, so here's my #10BeforeTheEnd list:

Emily Wilde‘s Map of the Otherworlds
Conspiracy in Belgravia
I Ordered a Table for Six
Table for Two
Touch Not the Cat
Whispering Wood
Imogen Obviously
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
The Flame
Come, Tell Me How You Live

Some have been on my #bookspin all year, some are #SeriesLove, some I own and will thus never read. 😂

Going to take @ChaoticMissAdventures prompt and read these books on my shelves before the end of the year. Some have been there longer than others! Wish me luck...

#10beforetheend

Finally got the Frisco Disco square!

#FourFoursIn25 @laureldhel

Sat in the second row and was so star struck forgot to take a photo. So articulate and interesting to listen to.

More events coming up: Norwich, London, Kendal, Newcastle...
https://www.sarahhallauthor.com/events https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/events/helm-sarah-hall/

I just learned about #TrekTuesday right after I found this. Any Mozart-loving Trekkers out there?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXGb-MNwwTg

Scavenger Hunt: group

#HauntedShelf #ScreamTeam

Pretty successful readathon, I'd say! @TheAromaOfBooks

Was a close call between this and The Bullet That Missed.

@Read4Life

Arrgh! Canva has changed stuff around again and I can't figure out how to do anything. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Going to focus on #BookspinBingo books for this weekend's readathon.

@TheAromaOfBooks

I went to the library today and left with fewer books than I returned. A personal triumph!

Oh no!

It's a disaster for nature, but also for humans. Without trees to hold the earth back, mudslides occur....

(Book not in the db - 738 Jours)

@OutsmartYourShelf knows all, tells all! Will my next read be a cozy witchy romance, a historical fantasy, or a science fiction mystery?

#SPNBookBingo2025 Driver picks the music.

No contest.

Lots of reading, bookshops, sunshine. 🇨🇵

(And an unexpected large protest march, but moving swiftly on...)

Montpellier.

And because I'm a wild woman out of control. I also made a separate bingo board which has my #CastTheDie books and some other challenges! (And two already read.)

I noticed I have a repeat on this and the BookSpin board, so I'll change the middle square to a generic challenge.

#HauntedShelf #ScreamTeam @Puddlejumper

Has anyone found “Gideon the Ninth“ in the Queer Horror Wordsearch? I've been over it with a fine tooth comb and still can't find it.

#HauntedShelf

Very pleased with my #TurnThePage #Readathon results. I also listened to some of “the Killer Question“ and read a few stories in “Be Gay, Do Crime.“

Anyone else on tenterhooks for midnight? 🤪

#HauntedShelf #ScreamTeam

I'm going to go out on a limb and assume I won't read anything I like more that Tom Lake by tomorrow. :-)

#WeeklyFavorites @Read4Life

Tempting...

Still journaling, and still enjoying the results.

#CastTheDie #HauntedShelf @PuddleJumper

I've been reading KU books while I had it free, so for the #TurnThePage readathon I need to read my #BookSpin and #DoubleSpin books and the #ChristieCapers read. Hoping I might manage a few others too, but we shall see.

@BookwormJillK

Glad Flashlight made it, but of the others I've only read Audition which was not a winner for me!

#Booker2025

Philadelphia Museum of Art today with some book club members. #FirstSaturdayReaders #GettingOurCultureOn

Do you dare face your #HauntedShelf?! It's not too late to sign up!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfs7yHyeyWN9K9pSE-dbPvoNTyyJ9RJVSoKDzbd...

My new Librarything t shirt arrived!

Have you read all 30? Which ones would you recommend?

#WomensPrize30

https://www.librarything.com/award/1353/Womens-Prize-for-Fiction
https://womensprize.com/product-category/30th-Anniversary/

I had no idea this was a thing...
https://bookclubhub.co.uk/news/join-in-with-book-club-day-uk

#Bookclub

This is actually just the start of my impossible aspirational pile! I've been noting #HauntedShelf related books all year. 😂