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I've just put this in the mail. I triple checked that I sent it to the right place. 🥴
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I've just put this in the mail, and I triple checked that I sent it to the right place. 🤓
pickI enjoyed these short stories. My favorite was The Other Side Of The Road- very menacing with a twist I did not see coming. The Bad Friend was another standout- it's a rather depressing exploration of someone never satisfied with what they have. I liked Scorpians right up till the end- it was too abrupt, I needed another scene.
These aren't in the database so I tagged another book by my favorite author of the collection.
pickI'm really enjoying this series with its mix of authentic-feeling (to this non-cop) police procedural with supernatural elements. I like that Tony McLean 1) will not stop digging on a case until he gets the truth, even when that tenacity is detrimental to his career, 2) cares for the people on his team, 3) his response to the supernatural situations he finds himself in- a mixture of acceptance and exasperation- amuses me.
Leaving a surprisingly chilly Atlanta to go back home to chilly Denver, while reading about winter in Scotland. 🌧☔️❄️🌨
so-soI listened to this just before we left for our trip, and already, I can't recall some of the details. I didn't like the main character, which took the air out of one of the revelations, but there was a real sense of menace. The villain was very villainy.
pickLee is homeless due to a variety of reasons, Hazel is desperate to get away from her monster of a husband. Lee saves Hazel's life when she tries to drown herself and their lives become entangled. Little does either woman know that they are both being manipulated. It bogs down in the middle but the beginning and end are good.
pickI listened to this while painting. It was cute, sweet, and romantic which doesn't always do it for me but hit the spot this weekend.
Help! I have plans for August and October but don't know what to do for June and I hate March. Any easy, amateur, ideas would be appreciated! @litsycrafters
pickThis is beautifully written and Bill Furlong is a wonderful character. ❤️
pickTold in multiple POVs 5 uni best friends, their spouses, and children gather for a glamping weekend that turns disastrous. I liked most of the characters- with a VERY glaring exception- and I liked the reveals along the way. Above all, perhaps this should make us consider whether old friendships are still serving us.
These arrived yesterday, @TheAromaofBooks. I spent the evening going through Celine and enjoying everyone's comments. 💛 What fun!
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This made me laugh 😆
From snow in the high country to FINALLY some flowers blooming in our yard in town, this is spring in Colorado. 😍🌷🪻
Reading North Woods while enjoying a western wood 😊 #pikenationalforest #happyplace
Listen to this through earphones y'all. It's not safe around kids or coworkers. 😉
Reading this today in my #happyplace 🌲❄️
bailedThis was a mess. It starts well with a murder & a limited number of suspects on a private island but then it backtracks to tell the history of the narrator in great detail. As I couldn't stand him I had issues with this. The 4th wall was broken repeatedly which, while I've enjoyed it in other stories, became tedious. The reader was constantly promised that this bit ⬇️
pickAfter her brilliant, artist father died on 9/11, Joan ended up giving up most of her dreams only to find herself, 9 years later, in a boring job and a boring marriage. Her marriage implodes and she accepts a job couriering some art to Paris only to have it stolen and replaced with pages from her dad's missing notebooks. She and her one night stand end up on a treasure hunt around Paris to get the art back and find out who has her dad's notebooks.
Happy (almost) birthday to me 😊
Saturday + a trip to Greece + Beyoncé's new album + a wholesome breakfast 😉😁 = a good morning
pickThis kept me turning pages as the feelings of unease steadily increased. It's creepy and distressing but pulled me right along.
1- Beth O'Leary, Susanna Kearsley, Andy Weir, Richard Osman, Casey McQuiston, Amor Towles, Robert Galbraith, Lucy Foley
2- I don't know what my favorite genre is but recent favorite books are The Wake Up Call, The Ink Black Heart, and Project Hail Mary
3- Robert Galbraith and Richard Osman
Thanks for the tag @Read4life
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The POV in this changes so often, sometimes from one sentence to the next, that it's distracting from the story.
A #bookstack for mental health (and some Dove chocolates, which I find help a little)
Saturday, you're my favorite 😊
Due to a recent mental health crisis in my intimate circle, I'm posting this everywhere. Please reach out if you're feeling despair and please make sure your loved ones have this resource as well. ❤️
I'm finally getting started on my #LMPBC @Jerdencon @TheAromaofBooks @robinb I'm feeling really behind on my reading this month. 🙀
This telling of world history by focusing on ruling families (rather than only rulers) is fascinating but my main take away so far is that it was very dangerous to be a member of a ruling family. The source of the danger most often being other members of said family.
I'm enjoying a wee visit to Scotland with my morning tea 😊
Planning 🤞🏻 to make some good progress on this today #LMPBC #GroupO #BookWormJillK #TheBookHippie @ElizaMarie
pickIn Edinburgh, several gruesome murders, a spate of public suicides, a possible demon, a couple interesting women, a string of robberies, an obstructionist superior, and a missing girl are keeping DI McLean awake nights. Or maybe it's that the grandmother who raised him has just died. All in all he has his hands full and I was quite interested to watch this come together.
pickThis was interesting and extensively researched. I'm low-key fascinated by the Shakespeare authorship question. I'm team Kit Marlow. 😉
pickThis was pretty good. The first reveal was a genuine shocker but the second one was too obvious so the last quarter of the book was just a wait for the MC to find out what the reader could see coming. The very end was unsatisfying but I don't think there was any other way it could have ended. Soft pick.
Tea instead of coffee but otherwise yes yes yes! 😊
Appreciation post for the pictures at the front of the 1930s version. Nancy is apparently traveling with her gun again.🙃 And Bess will be in this one! 💗
I feel like this explains a lot.
(Why has Litsy started magnifying photos such that they don't quite fit?? Is this happening to anyone else? 😟)
I fell down an amusing/ ridiculous rabbit hole this afternoon 😁
Considering finally reading Dire King and saw that this series has all new covers. I think I liked the old ones better. 🤔
I didn't like this quite a well as the last book I read by this author. I really liked the storyline and characters from the 1853 timeline but wasn't into the 1918 timeline. I wish the book had focused on the first plot and done more justice to those characters. Dividing the story meant we got the beginning of the interesting plot and the end but none of the meat in the middle. Soft pick.
pickIn a Victorian England where faery & the human world are fully integrated Deri is indentured to a merchant in the goblin market where anything can be bought: time, strength, destiny, even love. Deri has been slyly accumulating enough funds to buy out his contract when he meets Owain who is indentured to a human factory.The race is on to see if Deri can orchestrate enough deals to change both his destiny & Owain's before they are both trapped in ⬇️
pickThis was really interesting and I learned a lot. I maybe didn't like it quite as much as Salt, which I read years ago, but it's whetted my appetite for similar books. I think I'll get Cod next.
pickI thoroughly enjoyed this account of the discovery of Homo naledi in South Africa. It was well told, thought-provoking, and entertaining. 🎧
