I‘m not done yet but I just can‘t get over Mosscap - so sweet and innocent upon first meeting the villagers. After loving A Psalm for the Wild-Built, it is so nice to travel with Sibling Dex and Mosscap again ❤️

I‘m in! My goal is to finish four of the books I‘ve started.
#OutstandingOctober

How have I never read Neil Gaiman before?!? Bo is my reading buddy on this perfectly cloudy and cool fall day.

This is another great book for the genre of people-behaving-badly. Such a quick, witty read. Recommended if you‘re okay with a bit of dark humor.

I asked my 11 yr old if she wanted to do a graphic novel read-a-thon tonight with candles and pillows and blankets when it gets dark. Her stack is on the left, so I guess that‘s a big “yes!” I tagged one of Raina Telgemeier‘s books because my daughter reads all of them over and over.

I know I‘m late to the party on this one, but so glad to be getting to it after it‘s been on my shelf for ages. What a good read!

Jason Reynolds is one of my new favorite authors. I love this story and seeing the world through Genie‘s eyes as he and his older brother spend part of the summer at their grandparents‘ house. (Yummy Persian rice bowl lunch while I‘m waiting for my kid.)

This is my current reading stack. Just started Good Talk and it‘s so good. I‘ve already read Binti, but I‘m reading the new short story in this edition and love it. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie does not disappoint with her short stories. And my daughter and I are reading Rosie Revere out loud - it‘s a quick read (maybe ages 7-9/10) but we‘re both enjoying the historical anecdotes about Rosie the Riveter.

I have reached page 50 and it‘s still mostly background. Not much happening. Anybody read and enjoy this series? Is it worth it to keep reading?

I love Angie Thomas‘s character Bri in this book.
And Bo finally wore himself out tearing around the house and is tucked in for a long nap. Yay for rainy Sundays.

This is the third in the IQ series and I love them - full of people behaving badly, sometimes it‘s even the good guys (looking at you, Dodson) behaving badly. And now I‘m being a bad library citizen because this thing is overdue but I‘m almost done and didn‘t want to wait weeks to get it again.

“Kindred souls will always collide.”

This is a beautifully written book. I‘m about halfway done.

I finished the year with Nnedi Okorafor‘s LaGuardia (I liked it but it felt was too short) and here are my 2018 year end stats:

# of books: 74
# of pages: 18,611
Fiction: 87%
Women authors: 61%
Graphic novels: 27%
Borrowed from library: 51%

I‘m pretty happy with this but I was trying to read 20,000 pages and more of what I own and not borrow so much.

“Yes, the giant transport bot is going to help the construct SecUnit pretend to be human. This will go well.”

I just cannot get enough of Murderbot. The humor is the perfect mix of dark and sarcastic. Love it!

I read Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds and loved it so I‘m trying a young adult title. Love the characters. Although this is marketed as for ages 10+ or grade 5 and up. I would probably suggest ages 11/12+ and be prepared to discuss gun violence, alcoholism, bullying.

I‘m almost done with Warcross and am so glad I have Wildcard (#2) to dive into right after. And then another Murderbot Diaries is waiting in the wings. I love having a stack of good books ready to go :)

I haven‘t read a graphic novel in a while and this was the perfect one to pick up. Goldie is smart and spunky and willing to break a few rules. Fun, quick read.

I just picked these up from the library today and I‘m having a hard time deciding which to read first. Any suggestions?

Library haul from today. I‘m so grateful to have a library where I can get almost anything I want but I check out way more than I can actually get read. I want to start all of these right now.

@That-Bookish-Hiker Thank you so much for the bookmarks! @TheAlwaysReader and I hung out today with the kiddos and we opened your envelope then :) we love them and we totally got the “due date” on them 💕

Great read! Murderbot is part robot, part organic material and works as a security unit. It has lots of attitude and snark and has hacked its governor module so doesn‘t respond exactly like it‘s supposed to. When things go awry on a remote planet, it has to figure out if and how it will protect its human team.

June stats: 11 books, 2600+ pages. Favorites were: Ayiti, A Man Called Ove, The Ask and the Answer. Edit: and Saga! I can‘t forget Saga!

This series is still amazing. Next up: Volume 8 and also The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness. This is my reading spot this morning on a tucked away little island in the San Juans. One I‘ve never been to before. Beautiful view of the sound in the distance. Could not ask for better...

I‘m only about 100 pages in but oh, Ove... I just keep shaking my head. He certainly has a way with words, doesn‘t he?

The art in Afar is amazing and beautiful. I liked the story but it seemed a little rushed and/or under developed in places. Some of the conversation was awkward. The other world travel was fun and interesting but at times very short. The main character, Boetema (my favorite) seems to be one of the only characters with critical thinking skills.

It‘s a rainy day in June and I have an hour before I have to be anywhere. Perfect for tea and reading. I read the first story in Ayiti and liked it. So looking forward to rest of the stories. (And I love the cover 😊)

These are the hardbacks I acquired in the last few bookstore visits. I was glad to find used copies of all of them. The only one I‘ve read is The Hate You Give - loved it and picked up a copy b/c my daughter wants to read it. Some have been sitting a while until I could put Brodart covers on the dust jackets. Does anyone else put covers on the dust jackets?

I started this book many years ago & didn‘t finish it because I was afraid of a bad ending. (I did this back then. Atlas Shrugged was another that I didn‘t finish due to fear of bad ending but later finished & liked it.) Back to this one...I liked the community in the future Connie was visiting as she seemed to have more connection with them than with most people in her time (1970s New York). Slow at times but worth it for some of the messages.

I just redid my cookbooks today, getting rid of one shelf of them (gasp!) but I just had too many and it made room for my little teapots and cups. The tagged book is one of my favorites but pretty much all of these are my favorites :)

This a super quick read and very entertaining. Kind of a mystery/sci-if where anyone murdered comes back to life (not a spoiler; that‘s on the book flap). Also, I read the hardcover; didn‘t listen to it.

Great essays on gender, race, entertainment, feminism. I didn‘t agree with all the points she made but I enjoyed most of the essays. I especially liked the parts where she discussed books - some of them were pretty funny. This was my choice for an essay collection in the #readingwomenchallenge

Wow! I just started this and am on page 85. I feel like I could stay up all night and keep reading. Crazy intense! I see why it gets all the good reviews.

Two of my acquisitions from National Independent Bookstore Day in Seattle. And these don‘t include the four we got at the poetry bookstore. So fun even if a little rainy! @TheAlwaysReader - thanks for caravanning with us and taking one of my kids :)

It‘s really windy out and I have 60 pages to go and I must know tonight how this book ends up! Hopefully the power won‘t go out...

I didn‘t read much in March due to crazy busyness with non-reading things so I‘m telling everybody all I plan to do in April is read. Tonight I‘ll finish Saga vol. 5 and see how far I get in vol. 6. And hopefully soon will get to the 3rd Binti.

I‘ve been waiting for this one from the library for a while. Normally true crime creeps me out (and this one does too!) but it‘s so well-written and engrossing. #readingwomenchallenge

Definitely a pick. I wouldn‘t have thought a book written in verse could be so gripping and suspenseful, but it was. Topics include gun violence, gangs, revenge. And revenge for revenge.

This is a heartbreaking read of one man‘s struggle to survive and later support his family after he moved with his parents and siblings from Japan to North Korea in 1960.

Although the account itself is not lengthy, the desperation permeates every page. Recommended for readers who would like to read a firsthand account of what living in North Korea was like for one man.

Please welcome my friend @TheAlwaysReader to Litsy. The photo shows some of the books we both own and hope to read together this year.

I just finished Who Fears Death and...wow! It was an intense, raging, magical wild ride. I feel like I still need to catch my breath. (Bo is tolerating being a book rest for a moment.)

I wasn‘t sure what I‘d think of this one, but I love the main character, Isaiah. He‘s very sharp and keenly observant. There is lots of rough language and people behaving badly but I can‘t put it down!

This is my January wrap-up. I enjoyed all of these for different reasons so it was a great reading month. Most of these were from the library and I‘m trying to read more of what‘s on my own shelves, so I‘ll see what I can do in February.

This was my first book for the #ReadingWomenChallenge - a book with a food item in the title. Her books are always good when I want something a little lighter and quicker and they‘re set in Seattle, a city I love.

I love the way Roxane Gay tells her story, navigating through some very difficult things in her life. Very honest, open, and powerful.

This will be my last complete read of 2017. I saved something by a favorite author to read on the last day of the year.

I just started reading this and I love it. Huge plus is sometimes Esperanto is spoken. I only studied it for a few months so I can‘t understand everything but still cool.

Funny, sad, and true, this book was a delight. I also love how the journal endpapers relate to the graphics and text throughout the pages. This book was a nice surprise.

I‘m not done with 2017 reading but couldn‘t help pull some books from my shelves for the 2018 #readingwomenchallenge

So... my Goodreads challenge for myself was 60 books this year which should have been a piece of cake (I think I read 65 last year). But this has been a heck of a year with several big yucky things, one of which prevented me from reading for about 4 months. This feels a bit like cheating but I‘ve gathered a few shorter novels and graphic novels to try and hit 60. I have 20 more books to go.

I saw Isabel Allende speak last night in Seattle and she briefly discussed her new book. When asked which part she enjoyed writing about most in this book, she said it was writing about the (dead) body. Her stories during the talk were touching, sweet, sad, and often funny. She seems like an amazing woman.