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The Bell Jar LP | Sylvia Plath
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Such a classic novel, but needs a careful mindet to get into it. Read my thoughts at ilayreading.com

#newpost #blogpost #classics #literature #mentalillness

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A Million Junes | Emily Henry
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This picture may not have turned out as well as I wanted, but the book sure did! Review is up on ilayreading.com today!

#summerreads #blogpost #newpost #botm

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Stargazey Point: A Novel | Shelley Noble
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Mehso-so

If summer reminds you of old time boardwalks, you should add this to your pool bag. Head to ilayreading.com for my full review!

#summerreads #beachreads #review #blogpost

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Woman No. 17 | Edan Lepucki
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Mehso-so

Major mixed feelings about this one. Find out why today on ilayreading.com. what did you think of this book?

#review #blogpost #summerreads #literaryfiction

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The Elite | Kiera Cass
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Mehso-so

Not as good as the first one, but just as addicting. My full review is up on ilayreading.com today!

#blogpost #review #series #summerreads #ireadya #youngadult

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Woman No. 17 | Edan Lepucki
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I am having such mixed feelings about this book. How did you feel about it? Love it? Hate it? Why?

#currentlyreading #qotd #literaryfiction #summerreads

amandareadsandwrites I just started this - how are your feelings about it now that you're further in (if you are)? 7y
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Woman No. 17 | Edan Lepucki

"And husbands who double as life rafts don't last very long. Who loves a life raft?"

#quote #hogarth #summerreads

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Such a good illustration of a nighttime panic attack.
#anxiety #panic #mentalillness #quote

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Paper and Fire | Rachel Caine
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Loved the second book as much as the first! Review isnup on ilayreading.com today!

#blogpost #review #fiction #series #youngadult #summerreads

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Exit West: A Novel | Mohsin Hamid
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This one is going to win awards. If you haven't put it on your list yet, why? My review is up today!

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#mustread #blogpost #review

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"What is more, those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude with it through our own apathy."

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A Monster Calls | Patrick Ness, Siobhan Dowd
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I read this book a few months ago and fell in love with Patrick Ness. He writes with such incredible feeling. You can checkout my review at ilayreading.com

#throwbackthursday #tbt #youngadult

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Woman No. 17 | Edan Lepucki
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This just arrived from Hogarth Books! I've seennso many people talking about it, can't wait to pick it up!

#bookmail #summerreads #hogarth #fiction

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Lost Boy | Christina Henry
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I almost forgot to read this ARC! It comes out next week! Whoops!

#currentlyreading #captainhook #fairytales #retelling

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As I Lay Dying | William Faulkner
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Did you know I named my blog after a book I had never read?? I finally read Faulkner a few months ago and it was...not what I expected.
You should definitely go read that post at
http://ilayreading.com/2017/06/02/william-faulkner-as-i-lay-dying/

#blogpost #review #fiction #classics

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New Boy | Tracy Chevalier
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I thought HagSeed was pretty weird, so I was hesitant to read New Boy. It kind of blew me away though. Definitely one to put in your list!

Check out my full review at ilayreading.com today!

#newpost #review #fiction #blogpost #shakespeare

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"Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct. What we like is to be a man's last romance."
--Mrs. Allonby

#quote #plays #romance #classics

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It's only appropriate that on #harrypotter20 anniversary I would post a series that has so much in common with it. I am in love with this series, and my review is a lot of screaming. You've been warned, but you should also go read it.
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#newpost #review #fiction #series #youngadult #summerreads

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It's very surreal to read this while the new health bill stuff is going on. To see everyone panicking about losing coverage while reading how the poor has been shut out over and over...my review in this book is going to be more of an essay I think.

#poetry #quote #mondaymotivation #inspiration #politics #currentlyreading #nonfiction #sociology

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I was afraid this would be terribly racist but so far it is throwing ALL the shade on American history and I'm loving it.
#nonfiction #history #america #dogs #sundayfunday

BookishMarginalia I loved this one. Super enlightening. 7y
ilayreading @BookishMarginalia it is. Normally nonfiction drags but I can't believe how page turnery this is. I'm just sucking it all in. 7y
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The Unforgettables | G. L. Tomas
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This book was really well intentioned, but there were several things characters I felt needed more development. Check out ilayreading.com today for more.
#blogpost #review #youngadult #superheroes

JoeStalksBeck Welcome to the best community ever❤️📖‼️📚 7y
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Ash and Quill | Rachel Caine
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"It is a terrible arrogance to think that there are any of humankind who are better or worse, or worthy or not. It comes of a pitiful need to believe in one's own worth when one is hollow within. We are all worthy. And none of us are, all at once. Once that is acknowledged, that hollow, howling space may be filled with understanding."

#quote #ARC #journal

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Next up on my Oscar Wilde Luncheon Read.

#oscarwilde #plays #throwbackthursday

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New Boy | Tracy Chevalier
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Box 4 of at least 10. I've collected so many books just in the year we've been here.

#moving #shelfie #packing

thewornbookmark Packing up the books is so hard!! We're getting ready to sell our townhome so those were the first to be packed aince there were so many. Luckily we are buying my parents' place eventually so I was able to unpack them all right away. 7y
ilayreading @thewornbookmark I've done this way too many times in the last few years. Some of them are starting to show wear and tear from the boxes. My shelves may not survive another trip. 7y
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Ash and Quill | Rachel Caine
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And, even better, now I get to start the ARC of the third book. I can't put this series down, ya'll.
@penguinusa @PenguinPublishing

#youngadult #fiction #series #summerreads #currentlyreading

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Hooray for #bookmail!
Thanks @penguinusa !

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Mehso-so

This is such a bizarre little play. I've known shallow people before, but to only love someone because of their name? Whyyyy?

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Paper and Fire | Rachel Caine
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Rise! Though we die, though our stories are lost and never placed on the shelves of the Great Library, though we lose our lives and our very nation, we will never give up one great truth: a life is worth more than a book.

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Paper and Fire | Rachel Caine
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All things live. That which begins inorganic becomes organic though the divine power of quintessence. And so we must learn to control this unknowable element, to discover how to make metals, minerals, the organic and inorganic alike transmute and transfigure, above and below the earth.

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Let's head off on a bookish adventure together! What's your favorite author quest?

New post up on ilayreading.com today!

#travel #nonfiction #summerreads

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Paper and Fire | Rachel Caine
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The chaos of the weekend finally caught up with me, so glad my boss made me take today off too. Designated day of reading. #summerreads #youngadult #fiction

DebinHawaii Welcome to Litsy! 🎉📚👍😀Hope you enjoy it here! 7y
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