Boo @BookwormAHN ! 👻
I received my #ModernWitchSwap package!
Can‘t wait to open it! 🧙🏻
#MWS

I mailed my #ModernWitchSwap package today! It will be in my witch friend‘s hands on Saturday!

Thank you for hosting @BookwormAHN !

#MWS

👻 Late halfway point check-in!

I have 427 points so far and I‘m having a blast!
Thank you @CSeydel and @PuddleJumper !

#HauntedShelf #GrimReaders

🍂 Photo taken in Flagstaff, Arizona 2 weeks ago

I loved this creative story about a little girl who shows up at an ornithologist‘s study site and declares she‘s an alien. I spent most of the book going back and forth between deciding she‘s alien and then deciding she‘s a little girl which was part of the fun. The author also tackles mental health, and sprinkled in a little romance as well.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

🌲Taken last week in the forest outside of Flagstaff, Arizona
#hauntedshelf #grimreaders

🚧 I read this for Banned Books Week!
🦗 It was a sweet science fiction story about our distant future. Most science fiction I read is dark and scary so this robot story was refreshing for a change.
Banned I‘m guessing for a non-gendered main character? Yet I remain a woman after reading it.
🤖 I‘ll definitely continue the Monk and Robot Series!

🤖🤖🤖🤖

#hauntedshelf #GrimReaders

Burton aficionados will recognize any number of visual ideas that are wrapped into his later work, especially The Nightmare Before Christmas.
RE: Beetlejuice p. 155

#hauntedshelf #grimreaders

Many were moved by the dream of creating or recreating a radical Jewish culture that was leftist, diasporic, and queer.
p. 223

#hauntedshelf #grimreaders @CSeydel

Boris documented it all in real time in the haunting documentary Vu iz mayn heym? (Where Is My Home?), which is dedicated “in Memory of Bessarabian Jewry” and opens with a valedictory flip through the uniquely Bessarabian Jewish names in Kishinev phone book.
p. 218

#hauntedshelf #grimreaders @CSeydel

This was my second Dick (I loved Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep!). I read this one for the #ClassicLSFBC .
I liked how it started, but the second half of the book had too many unreliable narrators and characters so it got kind of confusing for me. Fortunately there were a lot of humorous moments.
🏺🏺🏺

Thank you @RamsFan1963 !

🌧️ Photo taken last Saturday morning. I got to read on the porch while it rained - such a nice fall experience!

I I had a good reading month. Not enough time to read but lots of good stuff to read.

My October TBR is my final point grab for the #grimreaders in the #hauntedshelf challenge!

🤖 A Psalm for the Wild-Built - #BannedBooksWeek
⭐️ Where the Forest Meets the Stars - currently reading
👻 tagged - ARC
👻 Ghost Story &
🔪 We Have Always Lived In the Castle - #keywordreadingchallenge
🦍 Future Home of the Living God - #wian2025

Good luck Grim Readers! 💀📚

I‘ve been reading this for a month & It will take me another month to finish because it‘s dense with information. However, as a teacher of students learning English I find it so interesting. This is about an organization in New York City documenting the 700+ languages spoken there, and also their attempt to save some languages that are going extinct by recording people and cataloging words and grammar.
👯‍♀️ I‘m reading this with my book club.

I have a list of recommendations based on scare factor to satisfy every reader.

🔪 Strange Magic by Syd Moore - I love this series - unlikely sleuths, a witch museum, light romance, & a lot of feminism
🔪🔪 The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins - unreliable narrator meets psychological thriller
🔪🔪🔪 Misery by Stephen King - psychological thriller with the dial turned up + the gore too
🔪🔪🔪🔪 NOS4A2 by Joe Hill - scariest book I‘ve ever read

There‘s still time to sign up for #HauntedShelf with @PuddleJumper !

You can still sign up here: https://forms.gle/wmcY27wyx6awp3EfA

#GrimReaders 👻📚

This week I finished this book and I loved it. I wasn‘t supposed to finish until the end of the month for a readalong on Instagram but I couldn‘t help myself.
The characters are living in a future pandemic where your illness covers you in scales and causes you to eventually self combust. Other people armed with misinformation about the illness turn to militias to handle it.
Excitement ensues.
🚒🚒🚒🚒🚒

I played with miniature dolls as a kid so the idea of being able to make them come alive was next level for me!
I also loved The Little House on the Prairie books.

Thanks for asking @BookmarkTavern !

#SundayFunday

Currently reading The Fireman with Bombadil. We love weekends.

#DogsOfLitsy

Here are some books I don‘t have time to read this month. 😂

🪴 Galactic Pot-Healer - for #classicLSFBC
🗽 Language City - for book club, p. 115/378
⚠️ A Psalm for the Wild Built - for Banned Books Week which is in October this year? Rescheduled accordingly
⭐️ Where the Forest Meets the Stars - for the #keywordchallenge
🔥 The Fireman - for IG group read, p. 463/750
🤠 The Gunslinger Born - for #losersclub with @BarkingMadRead

#tbr

Thank you for hosting the #SummersEnd Readathon @Bookwormjillk ! I met my goal by finishing The Last Days of the Dinosaurs before the end of the month!
Bonus, I also got to read more from The Fireman and Language City!

Lots of reading but I only finished The Last Days of the Dinosaurs for #naturalitsy.

#bookly #booklyapp

☀️ My goal for the #SummersEnd Readathon is to finish The Last Days of the Dinosaurs for the #naturalitsy group.

🦖 Since August 28th I‘ve read 43 pages in 1 hour and 25 minutes for the #Readathon !

🦕 128 pages to go!

📚 Thank you for hosting @Bookwormjillk !

This week I got my copy of A Melody of Crimson Regrets. I‘m very excited because it was written by my niece‘s husband! Sounds like it will be a cool vampire story.
🧛🏻 What are you excited to read?

The sign made me do it!

We got a new Barnes & Noble where there used to be a Forever 21! They didn‘t have what I was looking for but I still managed to bring 2 books home (The pretty sprayed edges were calling my name!).
Our new school librarian told me she almost loved the A Court of Thorns and Roses series more than Harry Potter so I finally caved and got a copy (Night Court Edition 😍🖤).

I read this with @BarkingMadRead and the #losersclub last month.
I would classify this as a thriller but I feel it was a stronger overarching political commentary on gun laws and possibly eminent domain. In the early 1970s Bert and his wife lose their house to fair market value and a highway.
Read if you like a slow descent into madness & bad choices.
⚠️🚧⚠️🚧

🤡 Taken with the newest addition to my King collection - It duck from Five Below!

📚 I finished 13 books between the last day of school and the last day of the library summer reading game.
I read:
🏠 Roadwork
🐩 Travels with Charley
⏰ Recursion
👠 tagged
🚚 Full Throttle
🐢 The Beach House
👰🏻 Four Aunties & a Wedding
📝 The Friend
🍎 North Woods
📕 The Invisible Hour
Not pictured:
🧜🏻‍♀️ The Sea of Lost Girls by Carol Goodman
🍏 Because I Had a Teacher by Kobi Yamada
🔮 Labyrinth: Coronation Vol. 1 by Simon Spurier

#summer

Finally got my August TBR picture ready!

Currently reading
👨🏻‍🚒 The Fireman at home
(Instagram group read for August and September)
🦖 The Last Days of the Dinosaurs by Riley Black in my purse
(for the #naturalitsy group)

Up next
🗣️ Language City by Ross Perlin for my book club

🌵 Taken with our Prickly Pear

#tbr #AugustTBR

Here‘s another page from my #WeekInTheLife project. I documented my plane read and adult beverage which mean I‘m officially on vacation. 😊
(Photos from June) I used stamps, stickers, and the cell phone is punched out of a catalogue.

Thanks again @Catsandbooks !

#ShowAndTellTuesday #LitsyCrafters

Last Saturday we watched Happy Gilmore 2 and loved it! There were so many good cameos including this one with The Shining. 😆

I had a great reading month - I got a BINGO in Book Soin Bingo, read 2 books with my sister, and read 3 books for buddy reads!

#bookly #booklyapp

BINGO!
I got my
#BookSpin The Book of Magic by Alice Hoffman
#DoubleSpin The Friend by Sigrid Nunez
AND
#BookSpinBingo this month!
I finished my last book at 11pm last night! 😅

🙌 Thank you for the challenge @TheAromaofBooks !

I read this for my book club and we met today to discuss. I wasn‘t a fan of this one but someone else liked it. To me it felt very literary and disjointed. I was hoping for more dog and less focus on writing.
😔 After I finished reading it I spied a copy in this “Sad Girl Summer” display at Bookman‘s Phoenix. I see others that, to me, tackled sadness better: Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, The Bell Jar, and A Walk to Remember.
🐕‍🦺🐕‍🦺

This is another bookish page from my #WeekInTheLife project. I used my #booklyapp to summarize my reading week for my scrapbook. I got the Litsy sticker from the LibraryThing store. I also used stamps and label stickers.

#ShowandTellTuesday #LitsyCrafters

Thank you @Catsandbooks !

It‘s good to have you and #LitsyCrafters back @Catsandbooks !

This is a page from my #WeekInTheLife project. I read in my car on my lunch break. 📚🤓🚙 Made with stamps and stickers. I cut out my donut photograph.

#ShowandTellTuesday

After struggling to read my book club book (6 days to read 212 pages), I flew through the first half of The Invisible Hour today (139 pages in less than 4 hours)!

🐕 Nova helped!

#DogsOfLitsy

I took a box of books to trade in at Bookman‘s: Mesa.
They took 10 of my books and I took 1 of theirs (with time to admire their Jaws display in between).

🚤🦈🏊🏼‍♀️🦈💙🦈📘

Jaws (the movie) turned 50 this year!

We had some time to kill in Atlanta, Georgia last month so we went to the Margaret Mitchell Museum.
I loved reading this book on our honeymoon 26 years ago, but there are problematic parts. I was worried the museum would whitewash information about her or the story, but they really took her to task & talk about how her book (and the movie) contributed to upholding racist stereotypes of Black people. We are asked now to enjoy the story as FICTION.

“…but it was women who dealt in magic who were best known for donning red shoes, and the idea of a scarlet woman who did as she pleased made wearing red shoes an act of defiance; they might just take the wearer places she would not otherwise go.”
p. 80

I was inspired by my book to wear my red shoes to the dentist yesterday. 😅❤️👠

Here‘s my #BookSpinBingo card for July!
I‘m currently reading my #bookspin book, The Book of Magic by Alice Hoffman, and I‘m loving it.

Thanks for hosting @TheAromaofBooks !

The Book of Magic is my #BookSpin this month.
The Friend is my #DoubleSpin and my book club‘s next pick!

I hope you got some good ones too @TheAromaofBooks !

Here‘s my #BookSpinBingo card for June.
I got the #bookspin book read at least!
And I had fun!

Thanks again @TheAromaofBooks !

Here‘s my #BookSpinBingo stack for July!
It‘s a lot like my June stack because I only read 3, but I also swapped a couple out to help with my local independent bookstore‘s summer bingo.

See any you liked?

Thanks for hosting #bookspin @TheAromaofBooks !

*Edited because I forgot to put Roadwork in the stack!

It‘s always a good reading month when I get to read on the beach!
I read my #bookspin book but didn‘t get a bingo. Hopefully in July I‘ll finish more books.

#bookly #booklyapp

This is a travelogue with commentary about America in the 1960s and a poodle sidekick. I sensed the goal was to find something profound through the people met and adventures had on the way, but I think his search was unsuccessful. It was still an interesting trip with some glimpses of what he was looking for. And the dog doesn‘t die at the end so I‘m just thankful Steinbeck didn‘t wreck me with another one of his stories.
🐩🐩🐩🐩

This science fiction story takes place in the United States and Nigeria.
4/10 countries for #ReadTheWorld2025

Thank you @GatheringBooks !

#Nigeria

I haven‘t been keeping up with sharing my progress on #ReadTheWorld2025 !
This nonfiction book takes place in and around the Cambridgeshire Fens in England.
3/10 countries

Thank you @GatheringBooks !

#England

Here‘s my haul from my trip to Bookish - 1 new copy of Fledgling and 1 used copy of Jackal. And I love their Bookish owl logo so I had to get some stickers too!
🦉📚

Taken on top of my souvenir pile from Orange Beach to Atlanta. I mostly get stickers and post cards because I like to scrapbook. ✂️

I read this last month and forgot to post my review. I came across it at the library and thought a graphic novel telling Jareth‘s origin story would be fun. There are 2 more parts and I hope the library has them too!
🔮🔮🔮🔮

🏠 I love how Mary Alice Monroe weaves a friendly let‘s-take-care-of-our-environment message into her stories. This one has a great parallel between loggerhead sea turtles and mother/daughter relationships. And there‘s a beach house! With a dose of girl power and a pinch of romance the story felt well-rounded. I think I‘ll be continuing the series!
🐢🐢🐢🐢

🌴 Taken at our beach house rental in Floribama

We had some time to kill in Atlanta, Georgia so why not book shopping?
Bookish was close and independent. This little store has a lot packed in, and made good use of all the space. I found 2 books and a bunch of stickers to come home with me.
“Lesbian-owned. Woman-led.”
❤️🧡💛💙💜

Currently reading The Beach House in Orange Beach, Alabama. My husband and I are renting a beach house here with my family from Kansas. Today while I was reading by the beach my niece brought me a pina colada so, yes, it was a good day! 🏖️📖🍹💙