Welcome to Litsy!

Read during first days of this month. For me, this is my favorite book in this trilogy but I think is because I liked the dynamic between Persephone, Calla and Maura. There is something sad that happened in this book😢I saw in this book more action. As a YA fantasy it was good 3.8⭐️
January 2023 #BookSpinBingo (#1) @TheAromaOfBooks
#TheForgottenBookClub
#ISoyBingo January 2023 @TheAromaOfBooks @clwojick

And now, #manicmonday ON Monday.

Book: Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater

Author: I‘m torn between Lois McMaster Bujold, a well-established writer whose stuff I adore more often than not, and Billy-Ray Belcourt, a comparatively newer voice whose stuff I can‘t put down

TV Show: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Band: Billy Talent

Song: it‘s a tough one between Born To Be Wild (Steppenwolf) and Beneath A Phrygian Sky (Loreena McKennitt)

#manicmonday #LetterB @CBee 📕Book - Blue Lily, Lily Blue
✍️Author - Rhys Bowen
🎥Movie or TV show - Bridgerton
🎤Singer or Band - Beatles
🎶Song - Blackbird

#firstlinefridays @ShyBookOwl

Book 48

#BeginsWith #Blue

I think this is my favourite book in the series. 🤔 Might have to read all four again just to make sure. 😆

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

1. A Million worlds with you
NOS4R2
Vanishing Girls
Lying Game

2. A Christmas Carol (my edition have a blue cover)

3. Blue Lily, Lily Blue

#WeekendReads

Thanks for the tag @damselsgotballs 💙

I love, love, love all the characters in the Raven Cycle! I don‘t even care where the plot is going at this point. 😍

#MountTBR2021 #SeriesRead2021 @TheSpineView

Ugh, I am getting nothing done with my life because all I want to do is read these books!

#SeriesRead2021 @TheSpineView
#StackingtheSeries (Level 3) @audraelizabeth

Wrap up for #AwesomeApril - I didn't achieve my goal of 2500 pages, but I ended up at 2214 which is pretty solid. I finished five books, almost finished the tagged book, stayed caught up on my two chapter-a-day reads, and am back on top of my page goal for April. As always, thanks for hosting @Andrew65 - already looking forward to May's readathon!!!

#WeeklyForecast - Finished The Dream Thieves last night & started the tagged. I'm really enjoying this series & am excited to move right into the spin-off, Call Down the Hawk. The post-it titles are on Kindle & are a Mansfield Park variation. I'm at least giving the first book a try to see if they are any good. HP should wrap up this week & I'm also halfway through Dawn Treader - so fun to reread both these series!! From there it's a random TBR⬇️

This book was slow, but had its moments. I loved the character development and the plot is still one of the most unpredictable and unique I‘ve ever read. It‘s taken me a really long time to read each of these books. Something about the writing style makes them really hard for me to sink my teeth into.

⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ 1/2

#ya #ravenboys #theravencycle

The third one arrived this morning! I just love her work SO much 😍

https://etsy.me/3feNlEV

https://www.facebook.com/BrioBound/

Can you tell how much I love my job? 😁💕📚 #librarylove #librariansoflitsy

1. If I think I will reread it, I keep it. I also keep almost all nonfiction for reference purposes. Books I don't see myself reading again I send on their way.

2. I've been meaning to read The Raven Boys series forever. I've gotten the first two books & still need the tagged & book 4. Not sure why this is a series I'm buying before reading... not my usual style!!

#Two4TuesdayGiveaway @TheSpineView - Thank you!!

Wanna play @UwannaPublishme ??

*Face Palm* I was supposed to post this first before my previous post! I finished this first! My #doublespin was amazing! This story totally has me enraptured. I think about it long after I‘m done reading it. I need to start the next one asap, but I‘m sad it‘s almost over. #bookspinbingo

And onto the next one again. Funny how it can take me a week to finish a book I have to read but the favorites go by so quickly.

I concur. Can't sleep facing mirrors either.

It's not the waking, it's the rising

This book was incredible. I just finished, and I‘m too shaken to even write a coherent review. Definitely a worthy successor to The Raven Boys and Dream Thieves.

Then I made Nigella‘s cranberry cake, and for once it almost looks the way it‘s supposed to! I used Ocean Spray cranberries this time and they were a lot smaller than whatever kind my grocery store usually sells. I guess they were also denser and less inclined to float up into the batter.

Between this bit of #audiobaking and some work on my latest dog sweater, I finished BLUE LILY, LILY BLUE. Now begins the wait for THE RAVEN KING.

Today‘s #audiocooking efforts involved the carrot salad from ANTONI IN THE KITCHEN. It‘s good, but probably not good enough to justify the sheer amount of time I spent ribbonizing the itty bitty rainbow carrots that were all I could source.

On the book front, I‘m still loving this immediate Raven Cycle reread, and I‘m still sure I won‘t repeat the experiment. I‘m not built for this type of reading.

Day 29:
I really like all the covers from Maggie Stiefvater's Raven Cycle series. I picked Blue Lily, Lily Blue because it stands out to me the most.

This too was a fun read! There was a moment or two when I wasn‘t too keen on how things were spun, but not many. #magic #spirit #ghost #psychic #lgbtcharacter #ptsd #friendship

That was an amazing book and a cliffhanger! Good thing I already have book 4! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Been in bed all day alternating between reading, Litsy, and talking to my husband. Lovely day! That is Linus on my lap. He‘s my BIG boy. 💙💙💙📖🐾

My favourite thing about this series is that each of the characters is immediately recognizable as an archetype at best and a stereotype at worst, but Stiefvater refuses to let those impressions stand. She deconstructs our expectations and delivers a cast of deep, varied, REAL people. This volume really hammers that home as the central characters internalize more truths about each other.

That sounds bland. I promise it‘s exciting as all get-out.

I shared a beer with the Grey Cup people, who‘re excited Winnipeg‘s a bit ahead. Now I‘m ready to eat Whoppers, cuddle Casey, and finish BLUE LILY, LILY BLUE. 25% to go!

#weeklyforecast time! I‘ve got pretty modest goals for next week. If all goes well, I‘ll:

• finish rereading BLUE LILY, LILY BLUE
• read at least 3 chapters of OVER THE TOP
• finish WORDS OF RADIANCE
• finish HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX on audio
• squeeze in CLAY‘S ARK

WoR‘s the kicker here. I‘ll definitely finish it, but I‘ve got 900 pages left so I dunno whether I‘ll have time to also read the Butler as planned. Poop.

I found enough energy to bike 15 miles while I read. Since my odometer‘s pretty boring, here‘s a photo of a BUTTERNUT MURDER SQUASH my mum made me the other night.

I dunno why, but in my head the Murder Squash Song is about people in plague doctor masks, possibly with fake wings attached to their backs.

Started my BLUE LILY, LILY BLUE reread at breakfast! Now I‘ve gotta rustle up enough energy to read some more while I bike.

I‘m gonna die from this slow burn, hidden, and forbidden love goin on! Maggie writes the most beautiful kissing scene WITH NO KISSING. Like seriously it‘s so beautiful and carefully written. The story just gets better as it progresses, more magic, more puzzles more everything. I am just so immersed in this world!

Halfway there!

#reread
Reading this series is such an experience 🤩

(P.s I got a pack of scrapbook paper for book backgrounds to take pressure off myself for staging photos. Makes things a lot easier 😅 but might look a little repetitive? idk)

I never sleep well when my husband is out of town, and the weather has been so nice the kids have been playing outside for hours, so I‘ve had a LOT of reading time.

Friday I read TRB. Saturday I read TDT. Today I read BL,LB. (I‘m not going to tell you how many treats I consumed each day though. 😲😂)

I‘m loving revisiting the world of #TheRavenCycle. It‘s making me even more excited for CALL DOWN THE HAWK to come out!! #howjessreadsin2019

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This is the first book in the series that has really kept me wanting to read! I don‘t know if it‘s because I‘m getting used to the author‘s writing style or because I‘m finally interested & invested in the characters‘ lives & choices. Either way, I‘m excited for book 4 to see how it all concludes!

Love this series!!

#7days7covers #covercrush day 4 of 7

doing some final notes for last years course so i‘m all caught up for the beginning of the school year :)