Long overdue update and even longer reading slump, I moved to Chicago! Sorting out a new job, new apartment and moving the kitties was quite stressful and I haven‘t picked up a book in ages until@getting this on Libby.

Only on Chapter 2 but it‘s a great cosy fantasy in the world of legends and lattes so I‘m excited about it!

Been here 3 weeks now and just did a quick trip home for a charity ball and ceilidh! This was the sky tonight. 🌙 🌅

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After husbands Isaiah and Derek are mysteriously murdered, their father‘s team up to find the culprits and take revenge. Lots of violence, but I love that.

Some aspects seemed a little too contrived for me and predictable but it was a fun read. Quickly becoming a fan of SA Crosby! Thanks #camplitsy25 for introducing me to him. 😃

#lgbtqia2025 @Kenyazero

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A family saga bouncing back and forth through time about 3 Palestinian women living in America, trying to keep the customs of their culture but wanting more choices for themselves and their daughters.

Rated very highly on Goodreads and all my friends loved it but I found some of it predictable and repetitive. Maybe my expectations were too high? Still it‘s worth a read if you enjoy stories of women trying to overcome oppression.

#BOTM

Books from Brooklyn Book Fest!

4 free, a bunch in translation, some poetry too! Plus a tote with cats. 🐱 and my cat Hazel snuck into the picture 😂

Went over budget a bit but it was worth it.

I‘ll tag the books individually in the comments.

#brooklynbookfest
#catsoflitsy

It‘s Brooklyn Book Fest!! Going to try and not get too many but we‘ll see how that goes. 😆

#brooklynbookfest

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This is the story of two Cree soldiers who travel from Canada to fight in the trenches of WWI. I found the beginning very slow and didn‘t enjoy the stories told from Xavier‘s POV about the war until it got to the end but I did like Niska‘s stories about life in the bush and Xavier‘s childhood.

I think I just done like historical fiction much.

The book is good in the last third and I‘m glad I stuck with it.

#OhCanada @Jess861

It‘s been a dream of mine for many years to go to Albertine Bookstore. Finally got the chance today! So beautiful 🤩

The bookstore has French authors in both English and French and I bought some of both! I just moved up to B2 in the French CEFR and asked for some books that would be manageable for someone who‘s an intermediate level.

If you like books in translation or want to try reading in French I‘d definitely visit if you‘re in NYC!

I finished my 2025 reading goal of a book a week!

🥳

#fable

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Sequel to « what would happen if a wormhole opened in an IKEA? » novella Finna by Nino Cipri.

I love speculative fiction and this two book series is a great example of it. The humour is dry and dark. And there‘s some action in each of the novellas.

Very entertaining and a quick read.

#queerBC @PuddleJumper
Lgbtqia2025 @Kenyazero

Update: she bit the book 😸😸😸🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

#catsoflitsy

One of my kitties Hazel wanted to be in the photo so here she is.

#litsycrafters
#catsoflitsy

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I own so much of Emezi‘s work, I find it fascinating they can switch so seamlessly between genres.

I really enjoyed this one, it‘s about the seedy underbelly of New Lagos - so much sex and violence. It‘s definitely not for everyone but after reading the SA Crosby for #camplitsy and loving it, I think I have to admit to myself that I enjoy reading violent books 😂

Switches between characters for each chapter so you get different POVs.

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Forgot to put up a review for this! Such an informative and interesting graphic novel about 10 queer people who inspired them. I didn‘t know of most of them and it was great to learn some more queer history and understand the author‘s gender journey.

Written by a friend of a friend (who I don‘t know at all!) and was definitely worth a read.

#lgbtqia2025 @Kenyazero

Missing one but here‘s my progress on fable for August!

#queerbc @PuddleJumper
#lgbtqia2025 @Kenyazero
#camplitsy25 @Megabooks @squirrelbrain @BarbaraBB

August wrap up!

Loved this #camplitsy read and got through a lot of #lgbtqia books!

10 books is a lot for me! The job search continues but I‘m spending my downtime reading and crocheting to relax and not stress out!

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Beautiful graphic novel (look at the page designs!) about gender identity and finding yourself.

Loved reading this on my new kindle coloursoft.

#lgbtqia2025 @Kenyazero

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What would happen if a work home opened up inside an IKEA? Where would that wormhole lead to?

Lots of humour and action in this anti-capitalist multiverse novella. Ava has recently broken up with Jules and is called into work at LitenVärd on her fay off, hoping the won‘t run into Jules there, but things start to get weird when she goes in search of a missing shopper, lost in the store.

#queerbc @PuddleJumper
#lgbtqia2025 @Kenyazero

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A world where you choose your own gender, and the magic of slackcraft can be learned and used to manipulate the elements. Interesting queer fantasy!

I enjoyed the first two more than the second two books, but they were low picks nevertheless.

Why did this end on a cliff hanger?? Does anyone know if more in this series are going to be published?

#queerbc @PuddleJumper
#lgbtqia2025 @Kenyazero

« For you, who feels seen when you read these books »

#queerBC
#lgbtqia2025

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Wow I loved this #CampLitsy25 read and will definitely be reading some of Crosby‘s other books!

Even Willow wanted to grab it 😂 #catsoflitsy

I can see it being too violent for some people but I enjoyed it a lot. Fast and lots of action.

🔥Everything burns🔥

Dress progress and my #littenkitten Willow trying to eat the stitch markers!

#litsycrafters #crochet #catsoflitsy # @Catsandbooks

Great author talk at the local B&N.

She‘s going to do a whole series of these historical romantasy novels based on the 4 elements!

Can‘t wait to read this one!

So Jefferson Run is a fictional place in Virginia (I think), but there is a Jefferson Run Rd! 😂

#WhereAreYouMonday
#camplitsy25

Reading buddies in the background.

#catsoflitsy
#camplitsy25

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Important, impactful words.

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Science fiction with a sprinkling of MM romance. My first TJ Klune but won‘t be the last!

Loved the characters but had a bit of trouble with the premise, once it‘s revealed what‘s actually going on so deducting half a star. Right up my alley otherwise!

#lgbtqia
#lgbtqia2025

I got a signed copy!! Yippee!! 🥳

Thanks Barnes and Noble.

Cute little free library in Harlem. Picked up a cope of The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman. Very battered but it is the content that matters.

#littlefreelibrary

#litsycrafters #showandtelltuesday

A close up of the skirt portion so far! I love the effect.

Colour of the yarn looks weird here. It‘s really a purple with red mixed in. The previous post is a better capture of the colour.

@Catsandbooks

#litsycrafters #showandtelltuesday

Dress I‘m working on with this variegated yarn!

You can see where I‘ve done the wrong stitch for a few rounds in the top 😅 oops. I‘m going to stitch in a pattern of the final pink colour there and hopefully it won‘t be noticeable? Any suggestions of what to do here are welcome! I‘m not frogging back. I‘ve been working on this for too long. Fingering weight and 70 rounds of single crochet is too much to redo.

I joined fable!

https://fable.co/kitta-514220423769?referralID=R0KF15JcSu

My username there is the same.

I don‘t think this aura is correct though, I like really dark books usually! I‘ve just read a lot of graphic very sweet novels lately. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Wow. #camplitsy25 favourite so far! I wouldn‘t have picked it up otherwise so I‘m glad it was a pick.

Heavily pregnant and in an IKEA when the earthquake hits, Annie must walk home through Portland to find her husband and get home. Lots of devastation to witness, she reflects on her life.

I loved this. Highly recommend.

#camplitsy
#litsycrafters

The month of Heartstopper!!! And when my new kindle arrived so lots of digital books

#Storygraph

https://lambdaliterary.org/awards/current-finalists/

I‘m always looking for more queer books to read and this list of shortlists always introduces me to some new stuff! Worth checking out.

#lgbtq
#queer
#lambdaliteraryaward

Audition made the #BookerPrize longlist! Interested to see what other #camplitsy people think of this!

Personally I didn‘t enjoy reading it. But I can see how it‘s a good novel? I just don‘t like being confused! 🤣

#camplitsy25
@squirrelbrain @Megabooks @BarbaraBB

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#hyggehour has me finishing this graphic novel series alongside Hazel. Apparently there‘s going to be a sixth one! I can‘t wait.

Really glad the #QueerBC turned me onto this series and author. I love it.

#catsoflitsy #lgbtqia2025 @Kenyazero @PuddleJumper

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Volume 4 of Heartstopper ❤️

Touches on mental health issues and coming out to family as a queer teen. Very heartwarming.

#queerBC @PuddleJumper

#lgbtqia2025 @Kenyazero

I can tell already I‘m going to love this book.

Thanks #camplitsy25 for suggesting it, it wasn‘t even on my radar.

@squirrelbrain @Megabooks @BarbaraBB

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Loving this series and probably going to power through all of them today 😂

Super cute coming out story.

#queerbc @PuddleJumper
#lgbtqia2025 @Kenyazero

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Omg squee this is just so cute. ?

Graphic novel about Charlie a gay boy in high school who befriends Nick who‘s the year ahead of him. It has all the questioning and adorable shared looks and confusion of first thinking you might be gay, without being overly clichéd about it.

Definitely worth a read and I‘ll be getting the next one from Libby asap!

#queerbc @PuddleJumper
#lgbtqia2025 sports @Kenyazero

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Oof tragicomic is a great way to describe this. It focuses on, in graphic novel form, her life from childhood to the time surrounding her fathers death and her coming out as a lesbian. This memoir is hard hitting.

Helps to be fairly well read to understand all the implications of all the books mentioned but not essential.

#lgbtqia2025 @Kenyazero

#ShowandTellTuesday with #LitsyCrafters and @Catsandbooks

I‘m working on a planned pooling project! You have to count the stitches per colour of a variegated yarn and put in the number of stitch repeats into plannedpooling.com and determine how many stitches per row to do to get a cool kind of plaid pattern. Keeping the number of stitches the same is hard and requires varying tension and frogging a lot. This has taken me ages but I love it!

#lgbtqia2025 @Kenyazero

Just need a Latinx author or rep to complete the card!

Any recommendations Litsy??

I enjoy mostly science fiction and literary fiction, things I don‘t enjoy are young adult and romance - but find queer books with it more tolerable 😛.

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The third book in this Sherlock and Watson but if they were lesbians living on the rings of Jupiter series! Newly out.

There‘s another case and it looks like Pleiti is investigating on her own this time. Off to one of the outer platforms to the University where there‘s an academic in trouble, receiving threats and having odd things go wrong in her lab right before a big academic award is being bestowed on her.

#lgbtqia2025 @Kenyazero

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Wow I read this in a day! Partly because it was due on Libby tomorrow and partly I just got so into it.

Erica starts to realize she might be trans later in life and doesn‘t know who to turn to. She‘s a teacher at a high school, she‘s divorced, and she‘s numb. The story jumps between her POV and that of Abigail a trans student at the school.

Engaging story, though a bit predictable

#campLitsy2025
#lgbtia2025
#transrightsreadathon2025

Re posting @Suet624 ‘s image - my copy is the same!

Different covers on the book jacket and hardcover! So cool and clever. I didn‘t even notice until she mentioned it.

Anyone else have the deluxe edition as well with this?

#camplitsy2025

Omg guys my kindle colorsoft arrived!!! I‘m so excited!

My old one had a problem with the screen so I did a trade in and got this one for a great price with a 20% trade in discount plus 39% off discount for prime day, and a $20 gift card.

This is the 2nd one they sent because the 1st “went missing” from the mail storage station after the delivery driver didn‘t bother ringing my doorbell and marked the building as inaccessible. 🙄 Stolen I think

Rotating bookcase #ShelfLove for @Chrissyreadit & @BarbaraJean

This is Willow surveying her domain. 😂

#shelfie #bookcase #catsoflitsy #littenkitten

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This has all the things I should love in a book but it just didn‘t hit the mark for me. I was frustrated a lot and although the ending was interesting, I was kind of annoyed by it.

I will add some spoiler comments below.

Read for #camplitsy2025.