Rooms (Bound for Schools & Libraries) | 
pickMy final read (tagged) of #Scarathlon2021 also helped me complete my bingo card and reach 20 hours in #20in4. This has been a fun October. #Bingo @StayCurious @Andrew65
#spookoween @TheSpineView
#screamathon @4thhouseontheleft
#LittenListen @aperfectmjk
so-soI enjoyed how every chapter took place from the perspective of a different character. There were some points in the story where I would get the two ghosts confused. I enjoyed the mystery of what happened in the lives of the characters that made them who they are but the whole story I felt was just lacking something. Not really a chilling story, more so just a lackluster haunted house with a very dramatic family that needs to seek therapy.
so-soThis book takes place in a house, with each chapter centering on a room. The story is told through multiple point of views, from the ghosts who live within the house and the family members who come to bury their estranged father/husband. The book is ethereal and looks at difficult and real situations from an interesting perspective, but it took awhile for me to feel invested and it just wasn‘t my cup of tea.
Thank you, @cleoh , for this wonderful #HauntedHollowSwap package!! 🖤
The books: Rooms sounds so good🖤I haven‘t read a Stephen King short story in years🖤We Have Always Lived in the Castle is one of my FAVES🖤and I‘ve been wanting Portrait of a Murderer for ages! 🖤
Thanks so much for the tea, washi tape, stickers, bottle decals (love ‘em! 😆), and little pumpkin light. I love it all! 🖤
Thanks for hosting, @wanderinglynn ! 🖤
pickLiterally could not put this book down! Have you ever heard the expression, if walls could talk? Meet the Walker family, messy, dysfunctional and torn apart meeting together to clean up their late husband/fathers estate--rooms filled with the detritus of life and death. Told from each person's and three ghost's perspectives, this house has dark secrets.
@megzlynn pulling out the curiosity!
With lines like:
"However, this year will be different."
And
"Now, years later, I am glad to finally have my hands on a copy."
How can you not want to check out her latest blog post?
https://readinginthewildwood.com/2019/10/12/hauntingly-good-ghost-stories/
#Halloween #ghosts
Ghost stories are some of my favorite paranormal stories. Here are some of my favorites.
https://readinginthewildwood.com/2019/10/12/hauntingly-good-ghost-stories/
pickMy first book of 2019...a melancholy story about ghosts, secrets and family. Beautifully written and thoughtful. I really enjoyed it.
pickOliver's writing style is elegant, haunting, and a bit distant, like wind in the trees. I loved the shifting perspectives and the slow piecing together of everyone's hidden hurts. The ending is lovely and hugely satisfying as everything clicks together and the last of the secrets are let loose.
The skill Oliver shows in creating a rich atmosphere caused me to feel a lot of peripheral discomfort that haunted me long after I put the book down.
Just started this one, but I just can't continue tonight. I'm calling it quits with the #readathon at 19 hours. I didn't do as well this time. Too many distractions, but I did complete a physical book, an ebook and an audiobook. I'm quite happy with that. Good luck to everyone who is continuing. You got this!
so-soNot a fan of this one and I‘m bummed about it. I just didn‘t care much about the characters or how the story was told. It has potential to be a really good ghost story. 👻 #MountTBR #Halloween #LivingDeadDolls #Signed
Thank you so much @dariazeoli !!! I already sent your letter or I would have thanked you in that format as well. Hopefully I can return the kindness soon! #jb
"Sometimes on hot days I'd go to the store just to bend down and put my face over the lettuce and inhale, let the water hit the back of my neck and shoulders, and pretend I was nothing but a cabbage, or a flower in a greenhouse- with nothing to do but be cared for."
I love that, especially the "nothing to do but be cared for. " bit. ?
Day 6 (late) Colours. Here are some of my blue books #booksandshelfiesM18 #blue @Amabear sorrybim a few days out. Xx
My dad was admitted to the hospital on Sunday and I've been dealing with a stomach virus - clearly I'm not having a great week. So the arrival of this thoughtful Valentines package from @Smangela really made my day!
Thank you! ❤️
Ah the travel gods strike again! I‘m flying to BC from NB for the holidays today and am currently stranded in Vancouver waiting for my flight to Victoria, which has now been delayed twice 😂 there are many unhappy people at Guest Services, while I am just happy I packed more than one book in my carry on!
pick"Oh the secrets these walls could tell" is brought to life by Oliver. Ghosts, especially The Past, abound, watching, waiting, unlocking secrets room by room.
As a story that begins with fire and which, in truth, feels like it might burst into a roaring fire at any moment, it is the most appropriate for "fire" on my #autumnbingo card. @Tiffy_Reads
This book is full of #ghastlyghosts even miniature breath ghosts!
#hallowreads
@Tiffy_Reads @JoeStalksBeck
I am hoping this is a good Halloween Read...
"Monstrous," Minna says. "Absolutely monstrous. It looks like a vulva."
?technically more than 1 sentence but it stands alone as its own paragraph so I thought the full quotation was worth it.
#litsybookgame @maich
This gives me the #creepycrawlies 😨😓😢
#hallowreads
@Tiffy_Reads @JoeStalksBeck
pickFinished this audiobook tonight, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. It took me a while to get through, as it's been a very busy week, but I'm glad I renewed it because it was very intriguing, especially towards the end. I quite liked the characters, and will definitely be suggesting this book to friends.
pickLauren Oliver is a clever writer. The characters in this book made me cringe, and feel genuine concern. I'm looking forward to reading more of her work.
While I loved Vanishing Girls and Panic, I didn't really like Rooms that much. I can't pinpoint wxactly what it was that I didn't like but it just didn't draw me in.
Apologies for posting so much tonight but so many challenges! #redbooks #17booklove
so-soOkay. I hate giving bad reviews. I just don't do it. I didn't enjoy this book- HOWEVER the writing was superb. The author proves yet again that she has a way with words. The story itself wasn't my cup of tea. It's not that anything was wrong with it, but it when I was finished, I was relieved. The characters made me sad. Many had no redeeming qualities and just felt like morally ambiguous people (at best) or simply bad people (at worst).
pickThis was a weird, sad, disturbing, beautiful little novel. It was really different from everything else Oliver has ever written, which is perhaps why people who are used to her work weren't fans, but I really liked it. It was beautifully written, of course, with shifting narrators and a tremendous amount of subtlety as well as misdirection, which made it a bit hard to follow at times, but it came together nicely in the end. 7/10 ⭐️
Okay okay...everyone is giving it a meh... But so far I'm enjoying it. It is slow, but it holds my interest and I don't mind a slower pace. I'm going to finish and then will share my review. 😬 we shall see...
Left my other book at my friend's house 😁 so until I get it back I'm reading this. Excited despite the meh reviews mostly because I love Oliver's writing!
Just snagged this hardcover copy from B&N for $5. Going into the never ending #TBR pile. I love this red cover. Gorgeous!
so-soThis story has slow pacing + multiple POV's. I like the characters just fine, but never felt a deep connection to this cast (possibly because it takes a while to piece together character backstories). Of all the POV's, I think Alice the ghost + Trenton the son are probably my favorites.
Tried this in print + audio but I dropped the audio: too many POV's. Full cast though, if that's your thing.
Not bad, not great. Just moving onto the next story.
Soooo I'm only on page 16 and I already am pretty meh about it. Has anyone read this and loved it? Think I'm going to take a break from it for now!
so-soFinally finished! I'm not sure why this story just didn't pull me in. The writing was fine. The story was there...but I just didn't care. I'm left feeling nothing but relief that this will be one less book on my shelves. ⭐️⭐️⭐️
This book makes me feel like I'm turning pages in something that never ends. The page numbers are getting larger but other than that I feel like I've been stuck in the dead center of the book for days
I find that I'm having a hard time getting through this one now. Oh to handle the curse of being a mood reader. I seriously have to finish books quickly or I run the risk of staring at it, unfinished, for months. Going to try and avoid that, and get more reading in during the daylight hours.
I love the way this is told, and the use of the ghosts. Though I may switch back over to Shutter and finish that one today.
Started this one about an hour ago. So far I like it, it's kind of depressing but Oliver's writing is fantastic.
pickJust started this and already it's quite fun! Has anyone read this yet?
