Audition made the #BookerPrize longlist! Interested to see what other #camplitsy people think of this!

Personally I didn‘t enjoy reading it. But I can see how it‘s a good novel? I just don‘t like being confused! 🤣

#camplitsy25
@squirrelbrain @Megabooks @BarbaraBB

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#hyggehour has me finishing this graphic novel series alongside Hazel. Apparently there‘s going to be a sixth one! I can‘t wait.

Really glad the #QueerBC turned me onto this series and author. I love it.

#catsoflitsy #lgbtqia2025 @Kenyazero @PuddleJumper

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Volume 4 of Heartstopper ❤️

Touches on mental health issues and coming out to family as a queer teen. Very heartwarming.

#queerBC @PuddleJumper

#lgbtqia2025 @Kenyazero

I can tell already I‘m going to love this book.

Thanks #camplitsy25 for suggesting it, it wasn‘t even on my radar.

@squirrelbrain @Megabooks @BarbaraBB

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Loving this series and probably going to power through all of them today 😂

Super cute coming out story.

#queerbc @PuddleJumper
#lgbtqia2025 @Kenyazero

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Omg squee this is just so cute. ?

Graphic novel about Charlie a gay boy in high school who befriends Nick who‘s the year ahead of him. It has all the questioning and adorable shared looks and confusion of first thinking you might be gay, without being overly clichéd about it.

Definitely worth a read and I‘ll be getting the next one from Libby asap!

#queerbc @PuddleJumper
#lgbtqia2025 sports @Kenyazero

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Oof tragicomic is a great way to describe this. It focuses on, in graphic novel form, her life from childhood to the time surrounding her fathers death and her coming out as a lesbian. This memoir is hard hitting.

Helps to be fairly well read to understand all the implications of all the books mentioned but not essential.

#lgbtqia2025 @Kenyazero

#ShowandTellTuesday with #LitsyCrafters and @Catsandbooks

I‘m working on a planned pooling project! You have to count the stitches per colour of a variegated yarn and put in the number of stitch repeats into plannedpooling.com and determine how many stitches per row to do to get a cool kind of plaid pattern. Keeping the number of stitches the same is hard and requires varying tension and frogging a lot. This has taken me ages but I love it!

#lgbtqia2025 @Kenyazero

Just need a Latinx author or rep to complete the card!

Any recommendations Litsy??

I enjoy mostly science fiction and literary fiction, things I don‘t enjoy are young adult and romance - but find queer books with it more tolerable 😛.

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The third book in this Sherlock and Watson but if they were lesbians living on the rings of Jupiter series! Newly out.

There‘s another case and it looks like Pleiti is investigating on her own this time. Off to one of the outer platforms to the University where there‘s an academic in trouble, receiving threats and having odd things go wrong in her lab right before a big academic award is being bestowed on her.

#lgbtqia2025 @Kenyazero

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Wow I read this in a day! Partly because it was due on Libby tomorrow and partly I just got so into it.

Erica starts to realize she might be trans later in life and doesn‘t know who to turn to. She‘s a teacher at a high school, she‘s divorced, and she‘s numb. The story jumps between her POV and that of Abigail a trans student at the school.

Engaging story, though a bit predictable

#campLitsy2025
#lgbtia2025
#transrightsreadathon2025

Re posting @Suet624 ‘s image - my copy is the same!

Different covers on the book jacket and hardcover! So cool and clever. I didn‘t even notice until she mentioned it.

Anyone else have the deluxe edition as well with this?

#camplitsy2025

Omg guys my kindle colorsoft arrived!!! I‘m so excited!

My old one had a problem with the screen so I did a trade in and got this one for a great price with a 20% trade in discount plus 39% off discount for prime day, and a $20 gift card.

This is the 2nd one they sent because the 1st “went missing” from the mail storage station after the delivery driver didn‘t bother ringing my doorbell and marked the building as inaccessible. 🙄 Stolen I think

Rotating bookcase #ShelfLove for @Chrissyreadit & @BarbaraJean

This is Willow surveying her domain. 😂

#shelfie #bookcase #catsoflitsy #littenkitten

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This has all the things I should love in a book but it just didn‘t hit the mark for me. I was frustrated a lot and although the ending was interesting, I was kind of annoyed by it.

I will add some spoiler comments below.

Read for #camplitsy2025.

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It took me so long to read this, I must have borrowed it from Libby 4 or 5 times. It‘s interesting but didn‘t hold my interest well. I was something to dip into between other reads (and not on the subway).

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I was pleasantly surprised! Beautifully written and an interesting story of Violeta: born maybe in Chile (the country is never specified) during the 1920 influenza pandemic and follows her life through the Great Depression, dictatorships and coups, her loves and her children. It‘s written as a letter to her grandson. It‘s sentimental without being overly so.

Taking off one star because it dragged at the end, but I would recommend it!

June #storygraph book report, right on track for 52 books this year!

#camplitsy25 pick Wild Dark Shore and a Murderbot novel take first place!

I think that‘s the last of the Murderbot novels. I hope Martha Wells‘ health improves and that she can possibly write more, I‘m obsessed with the series.

Mary Oliver ❤️

On the train to Boston for a conference and starting this.

My kindle screen stopped responding, usually I only travel with my kindle! This will help me get through the pile of physical TBR books though until Prime Day. Then I will buy a Paperwhite Signature Edition with my 20% trade in credit.

Very tempted by the ColourSoft but omg so expensive. Anyone have one? Is it worth it? So pretty but I don‘t often read graphic novels or comics.

#kindle

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Soo atmospheric and I loved reading the chapters from Orly about the seeds (maybe the biologist in me coming out). There was one instance where the science was wrong which always bothers me but I still love this cli-fi novel about a woman who washes up on the shore and the family living in a lighthouse on a deserted island who find her.

Interested in hearing @Ruthiella ‘s view on this one for our #camplitsy discussion!

#camplitsy25

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Interesting fantasy world where you decide what gender you will be and where a magic know as slackcraft is practised. The story is about twins Mokoya and Akeha born to the Protector.

Interesting storyline, I just checked for book 2 in the series but it‘s not available in my library! 😩 Might purchase it as it ended without really resolving some things.

Reading by my moon happy lamp for #hyggehour.
#QueerBC
#LGBTQIA2025

I love when a book has a map!

Catching up on #QueerBC from last month.

#lgbtqiabookbingo counts for this one too!

#hyggehour reading

Happy Pride Month all 🏳️‍🌈

#Kindle hive mind!

My 10th gen kindle Paperwhite isn‘t responding well when I press in the pink circle so I can‘t really open my library or remove the banner to “stay here” when syncing across devices. I contacted Amazon and they‘ll give me 20% off if I trade in.

Should I get a Paperwhite Signature Edition or a Coloursoft? I‘d love to have the colour but the price tag is high and I don‘t really read much in colour, I‘m not sure it‘s worth it.

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First #Camplitsy25 book is not a pick for me unfortunately!

I don‘t like reading things with unreliable narrators where you don‘t quite understand what is happening, and I get that the book mirrors the play, but it doesn‘t really rescue this for me. I‘m left with too many questions unanswered. Maybe I just didn‘t “get” it and the discussion will change my mind.

#camplitsy

8 books in May! Can you tell I‘m between jobs? 😂

I‘m also halfway through Audition for #CampLitsy2025. Finding it a little tough going as I dislike the main character. I‘ll probably push through to finish it this week and start on something queer for Pride month.

#storygraphwrapup #storygraph

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Set on Preservation, MuderBot helps to investigate a murder of a human who‘s body is dumped at a mall.

Always love a MurderBot novel but this one wasn‘t quite as good as the previous one. Hearing about MurderBot‘s interactions with ART was my favourite parts of the previous novels and this novel was a bit too much focused on interacting with humans who don‘t trust it. Still worth a read if you‘re reading the series.

#lgbtqia2025

Forgot to post this but I finally finished the #TransRightsReadathon challenge for this year!

I‘ve been making #LGBTQIA books a priority and it‘s got me reading a bit more out of my comfort zone and introduced me to new authors!

Definitely recommend giving this challenge a try!

#BOTM must have known we were reading this for #CampLitsy25 😂

With this I‘ll have 2 BOTM copies of #CampLitsy books (King of Ashes & Wild Dark Shore), 2 from my local independent bookshop (Tilt & Death of the Author) and 2 from Libby (Audition & Woodworking)!

Anyone else reading from a mix of different sources?

Another little free library in my neighbourhood that I didn‘t know about!

Love a little free library! 📚

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I can see why this isn‘t everyone‘s cup of tea, lots of nothing happens for most of the novel, but I loved it. The perfect amount of magical realism, interesting historical perspective, and great writing. Even if the storyline was a little predictable, I enjoyed it nevertheless.

My mermaid at heart is a siren and I love tales of them! 🧜‍♀️

#hyggehour a little early today

Picked these up for #CampLitsy because the wait for them on Libby was 24 weeks!! 😳

I don‘t like the trend of sprayed edges unless it has a design on it. The colour they chose for Death of the Author is… ummm… not to my taste. But whatever, here‘s hoping the content is better than the edges! Or at least that it sparks a good discussion!

Can‘t wait for camp to start! I‘m packing my tent and sleeping bag already. 🏕️

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Whimsical and strange in the way that a lot of books translated from Japanese are. Short interconnected stories about people struggling with something, who come to Kokoro Clinic for the Soul and receive strange remedies for their problems. Set in Kyoto and it was cute and lighthearted. Loved the illustrations.

Felt a little repetitive but I raced through it in two days, so a low pick from me.

Starting this tonight for #HyggeHourReadathon.

Thought it worked so well with my ocean waves blanket!

#hyggehour #litsycrafters

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Interesting read about some bandits who are joined by a nun on their escapes. I found the language a little stilted and the word choice odd in places.

Read early for June #QueerBC! My Libby hold came in before expected.

Also using this for #lgbtqia2025!

@Kenyazero @PuddleJumper

So funny and true.

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I‘m not a huge poetry fan, but Ocean Vuong gets me everytime. Some poems hit harder than others. While not as good as Night Sky With Exit Wounds, I really enjoyed this.

Hearing him speak in 2022 transformed the way I think about poetry and he was very insistent that everyone can be a writer/poet - you just have to write! It really inspired me.

#lgbtqia2025
#litsycrafters - the crochet blanket I made is getting a lot of use.

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Love a MurderBot story!

I should have ordered the next one from Libby earlier. 7 week wait! Oh well. Gotta be patient!

#lgbtqia2025

Three books forecast for this weekend.

Forgotten Home Child for #ohCanada

Want I might DNF. I‘m at 50% and it‘s the third time I‘m borrowing this from Libby. Idk. Too spicy to read on the subway and I don‘t choose it when I‘m at home. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Network Effect is a great addition to the MurderBot series. Very happy to see ART again.

@rachelsbrittain #weekendreads

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Interesting historical fiction novel about the British Home Children - street kids who were shipped to Canada to live with new families before the First World War. Not every placement was a good one and this novel details some of the lives of children sent to work on farms. Covering their lifespans, it‘s ultimately a story of both loss and hope. I didn‘t like the style of narration but overall learned a lot.

Read for #OhCanada. @Jess861

#hyggehour on the balcony. It‘s raining but I‘m safely covered by the balcony above and snuggled in the blanket I crocheted specifically for these moments.

#litsycrafters

Reading this for #OhCanada in the shade of the cherry trees in Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 🌸 The trees are dropping all their petals and it‘s like it‘s raining pink! So beautiful but impossible to capture properly.

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Oh wow, strong pick for me. I liked this even more than the first book - The Space Between Worlds. Dystopian rebels fighting to keep their way of life and some people travelling the multiverse coming to interfere!

I love this type of science fiction. I stayed up late reading last night past midnight to finish this one. Definitely recommend!

Counts towards #lgbtqia2025 as well!

Really good books this month!

Favourite is the tagged. I‘m trying to read more LGBTQIA books as well as books by non-cis white male authors.

#storygraph

#botm selection! I skipped last month but this dystopian fantasy novel seem really up my alley!

Very excited for this one.

Oooooo!

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Beautiful debut Canadian novel. Nominated for many awards.

Translated from French and set mainly in Cairo and Montreal, this is an LGBTQ and family saga, told from the point of view of a narrator who‘s relationship to the main character is unknown (you find out about half through but I‘m not spoiling it!).

I loved the translation and had to look up a few English words I didn‘t know and this is my first language! 🙈 😂

#lgbtqia2025

#bibliologistbio

Go-to genres: literary fiction, speculative fiction, science fiction.

Desert island reads: Soo hard! Definitely the Picture of Dorian Gray, & maybe something a little longer like LoTR to pass the time!

Snack: a nice cuppa

Weirdest reading place: At a concert with 500,000 people on a blanket in a field! SARSStock in 2003 in Toronto & the new Harry Potter had come out. 😂

When not reading: I‘m a scientist and pole dancer!