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Think it or any food that glows in the dark make my list of fears.

October 22 - The Daily Photo Challenge - Prompt: skeleton

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Four stars! I loved the plot and characters. A sense of finding your family again through the struggles of one‘s own mind and misfortunes. It was beautiful. The ending was a bit vague and left me a little sad but this book has a place on my keep forever shelf. Thank you Sam @magyklyXdelish for gifting me this look. Love.
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#ReadYourSign Violet cover and heavy mention of orchids are the criteria for ♋️. Curse, Spell, Magic, Jinx vs. Depression, Anxiety, Obsession? Was it Magical Realism or Mental illness? This book is both! The personification of Death is so creative. I also like that the author gave some mental health resources after the story. 3/5💀s @Meaw_catlady and @Clwojick
P.S. I threw the little dog in because he‘s so cute🙂

I hardcore loved this book. I loved the characters, felt their traumas, and loved the idea of a simple country boy becoming Death's apprentice... even if he's not real. This book has humor, but it ends up tackling some very big issues, including depression and suicide (just as a warning for future readers, I didn't see some of it coming, but it's not a trigger for me). I wish I'd read this sooner! ❤ 📚 ❤

I have to quote Bustle and say “A Magical take on mental illness that feels very real”. It‘s on cover. It‘s a cute read. 3⭐️. I learned a few strange things: 1. There are tumors that can grow hair and teeth-ewwww....they are called teratomas. 2. There are jellyfish that are immortal...huh? Turritopsis dohrhnii...who knew? I liked the personification of death in this book. #AustralianAuthor

“𝑆𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑜 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑎𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑢𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑓𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑏𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚” 💔✨

#asemidefinitivelistofworstnightmares #quote #krystalsutherland

𝑀𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑘 #22 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ, 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 ℎ𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑡, 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝐻𝑜𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑜 𝑑𝑎𝑚𝑛 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑠 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡/𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝐼 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝐴 𝑆𝑒𝑚𝑖-𝐷𝑒𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝐿𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑁𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑏𝑦 𝐾𝑟𝑦𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑆𝑢𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑑.

#nightmare #teamslaughter #chillingphotochallenge #scarathlon @Clwojick 307 pts

Esther Solar‘s family has been cursed by death. Once a Solar realizes their fear they will die by it. But is the family really cursed or are they suffering from mental illnesses?

I found this story to be very interesting. There were moments of magical realism that had you questioning if the Solar family really was cursed. Written well and the characters were great.

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So true!

@hermyknee is the best! Thank you for the gifts! I‘m so thankful to litsy for putting amazing people in my life that I can now call friends.

I can‘t wait to try the coffee and the one in the white bag actually gives 20% of all their proceeds to fund life saving animal rescue initiatives. Coffee and a good cause!

#listypenpal #lizisthebestest

#dontdreamitsover #lilithjuly @Cinfhen @KarenUK

5 stars. This is the cutest YA I‘ve read. It‘s clever, emotional, lovable and of course so cute. Even if you‘re not into YA this is still a good read. I loved it.

#24in48

#24in48 Hour 6 Challenge: Dedications and Epigraphs

Ready for #24in48 .

Read it. Now. ❤️

The newest member of the family, Luna, matches the kitty on the cover of my current read. I‘m a little more than halfway through and am really liking it so far!! I also really like the title for some reason. #catsoflitsy

I love coworkers who give me good books to read!!! 🤓

This book was really good. Esther and her family few that they are cursed. Everyone has something that they are afraid of and think will eventually kill them. Esther still doesn't know what her greatest fear is, so she started to make a list of everything that could be her greatest fear and she avoids all of them. But with the help of a friend she starts to face her fears. This book as address issues that teens face on a balky bases!

Congrats on 70,000 litfluence @TheLibrarian ! That's a big number! 🤯
I LOVED this teen book. The main character is convinced that her family has been cursed to die by the hand of their worst fear bc her grandfather met death. The love story is sweet, the book is HILARIOUS, and at the same time, it manages to be a fairly good look at how mental illness can affect a family
#70kgiveaway

Easily one of my favorites for the year. It's hard to even express what made me love it so much. It's hilarious. It's a deep look into mental illness and the concept of death that doesn't poke fun at what it examines.Over the top characters who I wish could be my best friends. (A special-needs cat.) Some fantastic one-liners. Just enough fantasy to keep you on your toes. A hard look at navigating relationships of all kinds. And a gorgeous cover.

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#24in48

Read from "So much work..." down to "of the universe?"

This book somehow manages to be hilarious and the best kind of weird while simultaneously being a beautiful study of death and our fear of it as well as a deep look into anxiety, depression, and the lengths we go to for family.

So far, it's nothing short of brilliant. This is what I mean when I say that teen fiction has some of our best writers today.

#24in48

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Even better when you take into consideration that they are in high school, and he helped her reupholster the couch that she got off the street so she could get out of facing her fears with him! 😂💜

#24in48

That time when your generalized anxiety gets in the way of reading a book about a family with crippling anxiety...not getting much reading done tonight 😪

I hope y'all can read this section. (It's dark in here, but I can't turn on the light due to a sleeping husband.) Read starting at: "Back to the previously mentioned cake." I promise you won't regret it!! ???

This section made me laugh audibly, even though my husband was asleep next to me!

It isn't often I read a first chapter and fall in love with a book- that definitely just happened here! I am so excited to continue reading it. I think it's safe to say I'll be tired at work tomorrow!

Do NOT judge this book by (either/any of) it‘s rather weird/boring covers. This book is seriously unique and funny and cute!! There are trigger warnings for depression and suicide, though, so be warned because I was not ready for those. But other than that, the characters are unorthodox, the plot is absolutely unparalleled, and there is a great message at the end. Oh, and did I mention it‘s funny too? Because it is! Read it!

Have started reading this quirky somewhat macabre #YAlit romance (yes, you read those descriptors right 😉) about Esther, whose whole family is cursed, and Jonah, Esther‘s first Crush, as they tackle their greatest fears one strange phobia at a time. It‘s also written in 3rd person, which is a bonus right now because the novel I‘m currently writing is 3rd person, and if it were 1st person I‘d end up getting all muddled in my writing 😏

I just love this title and all of its ambiguous absoluteness. #tbr #titles #bookcovers

#GIVEAWAYFAVORITES @Liberty 💓 This was one of my favorites of the year, aside from quite a few of the recent ones that I posted already... I was able to read the egalley and then someone kindly sent me the hard copy. It got to me in ways I didn‘t expect it to. It‘s not even my usual kind of ‘favorite‘! Plus it has a cat on the front = bonus points 👍🏼😻

#Giveawaynew #Liberty #catsoflitsy. These are new to me...latest bookstore run.

I laughed and laughed whilst reading Krystal Sutherland‘s first book... so when I saw this at Big W, I had to get it!

#fyaphotoaday Day 13: Friday The 13th - The characters in this book REALLY believe in bad luck and superstitions, though it's not all spooky—there's a TON of heart. - Stephanie #fridaythe13th #badluck #asemidefinitivelistofworstnightmares #amreading #currentlyreading #yabooks #yaliterature

I picked up these two tonight. I‘ve given in and gotten Milk and Honey.

#ya #poetry #books #bookhaul #tbr

Are they a mentally ill family or did Grandpa meet death? Good read. A cat gets injured.