Welcome to Litsy!

Definitely:
#BookSpin #DoubleSpin #BookSpinBingo - @TheAromaOfBooks
#ReadYourEbooks - @CBee
#ClassicLSFBC - @RamsFan1963

Dipping into for 2026, but giving myself advance permission to fall behind:
#192030 - @Librarybelle
#StarWarsBuddyRead - @BookwormAHN

Long term personal challenges I wouldn't wish on anyone else:
Perry Rhodan
DAW catalog
RC2Me (one book per year from 1719)

#majicmonday @Eggs

Oh boy. I‘m hoping to stay consistent with these! 🥹 #MajicMonday

#AuldLangSpine @monalisha
#USPresidents @amiable @tearificbooks
#MonthlyNonfiction @julieclair
#192030 and #NancyDrewBR @Librarybelle
#WinterCampLitsy and #CampLitsy @BarbaraBB @squirrelbrain @Hooked_on_books
#26Shorts2026 @AnishaInkspill
#FoodandLit @Texreader @Butterfinger @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick

I‘ve also been eyeing #EuropaCollective…

#bookspin complete @TheAromaofBooks #52bookclub26 #publisherstartingwiththeletterb #aty26 #hastheseinthetitle @BarbaraBB #192030 #1937 @Librarybelle

4 ⭐️

Having moaned that challenges stifled my tendency to mood-read, I‘m “only” doing…
#Pantone2026 @Lauredhel
#ChunksterChallenge @Amiable
#FictionalTraveler #MonthlyNonFiction @julieclair
#SeriesLove2026 @Susanita and me
#FurrowedMiddleBrowClub #PersephoneClub @LeahBergen @Ruthiella
#Read2026 @DieAReader
#192030 @Librarybelle
#LitsyAtoZ @Texreader

Easy….
#majicmonday @Eggs

Silly me meant to take a picture yesterday while we actually had a fire going. Instead, here's our empty fireplace 😂 ANYWAY book 3 + companion for the Chronicle of Ixia. There's a lot going on here as a bunch of threads are wrapped up for the trilogy (the Chronicles consist of three interlocking trilogies, plus a crapton of short stories). It gets intense, but also feels like the pace suddenly slows way, way down right at the end. Still, very ⬇

so far:

on Litsy-alphabetical order:
#192030
#26Shorts2026
#3BookChallenge2026
#allergictochunksters
#LongReadsWorkout2026
#LikeForLikeReads2026
#storyspins
#MonthlyNonfiction

to start: #pantone2026

Elsewhere:
Shrink Your TBR - a Fine Literature
2026 Reading Goals (Storygraph)
2026 TBR Cleanup Challenge: You Are What You Read (SFF reads)
Short Fiction Challenge (SFF reads)

undecided: 2026 Reading Challenge (Goodreads)

#majicmonday @Eggs

For the #192025 challenge, I gave myself the extra challenge of reading at most one book from any one author. For the new #192030 challenge, I'm going to relax that requirement, but I'm going to try to do the years roughly in order, working on a couple of decades at a time before reading from the next ones. I expect my 1920's and 1930's will be filled with a lot of Golden Age mystery novels!
@Librarybelle

The first half of this book dragged a bit, and I agreed with previous reviews I‘ve read. The second half was much better, more horror-like and gruesome, and kept a more fast paced. The ending was a bit of an eye roll, but it‘s still a 4-star read for me. I listened to the audio that features a multicast narration, and I think that made the book more enjoyable. #192030 #2025 #52BookClub26 #CharacterWithASecretIdentity

#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl #2026Reads

This week my first line comes from 'Antarctica', a collection of short stories by Claire Keegan that was first published in 1999. The first line is from the first story also titled 'Antarctica'.

Every time the happily married woman went away she wondered how it would feel to sleep with another man.“

I'm also reading for challenges: #26Shorts2026 #3BookChallenge2026 #192030

(1920) Recently widowed Lionel Varrick throws a Christmas get-together for a few friends at his late wife's childhood mansion. Unintended by Varrick, one of his guests is a spiritual medium, and upon her arrival strange things start happening. When the medium holds an impromptu seance the first evening, secrets start leaking ... This old-fashioned gothic thriller is a hoot, and my 1920 read for #192030