Welcome to Litsy!

repost for @RamsFan1963

Hi everybody!! I hope everyone had a great Christmas, got lots of books and book related gifts. So, we're restarting #ClassicLSFBC for 2026, and it's time to ask for books to be nominated. It will go from now until Dec. 31st and I'll announce the first #ClassicLSFBC 2026 selection on Jan. 1st. Since it's a new year, and maybe a new world, my selection is Huxley's Brave New World. I read it in high school some 40 years ago

March: Death of the Author / Nnedi Okorafor

Honorable mentions to Arthur C. Clarke's classic “Childhood's End“; and Abigail Williams's fascinating and perspective-changing “The Social Life of Books“

#12BooksOf2025
@TheEllieMo

repost for @BookwormAHN

Here is the schedule for the next seven months of #StarWarsBuddyRead In January we head back to the High Republic. In February we head off with The Bad Batch. Then in March we learn how Qi'ra joined Crimson Dawn. In April its Darth Vader and Doctor Aphra. And lastly in May - July its legends time with Thrawn.
As always if anyone wants to be added or removed just let me know. And May the Force Be With You Always 🚀

Tesla and Shal are on their honeymoon, accompanied by Tesla's service dog Gimlet. A luxury cruise to Mars. The couple is travelling incognito, because Tesla is a famous heiress and her husband a famous detective. When they find a murder victim, Shal becomes the main suspect and is treated as such. Tesla has to get him out of there and they need to find the real murderer.

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#ChrismasCrimeChallenge - Sleigh

(1977) First in Clayton's “Diadem“ series featuring a young woman bonded to an alien artifact that gives her superpowers, as she searches the stars for the mother who abandoned her as a child. This one sets up the premise, and it's fine. To me it's a little too much puttering about, resisting the quest that we all know she's going to begin; and seventies sexual edginess (TW for nonconsensual sex). I'll continue the series, but not right away

#sunshinewellness

#ChristmasCrimeChallenge “Transport”

The tag line is the perfect summary: “Six Crew-One Ship-One Killer”. I really enjoyed this murder mystery set in space. The crew is made up of clones. Something goes very wrong & they all wake up in the cloning vats w/ their previous bodies strewn all over the ship…dead and violently so.

This completes the challenge for me. Thanks so much to my lovely co-host @RaeLovesToRead for making it possible. 🎄🔪🎅💀

I didn't have a 5 star read for February, but this came close at 4.5. Darkly humorous, and often verging on the absurd, it's one of the funnier science-fiction stories I've read. Its pretty surprising coming from the author of the super solemn novel Solaris. #12Booksof2025 @TheEllieMo

Hi everybody!! I hope everyone had a great Christmas, got lots of books and book related gifts. So, we're restarting #ClassicLSFBC for 2026, and it's time to ask for books to be nominated. It will go from now until Dec. 31st and I'll announce the first #ClassicLSFBC 2026 selection on Jan. 1st. Since it's a new year, and maybe a new world, my selection is Huxley's Brave New World. I read it in high school some 40 plus year ago, it's time ⬇️⬇️

The thief walked through rolls of milky fog, advancing warily to the base of a wall that rose until the fog swallowed it; his chameleon-web bodysuit mocked the opaline mist until he was a pale shade in the shadows.

#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl