Questions after reading the start of a great but unfinished series:
1. Why isn't there more if it?
2. When will the next book be released?
3. WHY isn't there more if it?
4. When will it be acceptable to reread the books - do I need to wait until the next one is published?
5. REALLY! Why isn't there more of it?
6. How can any book I pick up next be even half as interesting as these?

... Guess I'm in for a little post book depression 📚 ...

Seeing a lot of pics with puzzles today - seems like I'm not the only one enjoying audio books and puzzling together! Really loved how they realized the Sandman on Audible until now, great voices and brilliant music.

My favorite scene from the book, maybe even from the whole series ❤️

#ReadingInBed

The chapter a day concept just doesn't seem to work for me 😂 I finished The Fellowship of the Ring on Thursday, and started with my Harry Potter reread. I'll jump in again for The Two Towers when #FellowshipofTolkien starts with it.

I have read a bit ahead for the #FellowshipofTolkien and just finished Chapter 7 ^^ But I'll be on a festival until January 11th, and join back that day (probably sleep deprived and hung over at the airport 😇).

I had forgotten about the Hobbits' tradition of birthday gifts - instead of getting presents at your birthday, you give away presents to your friends 🎁 That is so lovely, maybe I'll do it this year? Anyway, save travels to Bilbo - I'll see you later 🏞️ #FellowshipofTolkien

Happy birthday JRR Tolkien! 🎉

Rereading the series has been lingering on the back of my mind for quite some time now, so I'll join the #FellowshipofTolkien 😊

Just finished the prologue, and eager to read on tomorrow!

I'm totally pro a bedbug rating scale for hotels 😂😂😂

This was a #reread for me, as I originally fell in love with the books when they were released - and I'm still in love after all those years. Fantastic characters, a well thought through story, and even when you start to sense the wider scheme of things, you still have no clue how it will end.

I read this for a science fiction book club, and else I probably would have bailed. I find the ideas actually very interesting, but the story feels disconnected and everything is just mashed up. I don't get the heroine or her emotions at all.

I read His Dark Materials years and years ago when the books were published originally and could only remember tidbits of the story. But this particular scene has always been clear in my memory #reread #hisdarkmaterials

Been visiting Munich Christmas markets with my friends this evening. We plan a tour every year, and drink mulled wine and eat something at almost every stop 😋 And take group photos of our drinks and food as you can see 😁

Airplane time is reading time!

Isn't it?

On my trip back frim the Fijis to Germany I managed to read The Word for World Is Forest as well as The Lathe of Heaven, watched 3 movies and slept a decent amount of time. Time well spent 🙃

I finally (!!!) finished my mammoth reading project, The Wheel of Time. Why mammoth project? I first started reading the books ~15 years ago, stopped after book 6, picked up the next book years later, stopped another 6 books later. Was frustrated because I lost the threads of a lot of subplots. Found the ebook collection and started reading in April 2018. Finished yesterday 😁 (FYI I also read around 40 other books during that time)

Wait, what?! Now I'll have to wait more than one year for the next part? 😭💔

I don't know how to survive this. Granted, I haven't yet read the Kane Chronicles or the Magnus Chase books. But those will only get me through a few days of Rick Riordan deprivation...

FINALLY!!! 😱😁❤

It might not be Monday anymore, but I'm sure it's not too late for #magicalmonday!!!
1. Heavy metal, hard rock, lounge music
2. Michael Ende
3. & 4. I love getting and giving gifts that are something special for the person who gets it. So it might be anything, as long as it shows that someone put thought into it 🎁
5. Spring mornings, when the sun is shining but it's still so cold outside you should wear a jacket above your shirt

@Seekingtardis

Thank you @Kaye and congratulations on your milestone!
1 272
2 184
3 16:44 pm
4 5 oz
5 I've got no car, so no license plate
6 1988
7 5 months
8 11 years
9 ?
10 1 hour
11 800s
12 about 300
13 61
14 A99 (Germany!)
15 10.400
16 1
17 0
18 0
19 29 for both - I'm living alone 😁
20 No idea, I haven't lived here long. But I'd guess maybe 5.

This book is about six people living at different times. The stories are linked to each other, some more so than others. Each one is written in a different style, and sometimes different grammar and spelling.

I Ioved the variety and how everything fit together eventually. But there were two stories which I didn't like for themselves, and while in the end they had their place for me in the book, reading them was a kind of hard for me.

Overall these are nice YA books, BUT. My biggest complaint is the love story here. I just didn't feel it. I didn't get why Tris loves Tobias. To me he was incredibly one dimensional. Guy with a horrible childhood and blue eyes. Oh wow. Is there more to him? And all their relationship ups and downs felt so cobbled together from other books, including all the same cheesy phrases used a 1000 times before. 😴😪😴

Picked up Cloud Atlas again after 3 weeks and finally managed to at least finish the middle chapter. I love the concept of the book, but one of stories just doesn't interest me at all 🙄

Can there be a better good night story than Sandman? 🙈😅

#meetthelittens

1. Munich in Germany
2. Really hard question. I'll go with Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, but there are way more.
3. Just as hard. But probably Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, or the Kingkiller Chronicles
4. Big Fish and Stardust.
5. Monty Pythons Flying Circus.
6. Bob Catley.
7. All shades of blue and turquoise
8. Fantasy and science fiction
9. As an electrical engineer in R&D
10. Nope. Only plants.

1. About 270...
2. Nothing, really. I have a selfmade sleeve for it and that's everything.
3. By now I read everything on my kindle that doesn't have illustrations.

#kindlequestions @Lova

Did some #audioknitting and finished a pair of socks! Until now I haven't given much thought to audiobooks, but knitting and reading does go really well together.
#knittersoflitsy

"As long ago as forever and as far away as Selidor..."

Just read the last words of Tehanu for #earthseachapteraday, and what can I say. I loved the Earthsea books. I think there was a lot of character develpoment in each book, and while there was always a story, I felt the books were truly about the changes each person went through on their respective journeys.

Thank you @2BR02B for organizing this :)

@AmyG is hosting a very generous #1234orALLgiveaway - thank you so much! I'd love to read A Gentleman in Moscow, so please throw me in the pot for this one :)

The narrator here is fighting his way through bureaucracy, plots, counter plots, counter counter plots, lies, conspiracies, and everything else you can imagine that could exist in The Building - a third Pentagon, set around 500 years in the future. The whole purpose of The Building seems to be generate work for people.

While the book was entertaining, sometimes the plot and conversations were so confusing I lost track of what was being said.

I don't want to sound rude, but: Why do so many people here give stars in their reviews? I mean, litsy has a rating system for the reviews, but a lot if people add a rating based on (I guess) five stars.

Do you feel it's not accurate enough?

I'm still doing the #earthseachapteraday read along, but somehow I'm unable to stick to the timeline. I started The Farthest Shore late, but finished it in only three days.

So I started this one, my first book by Stanislaw Lem. I'm nearly halfway through, and let me tell you: It. Is. Weird. Cool weird, but absolutely weird. I'm not even sure if there is a real point to the story. But it does make me laugh a lot.

The last book from the Hogwarts Library for me. I especially love this one for the gorgeous ink pictures in it. Most of the beasts mentioned in it have been mentioned in the HP books, but there are also a couple of new ones.

I've read this cover to cover in less than 24 hours. I'm rating it so-so because honestly some of the reasoning in there seems extreme, or just too esoteric for me.

But essentially I'm with her on drastically reducing what you own, and on the basic storage principles she uses. If your home or life feels cluttered and overwhelming, I think reading this book may give you an insight why and how to start dealing with it.

I know we were supposed to read one chapter a day for #earthseachapteraday. I really know. But I couldn't put this book down and finished it last night on my train home from a birthday party.

Filling the time until we start with the next book by reading The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman. It's been on my TBR pile for far too long now.

My #friyayintro:
1. I've turned into a 95% kindle reader in the past years, only buying paper books for the cover now or if i can't get a digital copy (I read a lot on the train to work and my bookshelves are full)
2. EU 37, which should be a US 6 or a UK 4
3. Cheese or chocolate
4. I don't watch TV often, but I love Greys Anatomy, One Piece and Disney movies
5. Maybe @ju.ca.no?

It took me 6 weeks to read Anna Karenina for the #annakareninareadalong, but only 24 hours to read The Mysterious Affair at Styles for the #agathachristieclub...

Anyway, litsy has done it again and changed my reading plans. I'm joining in the #earthseachapteraday! Excited to read more by the amazing Ursula K LeGuin, who I mostly discovered due to @DivaDiane - thank you for that!

@2BR02B

Pondered what to read next. I wanted to start with Cloud Atlas, but decided to go for an easier and shorter read for now. And I'm still trying to catch up with the #agathachristieclub so The Mysterious Affair at Styles it is. Cloud Atlas will have to wait a bit...

I know I'm really, really late, but I've finally finished this book. Glad I've done this, but I admit I was unnerved by it at some point. Still not a bad book.

#AnnaKareninaReadAlong

Uhm, so I kind of fell way behind with the #annakareninareadalong. I finished part 6 yesterday on my plane to Miami. Might be able to read in zhe hotel a bit, since the weather forecast isn't great.

Any littens in the area who want to meet up? I'm traveling alone and staying here until Thursday morning, after that it's #70000TonsOfMetal for me :)

@hermyknee #litsylovelist

Decided to have some fun with the text coloring. Also I don't know if dragons count as animals? Well, for me they do!

Caught up with the schedule for the #AnnaKareninaReadAlong yesterday. I'll try to do better this week xD

These are the first two pages of Quidditch Through the Ages. There is also a foreword by Dumbledore. It's like getting the book straight from the Hogwarts Library. Those little details make the book worth purchasing for me :) :) :)

My next bedtime reading is also from the Hogwarts Library. I didn't get them as the boxed set, because they look better on my shelves as single books. With physical books, I do that. Buy the better looking edition. #bookdragonproblems

I read this book as bedtime stories to myself over the last two nights, and they're just lovely. Like fairytales from the Harry Potter universe. I could imagine reading some of those to my (not existing) own children. The notes by Albus Dumbledore are amusing, thoughtful and give a deeper look into the world of Harry Potter and Hogwarts. And the drawings added to the tales make them just a little more special.

#HipHobbInto2018 @GrilledCheeseSamurai

My favorite fantasy book? Way too hard to choose. But those are some of my "hidden gems", and of course the almighty master Terry Pratchett (Pyramids is not my favorite by him, but the first one I found in my moving boxes). The Lies of Locke Lamora is one of the books I reread every few years, along with The Name of the Wind.

Btw, what's your favorite fantasy book?

Starting Part 2 of the book, so far I'm in love with it. It's a bit out of my reading comfort zone since I'm not a big fan of romances, but whatever. I like the characters and their weird problems.

#AnnaKareninaReadAlong

And so ends my last book for this year.

Tomorrow the #AnnaKareninaReadAlong starts!

Got some free time which I could spend reading. Instead, this is happening :)

@Theresa is hoisting an #AnnaKareninaReadAlong and I decided to join. I've been wanting to read this book for some time now, amd this is the right incentive :)

After "Der dunkle Thron", which didn't thrill me, this next part of the Waringham series was way better. Isaac as a main character was especially interesting, and I suffered and laughed with him. Eleanor's character was a bit flat, I feel like she was there to give us a deeper insight into the Queen's politics.

Morning break at work = reading time at work