Welcome to Litsy!

My December Book of the Month box is here. I ❤️ the beanie.

So excited for #audlangspine2026! This is my third year and it‘s one of my favorite events. Thank you @monalyisha for hosting!

Can‘t wait to start reading these, @Aconight ! We share a similar author and I‘ll def be reading more than one off your list!!

Here are my picks for #ReadYourEbooks this month. I feel like I manifested the 2 spin after saying I need to read Negroland this month, so sorry if anyone is unhappy with that number. 😂 Hopefully I‘ll read at least one other as well!

I went to my local indie for a little bit of dopamine and the tagged book fell into my hands. It‘s totally the fault of @vivastory (that‘s my story and I‘m sticking to it).
Also, I need someone(s) to read House of Day, House of Night with me. I miss having an IRL book club sometimes. 😩

And down to the wire, I am finally posting my #ReadYourEbooks list for December. I finally read one of the picked books for November. 🥳 I need to read Negroland for a reading challenge this month, so even if it isn‘t picked, I should knock at least one of these off.

So many things!
1. First and foremost, CHRISTMAS! 🎄🎁🎅
2. Christmas gift shopping—gift-giving is my love language.
3. Christmas movies!
4. Christmas music!
5. Seeing my far-flung children come home!
6. Some cool weather—finally.
7. Reflecting on the past year and setting goals for the next. I know that‘s January, but you have to make the actual decisions in December.
#MajicMonday

This is told as a fairytale, a retelling (apparently) of Bluebeard which I was unfamiliar with prior. I loved the way this played with the fairytale genre and ways we tell stories to circumvent reality, often even to ourselves. But ultimately, the narrator tells us: “The people are us, the time is always.” Side: didn‘t I just read this somewhere on Litsy? Such a perfect line. I‘m not sure I grasped all this was doing but I had fun trying. #ToB26

Wowzers. Tomie is an eternally-beautiful young woman who, in every new relationship, is brutally murdered. As she is hacked into pieces, each new piece regenerates, unleashing more Tomies on mankind. But who are we really mad at? Sure, Tomie is mean, often cruel, and manipulative. Does that justify her murders? Why aren‘t we side-eying her murderers too regardless of their motives? Excellent horror manga, as usual, from Junji Ito.

Lord. I was trying to find an image to share with this review and there was so much I just couldn‘t share. It‘s disturbing. It‘s upsetting. It‘s amazing. Junji Ito is absolutely worth devouring in one sitting. The fish are walking out of the ocean, but the organisms using the fish need new hosts…

“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could they didn‘t stop to think if they should.” - The great philosopher Ian Malcolm. That‘s this story. A scientist is obsessed with the “other side” and unleashes a supernatural entity on the world. Can our scientific curiosity cause more problems than it solves? I think we‘ve seen that the answer is often yes.