Welcome to Litsy!

This is a first edition copy from my library….that cover. Pub date 1976. I‘m glad I went into this book blindly bc you think you‘re just getting a coming of age book in the 1950s in the South but it‘s so much more than that. Covers the severe racial injustice that was going on at the time and the path of one young privileged white coed from slight concern for the plight of blacks to an a more evolved compassion and understanding. #Alabama

Two-Step Devil is a haunting Southern Gothic novel that follows the unlikely bond between a reclusive visionary known as the Prophet and a teenage girl named Michael, whom he rescues from a life of trafficking. Blending lyrical prose with philosophical inquiry in deeply Southern atmosphere.

My choice for the May #ThematicCozies theme of #Flowers/Plants is #6 in the Darling Dahlias series, by Susan Wittig Albert. I have read several others in this series and enjoyed them.

What will everyone else be reading? 🌸💐🌺🌷🌻🥀🌼🌹🍀🌿🍃🌴🌲📚📚📚

Wow. WHAT is this?! Somebody here needs to read this and come sit next to me and let‘s talk. I have to think some more. Easy read, extremely-well written, fast-moving, full of heart, good vs evil or balancing act? 😈 🤠 💗 🖼️ 🍅 ⛰️

#Apr2025 Book35 #ToF

Lauren Groff says, “A starkly gorgeous story of God and loss and art and love…” Here we go 😈

#waves #coverstories @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#FeelinTheLove

A title with #Roses from my stacks. It‘s been quite a while since I read this one but I‘ve always liked the cover image. 🌹♥️🌹

#readyourkindle #readyourbooks @CBee

Let's go, December!

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+20 points (10 for photo, 5 for post, 5 for being book-related)

The #MiddleGradeMonday prompt this week was to share books with a number in the title. I completely forgot to check my shelf then, but today I found these.

I tagged Fourmile as it and other books by Watt Key are often well liked by some of my more reluctant readers and also not as well known as I think they should be.

#MiddleGrade #MsDsLibrary

Sara returns to Sweet Bay, Alabama, and to her grandmother's Bed & Breakfast, The Hideaway. While she's there she learns more about her grandmother's life, and about the group of senior citizens who call The Hideaway home.

This was only a so-so for me because I felt like the story was longer than it needed to be, that parts of the story could have been more concise.