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BarbaraBB
One Vote, Two Votes, I Vote, You Vote | Bonnie Worth, Katherine Ross
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Dear Campers, Please vote below for your favorite #CampLitsy2025 book out of the three winners of the month. We can‘t wait to see which book will be this year‘s winner an will get back to you one more time later this week before we close the gate after our three months of camping! ⛺️

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BarbaraBB We‘ve read some incredible books this summer and I loved all discussions. However my favorite remains the one I expected to on forehand. My vote goes to 12h
Kitta Definitely Tilt for me! Thanks so much to you @BarbaraBB @Megabooks and @squirrelbrain for hosting! It‘s been an incredible summer and I can‘t believe camp is over 😭 12h
Larkken I had a great time reading these books though I‘ve not really been able to do the discussions 💗 thanks to our hosts for the organization, motivation, and inspiring discussion topics! I did look at them , just mostly a bit delayed lol. my fav read was prob 12h
CBee Woodworking for me! 11h
Lesliereadsalot Wild Dark Shore is my winner 11h
Skygoddess1 Woodworking 11h
TrishB Wild Dark Shore for me. 11h
jenniferw88 Woodworking for me! 10h
ErikasMindfulShelf Wild Dark Shore 10h
Bookwormjillk Thanks to all the hosts! There were some incredible discussions this summer. (So much so that I would probably vote for Audition if I can. Weird books make for good discussions!) Since I can't I'm going to vote for 10h
fredthemoose Wild Dark Shore for me. Although now it feels like a year since reading it! (edited) 10h
Prairiegirl_reading My vote is for a book I would never have picked up without #camplitsy and that is Tilt. 10h
Leniverse Woodworking 10h
TheKidUpstairs Of these three, my vote is for Wild Dark Shore! Thank you to our hosts for another great summer of camp!!! 10h
mcctrish I loved all the books this summer and this is so hard but I‘m going to say 10h
Suet624 Oh gosh - it's a tie for me between Woodworking and Wild Dark Shore. If I have to pick one, I'd go with Wild Dark Shore. Thank you for everything you all have done to make this such an amazing summer of reading. 10h
Megabooks Woodworking!! So much fun to do this with both of you again! @squirrelbrain 10h
peaKnit Wild Dark Shore was my favorite camp read! ⛺️ thank you for another fun summer of reading inspiration. 10h
JamieArc Hard decision between Wood and Wild but Wild Dark Shore gets the narrow win. Really loved this summer of #CampLitsy25 9h
Meshell1313 Ooh these were my 3 favs for sure! I‘m going with this one because it‘s the one I keep thinking about. Thanks for another great camp! 🥰 9h
ImperfectCJ My vote is for 9h
Susanita I was a bad camper and didn‘t read all the books. Of the ones I read, I choose 9h
Karisa So many good books this summer! Thanks, #CampLitsy! I am torn between two but have to go with the one I keep recommending: Wild Dark Shore 9h
vonnie862 I'll be there odd one, Tilt. 9h
GatheringBooks Thank you, @BarbaraBB @Megabooks and @squirrelbrain for being such fantastic #CampLitsy hosts this summer. I had an awesome time! I vote for 8h
Hooked_on_books I‘d like to vote for King of Ashes, but since that‘s not an option, it‘s between WDS and Ww. Woodworking is such a lovely book, but I think Wild Dark Shore is better, so it gets my vote. Thanks to all our hosts! 8h
Amiable I‘m not voting because I just got “Tilt” from the library yesterday and I‘m still at least a month or so away from my hold on “Wild Dark Shore.” I did read “Woodworking” but like @hooked_on_books I would have picked “King of Ashes” over that one. 8h
BarbaraJean Such a great summer—even though all my Camp Litsy reads came out of order thanks to the whims of library holds 😆 I finally read WDS last week and in some ways it‘s a better book, but I liked WW best, so it gets my vote! 8h
Megabooks I think this is the first summer that most campers liked most of the books. We usually have one or two fairly big flops (lol), but this summer we stumbled a bit with Audition, but @squirrelbrain led an amazing discussion that bumped it up a lot for me. All the other books were fantastic out of the gate for many campers and the discussions just enhanced them even more! Great summer!!!! (edited) 8h
JenReadsAlot Thanks ladies for a great summer! My pick is 7h
AmyG Wild, Dark Shore 7h
Deblovestoread Thanks counselors and campers for another great camp year. @BarbaraBB @Megabooks @squirrelbrain All three of these will make my top 25 of 25 but for the win it‘s 7h
Texreader Wild Dark Shore 7h
DebinHawaii What a great group of books we read this summer! Although I was spotty on getting to the discussions, they were stellar as always & I thank our 3 counselors @squirrelbrain @Megabooks & @BarbaraBB for their work. It‘s a difficult choice for me between WDS & Woodworking (Really, I‘d be happy with any of the Top 3 winning) but in the end I have to vote with the slightest of edges for: 6h
ChaoticMissAdventures I am in the minority with wishing for anything but WDS which I loathed but it looks like will win lol. I am going to go with 5h
rockpools What a fantastic group of books. And several I would never have got to without #camplitsy - thanks for hosting @squirrelbrain @Megabooks @BarbaraBB . It‘s so close this year! I think I‘m going to go with Tilt - it surprised me, and I keep thinking back to it. I‘m happy whoever wins though - fab selection! 5h
BookwormAHN Wild Dark Shore 5h
DGRachel I did not expect this to be such a hard decision! There was only one book that I didn‘t really enjoy! I am going to go with Wild Dark Shore over Tilt only because of the setting., but I won‘t be sad no matter who wins! (edited) 3h
Oryx Woodworking for me. But I enjoyed every single one this year. 2h
willaful All three were excellent reading, but I found Woodworking the most satisfying overall. 2h
Zuhkeeyah Great choices all around 1h
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Texreader
Tilt | Emma Pattee
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Funny, not funny. 😬 #campLitsy

Bookwormjillk Yup. Sigh. 2d
AnnCrystal
🥺 Oh yikes...🧐🤔😵‍💫😶‍🌫️...
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DGRachel
King of Ashes | S. A. Cosby
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I can‘t believe I‘m saying this, but this is borderline so-so for me and I expected it to blow away the #CampLitsy competition. I‘m giving Cosby some grace to compensate for my mental state, but I‘m disappointed. It‘s dark, violent, and gritty, but unlike Blacktop Wasteland, ALL of the characters just annoy me endlessly. I wasn‘t surprised by any of the elements of the ending. They were all inevitable, not just predictable.

TrishB I only gave it a so-so. Definitely not my fave of his. 4d
DGRachel My biggest gripe is the thing in books that I hate more than any other thing (except killing a dog - this is THE worst) and that is 90% of the worst of this could have been prevented if the siblings had just TALKED TO EACH OTHER HONESTLY!!!! I don‘t care if keeping secrets was “in character” or necessary for the plot. I hate it. I hate it. I HATE IT! 4d
DGRachel @TrishB Thank you! I really thought I was the only one who didn‘t love it. 😭 4d
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TrishB I always think that when it‘s just me! 😁 I thought it was mediocre and predictable. 4d
BarbaraBB I did enjoy it a lot but I too was really frustrated by them not talking to each other. Dante was the worst imo 😱 (edited) 4d
Megabooks @DGRachel in life, I hate it, too. But living with an elderly mother who can be very brittle and judgmental, there is a lot I don‘t say, even if it is in no way my preferred dynamic with people I choose to bring into my life. Family is tough. For me, there was enough realistic explanation why they weren‘t. I guess with the situation I‘m in, it gave me a level of strange affection for the characters 🤷🏻‍♀️ @BarbaraBB 4d
Megabooks However, I was mad at Roman for not being as honest with Jae. I think she could‘ve handled it, but I think he probably feared losing her. Fear is a strong motivator! @BarbaraBB 4d
ChaoticMissAdventures @DGRachel agree!! Just TALK to each other!! So annoying. I was annoying how terrible those boys were to their sister, leaving her out in the cold like that as she shouldered everything. 4d
DGRachel @Megabooks I completely agree that family dynamics can be tough to navigate and it was understandable here, it‘s just a trope in fiction that frustrates me a lot. 4d
Megabooks @DGRachel oh for sure! We all have tropes we find frustrating. 4d
squirrelbrain It wasn‘t my favourite of his either. I just recommended All The Sinners Bleed to a friend and I was reflecting on how much better that one was. 4d
DGRachel @squirrelbrain I‘m glad that others are considering this a rather disappointing outlier. I LOVED Blacktop Wasteland so much I‘ve bought his other books as they‘ve come out but I‘ve not gotten to any of them. I will have to go back as a palate cleanser to this one. 🤪 3d
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Chelsea.Poole
King of Ashes | S. A. Cosby
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Pickpick

Another violent, action-packed, fast-paced thriller from Cosby. I‘ll always listen to these because that narrator is perfection for Cosby‘s morally grey characters. In this one, Roman, oldest of three grown siblings returns home when his father is ill. How did the owner of the crematorium wind up in a coma? What are his siblings Neveah and Dante up to while he‘s gone? Plus, the backstory of their missing mother. A change of pace for #camplitsy!

BarbaraBB A change of pace indeed 😱 5d
AmyG A change of pace…and I loved it. 5d
squirrelbrain Yes indeed! 🔥 5d
Sargar114 Loved this one! Definitely a great slump breaker! 5d
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fredthemoose
King of Ashes | S. A. Cosby
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Ooof, this book… 🫣 #CampLitsy

Texreader Yep!! 7d
BarbaraBB Yes… 7d
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Texreader
Tilt | Emma Pattee
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Library hold finally came in. Starting it today. #camplitsy

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mcctrish
King of Ashes | S. A. Cosby
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#camplitsy “everything burns” summer is officially over when the last Camp Litsy read is done 😭😭 this is really not my usual genre but holy smokes ( see what I did there?) is it good! It took me three days to read the first half and now that I‘m immune to violence and bad choices, one afternoon to inhale the rest 🎶 fire‘s burning, fire‘s burning, draw nearer, draw nearer…..🎶

ShelleyBooksie I had to skim the really violent parts. What a story though 1w
mcctrish @ShelleyBooksie apparently I‘m immune now 😆🤦🏻‍♀️ 1w
5feet.of.fury I love his writing so much. 1w
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AmyG He gets better with each book he writes. 1w
mcctrish @AmyG I might need to read some more 1w
mcctrish @5feet.of.fury I honestly did not know him 1w
AmyG Definitely read more. Read them all! 1w
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