Welcome to Litsy!

I don‘t bounce back from jet lag as quickly anymore. 😂 It‘s taken me a couple days to put together my August #BingoBoard ! #BookSpinBingo

#BookSpin and #DoubleSpin NetGalley ARCs

#Roll100 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, I Am Spock, Firebird

#OokBOokClub Jingo

#BobWhiteBuddies Mystery of the Missing Heiress

#BeyondTheYellowBrickRoad The Lost Princess of Oz

#QueerBC Heartstopper

#ThematicCozies Mockingbird Court

The royal kingdom of Pingaree is invaded & decimated. It‘s up to young Prince Inga, visiting King Rinkitink, & an irascible talking goat named Bilbil to rescue the people & restore the kingdom.

A fun, solid plot w/ interesting characters. I loved Prince Inga & how determined he was to rescue his people. But I disliked how Rinkitink was entirely useless, & I feel like I would have liked this better if it was just Inga & Bilbil together.🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑

Trot & Cap‘n Bill have fallen through a great whirlpool, & escaped into a magical land they don‘t know. Their travels will bring them new friends & old, & of course a love story & a political coup.

I love Trot getting to know as much as we do about Oz. The friendship between her & Bill is genuinely delightful. & I loved seeing a new corner of Oz. But there are recurring issues of beauty = goodness & ugly/disfigurement = evil. 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑

Lots of fun new characters in this—I liked Prince Inga, King Rinkitink, and especially Bilbil the talking goat. It has an actual plot, too, which made it even more fun. However, Oz is barely relevant. The title is strange since not only does Rinkitink only spend a couple of chapters in Oz, he‘s not even the main character. Why not call it Prince Inga in Oz? #BeyondtheYellowBrickRoad

#WeeklyForecast

Y‘all, I had completely forgotten that I have an Oz omnibus edition on my kindle! 😂😂😂 I can start on Scarecrow and #BeyondTheYellowBrickRoad continues!

I've finished another three Oz books. Just one more and I'll be caught up for #beyondtheyellowbrickroad. Of these three, The Patchwork Girl of Oz was my favorite.

This book struck a decent balance between “plot” and “random punny adventures.” Some of the things that irk me about other Oz books were definitely present here (are Glinda and Ozma *really* all that great?). But I just loved Trot, Cap‘n Bill, and the Orks so much that I can‘t downgrade the rating. #BeyondtheYellowBrickRoad

I can‘t begin to tell you how excited I am for this #BingoBoard ! #BookSpinBingo

#BookSpin breath of Earth, #DoubleSpin A Witch‘s Guide to Magical Inkeeping

#Roll100 Final Harvest, A Kingdom Strange, Breath of Earth

#OokBOokClub Feet of Clay (one of my favorites!)

#BobWhiteBuddies Mystery on the Mississippi

#BeyondTheYellowBrickRoad The Scarecrow of Oz and Rinkitink in Oz

#QueerBC Finna

#ThematicCozies Foul Play at La Playa

When Betsy & Hank the mule fall overboard in a storm, they have no idea they‘ll join up w/ the Shaggy Man rescuing his brother, a lost daughter of the Rainbow, & a small army intent on conquering Oz.

I had forgotten a lot of this 1! The army of Oogaboo is just ridiculous, Polychrome & Betsy are a joy, we get to meet a dragon, & the Nome king makes a dastardly reappearance. So does the Love Magnet, & I really wish they would lose that. 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑

Greetings from the house of sickness!

My son went on a school trip and the gift he brought home was Covid. None of us have had it before, but we're all fully vaxxed and boostered, so it isn't *too* terrible.

I committed to entirely too many things this month. I finished the May book for #bobwhitebuddies so I'm only a book behind. I did manage to finish this month's reading for #europacollective and #KLBR. I'm behind on #beyondtheyellowbrickroad.