Welcome to Litsy!

Daniel Pinkwater is definitely a marmite author. Either you're totally willing to embrace an 11-year-old left on his own for a week who starts seeing a band of giant lizards playing music on late-night TV and then meets up with an old black man with a chicken on his head who seems to go by several mysterious aliases and they travel together to a floating invisible island to meet up with a bunch of lizards named Reynold... or you're not 😂

#PumpkabooHunt #HauntedShelf

Almost forgot to report in for @Puddlejumper's #PumpkabooHunt -- tada! It was a really good month for reading.

Not a great showing for @PuddleJumper 's #PumpkabooHunt but the last few days at least I got back into a reading groove. Delightfully, there are now these little guys in Pokemon Sleep as of this week, and I've caught a decent one there too!

While I read a couple Gothic horrors, some eldritch horror, some horror romance, all on theme, the most horrifying thing I read was a WW1 ambulance driver's diary (which I'm now transcribing).

It‘s not important who you are; the only thing that matters is what kind of illness you suffer from.

This was a long, strange trip. A dystopian medical universe. Like reading a dream/nightmare crossover. 1984 vibes.

Book 1/Hospital ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

#SPNBookBingo #Asylum #Witchathon
#AfterDarkBingo #ErasGhostBingo #SeriesLove
#OneSnackToRuleThemAll #TeamPumpkinSpice
#PumpkabooHunt(Lg) #LastPush #Read2025
#HauntedShelf #TBR 16 hrs

+336pts #BlackCatCrew

Twenty-five scary stays where ghosts check in, but don‘t check out.

This was interesting. Historical backgrounds and paranormal accounts of different hotels around the world.

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#SPNBookBingo2025 #Route666
#Witchathon #AfterDarkBingo #ErasGhostBingo
#OneSnackToRuleThemAll #TeamPumpkinSpice
#PumpkabooHunt (Md) #Read2025 #HauntedShelf
#TBR 9 hrs

+221 points #BlackCatCrew

This was a fun mystery, nothing groundbreaking. I enjoyed the banter and Mart's huge words. However, I needed more horses 😂 The villain felt ridiculously obvious here, but the other aspects of the mystery (how, why, time capsule, clues, etc) were fun.

#HauntedShelf #ScreamTeam @ImperfectCJ
#WickedWords - Record @AsYouWish
#PumpkabooHunt @PuddleJumper
#OneSnacktoRuleThemAll #AllThingsApple @Bookwormjillk
#ISpyBingo #BookSpinBingo

I picked this one up because it is by an Ohio author who decided to use the Buckeye Trail (a trail that travels in a circle around Ohio) as part of her setting. However, this just didn't really work for me. A lot of the characters' actions didn't really make sense, especially towards the end. The motivation of the killer also had me a little confused as well. It was an okay read, but I don't see myself picking up the sequel.

This was a reread for me, and while I always love reading along with the #HashtagBrigade , ol' Victor got on my nerves even more this time around. He's just so useless! If he spent half the time actually doing something productive as he does sitting around and bemoaning his fate, the creature wouldn't have had the opportunities for destruction that he had. In the end, I think both Frankenstein and the creature are both monsters. This book ⬇

I got slightly confused and read November's #ChristieCapers book instead of October's 😂 I love Tommy and Tuppence, and the concept here is fun. However, this one always falls a little flat for me because I'm just not familiar enough with the classic detectives Christie references throughout the book. Still, some of the mysteries are quite good, and I do love the way Christie spoofs Hercule Poirot at the end.