Welcome to Litsy!

Laurel loses her mother, grandmother and hometown to Hurricane Katrina. Trying to find work, her father moves her and her little brother to Iowa. She finds a best friend, becomes a cheerleader and starts dating the co-captain on the basketball team. Then she is introduced to meth and everything changes. This is my first book by Woodson and I want more. In less than 200 pages, I was invested in most of the characters. Yeah, I cried. #Booked2019

My completed Fall prompts for #Booked2019

#BookAboutAddiction: Hey, Kiddo
#SoldiersStory: The Winter Soldier
#NewIn2019: Well Met
#PersonOfColorMCParanormal: Shadowshaper
#PublicDomain: Far From the Madding Crowd
#PoliticalIntrigue: Fate of the Fallen

Despite having a copy from #BOTM I decided on the full cast audio version and it was brilliant. I especially loved Graham who was voiced by Benjamin Bratt. I love his voice. Camila was fantastic. I adored her 💚
#Booked2019 #BookAboutAddiction
@Cinfhen @4thhouseontheleft @BarbaraTheBibliophage
#WinterGames #SlayBells #tbrread
@Clwojick @StayCurious @MidnightBookGirl

Just realized I can use this book for the #bookaboutaddiction prompt in #booked2019. I only completed 12/24 prompts, but much more than last year! I think this year I won‘t pick a book until I‘m ready to read that prompt. Picking ahead of time didn‘t work out well for me!

#Booked2019 #Autumn #BookAboutAddiction

Meh. I like memoirs—a LOT—let me say that up front. Addiction memoirs, maybe not so much. So now you know my bias. There are exceptions to this, but this book is not one of them. The positive aspects were very personal to me: Hepola grew up about a three-hour car ride due west from where I grew up, so some of the challenges she faced in the conservative South were familiar to me. She also followed a ⬇️

I‘ve had so much fun again, reading for #Booked2019! Here are my reads for the 4th quarter:

#bookaboutaddiction: The Tennis Partner
#soldierstory: Beware of Pity
#publishedin2019: On Earth We‘re Briefly Gorgeous
#pocparanormal: Kindred
#publicdomain: The Princess of Cleves
#politicalintrigue: Nothing to See Here

Thanks for organizing ladies, bring on #Booked2020 💕

I completed #booked2019 earlier this month. Here‘s what I read—

#bookaboutaddiction: The Year of Less
#politicalintrigue: American Kingpin
#publicdomain: P&P
#publishedin2019: If I Don‘t Make It, I Love You
#pocparanormal: The Unquiet Grave
#soldierstory: Eagle & Crane

Ready for #booked2020!

Thanks to @hes7 for the suggestion on #bookaboutaddiction for #booked2019. This was a fast read, and while It wasn‘t a light story, the graphic memoir format made it very enjoyable. Krosoczka did not have an easy childhood but he recognizes that while also appreciating the love and some level of privilege he did have. Each character has many dimensions, which is perhaps the most impressive part in the graphic novel format.

This was like watching a reality TV show with all the friendships and drama but where you get to see what goes on behind the scenes too; all the low points of being a ‘star‘ (and there is a lot of them in the latter half). I‘m glad to have finally read it after it being on my tbr for years 💕 #booked2019 #bookaboutaddiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

My #weeklyforecast this week is dedicated to #booked2019 📚 I‘ve made some progress on each of these reads this weekend:

Ohio #bookaboutaddiction
William, an Englishman #soldiersstory
The Water Dancer #PoCMCParanormal (which I am LOVING by the way, can't put it down!)

Thanks to our hosts for the bookish inspiration!! @BarbaraTheBibliophage @4thhouseontheleft