Welcome to Litsy!

📚 To Kill A Mockingbird, The Third Policeman, Those Who Hunt The Night + Travelling With The Dead, The Translator, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Titus Groan
✍️ Tolkien
📺 ThunderCats, Twin Peaks 📽️ The Thin Man movies
🎤 Tori Amos, Texas, Tom Petty
🎶 That's Not My Name (The Ting Tings), Der Tanz der Schatten (Theatre of Tragedy), To Your Love (Fiona Apple), 1000 Tears of a Tarantula (Dengue Fever), Take Another Piece of My Heart (Janis Joplin)

This has been on my TBR for some time. I resisted because I need to start another series like I need a hole in my head. Oh well, what‘s one more series, right?

At the turn of the century, Asher is a professor and former spy forced by a vampire to find out who is murdering vampires in London. No surprise, but I enjoy the historical setting. Asher is a worthy main character and I love his wife, Lydia. She is a medical doctor and scientist who ⬇️

An unusual #vampire book. Someone‘s killing vampires. They enlist the help of a former spy to find the murderer. The spy‘s wife, a doctor when female doctors weren‘t normal, helps by researching property records and medical journals. Based mostly in London, there‘s a section where the spy and vampire visit the Paris vampires, including a jaunt through the catacombs to see the oldest vampire. Thoroughly entertaining October read!

Historical fantasy and trad vampires are kind of not my thing so I wasn‘t expecting much of this. It was also very slow to start. However, I was unexpectedly surprised that once I got into this I binged it. I absolutely loved Lydia and wish we got to see more of her and her spunky attitude even though this is really her husband‘s story.
#BuriedAliveChallenge

Today I have a “stealth” reading buddy. I definitely need the buddy system for this read because it‘s kind of slow paced right now and I‘m not too fond of traditional vampire stories. I am 100% here for Lydia though because she is historical heroine goals so far. I just hope we see a lot more of her.
#CatsOfLitsy

#BookReport
Cue the sad trombone noise because I didn‘t finish anything this week. It was a little hectic because it was finals week for the Spanish class I‘m taking at the local community college and I had to finish the online workbook chapters I kept putting off.

#WeeklyForecast
Goal this week is the same as last week‘s. Finish my current read and then move on to the next BookSpin backlist title.

Beautiful day to sit on the porch and read. Still not sure how I feel about this one yet though.

I‘m so hype that for the first time since we brought home the dog I had a feline reading buddy! Sure it was oh god why o clock in the morning but I‘ll take it. Not too sure about the tagged though it‘s kind of a historical fantasy with traditional vampires and both tend to be hit or miss with me.
#CatsOfLitsy

After the excitement of Eurovision I was tempted to do a reread of Space Opera but instead I‘m behaving and hitting my BookSpin stack with the tagged. Rolo is exhausted from the excitement.
#DogsOfLitsy

In all the excitement over my new reading buddy I almost forgot that today is Happy #BookSpin Day for all who celebrate! Here‘s to hoping I can catch up with my backlog AND these two lol

Just to show the full extent of the awfulness of the Blood Maidens cover (and the one above it). They look like the covers of straight-to-cable movies. Whereas the other three look like well acted BBC productions.

One of the most #underrated #vampire novels, and also takes #ugliestcover as well. One of my favourite #spookyreads, yet one of the most fun. #Fantasy wins almost every time for me. #octphotochallenge #frightfest