Mini #library #bookhaul just now. I skimmed a couple of pages in the Arikawa book and it sounds charming! 😻

I‘m visiting my dad and spent a good part of the day hiking around the Presidio in San Francisco, some of it inadvertently 😆. The third Maisie Dobbs book is my vacation read on this trip.
#sanfrancisco

🎶Another one bites the dust, hey hey, another one bites the dust 🎶

This Bosch book is getting DNFed at 25% read. I‘ve enjoyed other Bosch titles, but this one so far hasn‘t featured much of him at all. I‘m flying to California on Sunday and I want something for the trip that I‘m actually looking forward to picking up again when I have to put it down. #bosch

I am using my new Kobo Clara HD for the first time and so far I like it much more than my 2nd gen Paperwhite. It‘s easier to hold because it‘s lighter, and the orangey Comfortlight is a welcome improvement for night reading. I even accidentally borrowed a library ebook with it last night, as it has integrated OverDrive . #kobo

The Dud Avocado has been quite a ride! Looking up from the book and realizing I wasn‘t actually in Paris in 1955 was disorienting. Sally Jay might not be the most sympathetic or likable of characters, but her immaturity and self-absorption are pretty authentic for a 22 year old. And it‘s FUNNY!!
#nyrb

I pulled the trigger and converted from being a Kindler to a Koboite (the Clara HD). Well, not completely, if I‘m honest. I still have a lot of books on my Kindle and I also have a Fire. But it will mostly be Kobo going forward. It‘s considerably lighter than the Kindle (yes, I weighed them on my food scale 😆), and I love the warmer Comfortlight. #kobo

I just can‘t anymore. I am 25% into this book, and there are SO MANY characters, 80% of whom are men. I like the story and I know that the male-centric cast is somewhat due to the setting (16th century Spain), but still.

If you‘re in the market for an excellent fantasy adventure, look no further than the Gentlemen Bastards! This is a super adventure-y, heist-y read, and it is one of a very few 700-ish page chunksters which I did NOT feel would have benefited from considerable trimming. It‘s pretty great on audio, too! There is a fair amount of violence, however. 5 ⭐️

#catsoflitsy #nationalpetday

Maddie 😻

I have a problem here and I‘m not talking about this atrocity of a cover. 🤢
The Hoopla audiobook app makes backing up or going forward a royal pain. The scrubbing bar is SO TINY! If your book is more than a couple of hours long, it‘s an exercise in frustration. Am I missing something?
#awfulcovers #hoopla #audiobooks

Her Majesty letting me know that I have a caused a Disturbance and she is Displeased. 😆
In other news, I am currently enjoying my newest heist novel. #catsoflitsy

Despite living in Chicago forever, I have never been to Door County. Soooo...we are planning a visit there this summer, and I would love bookstore recommendations! Or any
“must do” recommendations, really. 😊
#wisconsin #doorcounty

Anyone else watching Russian Doll and thinking they need to read Emily of New Moon now? I was a fan of Anne of Green Gables but I never read the Emily books. But if Nadia likes ‘em, that‘s good enough for me!
#russiandoll #lmmontgomery

#currentlyreading The Tempest to prep for Miranda in Milan. I‘ve never read The Tempest before and I don‘t have much background with WS in general, but I‘m enjoying it. It seems as though people are very divided on The Tempest, that you either love it or hate it.
I‘m also listening to the Arkangel production of the play, to round out the whole experience. 😊
#shakespeare #thetempest

In 16th century Germany and Switzerland, Dismas tracks down the relics of saints for his two wealthy and powerful patrons. But that pesky Martin Luther is acting up and the relic trade is in peril. So Dismas and his painter friend Dürer decide to fake a relic so Dismas can retire to his beloved Alps. What could possibly go wrong? Funny historical heist fiction, if that‘s your jam. #currentlyreading #historicalfiction

1. Tagged
2. Working
3. Nope
4. Yes, a looonnggg time ago, and I would love to go back!! I even got a sunburn there, and I didn‘t think that was a possible thing! 😉@wanderinglynn #hellothursday
5. Hello @BookishMeanderings 😊

#veryshortintroductions are so perfect for filling the glaring gaps in one‘s knowledge base...

And very helpful for background information to complement one‘s reading...

1. Going to northern Michigan with my cousins.
2. Half-brother nine years younger. Never had contact with him until seven years ago and now we are quite close.
3. Two years ago
4. Tagged
5. Anyone who feels like it!! 😊

#wondrouswednesday @Eggs

I‘ve been having miserable luck with audiobooks lately. I have started and rejected three in the last week. I find that I am becoming pickier, with more requirements for my audiobook choices.
But this sounds good, in both senses of the word. And it‘s a #canadareads book. Even better! #audiobooks

My late entry for #loveyourpetday. It‘s about 30° out this morning, but our living room gets unobstructed southern exposure, so it can get pretty warm even in the winter. Maddie luxuriates in the infrequent winter ☀️

Here‘s another vintage cookbook for you guys, @Leftcoastzen @LeahBergen!!

I‘m actually shocked Litsy has it in the database.

My brand-new read! I know very little about that time period—the Weimar Republic of Germany—but I am very interested in learning more about it. #historicalcrime

I loved this ending to the trilogy!! A fairytale ending and yet...

I‘d like to start a fan club for Ded Grib. Anyone with me? 😆 #dedgrib

(I couldn‘t decide which little guy I liked best)

Starting this audio tonight. I‘m looking forward to it, but this cover...🤢
#worstcovers

So I have what may be a dumb question, but how does someone living in the US go about ordering UK editions? Can you just order from Amazon UK? I covet the Penguin UK versions of the Winternight Trilogy!!

I love this cover! It‘s a fantasy that picks up after Shakespeare‘s The Tempest, which I suppose I will have to read now. Royal intrigue, magic, maybe a queer love story...
#shakespeare #lgbtq #coverlove

The Wedding Singer 🎥
It‘s My Party and I‘ll Cry If I Want To 🎶
All About Cake (a cookbook by Christina Tosi ) 📖 tagged book

#manicmonday @JoScho

#audioshowering is where it‘s at! 🚿🛀

#friyayintro @howjessreads

1. These days, a lot of fantasy. I need the escape!
2. I don‘t think it rises to phobia but I am scared of bees. I get a nasty reaction to stings.
3. Archaeologist
4. 29 and snowing. And snowing. And snowing.
5. On it!

#hellothursday

1. 🇺🇸
2. 🇺🇸
3. 🇬🇧
4. 🇵🇹

@wanderinglynn

https://lithub.com/buddy-the-library-isnt-a-7-eleven/

🤣🤣🤣

“I like that necklace you‘re wearing. Can I borrow it?” #librarians

Sooo excited to learn there will be a fourth book in the His Fair Assassin YA fantasy series next month!! Nun assassins in the service of Death himself! You know you‘re tempted!!
#ya

So the #genji craze sweeping the nation has caught my attention, and I‘m thinking I may want to join in the fun. I notice on Amazon that there are two translations; should I choose one over the other?

Is it just me being a crank? I‘m getting sort of tired of formulaic titles.
“ The (insert number) (insert noun)s of (insert name)”
“The Girl (insert preposition) The (insert noun)”

*getting off soapbox*

It‘s unusual, I think, to find a book where you have no clue what the arc of the story will be. How will a writer organize a story where the MC has lived nearly 10,000 lives and hangs out in the afterlife with Death (aka Suzie)? I‘m having fun seeing what each new chapter brings. #audiobooks

#friyayintro @howjessreads

1. Teleport. I wouldn‘t want to read people‘s minds because I wouldn‘t want to know if they were thinking bad things about me. 😬
I know, insecure much?
2. Listening to the tagged book
3. I don‘t believe in them.
4. Schitt‘s Creek!!!!
5. On it!!

For #pick3 it would have to be

📚/ pajamas/ Netflix

@GypsyKat

The abuses compound and still they love their country. I get the sense there is no other choice. A patriot makes a conscious sacrifice. A victim, on the other hand, is powerless. It is a remarkable contortion to call your involuntary exposure to an atomic blast a sacrifice, but when your whole life has been a struggle against powerlessness, you bend to keep from breaking. ⬇️

First line:

Beyond Deadman Canyon but just this side of Purgatory Canyon lies the Sleeping Lady. I watch her from the yard of the haunted house where I‘ve been staying since coming home again like I can‘t quit doing because I can‘t quit leaving.

You have me, Joshua Wheeler.

She‘s very limber for a cat that has nothing between her head and her hind legs!!
😻🤣

#catsoflitsy

WEDDINGS, PART DEUX...

Anybody else ever go to a wedding on New Year‘s Eve?
OUTDOORS?!
In CHICAGO?!?
🥶🥶
(small pic is us waiting for ceremony to begin...large pic is this morning, in my happy place 😊)

Anybody else have to put on fancy duds to go to a wedding tonight? Anyone?

Didn‘t think so. I‘d rather be reading in front of the fire with the cat and the wife but...

#introvertproblems

My handle is just the beginnings of my first and middle names. But Mich also works for Michigan, which is where my mother‘s family was from/still lives and also a place I love to visit!

@kaye

This sounds like a must for book nerds!! A novel about Gutenberg and the first printing press? Yes please!!

If someone knows all there is to know about you, isn‘t that a kind of forgiveness?

#quotsy

CATS ATTACK!! 😸
#catsoflitsy

The world-building in this book is fascinating, and I am reading very slowly to get at the meaning of it all. A story of an alternate London where memory is forbidden and music has come to replace language in many ways, it was long listed for the Man Booker Prize.

Lady Georgiana finds herself at an Authentic English Christmas where, coincidentally, a lot of bodies start appearing...

A fun Christmas read and awesome on audio. Katherine Kellgren is a marvel!!!

#audiobooks #christmas

An Audible sale is awesome, but OMG I get so overwhelmed!! I‘m really picky about audiobooks...the book itself has to be good—obviously—but the narrator has to be just right. There‘s an art to it, know what I mean? 😉
#bookwormproblems

I‘m not sure if the crack of dawn before work is the right time to begin this but I‘m going to try.

A semi-autobiographical story of a young Italian girl who volunteers at a labor camp in Germany to find out whether she has been fed lies about the Nazi regime.

#catsoflitsy