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#girlgonewild #MOvember
This story collection is on my TBR, partly because of the good things I've heard, and partly because this is one of my favorite covers in the last few years.
@Cinfhen

All in all I'd say it was an entertaining read but it did have some issues that I cannot ignore. I would recommend it to those looking for something a little different in the reading.

Please read my full review here:
https://thereadingmermaidsreviews.weebly.com/book-reviews/the-wilds-by-julia-ell...

Review video for the week is up!

Check it out here:
https://youtu.be/5cEOc-lu-ok

#2019Book13
If you‘re a fan of Flannery O‘Connor and magical realism, then I guarantee you‘ll love the short stories in this book.

I will be drawing the winner for my #TrickorTreatGiveaway tonight!! If you'd like to enter, repost and tag, and for fun tell me your favorite candy! #giveaway #giveaways 🎃🎃

Thanks @kellyann28 for doing this #TrickorTreatGiveaway such a cool idea!!

I would say my favorite candy is M&Ms especially mint or pumpkin spice.

@kellyann28 I don't have many candies I don't like! They are all good! Thanks for the opportunity. 💖

Thank you so much for the giveaway @kellyann28 🤗
My favorite candies for Halloween are: Snickers, York's, Milky Ways and Tootsie Pops. 🍫🍬🍭

Happy Halloween & thanks for the giveaway @kellyann28 - my favorite halloween candies are candy corn and sixlets. I know I can get sixlets any time of the year but for some reason I only want/ like them during halloween lol

#trickortreatgiveaway

#TrickorTreatGiveaway. @kellyann28
Anything chocolate!!! But Reece‘s Peanut Butter Cups are usually my first choice.

#TrickorTreatGiveaway @kellyann28

For me it is all about chocolate and even better when you add toffee or carmel.🍫❤

Thanks @kellyann28 for the #TrickOrTreatGiveaway. My very favorite candy is Panda licorice (raspberry or cherry) but it‘s hard to find so otherwise butterfinger, Snickers, Milkyway, Twixt 😋

What a fun #giveaway!! Visit @kellyann28 to see her post and enter!! My favorite candy is....hmmmm chocolate !! I‘m pretty fond of Heath Bars, Twix (frozen tho😋!), and KitKats 😍 #trickortreatgiveaway

Thanks for the #trickortreatgiveaway @kellyann28 ! My favorite Halloween candy is Reese's Pieces (or as I always called them, "Reesie's Piecies"). They're Halloween colored all year round!

Thanks @kellyann28 for the chance to win in your #TrickOrTreatGiveaway! My favorite candy is m&ms. All the flavors of m&ms! And I love candy corn! 😁

Great giveaway from @kellyann28 ! #trickortreatgiveaway

Absolutely in love with Reese‘s Peanut 🥜 Butter Cups! #TrickorTreatGiveaway 🕯🧟‍♀️☠️🎃☠️

Thank you @kellyann28 for organising this #TrickorTreatGiveaway!🤩

My favourite candy will always be chocolate😍🍫😍

Thanks for the fun 🤙

@kellyann28 #TrickorTreatGiveaway

It's hard for me to choose one candy...but I love sour patch kids and take 5 candy bars!
#TrickorTreatGiveaway @kellyann28

Thanks @kellyann28 for the chance to enter your #TrickorTreatGiveaway 😀🎃👻🧙🏻‍♀️💀

My favorite candy is dark chocolate.

How about a little Halloween giveaway? I'll give one person a little treat just in time for Halloween! Repost and tag me to enter! For a bonus, tell me what your favorite candy is! ;) Winner will be picked on 10/19 #TrickorTreatGiveaway #giveaway

There's this vein of repulsion for human flesh, bodies, smells, etc through all these stories and I honestly rolled my eyes so hard at autism being in this long passage of eww people are icky. Maybe she didn't intend it that way but honestly 😑.

So. I'm about halfway through and I --don't-- think I'm going to be loving this so much as everyone else. I keep finding myself sorta liking the stories but feeling dissatisfied or wrinkling my nose. If stories had textures, these would feel slightly sticky. I'm going to finish but I think they're just not clicking for me.

#currentlyreading

#AwesomeAutumnBooks #WildWednesday

Haven't read this but I love the cover!

@Jess7

"The Wilds kept cats, lizards, and ferrets. Rabbits, hamsters, turtles, and snakes. A bubble of musky, ammoniac air enveloped their home like a force field, and the second you dared step through it you felt dizzy; a hundred arrows whistled around your ears."

This is about as much wilderness as I get these days, a buy 3 get 1 free sale at the big bookshop. #booksinthewild #riotgram

Current read. Trying to expand my reading horizons with some Southern Gothic short stories 📚#thewilds #currentlyreading #juliaelliot #shortstories

Just a few collections of #shortstories I luuuurrrvvvvv. #somethingforsept

"I crouched in the bushes in Mama's green chiffon evening gown, wearing my crown of bird skulls. I'd collected the skulls for two years, spray-painted them gold, and glued them to a Burger King crown, along with fake emeralds and glowing shells of June bugs." My favorite short story collection to date: sharp & prescient & so intelligent, and filled with delicious imagery like this.