@MatchlessMarie it's here!!!!! I'm so excited for Thursday!
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@MatchlessMarie it's here!!!!! I'm so excited for Thursday!
@MaleficentBookDragon #AHRS #AllHallowsReadSwap
My cabin week seemed to fly by, which makes me sad, but I have one more night to be cozy. Joseph has perched on a pile of blankets and hasn't moved in hours. #dogsoflitsy
It's too cold today to sit outside but luckily it's cute inside and my goofy dog likes to be cozy. #dogsoflitsy
Back in one of my favorite places in the world (a picturesque cabin in Glenford, Ohio) and nothing to do but read and watch my dog try to police the squirrels. #dogsoflitsy
I *think* I've tallied up my points correctly for #HauntedShelf - not as terrible as I'd thought, but there's room for a lot more reading this week while I'm on vacation!
@PuddleJumper #RestlessSpirits
A terrible picture and the only Halloweeny sticker available, but my #AllHallowsReadSwap package is finally on its way! One of my books was indefinitely delayed and I finally had to resort to Amazon. 😡
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I didn't get any good pictures but I still wanted to record the amazing #silentbookclub I went to today, complete with adoptable rescue dogs! Needless to say, not a lot of reading was accomplished. ;)
It's taken me a minute to get into spooky reading this year (no time last week) but I had a lovely evening at #silentbookclub with this tonight. #hauntedshelf @PuddleJumper #RestlessSpirits
I think this is my final list for #bookspin #doublespin and #HauntedShelf. Heavy on the horror/mystery/dark academia, but Jane needs to stay in there too if I have any hope of finishing my goal for the year. I'm still trying to figure out #HauntedShelf since it's my first time, but it sounds fun!
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A blueberry and yuzu parfait is a surprisingly great pairing with Agatha Christie!
Not a bad way to spend a Saturday afternoon. #dogsoflitsy
The people who invented Silent Book Club are my favorite.
I should have had soooooooooo many of these finished by now but my reading has been terrible all summer. Here's to good intentions?
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#bookspin is here (late) again! Last month was pretty terrible with reading due to work (as always) but I did go to a fun book-related conference! And brought home too many books. :/
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Look at me, on top of getting my #bookspin list posted this month! 😏
#doublespin #bookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks
I'm sooooooooooo behind on Litsy everything but for a good reason: May was packed with travel, and the most important part of it was visiting Jane Austen's House in Chawton. 😍😍😍 A true Janeite dream come true, especially in this epic 250th birthday year.
A pretty fantastic #bookhaul for #independentbookstoreday! I needed to buy enough to get a free tote. 🤷♀️
Gosh, this last week was an absolute mess, with one full night of multiple tornados and then two more toward the end of the week. I slept 16 hours on Sunday because I guess my body needed it! Now that I'm caught up on sleep, I can get caught up on Litsy too. Still finishing some lingering titles this month!
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I'm trying to deal with tornado watch anxiety by finishing up the #agathachristieclubR3 #christiecapers pick, and a cruffin doesn't hurt either.
pickI swear, I must have restarted this book five times and very nearly gave up on it, but I'm so glad I didn't! That's no knock on the book at all, it's just very detailed and that doesn't usually work for me on audio while I'm commuting. Once I figured that out and planned my listening time, I was hooked. (The narration is fantastic!)
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so-soI had to read this for a professional commitment and while it was entertaining (and narrated very well!), it stays completely surface level and I forgot almost everything about it as soon as it was done. It's better as a piece of narration than as a great memoir, if that makes sense
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Gah I forgot to post my #bookspin list at the beginning of the month! A lot of stragglers from last month that weren't finished because of expiring holds, so I'll be excited to have a cleaner slate in April.
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Joseph doesn't care that I'm trying to read a large annotated edition. He needs my lap more than the book does, apparently. #dogsoflitsy
This is my first #bookspin list in four years that hasn't been created entirely based on book committee responsibilities and I kind of didn't know what to do! Just....pick what I want to read? (Thankfully, I've overcommitted to various book clubs and professional commitments so it's still mostly assignment reading. 🤣 )
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panMeh. Admittedly, this isn't my kind of historical fiction at all, but I had a hard time caring about any of the historical sections and the dialogue at times read like the characters were quoting from a history book. It was heavy-handed in many ways, and I enjoyed the author's note much more than the rest of the book. I suspect that Lisa Wingate isn't an author for me.
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pickI'm often disappointed by psychological suspense even though I love the idea of it so much, and I thought this one mostly held up! The characters were well thought-out and I questioned everything and everyone.
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Four opportunities for #bookspinbingo and I still didn't make it! 🤣
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There are worse ways to spend a Sunday afternoon.
How do all the colors in my view match this cover?!
Help a Litten out! I'm wanting to get back into reading challenges this year but I'm having a hard time figuring out what Litsy is hosting these days. It looks like a few I used to do aren't active anymore. Are there any I should know about? (I'm planning to do #bookspin with @TheAromaofBooks and #agathachristieclubR3 with @Librarybelle, of course!)
Picture of my dog's dumb teeth for tax!
Happy New Year to my Litsy friends from me and Joseph! I've been absent thanks to my ALA volunteer committee but I'm almost done! One of my goals is to get back into Litsy because I love it and miss it.
I also want to apologize to the #agathachristieclubR2 members for disappearing. I meant to post about needing to pause, but I was mostly avoiding social media.Thanks to @Librarybelle for reviving it with #agathachristieclubR3! I'll be reading!
3. Murder is Easy features several gruesome murders, more than we typically see in a Christie novel. Which murder sticks out to you, and why is it murder by infected cat ear? 🤢
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2. How did you feel about Luke Fitzwilliam as a sleuth? What about Bridget Conway? Why do you think Superintendent Battle was included in the book?
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I'm trying to get caught up, dear #agathachristieclubR2 members! This month has been awesome but insane, between a trip to Europe (with several bookish stops that I somehow didn't post) and really intense committee work. As a result, it took me forever to get through this book so I just finished last week. Posting some questions now, with May's selection questions to come later this weekend:
1. Did you like this book? Why or why not?
5. Hercule Poirot's Christmas centers around the murder of a mentally abusive parent and his children, similar to the plot and characters of Appointment with Death, which we read last month. Which family did you prefer to read about, and why? Did one book have more psychological insight than the other?
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4. Did you think that Christie created a good sense of Christmas in the book? Why do you think she picked that time to center her novel?
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3. The Lee family is large and sprawling, with many sons, their wives, and some surprise members. Did you enjoy their dynamic? How did you feel about the blood relatives of Simeon Lee vs. those who had married into the family?
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2. This novel is a locked-room mystery. Are you a fan of that subgenre, and did you find Christie's take on it believable/plausible? How did you feel about the intensely gruesome murder, especially compared to Christie's normal depictions of murder?
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It's time for our #agathachristieclubR2 questions! And I'm on time! It's a (Hercule Poirot's) Christmas miracle.
As always, please tag anyone who has already commented to keep the conversation flowing.
1. Did you like this book? Why or why not?
#agathachristieclubR2 friends, I'm going to have to push our schedule back a month because I've been super busy with committee work the past few weeks and just got our book for last month read. Questions will be posted on April 1! (No fooling ;) ) Here's the upcoming schedule, too. Thanks for your patience!
Per tradition, my #bookspin list at the end of the month. 🤣 #doublespin #bookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks
3. Appointment with Death tackles the abusive behaviors of a parent. How sensitively did you think this was handled? What would you keep and what would you change?
(Bonus question: why on earth is this Southeast Asian diety on the cover of a book set in Jordan?)
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2. Christie famously wrote in the introduction to the serialized version of this book, "There have been moments when I have felt: 'Why-why-why did I ever invent this detestable, bombastic, tiresome little creature!" Why do you think she felt this way?
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YIPES! Apologies #agathachristieclubR2 friends: it took a really long time for my hold to come in (and I can't figure out why - was there a run on this book in Nashville?), and then a weirdly long time for me to finish reading it. The month is almost over and I'm just now done. On to questions!
As always, please tag all previous commenters to keep the conversation flowing.
1. Did you enjoy this book? Why or why not?
I'm so close to being done with my committee (for the year), but I have a great list of books to get through first!
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So cozy! #dogsoflitsy
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