The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel | 
pickO.M.G.!!!
I need to read this again. There were so many moments at the end where I was like “wait, what?!” “nooooo!” “huh?” “I should‘ve known!!!”
Thank you to everyone who voted for this #MakeMeReadIt! Amazing book full of so many twists and a ton of bookish references. As a bookworm, I totally related to Margaret‘s thoughts and comments throughout the book.
5 star read FOR SURE!
Yesterday was my birthday! Getting older isn‘t very exciting but getting new books is!
The Librarian of Auschwitz and A Fire Story were gifts from a friend. The Thirteenth Tale, Call it What You Want, and Recursion all came from my husband. Technically, so did Romanov and the Alice journal, as he gave me a gift card to The Dog Eared Book in Palmyra, NY and it was burning a hole in my pocket so I had to go spend it right away!
Paired today‘s lunchtime reading with a ham & cheese sandwich! 🥪
Currently in a monogamous relationship with this book. I‘m so into this story, and a lot of the little details are starting to fit together like a puzzle 🧩
Miss Winter‘s tale has me on the edge of my seat, and I‘m enjoying every second of it!
Book and lunch! 🍕
Yes, I was using the cooking tray as a page holder. Book pages don‘t like greasy fingers. 😅🙈 I reached a great point while my food was heating up, and didn‘t want to quit reading!
Sunday mornings are best started off with a cup of coffee, a yummy breakfast (in this case, a turkey & swiss croissant!) and a good book 😌☕️🥐📖💛
A bookish summer nap! 😍😻💕📚 #catsoflitsy #littenkitten
And the winner is... The Thirteenth Tale!
But only by one vote, so I‘ll be reading Name of the Wind as well. 😊
Thanks to everyone who voted for #MakeMeReadIt 🥰
pickThis is definitely a book for book lovers. The descriptions of books and reading and the importance of both are lovely. The story is a wonderful example of gothic fiction. It has many delicious gothic elements that are reminiscent of other classics but with a modern lens. It has been in my #TBR for quite some time, and I am glad I finally got around to reading it.
Starting this one - I was going to save this for the Autumn... but I‘m too curious to wait....
I started this audio book today.
I‘ve only tried an audiobook once and I was constantly getting distracted. My mind wandered and I‘d miss whole passages. Let‘s see if I have better luck this time.
I had a hard time thinking of any books I have read with doppelgangers in them (which is weird? why do all the books fly out of my brain when it's #startreksummermay time?), so instead have a book about twins? I haven't read it in a thousand years but I remember liking it.
Also, there has to be Trek novels about Thomas, right?
pick“Tell me the truth.” A phrase repeated through the book, that was eventually answered. But the truth was so much stranger than the rumors. The end took me by surprise, but I was really ready to be done with it a few hours from finishing. I had no particular affinity for any of the characters, which always makes the book more enjoyable for me. 3/5⭐️
@kellyann28 just dropped two packages off at the post office for you!! One is the tagged book I told you I‘d send. The other heavier box is the #SciFiFantasySwap #SFFS package!!! I have tracking on both I can forward you!
@Avanders thanks for hosting!
There is one thing on which we are agreed: there are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere.
#quote #book #bookquote #reading #lovereading #lovetoread #lovebooks #booklove #thethirteenthtale #dianesetterfield
pickAlthough I rated this book 4/5 stars on Goodreads many years ago, upon finishing the audiobook I have to increase my rating! This book is superb and manipulates language until it becomes art.
With a gothic feel, a gruesome story within a story, and a cast full of intriguing characters, the fantastic dual narrators maintained the tone experienced while reading and even helped clarify muddier areas.
I can‘t recommend this book highly enough.
This book is mesmerizing! I can‘t decide if I‘m more entranced by the dark atmosphere or addictive story. Probably both.
#currentlyreading
pickI was pulled right in. Vida Winters' family is like watching a train wreck; you can't look away. I couldn't put it down!
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#fiction #mystery #historicalfiction #gothic
Hoping to finish this book this weekend 📚🤓
When you have a long road trip coming up and you start packing! 🚗🚙🚐📚📚📚😂😂😂
I read this book so long ago I forgot what happens, but my Goodreads rating is 4 stars! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I MUST remember why I loved it so much before so I‘m absorbing this story again through audiobook. Love the narrators so far! 💙📚❤️📚💚
Nothing like a good haul from a used book sale to brighten me up! Even though its been two months since my grandma passed, I still have been finding it hard to smile some days, let alone read or check Litsy. I didn't even feel like going tonight, but here I am so excited share my finds with everyone--here's to the power of books! 💙 #bookhaul
Library sale 🙌🏻😍
Took the little one out for a Galentines dinner at her favorite pizza spot, followed up with some ice cream, and we‘re ending our date at the library. Kind of been a perfect evening 😂♥️
No I do not have book buying addiction. I needed these for my book club and for my kids.
Is there a book in a genre you love you haven‘t read, but it seems like everyone else has read it, yet you are for some reason not interested in it? Tagged one springs to mind.
Starting this this morning! Has anyone read this one?
pickThis one has been on my TBR pile for a while. It started out slow, but I stuck with it and it ended up being really great. Had a twist I did not see coming, but should have expected.
So many good reads this month! My favorite was an easy pick because The Thirteenth Tale was just so beautiful but the runner-ups were numerous!
#monthlywrapup #Januaryreads
“All children mythologize their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won‘t be the truth; it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story.”
“Storytelling has only ever been a way of filling in the time since everything finished”.
“A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of someone else‘s story.”
" As one tends the graves of the dead, so I tend the books. I clean them, do minor repairs, keep them in good order. And every day I open a volume or two, read a few lines or pages, allow the voices of the forgotten dead to resonate inside my head. Do they sense it, these dead writers, when their books are read?" (3/3)
"They can comfort you. They can perplex you. They can alter you. All this, even though they are dead. Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is, by the miracle of ink on paper, preserved. It is a kind of magic..." (2/3)
"People disappear when they die. Their voice, their laughter, the warmth of their breath. Their flesh. Eventually their bones. All living memory of them ceases. This is both dreadful and natural. Yet for some there is an exception to this annihilation. For in the books they write they continue to exist. We can rediscover them. Their humor, their tone of voice, their moods. Through the written word they can anger you or make you happy... " (1/3)
“When I saw the two pieces of paper, and when the world had recovered itself enough to start turning again on its slow axis, I thought, So that‘s it. Loss. Sorrow. Loneliness. There was a feeling that had kept me apart from other people — and kept me company — all my life, and now that I had found the certificates, I knew what the feeling was. My sister.”
so-soImmediately engaging, The Thirteenth Tale has a lot going for it: creepy-cozy gothic, spooky setting, and a set-up that had me hooked. It‘s a Brontë-lover‘s dream. I was fine overlooking the over-the-top elements, but the character and plot development in the latter half left me feeling half-satisfied. Upside: Olivia Colman stars in the BBC adaptation so I‘m gonna have to track that down. Photo by Tom Murphy VII
pickThis book was an ode to the love of books. It was gothic and mysterious and enchanting. Just lovely. I wish I could read it for the first time again. The enigmatic world famous author Vida Winter telling her life story to a young biographer who grew up in a bookstore learning to read amidst the dusty tomes, this story pulled me in and I didn't want to let go. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
“We all have our sorrows, and although the exact delineaments, weight and dimensions of grief are different for everyone, the color of grief is common to us all.”
Mmmm. To be raised in a bookshop. That is my happy place. #Booked2019
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I went with #Tale for this one! #AWintersTale #WinterWonderland @Cinfhen @TrishB
All of these have it in the title or subtitle.
