I was a little worried with all the hype, but this was a definite winner for me. As someone who was put on their first diet as an 11 year old I could definitely relate to the skewed self-image, but also my little gay heart was just full of love for Abby and Jordi.

Plus it really made me interested in examining my own personal style.

#pride #pridemonth #gayaf #queer

I‘ve been enjoying the #polarvortex with some old friends 🧙‍♀️🧙‍♂️🧙‍♂️

Kinda book related — I highly recommend the Choose Your Own Adventure board game. It‘s great because you can play by yourself or with a group. It also reads like a book with different chapters, different outcomes, and yes, you can even die and come back. It takes a while to play so I‘m on day two (upper left) but it‘s like hopping back into a good book 📚

You wouldn‘t think that a book about a woman who sleeps for a year would be that interesting, but Moshfegh is an amazing author who kept me on the edge of my seat. I know that her style and characters won‘t be to everyone‘s liking, but I love her dark sense of humor and no one is safe from her pen. My only disappointment is that there wasn‘t more Dr Tuttle! That kooky/awful lady had me laughing out loud! 😴💊😵

Didn‘t get very far before I was interrupted, but Ramona and I are liking it!

#catsoflitsy

Beautiful story and art. This graphic novel needs to be sipped, not chugged

#space #queer #lgbtqcomic #tillie4ever

This is everything I would hope for in a late 90s teenage fight club queer love story 💘 In addition to the aforementioned album references of my youth, the characters talk about Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the main character, Chris, even has my quirk of miming eating different types of food to decide what she wants to order!

If you like music, kickass female characters, and a sprinkle of teenage drama then I highly recommend reading this

I jumped up when I saw this and immediately showed my fiancé (who is 4 years younger than me), but since she didn‘t come of age in the late 90s this was a bit lost on her.

Anyone else know the records they‘re referencing?

Tagged book is same author, but different title.

I really enjoyed this comic about Hazel, who is poly and queer, visiting her parents in Portland and meeting Argent, a cool, queer, and fellow poly lady. My only complaint was that the comic vol is shorter than most, so it would have benefited from being longer and having more time for character development. All-in-all good story and great art

BRB going to go dye my hair lavender now 💜

I have been super MIA on Litsy, so I‘m just going to jump in with a review!

I really loved this. Not only is it a great plot (reluctant citizens of Canon Cove, the location of the cult classic The Goonies ...ahem excuse me “The Gloomies”, find a real life treasure map..and they aren‘t the only ones interested in it *dun dun dun*) But it also has great representation of POC, queer folks, and there is a legit big girl (not just a “curvy” girl) 😍😍

I love dated cookbooks. These were donated to the library and I couldn‘t resist snagging them 😂🤢

I love getting to work and all my holds have arrived!

So excited about the tagged book (YA + Magical realism = YES PLEASE!) and “The Word is Murder”

Another Drag Queen Story Time!

My position is a multisite assistant librarian, which means I get to work at 8 neighborhood libraries and at a different library everyday (sometimes 2 or 3 libraries in a day!) , so I really love that I‘ve gotten to work at two of our Drag Queen Story times! Our kids have so much fun decorating crowns, face painting, and coming in their fav costumes! 🏳️‍🌈❤️

Litsy doesn‘t have this exact book listed ☹️ The one I have is about Maria Sibylla Merian AKA my new hero

She grew up raising silk worms and caterpillars to observe them, later becoming a scientist and nature illustrator and all around badass lady. These are two of my fav illustrations

Since it‘s raining out I couldn‘t bring a book into nature, but this is a beautiful book OF nature ;)

#readingresolutions #bookandnature @Jess7

Drag Queen Story time at the library I‘m working at today!! 😍💜💙💚💛🧡❤️

Here are a few of my favorite covers 💕💕 The “Raising Demons” cover makes me laugh every time I see it 😹

#coolcover #readingresolutions @Jess7

A little #readingresolutions catch-up! Here‘s my June TBR

3 graphic novels, 2 YA, 1 quick nonfiction about color, and 1 sci fi that I‘m currently reading.

#junetbr @Jess7

Here are a couple of our very stuffed and very well loved bookshelves 😜

My mom would say I need to weed my book collection, but I say I need more bookshelves! I‘m sure some of you would agree 😉📚📚📚📚📚

#shelfie #readingresolutions @Jess7

Got to my appointment really early, so I‘m taking advantage of the cool weather and reading outside 🌞🌻

A patron recommended this book to me and, even though I‘m only 20 pages in, I‘m liking it so far!

Picked this book up while I was browsing the shelves and so far it‘s really good!

YA novel about a girl coming into her witchy powers 🧙‍♀️🔮

Happy Memorial Day to my US littens 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸

Here are 3 books I found this morning that talk about LGBTQs in the military and I hope to find more! Any recommendations?

#queerbooks #lgbtqhistory

I don‘t read a lot of poetry or plays, but I‘m so glad I read this. Beautiful and incredibly powerful. I would love to see this performed live

I keep looking for a line or two to quote, but then I end up wanting to quote the whole page! So instead, I‘ll just recommend everyone read the book 😋

This is what happens when I go a used bookstore with a sudden passion for reading classics.

What are some of your favorite classics?

So many cool postcards from #pcs3 !! Enjoying a beer outside and reading all the awesome books and authors that are listed. I also want to go through and follow littens that I don‘t already know !

Thanks @Kaye for organizing!

For the most part I really liked this book. There were sections, however, that felt like I was slogging through (spoilers in the comments). I think I‘m going to take a break from #chunkster books for a little while 😜

Resisted some delicious pastry, but treating myself with iced coffee before work! Mmm

Thank you thank you thank you @LoverofLit

I am so excited to read this - I hadn‘t heard of it before...and the keychain, bookmark, and necklace are perfect! 👍❤️

@JenlovesJT47 #keychainswap

I love it when I can come home for my lunch break (and Ramona does too) 📚😍 #frontporchreading

I‘m struggling to write a review because I feel that I won‘t do this book justice. Beautiful and profound and I loved every minute of it. It‘s about second chances...and third chances...and fourth chances...and so on. And how one instance can alter your whole future. Luckily Ursula can perfect her world by being born again after death...but I was left wondering how the characters outside of the Todd family were affected (for better and for worse)

Finally sending my #keychainswap package to @LoverofLit ! I apologize in advance for my awful drawings on the box (you‘ll see) 😜

And! Sending #postcardswap to @Kaye !

Thank you Kaye and @JenlovesJT47 for organizing two really fun swaps! ❤️

We read this for bookclub last night and we were all surprised at how much we liked it! I love sci fi, but this is definitely more science-y than I usually read. Even though the physics are heavily explained, the plot is what drives the story. We all agreed that the first 1/4-1/2 of the book was work, but after that the book soars. This is a trilogy, but could be read as a stand-alone, in my opinion 👽

Since it‘s healing, I thought I‘d share my new A Wrinkle in Time tattoo!! 😍

Doing some work at home today. Trying to get my Poem-in-Your-Pocket Day display ready for Thursday, 4/26!

Very fun trip to Barnes and Noble. I went to get postcards for #psc3 and came home with a beautiful set of #bookplates and @icebearreads got this adorable Pusheen teapot 😍 ☕️

It‘s snowing outside, so this seems like a perfect time to wrap my #keychainswap items for @LoverofLit

@JenlovesJT47

1. Usually I prefer winter, but considering there‘s snow in the forecast tonight and tomorrow, I will say summer 🌞🌻🌈🚣‍♀️🚴🏻‍♀️
2. Both, but mostly fiction
3. Yes, I host one for the library, but it‘s aimed towards millennials (20-30yo) and we meet at a cafe - it‘s a lot of fun. The tagged book is our April read
4. Print except for at night, so I don‘t have to have the lamp on 🤓

@SilversReviews

Fiancé is teaching herself how to cross stitch a Ponyo design next to me and I‘m reading about historic female killers...we‘re like a Norman Rockwell painting over here! ?️‍??

For #top3mustread here are three books that I always recommend to friends.

Mini review: Written by the author of the Neverending Story, Ende paints a picture of a little girl who‘s greatest gift is that of listening. She helps everyone in her village by listening to them....until the Men in Gray come and make the villagers obsessed with time. Now Momo has to go to Father Time to save the village.

#readingresolutions @Jess7

1.) Tagged book - High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
2.) I have many, but St Vincent is a constant
3.) so many good ones! Future Islands, Jens Lekman, St Vincent, and Peaches were all AMAZING 🤩❤️
4.) Currently it‘s “The Big Country” by Talking Heads

#manicmonday @JoScho

I am a huge lover of bad movies and grew up watching MST3K every weekend

The first time I saw The Room was 7+ years ago in Hollywood during one of the midnight showings and Tommy Wiseau came by to throw a football around and shake hands. So of course I read Disaster Artist as soon as it came out and laughed out loud the entire time. If you haven‘t seen The Room, it‘ll make you want to and if you have, it just gives more wacky depth to it.

After starting many-a book and not finishing - I finally finished one and (hopefully) have broken my reading slump!

I‘ve discovered that, while I hate movies/TV with precocious children, I like reading them and Flavia de Luce is definitely a precocious 11year old. Her knowledge of chemistry, her plots of revenge against her sisters, and her determination to solve the murder make for an excellent protagonist.

Read ‘Bingo Love‘ while enjoying a delicious brunch of sweet potato fries and fried eggs 🍳

I felt some of the themes were over-simplistic and I had a hard time believing that a grandma in 2015 would would say she was “pansexual” and “queer” - the language felt too young sometimes for the character, but I really liked the story and appreciate any gay love story that has a happy ending ❤️

Starting this on a 15 minute break. The second book came through for a patron and the plot was so intriguing I had to find the first. Sounds a bit like Ben Aarondovich‘s series, but in this the MC is Ravi Chandra Singh who is a London private detective who also sees Hindu Gods during moments of high anxiety and stress. 👍

When your partner is also a #booknerd you end up with two copies of the same book in the house 😋

Playmobil elf and make-shift hobbit are ready for the #journey !

@Jess7 #readingresolutions

Working in the library on a beautiful Sunday and loving how this handmade mosaic chess board is soaking up the sunshine ☀️

This purchase was 100% #blameitonlitsy

So far it‘s living up to the hype 👏❤️

1. Litsy has replaced Candy Crush Soda
2. YA fantasy
3. Reese‘s Eggs!
4. @icebearreads and @s_pd
5. I love the variety of seeing everyone! Excited to see what my friend (who is new to Litsy) @crystal.lightning will be posting :)

#friyayintro @Jess7

We read this for our bookclub and it is a great pick for anyone looking for a book to discuss. Talking about death is very personal and something we, as a society, try to avoid. The tone of the book has the right amount of compassion and humor and everyone who came said that they didn‘t know even half of the facts involved with what is done to our bodies after death and our rights when a loved one dies.

Our cats give it 4 paws up 🐾 🐾

Continuing with review catch-up

I love film noir and hard boiled detectives, so I wasn‘t too surprised how much I liked this. I liked the main character and, obviously, she didn‘t come to conclusions fast enough at times (the author lets you know he‘s in on it by describing a movie where the main character stays ignorant for way too long), but considering she is chugging merlot and pills for 90% of her day, it‘s no wonder she‘s a little foggy 😉

Playing review a little catch-up

I read a lot of really mixed reviews, so I was a little nervous to read this, but I‘m glad I did! A lot of people have complained about the main character, but her saltiness didn‘t bother me. Sure, I wanted to sometimes grab her shoulders and give her a shake, but she‘s a TEENAGER!

It did feel like two different books at times, but I loved both halves and I can‘t wait for the book of fairy tales to be released