Welcome to Litsy!

I‘m behind… but trying to catch up. 😅

Was planning to read this for Halloween, but had too many other books started, but now I‘m finally getting to it! Loved the last collections and am looking foward to this one a lot too!

This was awesome 🤩! Twisty, spicy, suspenseful.. all of the things! Hoping to get to Brimstone in January.

My husband really enjoys this game, so we both read this comic when it came out. He ended up liking it more than I did, but I also never played the game. The art style was fun. My favorite character ended up being Nana. Personally, I wish this story focused more on the building of the cult and less on all the fighting.

At 45%, I‘m cutting my losses and bailing. It started off so strong that I was sure it would be one of my favorites of the year and then it just became a slog. What should have been a warm hug of found family cozy fantasy (even with the underlying theme of grief) just became…something else. It‘s giving dull and icky vibes. (Pardon Tasha‘s dragon carcass in the background 💀🐉)

The BBC is releasing an audiobook/podcast series of Charles Dickens ghost stories, read by David Suchet.
The first episode is part one of Dickens's own abridgement of the story which he would read to audiences, so while it's not the full book, it's still authentic 😊
And then, David Suchet is so perfect a choice to narrate - well, it's actually a performance 🎭❤️ Can't wait for part 2 to be released in a few days.
Link in comments 🛜

Another Estate Sale treasure from yesterday, a beautiful illustrated edition of Animal Farm - missing the dust jacket but fantastic illustrations.

My final partner read i#of the year. I got this at book expo and it‘s been on my tbr for over 7 years.

Poor me for persevering with this tripe. Started ok then became a weird male fantasy about a Frankenstein-type woman with the brain of a child. So, the sexual encounters are quite disturbing. They‘re dressed up as male created “monster”(woman) having agency and manipulating the dumb, stuffy Victorian men, but I‘m not fooled by the paedophilic undertones. Also, read a Flashman for proper, interesting use of historical footnotes to situate fiction

Even in the seemingly endless terror of middle school...