Here we go…
🌱 Parable of the Sower - #WithTheBanned2025
❤️ Heart-Shaped Box - buddy read on Instagram
🍎 Winter and Ravish - fairy tale challenge on Instagram, and Winter is also for #SeriesLove2025
⭐️ Where the Forest Meets the Stars - my sister just read this and loved it and it‘s been on my shelf for a couple years now
pick3.5 ⭐ This is a bad ghost who‘s afraid. But one year when he doesn‘t get what he most wants from his family, he decides the only way to ensure that is to become less afraid. He spends the year slowly building up stamina so that he can join his family to get what they most desired. Occasionally, there‘s a setback, but the setbacks make him stronger in the end. This is a great message. The story is a little long, but in total
so-soThis was okay but it‘s not a book I‘ll keep on my shelf
A quick book while I‘m a bit sick- I‘m halfway through and it‘s very gripping so far ☺️
pickArthur Kipps is sent to a remote village to settle a client‘s affairs after she has died. There is a “woman in black“ who haunts the deceased clients house and area. This is beautifully written, one of the best ghost stories I have ever read. Overall- exceptionally good read. ⬇️
Make a great day everyone 😊
pickThis one bordered on a thriller for me! Great story with heart wrenching moments!
pickIn 1935, five men set off to follow in the ill-fated footsteps of the 1905 expedition up Kangchenjunga. Little do they know the mountain is hiding a dark secret. I like historical and psychological horror but this one was a soft pick. There was just so many opportunities to make this story truly horrifying, disturbing, and unsettling but Paver chose to take a safer route. I‘m hoping her other book Dark Matter will make me afraid of the dark.
bailedIt took me forever to get into this and when I finally did, it got weird...in a bad way. And then I found out the author made some awful comments about trans people. So, yeah, I'm bailing.
pickNot being a MiddleGrade student, it‘s probably unfair of me to rate, so let‘s call it a low pick. Born a girl but uncomfortable with culture messages of what she *should* be interested in, Bug is also mourning her recently deceased Uncle (who might be haunting her!) I could identify with the confusion of being told “just be yourself!” But WHO is YOU when you don‘t know what you feel and are uncomfortable in your own skin? #BannedBook #Transgender
