Welcome to Litsy!

@tiedyedude and I are taking advantage of this beautiful spring day by reading outside with some local brews. I finished Black Sheep by Rachel Harrison and have cracked open Keeper of Enchanted Rooms by Charlie N. Holmberg. Cheers!

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Thank you @Eggs for the #WondrousWednesday tag! 🤗Sorry I‘m late to post.

1️⃣ I wore out my copy of the tagged book, a childhood favorite, then got another copy for my birthday & lost it somewhere over the years. I bought another edition years ago but want to find this one again.

2️⃣ My late teens-early 20s fave was Pride and Prejudice & Jane Austen (still is!)

3️⃣ Pride and Prejudice & more recently Remarkably Bright Creatures (audiobook) 💙

Honestly, this sounds tempting! 🖤🪡🩷

The Haunted Hotel was OK. I wasn't wowed. I enjoyed that the hotel was in Venice because I went earlier this month and fell in love with the place. Luckily the place I stayed didn't formerly house any of my dead relatives or generate any eerie bad smells.

I would describe the story and writing as quintessentially Victorian through and through. The sort of tale that would probably be scarier read at a time before electric lighting.

This is a little bit weird, kind of a jumble of things going on, but it actually really works. Pace & tension combine to make a creepy & vaguely menacing air that grows as the story unravels. The wood is atmospheric & eldritch with mysterious glimpses of ... ghosts? Fae? It has a tortured Victorian author & his uncanny novel at the heart of the plot & has some nice ideas about the concept of 'story'. Great story-telling.

#ReadAway2024 #SeriesLove2024 This is a humorous book about life and death. Hard to believe that such serious subjects can be funny, but Christopher Moore somehow managed it. Fisher Stevens, an actor I‘ve never particularly liked, was the perfect narrator. Maybe I should be using the writer‘s words to picture Charlie, but I just see scrawny Fisher. As I write this review on #WeirdWordWednesday a Beta Male would once have been called a milquetoast.

This a cute fantasy manga with food. Delicious in Dungeon vibes minus the battles. 4⭐️

Check out my new makeup! 😍🥰💛

1. No. I have never read a book more than twice.
2. Stephen King
3. The Shining. Probably my most favorite King book.

@Eggs #WondrousWednesday