Welcome to Litsy!

At the start of the last 4 years, I've taken a picture of my TBR shelf to track how it's changing over time. It's clearly expanding for one thing 🤔 And there is some overlap between years: even though it's not too much to read in a year, there's still e-books and others I read right away for challenges or readalongs. I try to read everything within 2 years, but Jim Crace's The Devil's Larder has remained for 3, so I'll have to get to it soon!

A short, funny Hamlet based choose your own adventure. I was able to play all three parts (Ophelia, Hamlet, and Hamlet Sr.) and still finish in 45 minutes. The story was funny and I found myself laughing out loud at certain parts. 5🌟

#WindsofMarch
@Eggs
Got through 6 books total.
Two audio books and 5 regular books.
3 ARCS
Didn't love West End Girls or The Story of my Teeth
The rest were all good. In The Quick was my favorite of the month.

@MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm Look what I found! Someone put together a great list of other Choose Your Own Adventure stories!

https://www.bustle.com/p/20-choose-your-own-adventure-books-for-adults-8962318

#booklists

I love this #BookSpin idea — allows indecisive folks like me to cut through their book backlog! 😂

I don‘t have 20 books on hand (right now) so here‘s my current list.

All the Missing Girls - 1, 13
Rebecca - 2, 14
Wicked Fox - 3, 15
Red White & Blue - 4, 16
Grace Year - 5, 17
Fifth Season - 6, 18
Gilded Wolves - 7, 19
4 Dead Queens - 8, 20
Sorcery of Thorns - 9
Testaments - 10
Institute - 11
Crown of Feathers - 12

I love hamlet, but this didn‘t really do it for me. I can see this as a good way to introduce a child to Hamlet, but for a long standing Hamlet fan, not so much.
#Hamlet #Shakespeare #ToBeOrNotToBe #RyanNorth

I for sure didn‘t play through all 3,001,181,439,094,525 endings in this book, but I got through the readings for the kind of reader I am right now. I love how these CYOA books change and are “new” each time you pick them up. There is something new for every kind of reader—safe, risk-taker, curious, methodical, whatever. North is a delight. And hilarious.

#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView

1. .. I only ever read one book at a time .. so if I‘m procrastinating, ( unless it‘s for Bookclub ) .. it‘s most likely over ..

2. .. I know intuitively what I like & I follow that ... I can‘t always describe what I like , I just know ... if I‘m not feeling it , it‘s quits. I need to lock into the book , I‘ve got to feel it .. It‘s an unconscious process..

Great questions 👍🏻❤️❤️❤️📚📚@TheSpineView

Day 6
#7days7covers #coverlove

Ophelia has a -1 for water 🤣🤣🤣

These books are fun. But I somehow always get through them as peaceably as possible 🤷🏻‍♀️. Even when I choose to avenge my father & kill Claudius, things turn out alright 💁🏻‍♀️. Don‘t know why ole Will had to make things so melodramatic 😜

The dedication of this book - hah! 🤣🤣🤣

I used to love choose-your-own adventure books when I was a kid. A choose-your-own adventure book based on Shakespeare‘s Hamlet where you can change the whole story? SIGN ME UP! I‘m not even sure I can say I finished this book because there are so many different ways each character can go. You can even play as Ghost Dad! I laughed so hard with this book. You can tell North is familiar with the work and has no problem poking fun at it. #shakespeare

If you've never wanted an RPG-style "Hamlet," why are we friends? ?

Absolutely adore this choose-your-own-adventure re-imagining of my favorite Shakespeare play. With over 100 different outcomes and the choice of playing as Hamlet, Ophelia, or King Hamlet (yes, as a ghost!), this book offers endless hours of fun.

All the fun of a "Hamlet" RPG without turning on your Xbox ?

Here is my TBR for Dewey. I‘m hoping to finish a couple I‘ve already started and get a few stories read from the collections. Here‘s hoping...
#deweysreadathon

The New Yorker, Shakespeare, ah, good combo. 😁 #LitsyHumor

#bookmail yay!!!! I funded a kickstarter for this book because I love Ryan North and Shakespeare!!!! Unfortunately it's not on Litsy yet, but I had to share it!!!! #williamshakespearepunchesafrigginshark #ryannorth #kickstarter

Not in the system yet, so tagged under an another amazing book by the brilliant Ryan North. I love these so much. This is a bit of absurdity that I absolutely needed today.

This cracked me up on the way into work this morning & had me laughing like Ophelia. #shakespeare #chooseyourownadventure

I‘m not very good with making monthly TBRs, because I‘m such a mood reader. But I think I need to read a Backman next, since I own three and have never read any. Where should I start?
#NovTBR
#📚🔜
#📚📷
#EmojiNov
#NoteworthyNov

I went to Montreal today with a clear objective, knowing that I'm broke and should ignore all bookshops. Then I entered a bookshop. Then I saw this choosable path book where you get to play as Ophelia, Hamlet or King Hamlet. Then I thought "it's a bit expensive and I really shouldn't but whatever, I'll buy it".

I can't wait to start reading it, even if I'm clearly not very good at making choices. ?‍♀️

This is literally the first choice I made in this book (whether to be Ophelia-- +1 to science, -1 weakness against water-- Hamlet, or Hamlet Sr-- +1 to fighting, leading men into battle, and naps). Guess I should've known Hamlet Sr would be a bad choice, based on the whole...play. I never was good at these #chooseyourownadventure books.🤷🏼‍♀️*turns to page 472*

Shakespeare choose-your-own-adventure ! These should be fun.

#Backtoreading #followtheclues #retellings
@JoeStalksBeck @Tiffy_Reads

In To Be or Not to Be, Ryan North's wacky Choose Your Own Adventure take on Hamlet, you can play as Hamlet Sr.! Which means you start off dead! And you can choose to totally accept your death instead of seeking revenge on your murderous brother. Then you get to train ghost puppies in the #afterlife They're cute forever!

You can also choose to become a ghost marine biologist because ghosts can walk around underwater just fine. #JuneTunz

Wooo!!!

For @Kalalalatja 's #bookishwouldyourather !

1. Paperback (portability + price!)
2. New for sure! I don't do a lot of rereads.
3. Library! I only buy like a tenth of the books I borrow
4. Ugh, same cover I guess.
5. GoT, so I can try my chances with the Hound 😘
6. Another tough one. I don't like long books but under 100 is much more limiting so I guess I do have to go 500 😑

This physical #AprilTBR does not include the eight ebooks on my Kindle -- 3 library books and 5 ARCs. 😳
Luckily, I tore through the first ARC today and will lost a review tomorrow. Actually, later today, as it's almost 1 am on April 2nd right now. 😳😳
(That's a baby #Moonshine tail making a cameo, lol.)
#aprilbookshowers

A very tentative #apriltbr. Only two of these books were on my initial #LitzyAtoZ lists so clearly I'm not very good at sticking to reading schedules of any kind. Also book clubs, buddy reads, and book review podcasts keep forcing/tempting me to add more to the piles. Reading ALL THE BOOKS is hard work 😂 #aprilbookshowes @RealLifeReading

Too bad I don't know anybody that wrote Sandman/Neverending Story #fanfic in high school or I would post about that. Heh heh. Ummmm... how about these hilarious insane Choose Your Own Adventure Shakespeare plays by Ryan North of Squirrel Girl fame for #homage #feistyfeb

Today's @bookriot #RiotGrams challenge is to post an author or character with my own name, but I had trouble with this. For being a common-ish name, Kristina isn't a name I see in books! So I picked instead a book for each letter in my name. See anything ya like?

To read shelf is getting pretty full 😀#riotgrams

Nothing like a Shakespeare game on a large screen. 😄

Well that was great fun! I read as Ophelia, Hamlet, and the ghost. Still have so many options to choose from but I read a sufficient amount for book group tonight. #LitsyAtoZ

Next read. I'm not sure it fits in any of my challenges except #LitsyAtoZ but it's for my bookgroup tomorrow. So far I've only read the stalling techniques but it's so fun!

A very bookish Christmas. Hoping other Littens also had happy holidays.

Probably one of the #bestblurbs I have sitting on my urgent TBR shelf. Yes, I have so many books my TBRs are now being moved around according to urgency. This one is for bookgroup, hence its "urgent" status. #seasonsreadings2016

Reading this...cuz it seems like it will be distracting enough.

A choose your path adventure for adults! I'm not a fan of Shakespeare really but Ryan North has managed to take something I never understood and make it funny and interesting!

You can play as 3 different characters Ophelia, Hamlet or Hamlet Sr. I tried them all and tried to make my way through all possible outcomes but I'm certain I didn't find them all. I also preferred to play as Hamlet Sr. much more action and humor!
3.5⭐️'s

Took myself to Barnes & Noble tonight. I figured I'd see what all the Murakami fuss is about, and the Ryan North sounds like fun. 📚☺️🎉. #bookhaul

When you are having a really stressful, anxiety producing day and you check the mailbox and behold! A book you completely forgot you'd preordered has arrived from Amazon.

"Hamlet is an emo teen in his early 30s" is the best description I have ever heard

@Liberty seeing your North post reminded me that I have To Be or Not To Be on my phone. 😁 Me good at books.

family wants to go suntanning and I'd rather read (: @Nicola_VZ @Ksvz

Smooth, Hamlet..