Welcome to Litsy!

I‘m really excited about my #AuldLangSpine list from @julesG ! There was just one book I had already read & loved (AWGTMI ⭐️) & a few on my TBR but several new to me titles, which I always love!

Pictured are are the first 6 I‘m starting with, beginning with the tagged book I was already planning on reading in January for #AuthorAMonth & I Know How This Ends because I loved Cassandra in Reverse.

Mahalo @monalyisha for another great match!

When you wake up in the morning and the social media algorithm is absolutely clocking you. 🤣 Who else here has an embarrassing dalliance with this book in their past? #ItsJustFanFic #IWas13OKAY #ButIReReadItToThisDay

I‘m joining all the fun things late!
#10BeforetheEnd
#BookspinBingo (I‘m going to use every book in the picture 2x, my Jolabokaflod gift & books in progress for the last row. ☺️)
I think I signed up for #MidWinterSolace too!

Just trying to finish all the challenges before the end of the year! Last year I read 7 books in December. 🤞🏼

Thank you
@ChaoticMissAdventures
@TheAromaofBooks
@AllDebooks
@TheBookHippie
@Chrissyreadit

This gothic novel is beautifully written. Loosely based on the Island of Dr. Moreau, we once again follow the Thaumas sisters as the youngest Verity, takes a leap, and goes on a daring and twisted adventure.
Absolutely horrifyingly beautiful.

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

If you like the Robin Hood story, you will love this one. The prequel of how Robin Hood came to be and all his merry men. It was a chunksters but a page turner. One for #SnowyDecemberReathathon ✔️ done. One spot for #ISpyBingoDec @TheAromaofBooks
@Read2025 @DieAReader

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️5/5 loved this! 🖤

This was a superb ending to an amazing series. I love this series, I can‘t believe how long it took me to discover it. I‘m blown away with everything that happened in this series. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
#Winter #MarissaMeyer #TheLunarChronicles #book #books #bookbag #bookbags #bookbinding #bookbeau #bookblog #bookblogs #bookbloggers #bookblogger #bookkbackpack #Fantasy #YoungAdult #ScienceFiction #Romance #Retellings #Dystopia #Fiction #Audiobook #FairyTales

The length of this novel did a disservice to the premise. 😏 It would have been much better as a short story or novella. What did the editor do aside from check grammar and spelling? I got through the audio only because I spent hours in the kitchen cooking & cleaning for Thanksgiving.

It seems too soon to post my December #bookspin, but Monday is the first so I guess not. As always I‘ll be excited to see what @TheAromaofBooks pulls out of the hat!