Welcome to Litsy!

Now reading The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow. Owlcrate did a beautiful job on the hardcover.

#12booksof2025

And here we are in December! I had two 5 star reads in December and since it‘s my birthday month, I‘m going to post both 😝

The Everlasting was the rare book as birthday present and I adored it! Alix E Harrow crafts such beautiful stories. A delight!

Time loops, romance, rewriting history, the power of stories to shape or ruin kingdoms, & probably the literary villain I hate most of all.

My favorite book of November has it all!

#12BooksOf2025 @TheEllieMo

(Honorable November mention goes to Of Monsters and Mainframes🖤🧡🖤🧡)

Radiant Star - Ann Leckie (May 12)
Exit Party - Emily St. John Mandel (September TBD)
As You Wake, Break The Shell - Becky Chambers (October 13)

#SundayFunday @BookmarkTavern

It was my birthday week, so I went to some bookstores to celebrate. A wildly random assortment, some from the $5 shelves, some I really wanted, and I always choose one book from each store from staff recommendations that I have never heard of before.

Oh and two daily reading books, for which I blame @AnneCecilie and @Leftcoastzen

I loved this! A time travel fantasy love story that is dark and sad. I recommend go into this blind. I know not everyone likes Harrow‘s writing, but I think this is the author‘s best work so far. 5⭐️

Prophetically titled. 123 pages that lasted forever, and now it‘s over.

The words are beautiful but what do they mean??

Lacey‘s novel makes the reader complicit. The superiority you may feel because *you* don‘t need to know the MC‘s gender, age, or race is short-lived. You‘re still demanding something of them simply by entering their orbit. You want them to open up, to talk, to remember, to bond, to escape, to find home, to find friendship, to find freedom. And, by proxy, you want things of the author, too — like narrative momentum. 👇🏻

Getting back into the swing of things! I played #bookspinbingo last year for 11 out of the 12 months and my hope is to do all 12 this year. I only got bingo once (in April), so it would be nice to add to that statistic too.
Super excited about the tagged book, but I have to wait for it to arrive from #BOTM 😢
Finished up a book yesterday, so I‘ve got one block filled in so far!
@TheAromaofBooks

It feels strange that I‘m posting more than I‘m reading. An epigraph, a single poem, and a chapter page is all I‘ve managed… but what are the chances?!

I resolve, firmly, to focus on rest and on sleep in the new year. Then. Bam! Page 1: SLEEP.

So many coincidences with this match, @Billypar ! It‘s kind of freaking me out. 😅 I‘m more powerful than I knew.

#AuldLangSpine