Welcome to Litsy!

Only my second Christie.😳

I liked it a lot—great assortment of characters and a wonderful twist, well-written and delightfully mysterious.

All of that said, the audiobook made this an experience... Dan Stevens is always fantastic, but he‘s incredible narrating this book! It‘s like listening to a full cast as he reads with a different voice for each character. Every time he said HERCULE POIROT I was 👏🏻. Absolutely savored the audio!

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I loved Carrie Fisher, and it‘s a treat to listen to her read her own books. She was hilarious, and this book was a captivating look at the filming of Star Wars, her brief affair with Harrison Ford, and being Leia for the years and years after—her voices for some of the people she met at various ComicCons had me 🤣. The reading of her actual SW diaries by her daughter Billie Lourd were a fascinating and surprisingly deep interlude.

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I‘ve put this one off for so long, mainly because I knew it would be sad. And it was... I sobbed my way through the last hour of the audiobook. But in addition to being scary and sad, it‘s also very inspiring and hopeful. Kalanithi was clearly a talented man and apparently a good person. The epilogue by the doctor‘s wife was perfect.

I‘m glad that needing a #ChronicIllness book for #MandMChallenge2020 meant that I finally listened.

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For the first half or so, I thought this might be a 5-star audiobook. This is a fun listen: exciting, original and engrossing; the writing is good, and the monster is terrifying. It‘s pretty dated, with far too much time spent on distemper.

Do you know that thing that happens when some male authors try to write female characters well and they end up being perhaps unintentionally sexist and eyeroll-inducing? This book has that thing.😬

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Holy hell, what a book.

I listened to it all today because it‘s just that good... very, very dark and disturbing mystery/thriller (not horror, imo) set in the Depression era. Extremely well written with some of the nastiest villains I‘ve read in a long time, but an incredible protagonist in Curtis Mayhew.

TW for a horrible animal scene at the beginning and a brutal attempted lynching later on. It‘s DARK, but ultimately uplifting.

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I dived into this without knowing what to expect. Turns out a disappointment. Firstly I didn‘t like the writing style. I have no sympathy for the characters, save for one. The 20-year-old twins talk and act like teenagers, while one character is a real creep. I didn‘t find the story chilling or spooky and how it unravelled..need to suspend disbelief. Seems like a marmite book.. I‘m not in the love camp.

#mandmchallenge2020 #twins

This audiobook artwork is just bad. 😖 But the audiobook itself was very good! I love Simone St. James and this one did not disappoint. Perfectly creepy and atmospheric with a great heroine and a nice little romance.

It was also my #BookSpin! @TheAromaofBooks

Now I‘m going to drink some wine because omg it‘s hard to deal with my country right now. 😬

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52 US Senators: ZERO FREAKING STARS

Another nearly perfect Stephen King.

Our middle-aged narrator, Devin, remembers the year he was 21, working at a seaside amusement park with an unsolved murder and a possibly haunted funhouse, befriending the locals (including a kid who shines!) and figuring out his life.

I loved the nostalgia, the mystery, the spookiness, and, as is usually the case with King‘s books, the fantastic characters. Literally, all the feels. 🖤

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Overall, a stellar anthology of stories that kept me turning the pages. Some are rather average, a few I did not get it or care, and then there are the brilliant ones. Skilfully blurring the lines between reality and imagination, Tremblay‘s ‘horrors‘ aren‘t actually scary stories but are ominous, unnerving, and horrifying in the every day and mundane, with ambiguous conclusions. Shout out to his ⬇️

#screamathon2020
#mandmchallenge2020 #mashup

My 2nd book from this author, and I don‘t get why her books seem so polarizing, but it feels like readers love them or hate them. I‘m still in the love camp.🖤

Delightfully weird, genuinely affecting, beautifully written ghost story with a very gothic feel—but not what you expect from a ghost story. I did figure out what was going to happen a few minutes before the twist, but that didn‘t stop the goosebumps. LOVE!

#screamathon book 1!

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