Welcome to Litsy!

Little dude was two months yesterday! And doesn't he look so happy about being put into a greasy pizza box again for another photo shoot? ?
I read this many nights at bedtime and nursing stints throughout the nights and it kept me thoroughly engaged. Based on a true case from the late 1800s where a ghost "gave testimony" at her killer's trial, McCrumb does an amazing job at bringing all these various characters into real life??

@Mdargusch passed this one on to me after she read it a few years ago. I absolutely loved it—a fictionalized account of a murder wherein the dead bride supposedly comes to her mother after death and tells her that she was murdered by her new husband?! Yes please! This really happened (the circumstances—not the actual haunting. Unless it really did. 😆 #skeptic) Google Greenbrier Ghost. #soaringscores #didimakethemostoflovingyou

Set in the #MistyMountains of West Virginia, this dual timeline story evokes mystery and ghosts and murder. Another boom I‘ve yet to read; this is my copy from the days of Page Habit. I like the cover of this one! #SoaringScores

I live in WV so it was fun to read this historical fiction account of the Greenbrier ghost and her untimely demise. Liked learning about the Greenbrier and lewisburg back in the 1890s - one of my favorite small towns. She ably mixed race and class into the telling of this story. A black lawyer recounts the story from his confinement in an asylum. Some bits could‘ve been more tightly edited, but overall a pick. #localread

This book is a fictionalization of a real ghost story that took place in the mountains of West Virginia. It might be the only time the words of a ghost helped convict a man of murder. #👻 #uncannyoctober #pagehabit

Back from the Southern festival of books with a book haul of new and used ($2. Hardbacks) books, T shirt and the coolest literary matchbooks and pins!

I grew up with this story ! It happened here and is a legend! So excited to listen to this!

Hanging out in the a/c enjoying my day off! Excited to start this one!

And check out the annotations for the book 😁👏🏻! Very cool. @Pagehabit

#Bookmail is the best mail 😁👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻!!! So many wonderful treasures in this historical fiction box that I've received from @Pagehabit ! Thank you, #PageHabit!!! Chock full of goodies! ☺️

The box from #mypagehabit this month is a good pick for #ghastlyghosts. The historical fiction includes a ghost figuring into a murder trial. Thinking I‘ll grab this next! #hallowreads.

This is a great October read with a suicide attempt, a murder, an insane asylum, and testimony of a ghost used in a murder trial. It is based on a true story of the Greenbrier Ghost. #ripxii #pagehabit

Thank you so much for this box @pagehabit! #TheUnquietGrave is annotated by the author. Don't forget to sign up for their #bookgiveaway by clicking this link http://bit.ly/ph365litsy !
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I received the September Historical Fiction book subscription box: lots of bookish goodies, along with a sticky note filled book, with comments from the author! Love how this box focuses on the author and the writing process! There's even a short story booklet; how cool!

Sign up for their 365 contest and you could win a whole year of free boxes!

This #pagehabit historical fiction has an insane asylum, a suicide attempt,murder, and ghosts. It's based on a true story from the mountains of West Virginia. I'm 100 pages in and really interested to see how a murder and a suicide attempt 40 years later are connected. #macabremonday #hallowreads #mysteriousmonday #spookyoctober #ripxii

This is my tentative #octobertbr but I'm open to suggestions and changes. Are there any books in this stack that I need to rethink? I'm hesitating about Eat Only When You're Hungry. 🤔 #spookyoctober @Jess7

I debated for weeks on whether to get #pagehabit book box. Well, it came today, and I will be unsubscribing ASAP. The so called bookish extras are very appropriate for a YA box but they are ridiculous. I do love the book with annotations, thank goodness! Plus, I think I was supposed to get a short story too which I don't see. 😤

#TBRtemptation post 5! Released soon. Set in 19th-Century West Virginia, based on the strange murder case of the Greenbrier Ghost. James Gardner, WV's 1st practicing black attorney, tells his doctor about his strangest case. In 1897, beautiful Zona marries Erasmus. Riders find Zona dead, whereupon her mother adamantly says Zona's ghost has visited her, telling her that Zona was murdered. MCCrumb's researched a lot. #blameLitsy #blameMrBook 😎

Evening reading: This is based on a true case, in which a man was brought to trial for murder based on the testimony of a ghost. 👻

Reading an ARC is always a crapshoot. The reader has to be flexible and overlook things like excessive description, disjointed story arcs, and grammatical errors and concentrate on the story. In Sharyn McCrumb's The Unquiet Grave, scheduled for publication in June 2017, there's none of the negative and ALL of the story. See full review at
https://itsallaboutthebook.org/2017/02/19/the-unquiet-grave-by-sharyn-mccrumb/

You guys, I am too excited tonight! Not only did I open a super fabulous #CupidGoesPostal package from @bookwrm526 but I got approved for this digital ARC from one of my all-time favorite authors! What to read first?!?!