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Sealed
Sealed | Naomi Booth
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Reggie
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If there was ever a book to convince you not to become pregnant this would be it. We follow Alice, who is pregnant and it is anything but comfortable. She‘s also a hypochondriac. She has moved out to the Australian countryside with her baby‘s father Pete to make a go of it. And everything feels wrong. Including the looming threat of a skin sealing epidemic on the rise. I loved this book. It started out as one thing and like a snake that keeps👇🏼

Reggie on shedding its skin, this book kept on becoming something new and different. It had a lot of heart. Pick! 3y
Cinfhen You write the BEST reviews 🙌🏻♥️ would you call this horror? Or dystopian fiction?? Or both?? Or neither😉 (edited) 3y
Reggie More like the horror of being a pregnant woman fiction. Lol I felt like it was a touch dystopian more than anything. I think you‘d like it @Cinfhen. 3y
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LeahBergen Eek! 😱 3y
Reggie More like 🤮 @LeahBergen 3y
Cinfhen Ok 😜I‘m game 3y
Suet624 Darn it, Reggie. I‘m scared to read it but stacked it anyway. 😃 3y
Ms_T I really like the sound of this. Great review! 3y
Megabooks This sounds good!! 3y
Reggie @Ms_T @Megabooks thanks! If y‘all pick it up I hope you enjoy it. It had me asking some coworkers about they‘re pregnancies and it was interesting how different everyone‘s was. 3y
Reggie @Suet624 😁I thought of you the other day, Sue. I was listening to a horror podcast where they were interviewing Vermont author, Jennifer MacMahon and they started talking about the Bennington triangle and it‘s spookiness. Have you ever been? And witch windows. Which look cool. She talked about how even though she‘s been there since 1989 people will tell her she‘s a flat lander. But she a real affection for Vermont. It was nice to hear it. 3y
Suet624 @Reggie Vermonters have an overexaggerated pride in being born in Vermont. But once they get to know you & you prove that you're not a deadbeat, they're cool with you. I love Vermont and the majority of Vermonters. Witch windows are everywhere in older houses in Vermont and I love the idea of them. I haven't spent any time in Bennington but I'm very susceptible to spooky so now I think I'll avoid it. :) 3y
ValerieAndBooks @Suet624 my husband and I are talking about planning a road trip to VT in July — want to see some of my ancestors‘ old stomping grounds including Ft. Ticonderoga and the town of Rutland where some are buried. Think I‘ll want to avoid Bennington at least overnight 😨 and any other travel advice is appreciated. Maybe we can even get to meet up 🤞. @Reggie I hope to meet up with you first week in September when I‘m visiting my mom and sister! 3y
The_Penniless_Author @Suet624 As I've been told many times since I moved here, you're a flatlander if you're anything less than a third-generation, native-born Vermonter. That means even if my daughter's children and grandchildren are born here, they'll still be flatlanders, since she didn't move here till she was two 🤣 3y
802Librarian @Suet624 I was just visiting a friend in Rutland this past weekend, he lives in an old house and I told him I was surprised it didn‘t have witch windows. He‘d never heard of them (definitely a flat lander 😆). ❤️ Vermont and it‘s quirkiness. 3y
Suet624 @NHLibrarian hahaha “definitely a flatlander.” (edited) 3y
Suet624 @The_Penniless_Author bah humbug. Three out of four of my kids were born here. They‘re Vermonters in my book. 😃 3y
The_Penniless_Author @Suet624 Hey, don't blame me, I'm from Pennsylvania. I didn't make the rules 🤣 3y
sprainedbrain Well this sounds awesome. 3y
Reggie @ValerieAndBooks Yayy! I‘m so exited! I‘ll be here 3y
Reggie @sprainedbrain I think you would like it! 3y
Reagan You‘re personally at fault for my booming tbr. How can I not read this after that review?? 3y
Reggie @Reagan 🤷🏽‍♂️you welcome? Lol, really this was good, and if you ever get to it I hope you like it. 3y
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Moray_Reads
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Horrifying and riveting. In this pre-apocalyptic story heavily-pregnant Alice is struggling in a new remote home. Her discomfort, mental and physical, is palpable. Her body feels alien, invaded by the new life, and she is panicked by stories of an unknown disease. Almost unbearably tense, this is an evocative horror story on many levels. I could not look away. (There is a traumatic birth scene, proceed with caution.)

TrishB I can take all the horror but was immediately turned off by the birth scene 😱 4y
Moray_Reads @TrishB it's an essential part of the story but it's rough, it made me glad that I've never wanted children 4y
TrishB I‘ve had two! But can‘t bear anything to do with bad births. 4y
Moray_Reads @TrishB perhaps give this one a miss...I recommend the author though. She's very good 4y
saresmoore On reading your review, my initial thought was, “This sounds like my life in June!” Thankfully, my birth experience was blissful. 😅 4y
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BookishTrish
Sealed | Naomi Booth
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The best part of this week is hiding in my office with good chocolate and a new book!

Christine Ooh that chocolate sounds so good! 4y
Pmak2002 Love it 😍 books and chocolate 🍫 are the best 4y
Reggie Lucky you! 4y
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swynn
Sealed | Naomi Booth
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This is a good one. Set in Australia during the rise of a new autoimmune disease in which a victim's skin grows over eyes or orifices. A heavily pregnant woman and her boyfriend escape from the city in hopes of avoiding infection ... but it's a horror story and you know how well escaping to the sticks works in those ... Besides the horror, it offers terrific writing and clever perspective on environmental and social crises. I'll read more Booth.

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