Welcome to Litsy!

So-So bc the tone felt confused. The majority felt causticly sarcastic a la Willy Wonka or Scooby Doo, but the stakes are serious…basically this book felt unsure if it was horror or a dark comedy. 🤷🏻‍♀️

A group of writers are invited to the manor of a legendary peer after his death to hear his will. A deadly escape room ensues. #OUABC #OnceUponABooKClub

“The body‘s been stripped of skin, muscle, hair — but its skull still sits cockeyed on a broken, mangled neck, its mouth ajar like its screaming.”

Second gift was this too pretty to burn candle!!! *My* mouth is ajar. This is gorgeous.

#OUABC #OnceUponABookClub

Got to open my first two of four gifts in my #OUABC box today!

Points for creative packaging for the first gift: a coral liquid lipstick akin to a shade one of the character‘s wears - but in knife packaging?!? Too cool.

“Stained with the shade Coral Number Two, Winnie‘s lips are the most dangerous weapon of retribution.”

#OnceUponABookClub

A moment for spooky meets quirky sprayed edges! 🤭 #onceuponabookclub #ouabc

Read in April 2025
18 Books
Five 5-Star reads this month:
• All Good People Here
• The Marriage Act
• The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
• The Seven Year Slip
• Haruki Murakami Manga Stories 3

#Goodreads #Bookstagram #OUABC #Litsy #Libby #Audible #Kindle #Bookish

Read in March 2025...
14 Books
Six 5-Star reads this month:
• Spells for Forgetting
• Whisper Me This
• The Pastures of Heaven
• The Only One Left
• You Killed Me First
• Do Not Disturb

#Goodreads #Bookstagram #OUABC #Litsy #Libby #Everand #Audible #Kindle #Bookish

#Read2025

Finished yesterday for #Roll100 (#90 Any Backlist) & as a prompt for my #OUABC 2025 40 Book Challenge (Any Hugo Award Winner). I loved this one! T. Kingfisher writes fun characters & found family with a sly dark humor. All the characters in Marta‘s ragtag group were endearing & I enjoyed this fantasy paranormal fairytale. Looking forward to working my way through the rest of the author‘s backlist. Pretty sure it will be a 2025 fave.🖤

Read in February 2025...
18 Books
Three 5-Star reads this month:
• The Push
• The Overnight Guest
• The Collected Regrets of Clover

#Goodreads #Bookstagram #OUABC #Litsy #Libby #Everand #Audible #Kindle #Bookish

Read in January 2025...
16 Books
Three 5-Star reads this month:
• Prophet Song
• Hell Bent (Alex Stern 2)
• The Little Liar

#Goodreads #Bookstagram #OUABC #Litsy #Libby #Everand #Audible #Kindle #Bookish

#OUABC Once Upon a Book Club December 2024 Monthly Box (Chasing Waves and Waterfalls)

4 Stars • "The Maui Effect" by Sara Ackerman is a romance novel where 'Iwa, a biologist, fights to save Maui's forest from becoming an eco-resort. She's drawn to surfer Dane, challenging her no-surfers-dating rule. Themes include environmentalism, surfing culture, and love against Hawaii's backdrop.

#Bookish #TheMauiEffect #SaraAckerman