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"Something had followed them home from Russia."
Creepy vibe so far...
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Getting started!

I‘m calling it early on this one. I‘m almost to page 50 and this book has been nothing but the completely insufferable main character being in her own dreadful head and obsessing over nothing. I‘m not interested in spending any more time with her.

I started this yesterday and finished today. It was the kind of book that filled me with dread and tension, even though I wasn't exactly sure why, and I tend to love books like that. So I raced to get to the last page and see what was going on here, and thankfully the ending lived up to the rest of the book. A good choice for my first read of 2020! #libraryloot

Dark novel that explores mother daughter relationships, writing, denial, superstitions, fate and fear as plans unravel on Christmas in the midst of an unexpected blizzard. The book definitely went in a direction I didn't expect, which I appreciated. The writing was also gorgeous in sections (though I didn't love the trope of the suffering writer). #WinterGames #SlayBells #HolidayRead 20 pts @MidnightBookGirl @StayCurious @Clwojick

It was all a secret. The entire country was a secret, and Siberia was the vast white secret at the center of it.

I‘m so selfish. I am a selfish person. But, God, I love you. I love everything about you. More than I ever knew I could ever love anything, I love you. Please, please, stay in this world with me.

“Mom, can‘t you see what you‘re doing?”
Holly looked from Tatiana to the sponge in her hand, to the dark circle around her on the floor. “Mom, you‘re trying to scrub your shadow off the floor.”
“What?” Holly asked. Why were there suddenly tears in her eyes? Why, again, did she have that feeling of complete abandonment, of having been rejected, abandoned by everyone?

The shower water continued to run in a burning rivulet down Holly‘s spine, and she felt as if that heat, that water, might unzip her. She imagined it doing so, the flesh opening at her spine, and how it would feel, then, to step out of her body. Escape her body. The body was a kind of cage. That the self, the soul, was cage-free...cage-free was the goal, attained by death.

Holly had gone that morning into Tatty‘s bedroom expecting to find her in the Big Girl Bed. Tatiana wasn‘t in it. Instead, a Barbie doll, with the covers up to her plastic chin, her head resting on Tatty‘s pink pillow. Had she honestly thought, or only felt, primevally, in her Irish bones: Changeling?

•creepy moment in this book. Kids are scary.

Here are my picks for #LMPBC #Round5 #GroupE
@Patchshank @Lovesbooks87 @aroc

📚 Mind of Winter by Laura Kasischke
🎥 The Day After Tomorrow
🎶 Cold by Alison Wonderland
#manicmonday @JoScho

Has anyone read this book?

Thank you so much @rekahlee !! The detail in the ornament is fantastic!! Looking forward to digging in to this book that sounds amazing, and those chocolates! Merry Christmas!!!
Thanks for hosting @vkois88

Today's tea is strawberry rhubarb parfait. Very fruity with a hint yogurt creamyness so I made it has an iced tea in my tea press. The candle of the day is Candy dish. Starting a new book as well. It is a dark Christmas tale about a mother and her adoptive daughter snowed in, alone and strange things start happening.

This is one of my #DollarTree finds. It was a slow build up, for an abrupt ending. It wasn't one of the "and then she woke up from her dream" endings, but pretty darn close. It filled my downtime at work and is my "M" for #LitsyAtoZ 1/5❄️

So I've seeing people finding books at the dollar store and decided to investigate and found this one! Who knew? (Apparently, you guys.) Also, my latest #owlpost arrived today and is hiding under the notebooks. @BethM , your book has arrived in Oregon! Thanks @WordWaller !

#funfridayphoto Books set in winter: 'She woke up late that morning and knew: Something had followed them home from Russia' -you have to appreciate an opening like that when it's a blizzardy Christmas Day & a mother is sure that her teenage daughter, adopted as a baby from Russia may not be what she appears. This is a creepy physiological thriller w/ plenty of twists & turns & an ending that brought out the angst in me. Review link in comments❄️❄️