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Audition | Katie Kitamura
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He closes the book. He imagines what he‘ll say in his Litsy review. Smirking, contemplating that maybe what he is actually doing, posting his Litsy review is synonymous with the title of the book. With every review he is auditioning for the role of reader in other people‘s minds-Lololol. I loved this book. The wtf is happeningness of it all. Loved her writing, the language, how it was able to dissect everything. I did think it lost a little 👇🏼

Reggie steam with the addition of a certain character near the end, but I didn‘t care. I still loved it. A pick! 5d
squirrelbrain Love this review! I hope you‘ll join in with the #camplitsy25 discussions starting next weekend. In fact, I nearly had one of the camp questions as ‘WTF just happened?‘! 🤣 (edited) 5d
Reggie @squirrelbrain lol, thanks! Yeah, I think people would understand you posting that question. I‘m looking forward to joining ya‘ll at camp this year. I‘m reading all the books. 5d
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Bookwormjillk @squirrelbrain next weekend 😱Where did the time go? 5d
Lesliereadsalot It‘s next up for me! Really looking forward to it. 5d
Jas16 Great review. This is going to be such a fun discussion 5d
squirrelbrain Yay - that‘s great news Reggie! 5d
squirrelbrain I know! @Bookwormjillk 🤷‍♀️ 5d
BarbaraBB That‘s such great news Reggie! 5d
Ruthiella Great review! 👏👏👏 5d
Christine Lol, this review was everything and I completely agree! 4d
Reggie @Lesliereadsalot hope you like it!!! 4d
Reggie @Jas16 I can‘t wait to see what people think. 4d
Reggie @Christine @Ruthiella Thank you!! I got a kick out of this one. 4d
CarolynM Great review! I‘m a bit nervous about starting… 4d
rockpools OK, NOW I‘m excited for this book. 4d
Megabooks Love this review!! You always deliver! So happy you‘ll be at camp this summer 💜😁 3d
BkClubCare “Happeningness” I get that! I stopped at Part 2 - should I wait til after Saturday to continue?! Always the difficult to balance timing when reading library books 📚 3d
Reggie @CarolynM thanks, you just gotta dive in. 2d
Reggie @rockpools I love when authors do what she does in here. And even if I didn‘t like it, I still would have loved her writing. 2d
Reggie @Megabooks lol thanks! I‘m excited and ready to rummmmbbbbllllleeeeee!!!! 2d
Reggie @BkClubCare I read it all in one night. Plus there are little details that are very faint in the first part that you might not pick up on in the second if you read it separately. 2d
BkClubCare @Reggie - interesting… I will likely go ahead and finish. I am entranced by the writing style, long sentences, extravagant yet detached somehow; how deftly she changes her focus. 2d
sarahbarnes Loved this book and love this review! Glad you‘ll be part of the discussion! 2d
Reggie @sarahbarnes thanks, me too!! I‘m on the Okorafor and loving that one, too. 2h
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Audition | Katie Kitamura
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Ding, ding, ding! We have a winner. lol, this book. I seriously have had to go watch scenes from that movie, Carol, with Cate Blanchett, because the vibes are similar. All air cracking with energy but not a lot of action.

BarbaraBB Exactly that: cracking with energy! 5d
Reggie @BarbaraBB ✨✨✨✨✨yes! 5d
youneverarrived Ohh I love that film. Going to start the book soon! 5d
Reggie @youneverarrived me too! Where has Rooney Mara gone? I hope you like the book. 2d
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Victorian Psycho | Virginia Feito
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This. Was . Hilarious!!!!! This was Otessa Moshfegh and all her gruesomeness but with humor. Miss Notty is hired to be the governess at the Pound estate and nothing will ever be same again. She has a darkness inside her that is just itching to get out. One would be afraid for the family of the Pound estate until you meet them. Then, maybe, you‘re rooting for Miss Notty. Litsy this was great but for a lot of you it might not be. Take care. Pick!!!

BarbaraBB Fab review. Really want to read it! 5d
shortsarahrose Moshfegh with humor sounds right up my alley! 5d
intothehallofbooks Ohhh I‘ve been wanting to read this one!!! This makes me more eager. 🤩 5d
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Bookzombie Great review! Too bad we can‘t double stack. lol 5d
LeahBergen Yay! I‘m glad I bought it now! 5d
Reggie @BarbaraBB @shortsarahrose @intothehallofbooks @Bookzombie @LeahBergen I‘m gonna give this book to my dad for Father‘s Day and thank him for being a great dad. I hope all of you read it. I now wanna go read her other book. 5d
Cathythoughts Great review 👏🏻😁 5d
Reggie @Cathythoughts Thanks! The last 40 pages are just bonkers. 4d
vivastory I have this one in my bag of library books. Definitely looking forward to it!! 4d
Rissreadswithcats I would stack it just for the cover! ♥️ 2d
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There is this gentleman that comes in almost everyday and plays the same machines at my casino. He‘s a Navy veteran who worked on submarines. He lent me 2 books and this is one of them. Was it on my 2025 bingo card to read about life on a 1960s submarine mission? No, but here we are. And as someone who has never read about submarine navy life I found it fascinating. I wouldn‘t say this is narrative but slice of life. Pick!

Ruthiella Neat! I definitely shy away from nonfiction , but am more often than not pleased when I actually read it! 1w
JanuarieTimewalker13 I worked at a casino in Vegas from 1991-1993….a long, long time ago. It was such a fascinating experience…the people I met came from ALL walks of life! I learned a lot from talking to different folks!! 6d
Reggie @Ruthiella I think I get trapped into thinking nonfiction is always gonna be some political memoir and that‘s totally false. lol 4d
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Reggie @JanuarieTimewalker13 this May makes 17 years at my casino and I could write a book. 4d
JanuarieTimewalker13 Man, I bet!!! That‘s not a bad idea, writing a book! 3d
JanuarieTimewalker13 I sold change to Jerry Garcia and didn‘t even know who he was. Lol I was a disco chick not a deadhead. I had Andre Agassi at my carousel and I definitely knew who he was and my manager said I had a smile on my face all day. Hahahahahaha. I also met Mike Ditka‘s mom. She was a doll. So many fun happenings and then some very strange ones too. (edited) 3d
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Eat the Ones You Love | Sarah Maria Griffin
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Shell, fresh out of a breakup in her young 30s and just having moved back home with her parents, takes a job in the mall as an assistant florist where there is a sinister plant. I wanted to like this more than I did but it lacked forward motion. There was a lot of stutter stopping. The story was sprawling in ways where I just ached to get back to any kind of main story. I just wanted the plant to kill people. Is that too much to ask!!! Low pick.

KathyWheeler I don‘t think it‘s too much to ask at all! 😄 2w
CBee Feed me, Seymour!! 😂😂 2w
Reggie @KathyWheeler @CBee lol, the plant was too involved in the human drama rather than getting things done. You ever decide to read one book about killer plants, make it the Ruins. Those plants coulda taught this one a thing or 2. 2w
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KathyWheeler @Reggie I don‘t generally get creeped out or scared by most books, but The Ruins did that to me! Good book. 2w
JenlovesJT47 Lol I love your complaints 😅😅😅 2w
vivastory @CBee lolol I just now saw yr comment after I posted mine 2w
CBee @vivastory great minds 😂😂😂 2w
Reggie @KathyWheeler I haven‘t read that book in over 10 years but I think about the main characters a lot. How he wanted to be a doctor and even though all he wants is to help and save them all he can‘t. Such a good book. 1w
Reggie @JenlovesJT47 lol, thanks, there was some good raw material in here. Just lacked some execution. 1w
Reggie @vivastory you can tell there‘s a lot of inspiration in here taken from LSOH. 1w
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TheBookHippie Yes!!!! 2w
AnnCrystal 👏🏼🐝👍🏼🚋🐝💫. 2w
dabbe W🤩WZA! 🖤🐝🖤 2w
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lil1inblue Love it! 💛 🐝 💛 2w
TheSpineView Love the idea of leaving it behind. 💛🐝💛 2w
DebinHawaii Beautiful—love the image it conjures in my mind! 🖤🐝💛 1w
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TheBookHippie Oh I love this!!!! 💙💙💙💙 2w
kspenmoll Odysseus!!!! 2w
AnnCrystal

👏🏼🐝👍🏼🧜🏼🧜🏼‍♂️🧜‍♀️🐝💫.
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TheSpineView Wow, love! 💛🐝💛 2w
AmyG Very nice. 2w
dabbe W😍WZA! 💛🐝🖤 2w
lil1inblue 👏 👏 👏Most excellent! 2w
Reggie @kspenmoll one of my favorite classes of all time was 9th grade Greek Mythology with Ms.Gunderson. 2w
BooksandCoffee4Me @Reggie I love that!!! 💛 2w
DebinHawaii Such a perfect vibe! 🖤🐝💛 1w
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Eat the Ones You Love | Sarah Maria Griffin
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This from a plant in the bouquet of flowers the girl is holding.

CoverToCoverGirl Creepy 👀. I might be rethinking my multiple flower beds. 2w
Reggie @CoverToCoverGirl lol, the pollinators of the world need your flowers! have you ever seen that movie The Happening? If you haven‘t, don‘t, it was horrible but basically the plants of the world have gotten together to release this toxin that causes humans to kill themselves. It was very scary. 2w
TrishB Wow 😮 2w
Suet624 Ummmm…this is just mean! 😭 1w
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Rosemarys baby | Ira Levin
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#haikuaday for yesterday.

TheBookHippie 🎉🎉🎉🎉🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 2w
dabbe Holy guacamole, Batman! 💛🐝🖤 2w
DebinHawaii Awesome! One of my favorite scary books & movies & you captured the over-the-top drama so well! 🖤🐝🖤 2w
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JessClark78 🖤 2w
Reggie @TheBookHippie lol Thanks! 2w
Reggie @dabbe mmmmm with some chips! 2w
Reggie @DebinHawaii thanks! I was watching it last night and it‘s still so good, every time. And Guy was so horrible. 2w
Reggie @JessClark78 🖤🖤🖤 2w
TheBookHippie @Reggie It‘s perfection!!! 2w
AnnCrystal 👏🏼🐝👍🏼🚼🐝💫. 2w
lil1inblue I haven't watched this in ages, but this brought me right back! Now I need to see it again. 👍 2w
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Say You'll Remember Me | Abby Jimenez
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I didn‘t expect to be bawling my eyes out on a Friday night but should have known better with Abby. Hot Veterinarian Xavier meets Mustard PR woman, Samantha. They have an imperfectly perfect 1st date. When he drops her off at her apartment he finds out she‘s moving 2000miles away. They decide to make it work long distance. This is sweet and funny, but man, there is a dementia storyline in here that ripped my heart out. Jimenez is always a pick!

AmyG I just finished my second Jimenez audiobook. Thank you. She is so enjoyable. And after 2….who are these men that fall in love with these women??? Ahhhh fiction. 3w
Reggie @AmyG lol, they all seem so well adjusted. What was the second one you listened to? 3w
CoverToCoverGirl I so love it when a book has the power to move me in intense ways. Especially when it‘s unexpected. 2w
Reggie @CoverToCoverGirl I‘m gonna keep it vague but there is a callback near the end to a single paragraph in the first half of the book and it also made me cry out of nowhere. It has nothing to do with dementia. Abby is so good. 2w
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White Line Fever | KC Jones
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Livia finds out her controlling husband is cheating and realizes when she left her childhood maybe she left one prison for another. Her and 3 girlfriends take a girls trip to recover and along a shortcut called The Devil‘s Driveway they come upon a stretch of this malicious unreality. It reminds them that the past will always haunt you. I loved, loved, loved his first book so I had to read this, his 2nd book. This is a bit wonky and 👇🏼

Reggie I can‘t tell you why. Maybe it‘s some of the tell and not shows. Maybe it‘s the arrangement of events in the different timelines. But I did like Livia and her friends and cared for them. Also, this is very Stephen Kingsy. It‘s a pick. 3w
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Bookwormjillk CC: laundry 3w
Reggie @Bookwormjillk lol, yes! 3w
TheBookHippie SERIOUSLY!!!! It‘s so rude!! 3w
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TheBookHippie @Bookwormjillk 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 3w
lil1inblue @Bookwormjillk 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 3w
lil1inblue Such a sisyphean task! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 3w
kspenmoll Haha🎉🎉 good one!! 3w
Ruthiella 👏👏👏 So true! 3w
vivastory 🤣😅😅 3w
AnnCrystal 👏🏼🐝👍🏼🍽️😂🐝💫. 3w
BooksandCoffee4Me Absolutely — and laundry, as others have said! 😂😂😂 3w
CarolynM I feel this😆 Sweeping the floor too🤬 3w
Reggie @lil1inblue indeed! lol, thanks! 3w
Reggie @willaful lol thanks for this! I love the song. 3w
Reggie @kspenmoll thanks. I‘m still thinking about part of the letter you posted about the other day. “My daughter can‘t write a poem, she is the poem.” 3w
Reggie @CarolynM OMG this! I used to live in a house with carpet and now my duplex has no carpet. I sweep like every other day. 3w
DebinHawaii Love this! 🖤🐝💛 Housework in general, totally puts a damper on my reading time! 😂 2w
Suet624 Since I stopped working, I‘m realizing that dust is a problem. Apparently I‘ve had layers of dust all over my place for years. Never had time to notice it before. 1w
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#haikuaday Sometimes while I‘m walking the floor at my casino, no one is waiting for the elevators, I don‘t push the button, and as I‘m walking by it will open by itself and no one is inside and I like to freak myself out. lol And now that I‘m thinking about it, maybe it‘s not about someone getting off the elevator, it‘s about someone calling me to get in. Ooooeeeeoooo 🥶5 months until Halloween, kids.

TheSpineView 😍😍😍 3w
lil1inblue So eerie! I've gotten that feeling. Love this. 3w
BooksandCoffee4Me Eerie and love the “tiiinng” sound 👏 3w
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AmyG Stephen King story? Does this involve twins and blood? I can hear “redrum”. (edited) 3w
BarbaraBB Very good 👍🏽 3w
tpixie Wow!!! Very eerie!!! great haiku, and graphic and sentiment 3w
tpixie @AmyG yes!!!!! # 3w
tpixie Do you work at a casino or do you play at one? And which casino? 3w
DebinHawaii Perfectly eerie! Love it! 🖤🐝🖤 3w
dabbe Yay to the eerie Halloween vibes! 👻👻👻 3w
LeahBergen Eek! 3w
AnnCrystal Exceptionally Eerie! Fantastic 👏🏼🐝👍🏼⬆️⬇️🐝💫. (edited) 3w
Reggie @TheSpineView 😁😁😁 3w
Reggie @lil1inblue Thanks! 3w
Reggie @BooksandCoffee4Me my coworker was wondering why I was asking him if Tiing or Ping was better for an elevator sound. lol 3w
Reggie @AmyG you genius!!!! You should‘ve posted that with the blood coming out of the elevator picture. That‘s sooo good! 3w
Reggie @BarbaraBB thanks! 😊 3w
Reggie @tpixie thank you. I work at Buffalo Thunder casino. It‘s 15 minutes North of Santa Fe. Some of the guys in surveillance have seen shadows on cameras going down the halls but nobody in the hallways. Creepy right? 3w
Reggie @DebinHawaii @dabbe @AnnCrystal Thank you! 🖤🖤🖤 3w
Reggie @LeahBergen Aak!!!! 3w
TheBookHippie Elevators terrify me. 🤣🤦🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️ 3w
tpixie @Reggie lol 😝 Tiing was perfect 🤩 3w
tpixie @Reggie Creepy Shadows!Casinos have their own life/universe.My son plays poker- mostly outside of San Diego, but also at tournaments in Austin & Vegas, & a couple of World Series in Vegas. I‘ve always wanted to go to Santa Fe. My husband has been there at least 3 times driving back-&-forth from Kansas to California with the kids. Hopefully in the next couple of years I‘ll get to go! if I do, I‘ll let you know. We might be at the craps table! 3w
kspenmoll Creepy! 3w
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White Line Fever | KC Jones
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#haikuaday inspired by the book.

julieclair Oh my… this tears my heart out. 😢 3w
Reggie @julieclair it‘s inspired by the book. That chapter is rough. 3w
TheBookHippie Whew. 3w
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DebinHawaii Oh man, that‘s a rough but powerful one! 🖤🐝🖤 3w
Centique Ohhhhhh. Theres a novel full of meaning in just a few words! 3w
AnnCrystal 🤔🐝📚🐝💫. 3w
BooksandCoffee4Me Reminds me of Hemingway‘s “baby shoes for sale, never used” story. 😢 3w
lil1inblue Oh, wow. Heartbreaking! Well done. 3w
dabbe A whoah one. 💛🐝💛 3w
Reggie @BooksandCoffee4Me That has to win an award for saddest title ever. 3w
Reggie @Centique I forget how evocative any kind of poetry can be. Also, the poor wife in here, after finding what she finds, takes off in her vehicle has a panic attack and gets into a wreck. Don‘t worry-she‘s alive…….for now. 3w
Centique @Reggie oh god! The poor thing 😬 3w
Centique @Reggie Hemingway was asked to write a 6 word story and that was it. Powerful! @BooksandCoffee4Me 3w
Reggie @Centique I had no idea, that‘s amazing. Thanks for telling me. 3w
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TheSpineView 🤩🤩🤩 @dabbe 3w
TheBookHippie 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 3w
dabbe I can so relate! 💛🐝🖤 If you can, would you mind tagging us all so that we can all be sure to enjoy your haikus? 🤩
Here's a list to copy and paste: @TheBookHippie @TheSpineView @Kristy_K @JenlovesJT47 @lil1inblue @DebinHawaii @bellabella @julieclair @BooksandCoffee4Me @AnnCrystal @Reggie @Eggs @vivastory @jdiehr @CBee
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JenlovesJT47 💛🐝💛 3w
BooksandCoffee4Me Guilt twists and sugar delights = perfect 👌 (edited) 3w
bellabella 👍 😍 3w
BarbaraBB 👌🏽 3w
AnnCrystal 👏🏼🐝👍🏼☺️🐝💫. 3w
Eggs Exquisite 👏🏻🥩👏🏻 3w
lil1inblue 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 3w
DebinHawaii Love this! “Sugar delights tongue” is perfection! 💛🐝🖤 3w
Centique You‘re so good at this! 3w
Reggie @BooksandCoffee4Me @DebinHawaii I was doing soo good. I was ignoring all the candy some coworkers had brought in every day it feels@like. But this customer came in and brought me these mini banana bread muffins. Ughhh I couldn‘t resist. And once I cheat I throw the rest of the day away and just keep cheating. 3w
Reggie @Centique 🖤🖤🖤thank you! 3w
Centique @Reggie on the subject of food. We made good friends with our local cafe owner and he keeps gifting me baked goods when he thinks they have too many. Banana bread, cakes, this sweet potato bread, danishes…. It‘s so nice but Its Not Helping! 🤪🤪 3w
kspenmoll Just adore this & you! 3w
Reggie @Centique you‘re so lucky. And after reading your comment I gained 5 lbs. lol 3w
Reggie @kspenmoll 🖤🖤🖤 3w
Suet624 Your haikus are terrific. 1w
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Ruthiella 👍👍👍 🎶🎼🎵 3w
vivastory 😂 😂 3w
vivastory Also, I recall once a few years ago I was staying in a hotel for a relative's wedding & I was down in the lobby (hotel lobbies=top tier reading spaces) & I overheard someone call the front desk & ask to speak to someone in room 1408 lol 3w
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Reggie @vivastory Wow!!‘ Did a shiver go down your back? I think the hairs on my arms would have stood up. lol I love the movie and the short story. AND Fairy Tale by King is my bookclubs next book. I‘m excited. 3w
Reggie @Ruthiella 🖤🖤🖤Thanks! 3w
vivastory It did! That is one of my favorite King adaptations, but I actually think that the volume (Everything's Eventual) is one of his most underrated. Also, have you seen the trailer for The Long Walk? Two KING dystopian adaptations in the next yr=very appropriate IMHO 3w
Reggie @vivastory I just saw the trailer. It looks awesome. Very real. What‘s the other adaptation this year? The Life of Chuck? Gonna be honest. Everything‘s Eventual, the only story I remember from there is 1408. Unless there‘s that story where the exes are having dinner and a killer comes out from the kitchen and she pushes her ex hubby in his way. Unless that story is in there. 3w
vivastory @Reggie I love that story! The version of the book I have has a wraparound cover that is an illustration of that story. No, the other adaptation is The Running Man 3w
Bookwormjillk I read somewhere that if you‘re traveling and don‘t have a bonus card at the grocery store try 867-5309. 3w
Reggie @Bookwormjillk lol, I might try that some time. 3w
AnnCrystal 👏🏼🐝👍🏼📞🐝💫. 3w
TheSpineView This one made me chuckle 💛🐝💛😆 3w
DebinHawaii This is so fun! 🎶 💛🐝🖤 3w
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#haikuaday I had such a good time at bookclub today.

Centique Im so glad that this bookclub is fun 🙌 3w
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#haikuaday years ago a Litten named Tobey called out for haikus for Halloween/autumn. It was so fun. I‘m in for the rest of this month. It‘s been so much fun reading the ones written this month so far.

TheBookHippie Yay!!!!!!!! 4w
CarolynM No, but they tell me he needs to go to the dermatologist 😆 That‘s skin like mine, potential melanoma everywhere😬 4w
sarahbarnes ♥️♥️♥️ 4w
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dabbe I can relate to the mole-y situation! 🤣 Welcome to the #haikuhive! 🖤🐝💛 4w
vivastory loved Tobey's Halloween haikus! 3w
DebinHawaii I love this one! 💛🐝🖤Glad you are in the #HaikuHive 3w
Reggie @CarolynM Lol. I‘ve been doing this carnivore diet for 2 months and yesterday I walked in the sun for an hour. No sunburn. I had heard it was a thing but it‘s for real. 3w
Reggie @sarahbarnes 🖤🖤🖤 3w
Reggie @dabbe thanks! 3w
Reggie @vivastory yes they were great. I haven‘t seen her in a long time but Sara, the redhead with the red headed girls. She also had great haikus. 3w
vivastory @Reggie I miss @saresmoore 💙 She was so much fun 3w
Suet624 I miss @saresmoore too and think of her often @vivastory 1w
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Panpan

A book about a man who is struggling with the guilt that 30 years ago he was camping with his best friend in his backyard, he wakes up and finds the best friend is gone. What a snooze fest. So repetitive. If I took a shot for every time I read I woke up and there was a slash on the tent and Billy was gone in the first 100 pages I‘d be dead from alcohol poisoning. Also, in horror movies there‘s that scary sound at the window during the storm 👇🏼

Reggie and when the lightning flashes you see the boogeyman with a bloody knife standing there. In here, every time the lightning flashed, it really was just the tree branch knocking at the window. Booo. I was never gonna read another Sager after Final Girls but bookclub tomorrow said otherwise. 4w
vivastory Hard agree. After the last two Sager books I won't be reading him anymore 4w
Reggie @vivastory after reading some of ya‘lls reviews on past Sager books I was hard hoping this was one of the good ones. But no. lol 4w
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Reggie @vivastory also I feel like this is the mediocre writer‘s version of Disappearance at Devil‘s Rock by Tremblay which I loved. And actually went there. 4w
TheBookHippie @vivastory @Reggie it‘s in the NO list for me. 🤣😵‍💫 4w
Prairiegirl_reading I haven‘t really been into this kind of thing for a while but last year I thought it might be fun summer reading but I dnf‘d this one. What a snooze!! 4w
vivastory @Reggie I actively loathed The Only One Left 4w
LeahBergen 😆😆 Well, looks like I‘ll pass on this one. 😆 4w
sarahbarnes Great review in the sense that I will never read this! 😆😆😆 4w
Reggie @Prairiegirl_reading there were actually 2 chapters I liked but 2 out of 360 pages!!!!!!! You did the right thing dnf‘ing. 4w
Reggie @TheBookHippie @LeahBergen @sarahbarnes years ago I went to go see Joe Hill where he sad he got good at editing his book but still wrote 3-500 pages over what his book turned out to be because he needed those pages for himself. To fully understand his characters. It was very sexy the way he said it. This book, the author just thought-missing child, let me throw a bunch of gotcha moments and not a lot of character development at it. (edited) 4w
TheBookHippie @Reggie 🎯🎯🎯 4w
Lesliereadsalot Crossing this one off my list. Thanks for the review! 4w
Bookzombie I also read Final Girls and said never again. Sometimes reviews make me want to reconsider, so thank you for confirming my original instincts. 😂 4w
Reggie @Lesliereadsalot I will be honest. A lot of the people at bookclub said it was easy breezy and they didn‘t mind it. And one said she didn‘t mind it until she looked at her bookcase and thought-I could be reading better books. Then it was not ok. 3w
Reggie @Bookzombie I was so mad that there were times in the book when sentences started with a word that began with a Q and that capital Q had a long tail that went under the whole word it began and it just pissed me off. lol I flipped to the back to see the note about the type, to know the name of the thing I hated, and there was none because it figures, of course he doesn‘t include a note about the type. Lolol you‘re ok not reading him again. 3w
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This takes place 7 years after The Announcement. Human beings were told that we are living in a simulation. A group of people board a bus for a tour of The Impossible Wonders from the Canterbury Trails company. The Impossible Wonders are testaments to the fact that the simulation is not a lie. They are contrary to the laws of physics. Gregory is such a skilled writer. His characters really shine. There was a moment when it felt like there👇🏼

Reggie were too many characters but by the end of the book I couldn‘t have kicked anyone off the bus. So good. Pick! (edited) 1mo
Lesliereadsalot Sounds like my type! Thanks for the recommendation. 1mo
Centique Oh wow! This sounds amazing and Ive loved two other books by him so I‘m thrilled to hear this is good! 1mo
Reggie @Lesliereadsalot @Centique as you can imagine, there is a lot of what does it mean if we‘re not real, existential angst. The bus turns out to be a microcosm of our society right now and I just took that we all get through it if we stick together. And there was a lot of humor. 1mo
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Litsy, I went to the library today because I don‘t have enough neglected books I own staring me down at my place. Excited to see a new Gregory I went to self checkout where it says the book is on hold please see front desk. I took it there where the lady says yes it is on hold, where I let out a playful,”booo.” But then she says we have this finders keepers rule here, I‘ll check it out to you. The Good Samaritan in me was about to say no, no, 👇🏼

Reggie no. I mean we all know what it‘s like to wait on a hold. The new Abby Jimenez, I‘m like #104 in line. But out of nowhere this greedy book vampire hidden in my heart took over and jumped out and made me say Thanks so much. AND I TOOK IT! I felt like the guy in the upper right, the blood being from the person who was on hold. Am I inviting bad book karma????!!!! 1mo
DGRachel Unless you took it from the holds shelf, then no. No guilt. The book gods were smiling on you. 😘 1mo
Reggie @DGRachel It was not, it was on the new book shelf. Lol, thanks! 1mo
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Lesliereadsalot I would definitely have grabbed it, no guilt! 1mo
TheBookgeekFrau Take your blessings when they appear. You lucked out, plain and simple 😊 1mo
Ruthiella Sometimes libraries do a skip the line thing with some copies. So no guilt-score! 1mo
vivastory Omg, Reggie I will never see that scene from scream the same way again lolol. You're awesome, my friend 📚📚💙...also if I could include a phrase on my obituary it'd be “Greedy book vampire“ (edited) 1mo
Reggie @Lesliereadsalot @TheBookgeekFrau @Ruthiella 🙌🏽 I told this story to everybody at work and everybody was like-of course you take the book! Lol 1mo
Reggie @Vivastory I tried so hard to find a pic of a vampire eating a heart and couldn‘t fine one. They‘re all about necks. Google/Safari really let me down. Lolol 1mo
Suet624 Congrats! 1mo
Rissreadswithcats It was meant to be! 👏🏻 2w
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Rest Stop | Nat Cassidy
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Driving to see his sick Bubbe, Abe stops at this middle of nowhere Rest Stop in the middle of the night where nothing is right. Cassidy writes one of my favorite things. When a character is in a high pressure situation, those closest to them start talking to them subconsciously. In this case, it‘s his horrible Bubbe and his golden retriever bandmate Ty. There‘s creepy crawlies, a killer, some Yiddish, and a surprisingly poignant moment. Pick!

AmyG A horrible Bubbe? What? 🤣 1mo
Reggie @AmyG she‘s the mean grandma. lol 1mo
vivastory I've heard great things about this one. Really enjoyed Nestling. Looking forward to the latest werewolf story 1mo
Reggie @vivastory This has been the only book by him I‘ve read. But my hold for his Wolves book on Libby came in. He was on the most recent episode of Books in the Freezer and seemed pretty cool. 1mo
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Reservoir Bitches: Stories | Dahlia de la Cerda
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Reading these stories made me think of something someone like Quentin Tarantino sprinkled with Rob Zombie would have written. But that would be unfair to this female author. Most violence that happens in the world happens to women so why wouldn‘t she be able to write this? It is raw, gritty. She doesn‘t flinch when telling these stories. It was me who flinched. 13 loosely related short stories, told by different women from Mexico discussing 👇🏼

Reggie abortion, femicide, violence against transwomen, cartels, brujeria, toxic relationships, and if I kept track of all the songs mentioned a pretty badass soundtrack. The last story, La Huesera, destroyed me. Pick! 1mo
kspenmoll Thorough review! 1mo
TheBookHippie It‘s on my list!!! I cannot wait. 1mo
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sarahbarnes Great review. I agree wholeheartedly. 1mo
BarbaraBB Great review. And exactly how it is 1mo
Centique And now i want to read it AND hear the songs! Great review my friend 😘 1mo
Centique I already had it stacked though! 1mo
Reggie @kspenmoll Thanks, Katherine! 1mo
Reggie @TheBookHippie I think you‘ll like it. 1mo
Reggie @sarahbarnes @BarbaraBB Thanks, ladies. When I lived in Las Cruces, my friend took me to a Women‘s Week panel that was about the violence against women in Juarez. There were 2 families whose only way of identifying the remains of their daughters was that the bag containing their bones also had clothes and the clothes matched what the girls were wearing the last time the family saw them. That the police were no help. This book reminded me of that. 1mo
Reggie @Centique I used to date this guy back in 2007 and he talked about the 3 predictions this El Brujo Mayor made. One was that the Banda killings would continue. Bandas are bands that play for parties and different arenas. Sometimes they are killed by cartels for looking at a gf the wrong way or seen as having the wrong connection. That year they shot a singer during a concert and they went to the hospital and shot her again when they heard she 👇🏼 1mo
Reggie @Centique had survived. I only thought of that because in this book they‘re always talking about some corrido/certains style of song played by some banda. In some cases they‘re paying them to write corridos about friends. I hope you like this book if you get to it. 1mo
BarbaraBB That‘s horrible. I read this one about the subject, also very cruel and sad 1mo
sarahbarnes Wow, thank you for sharing the experiences you‘ve had about this topic. I also read 2666 @BarbaraBB and it seems like this just keeps happening. (edited) 1mo
vivastory This review really sold me but like my friends @barbarabb & @sarahbarnes chimed in about 2066, while being one of the more memorable books I've read; definitely one of those I'd never want to reread (edited) 1mo
Reggie @vivastory I‘ve never read a Bolano but I think I‘ve been intimidated by their size, they‘re all chunksters right? 1mo
charl08 Just finished this one. Such a hard-hitting book (especially given the short length). The stats at the end are just brutal. 1mo
Reggie @charl08 Yes! I keep thinking about that girl who is pregnant and her boyfriend just keeps cheating on her and posting about it on Facebook AND then she mentions she‘s only 13yo!!! 1mo
charl08 @Reggie yes that was jaw dropping. 1mo
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Tilt | Emma Pattee
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I loved this book. Annie is in an IKEA when an earthquake in the Pacific Northwest strikes. She‘s 37 weeks pregnant, miserably pregnant, and we follow her on her journey to find a loved one and home. This is broken up by chapters depicting her life leading up to this day. The whole time, she‘s talking to Bean, her unborn baby. This book was a rollercoaster of emotion for me. I was horrified, I laughed, cause Annie is funny, and I cried. Pick!👇🏼

Reggie Anybody still in the mood for a pregnant protagonist against the backdrop of disaster, in this case a pandemic, I would suggest this book. It‘s also great. 2mo
BarbaraBB I can‘t wait to read this one! Great review 2mo
CarolynM Sounds good 🙂 2mo
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Cathythoughts Great review, I have it stacked already 👍🏻 2mo
Suet624 Can‘t wait to read this!! 1mo
Reggie @BarbaraBB @CarolynM @Cathythoughts @Suet624 @Rissreadswithcats Annie‘s husband is an aspiring actor and her flashbacks with him can be sooo funny and infuriating. There‘s a certain scene where he monologues at a parenting class. Pure gold. lol hope ya‘ll like it. 1mo
CarolynM I‘ve just voted for it for #CampLitsy2025 😊 Fingers crossed. 1mo
Megabooks I looked, and I had stacked Sealed from your review! I loved Tilt, too. The tension was just so fantastic. 1mo
Megabooks I‘m still thinking of the mom crawling into that school. God. That scene really got to me. 1mo
Reggie @Megabooks omg yes. I liked that even though the mom was rude to Annie at the IKEA, despite all that, they looked out for each other at the end of their worlds. It almost made me cry. 1mo
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My Dark Vanessa | Kate Elizabeth Russell
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What a book of horror. I‘m not a parent but sometimes I wonder how ya‘ll let your children out into the world. We follow Vanessa in alternating timelines. In 2017 set against the #MeToo movement where she‘s following all the allegations against a former high school English teacher. In 2000 where she‘s 15 and enters a sexual relationship with that teacher. In 2017 she‘s barely coming to realize that she herself was a victim. This was sad and 👇🏼

Reggie enraging. The amount of gaslighting that the teacher used against her. Omg. There‘s a lot to be said about intuition in here. How we should listen to that internal voice especially when it‘s trying to tell you something is wrong. This was tough to read but it was so well written. Pick! 2mo
Ruthiella I also thought this book was horrifying but entirely plausible. 2mo
AmyG I bailed. I just couldn‘t. 2mo
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Jas16 Horrifying subject matter but I thought the book did a great job telling the story. 2mo
5feet.of.fury It was so well done. 2mo
quietlycuriouskate The way she persisted in romanticising what happened to her was so chilling! 😦 2mo
CoverToCoverGirl Disturbing story but well written. It was a pick for me too! 2mo
Reggie @Ruthiella totally, the last few years I lived in Las Cruces there was like 4 cases of this in 2 years. In one case, a coach blackmailed a gay student into sex saying he would out him to his family if he didn‘t comply. 2mo
Reggie @AmyG I totally understand. I think this would be uncomfortable for alot of people. 2mo
Reggie @Jas16 @5feet.of.fury @CoverToCoverGirl Yeah, this author is one to watch. She had such balance here, and she doesn‘t baby the reader. I thought she was great. 2mo
Reggie @quietlycuriouskate yes! I think she says to people a couple of times-but he loves me. Even when she‘s talking to the therapist saying that if she is a victim then what does she have from all those years. Ughhh so sad. 2mo
Rissreadswithcats I have this on my shelf but it‘s never been the right time to start it. I‘ll get to it someday. 1mo
Amor4Libros I‘ve read this twice because I like to torture myself 😅 But really the reason was that I read it by myself first and had no one to discuss it with and then about a year later buddy read with friends 1mo
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So my normal bookclub which took place yesterday had to read a Kate Atkinson. I just feel she‘s way above me. We read another book by her and I didn‘t know how to feel. A guy next to me might as well have given his doctoral thesis on it and I just sat there thinking-am I stupid? So instead of reading another Atkinson I went with this book for a mashed up horror scifi group. I didn‘t care for it or the bookclub. The grass isn‘t always greener 👇🏼

Reggie on the other side, Litsy. The book was meh. 2mo
Ruthiella What Atkinson? 2mo
Reggie @Ruthiella the one I read was Transcription. The one they discussed yesterday was A God in Ruins. 2mo
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AmyG Ah, maybe you are the smart one. 2mo
MommyWantsToReadHerBook "his doctoral thesis" ???? A God in Ruins has quite a lot going on, if I remember. But talking a lot doesn't equal intelligence or understanding ? 2mo
Reggie @AmyG @MommyWantsToReadHerBook @julesG There‘s this woman in the group. She‘s a 70 something brassy broad in a wheelchair and I love her. Her name‘s Dolores. When that guy was done she tells him, that‘s all and well honey but the author still has to tell a story. She hadn‘t liked it either. She made me feel better. 2mo
MommyWantsToReadHerBook @Reggie that's awesome 😂😂😂😂😂 2mo
Centique Theres no way Atkinson is above you Reggie! I find her hit and miss for my tastes. I loved Life After Life but bailed on A God in Ruins. And other people hated Life After Life 😜 I think people have very different reactions to her books 👍 2mo
Centique Dolores sounds awesome! 2mo
vivastory The only Atkinson that I have read is the first in her Brodie series: Case Histories. I liked it, wouldn't say I LOVED it. Have you read other Fracassi because I'd be shocked if you disliked Boys In the Valley 2mo
Reggie @Centique Dolores is awesome. She tells it like it is. Her and I don‘t always agree but I like her so much. 2mo
Reggie @vivastory I liked Boys in the Valley. I liked Gothic. I loved A Child Alone with Strangers. And I liked 2 books of his short stories I have read. This book, not good. But the girl leading the book group- her favorite author of all time. (Insert my eyeroll here.) 2mo
Suet624 I know the feeling of thinking others understand something that I just didn‘t get. It happens a bit less now because of the age I am, but I can assure you that you are one smart cookie. And I‘ve never found an Atkinson that I enjoyed. (edited) 1mo
Reggie @Suet624 lol, thank you, Sue. I stared at him, my eyes glazing over. I felt nuts, thinking, did I even think about this book?!!! 1mo
Suet624 @Reggie 😂😂😂 1mo
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Loca | Alejandro Heredia
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If this book was a color it would be a periwinkle or cornflower. The blue that hasn‘t seen the sun yet but has just risen from complete darkness. Sal and Charo are living in NYC, the year, 1999. They‘re friends from the Dominican Republic. And they are lost in life. Sal lives in fear given to him from a tragedy on the island. Charo is in a relationship that‘s starting to feel like a prison. The writing was good. I just wanted more in the end. Pick

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The Cabinet of Curiosities: 36 Tales Brief & Sinister | Stefan Bachmann, Katherine Catmull, Emma Trevayne, Claire Legrand
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I loved this so much,Litsy! 36 six tales of terror written by the same 4 authors pertaining to certain subjects like Cake, Love, Luck, Flowers, Song. Sounds like a charm bracelet right? But no, these are scary, disturbing, well written. I was surprised by how many of them had strong voice, or to encounter a paragraph describing the nature of something and nodding along to it. There was the one about the whalers finding the live boy in the 👇🏼

Reggie the belly of a whale. The one told from the pov of a dog named Rabbit who is worried about the child eating garden of flowers next door. The one that terrified me the most was the one about the girl with her evil, bff ventriloquist doll. All were great. 2mo
TrishB Great review Reggie 👍🏻 2mo
Lesliereadsalot Wow! Sounds really good! 2mo
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sarahbarnes Great review! Sounds very creepy and intriguing. 2mo
Rissreadswithcats Interesting concept and this cover is gorgeous! 2mo
Reggie @Rissreadswithcats You would love this book. 2mo
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The Cabinet of Curiosities: 36 Tales Brief & Sinister | Stefan Bachmann, Katherine Catmull, Emma Trevayne, Claire Legrand
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On my way to Albuquerque, I was listening to Books in the Freezer podcast where one of the guests was saying that her cozy horror pick for her chilling obsession was reading this book. That the first story was about a village who on the 2nd Tuesday of every February spends its day baking cakes for this swarm of fairies that come and eat them. Well this year the supply truck doesn‘t come and the fairy swarm comes and kills, KILLS, all the 👇🏼

Reggie parents. The children are left alone because fairies don‘t kill children,uh duh. Chilling. Found it at the library in the children‘s section. I‘m about 5 stories in and they‘re all wonderfully creepy. (edited) 2mo
TheBookHippie Oooooo 2mo
AmyG Cozy horror? Oddly sounds wonderful. 2mo
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ImperfectCJ I just added this one to my e-reader for my upcoming trip based on this post! 2mo
CoverToCoverGirl Cozy horror?? Terrifying.. 🤓 2mo
vivastory Haven't read this one, but the title reminds me how happy I am that we are getting a second season of the del toro show this year!....

I went to go post the above, but I double checked it first for a release date & apparently I must have dreamt this 😭
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Reggie @TheBookHippie @AmyG @CoverToCoverGirl it was kinda funny because after this guest told the podcast about it the other guest said, all I got from that was that I need to eat cake. And funny enough the first section of the book is called Cake. The second story was pretty good, also. It‘s called The Cake Made of Teeth. 2mo
Reggie @ImperfectCJ I hope you like it! It also goes well with a margarita. lol 2mo
Reggie @vivastory it‘s definitely middle school but I‘m really liking it. The Mandela effect has struck again!!!!! I remember liking the alien episode of that. 2mo
vivastory That was one of my favorites, too. The director of that episode made an excellent movie a few yrs ago: The Empty Man. Have you seen it? 2mo
Centique OMG the murderous fairies! Sometimes kids books can be pretty freakin chilling 😱😱 2mo
Centique That looks like a great meal by the way! And you are on your way to Alberqueque? To me (from the upside down side of the world) that sounds like a song and might require you to be with a bunch of found friends on horseback and on the way to rescuing someone. 2mo
Reggie @Centique There was a story that I read at lunch. And I was so disturbed I just stopped eating and went back to work. There‘s been some doozies in here. Also, the salsa with those chips, it had me full body sweating before I even started eating the enchiladas. lol it was freakin‘ hot! 🥵 2mo
Reggie @vivastory I haven‘t but I‘m about to tonight. Also, that cocktail bar on your post looks so cozy. Cheers from past Reggie with his margarita on Friday night to past you. 2mo
Centique @Reggie that must have been so disturbing! I can just picture you doing that 😬 2mo
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Woodworm | Layla Martinez
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This is a haunted house novella translated from Spanish. This house has been inhabited by 4 generations of women some of who are witches. A granddaughter returns home after spending time in jail after being accused of kidnapping the boy she nannies. This is intergenerational trauma, domestic violence, class warfare. I kept thinking of that Mean Girl‘s quote-I don‘t hate you cause you‘re fat, you‘re fat because I hate you. But instead it‘s- 👇🏼

Reggie I don‘t hate you because you‘re poor. You‘re poor because I hate you. This was just really good. Nothing is over the top, it‘s just on a low simmer all the way through. Pick! 2mo
sarahbarnes Wow, great review. 2mo
Reggie @sarahbarnes Thanks! 🖤 2mo
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Woodworm | Layla Martinez
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Um, okay, awesome, haunted house book, first paragraph, come through!!!!!

Bookzombie Wow! 2mo
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This was so much fun. Jane and Dan won a raffle to eat at an ultra posh restaurant to celebrate their 19th-maybe 20th wedding anniversary. Jane is a failed novelist who finds herself dissatisfied with life and a soon as she mentions she wants a divorce to Dan, that‘s when the ecoterrorists (eco activists depending on who you ask) show up shoving a gun in Dan‘s face. Can they survive the night? So funny and oddly touching. Oakley does this neat👇🏼

Reggie trick where she mentions something and does these callbacks to that something. It was like eating that candy with the surprise gooey center. And she does it over and over in this book. A sweet pick! 2mo
CarolynM I love the sound of this. Stacked😀 2mo
Reggie @CarolynM I think you‘ll like it a lot. 2mo
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BooksandCoffee4Me You‘ve enticed me to read this! 😃 2mo
Hooked_on_books I had fun with this one, too! 2mo
Reggie @BooksandCoffee4Me Yay! I hope you like it! 2mo
Reggie @Hooked_on_books I‘m not gonna lie, there were times where I just thought, just shoot Jane. lol I know that‘s horrible. But when Dan describes the history of their van. I got teary eyed. And every time Jane looked at her children and thought you are my lung that walks outside my body. That kind squeezed my heart. 2mo
Hooked_on_books For sure! Jane‘s someone who‘s great on the page but I‘m pretty sure I wouldn‘t want to spend a lot of time with someone like her! 2mo
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Had the laundromat all to myself. It was nice. Almost done with the book. It‘s been a lot of fun. Happy reading Littens.

TheBookHippie Oh that‘s lovely! 2mo
TheBookHippie Cart reminds me of pushing my daughter around when she was small. So long ago! 2mo
AmyG I loved laundry reading. Books and my favorite chore….laundry. 2mo
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Liars: A Novel | Sarah Manguso
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This was a well written but hard to read book. I love that the author has her nameless MC say she always wanted to write a book length poem and the book is written in these stanzas that effectively reflect a moment, an idea, but also move the book forward. The MC recounts her 14yr plus relationship with John. And you are right there, living the abuse, almost none of it physical, with the wife. I felt awful. It made me think of friends I‘ve 👇🏼

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Jas16 Yes. This book was hard to read but hard to look away from. and as frustrating as it all was so much of it was easy to relate to in relationships you have witnessed if not also in relationships you have had. 2mo
Reggie @Jas16 yeah, I had a friend who was pregnant and she got cheated on by her chef baby daddy, waitress texting at 3-4 in the morning while he was asleep. I had another friend who got choked while he was drunk and she stayed until he left her for a lookalike. And then he OD‘d. They were both smart and brilliant I just never knew why they would stay. Anyways, thanks to you and 2 others for making me wanna read this book. 2mo
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Centique Im (hopefully) bringing up both my kids to know that you dont accept disrespect/cheating/abuse/controlling behavior. You dont forgive it. You get out. They can learn how to be a better person by themselves. I also make them read articles about how to spot a narcissist! They are all over it thank goodness. 2mo
thecheckoutstack I agree, the relatableness of the relationship dynamic was the hardest part for me too. We all have either been in or know someone who has stuck in this cycle. 2mo
kspenmoll Kudos to you- not sure I could read this although it sounds good. 2mo
nikamavrody An audiobook version of this would be like candy to me. 2mo
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Liars: A Novel | Sarah Manguso
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I‘m halfway through this book and I don‘t know if I can finish it. Has anybody listed to the John Delony Show? I listen because I think as a reader I‘m drawn to the drama but just like this book he has women who call in and ask-I found out my husband was sexting 9 other women and he doesn‘t think it‘s cheating, but we‘ve compromised so that he‘s only sexting 3 now-what should I do? Another woman-My 10yo daughter came home from a play date 👇🏼

Reggie sobbing because she saw her father, my husband making out with the mother of her friend. They were both drunk so maybe it wouldn‘t have happened if he was sober-what should I do? Deloney always ask them why do you think so little of yourself. Where‘s the self esteem?????? This is all I can think about as I read this book. 2mo
TrishB I think you‘ve probably answered it yourself. They have no self esteem and think (because it‘s what they‘ve seen growing up) that staying married is the number 1 goal. It‘s very difficult for a myriad of reasons to get out of this mindset, not least financially for some women. A man judging me would not help me either. I could go on. 2mo
Centique Wow those are some horrifying stories 😱 Im glad someone is telling them they deserve better! 2mo
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Reggie @TrishB my grandma has dementia and the other day she asked me if my mom told her what happened last night. A friend of hers, Elia, took her to the Gomez(the local bar for all the rural ranchers and farmers). She saw my grandfather there dancing with another woman. She stood at the doorway and he turned around and his jaw dropped seeing that she saw him. Elia tells her to go stay at her place. She then told me that you can have and raise their👇🏼 2mo
Reggie kids and clean their house and make sure they have dinner and they‘ll still fck around on you. Well that‘s it, I‘m divorcing him and kicking him out. The truth is Elia‘s been dead for 10 years and my grandpa for going on 25 years. She stayed with him and I wonder if the reason that memory is so prominent is the regret of the road not taken. She had 3 kids at the time and how was she supposed to manage. Idk. 2mo
Reggie @Centique yeah, he‘s pretty empathetic with them. There was one where the wife discovered her husband was having an emotional affair and because he‘s in business with her father, the father has told her it‘s not really cheating. That was a rough one to listen to. 2mo
TrishB 😢 exactly. The whole thing of a man tho telling women what they should do when a man behaves badly doesn‘t sit right with me! Who‘s telling the men to behave better. 2mo
thecheckoutstack I think when you‘re being hurt in these massive unfathomable ways one way to deal with it is to downplay it for yourself so you can pretend the hurt isn‘t so extreme. It‘s a trauma response to help preserve your self esteem. Accepting that this wound is so painful also means you have to accept all the wounds leading up to it that you ignored and doing that would mean accepting you‘ve been letting yourself be degraded for years which is not easy. 2mo
thecheckoutstack That‘s why you see people downplay or pretend it didn‘t happen. They can‘t accept how bad it is without destroying their sense of self. Super sad. 2mo
Reggie @thecheckoutstack one of my biggest fears is being that woman on the ID channel. The woman who came home to find the police swarming her house. She asks why and they say your husband is the guy who killed 29 women. And she laughs because she‘s thinking HERhusband? But then reality sets in and she feels so stupid and you start to doubt yourself, like I totally get it. That last section of the book is her being so angry. I get that. 2mo
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There is no joy in this book. There almost feels like there is no through line. It felt like the author had 12 incredible character driven short stories and someone said let‘s put them together and make a book. Despite all this, it was great. We meet Hattie in the 1920s after she‘s left the South for the North. The first chapter, her chapter, is incredibly tragic. The other stories belong to her children all on the bad side of a crossroads. Pick!

Centique It sounds good but heart breaking. Can i survive this book? 3mo
Reggie @Centique the first chapter will let you know if you can or not. 2 people at bookclub quit the book over the 1st chapter. I read it at work and laughed because it was so outrageously sad. I wasn‘t in the right head space. They‘re all sad but so well written. I say go for it. 2mo
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#Litsyafterdark 2 nights ago I lay down to go to bed and about 20 minutes later I heard honking outside and it kept going. I got up and saw truck lights outside. I open the main door and keep my metal screen door closed. I yell out can I help you. The guy in the truck whose face I can‘t see says-Is this Tacoma LN. I say no. He says-I punches it into a gps and this is where it takes me. Me-Sorry-it‘s Railroad I don‘t know what to tell you. He 👇🏼

Reggie speeds off. I lay down again and what I think is 20 minutes later I hear someone outside banging on my door. Which is weird to me because never have people visit me after 12. I open the door and there are the most handsome, chocolatey, muscley, Black men I have ever seen. They‘re wearing white tanks and their biceps have biceps. They say in their sexiest voice, hey man, let us in. And it is every start of a dream I have ever wanted but I see 👇🏼 (edited) 3mo
Reggie menace in their eyes and even in a dream I vote against my best interests. I say no sorry guys have a good night. They start slamming their fists against the door yelling LET US IN! One of them goes to the side of my duplex and I hear him beating at a window. I run to my kitchen and get a dirty knife out of the sink. I don‘t know why I don‘t get a clean knife. This detail bothers me Litsy. So I run to the room. He‘s broken in and is climbing👇🏼 3mo
Reggie down, and I‘ve just seen too many home invasion movies, I proceed to stab him to death. And that‘s when I hear that the other guy has broken through the front door. I hide in the corner and he runs in and sees his friend and says-Awwww man, he killed you. And that‘s when I pounce and stab him to death. Litsy it brings me no pleasure to tell you this nightmare because in the first few minutes I thought this was gonna be my peanut butter Oreo 👇🏼 3mo
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Reggie fantasy come true. But alas I think it was a message. I read nothing but romance since Valentine‘s Day and I have loved my romance vacation but the darkness wants me back. So my next book- it will be horror. lol all that for that. Good day, Litsy! 3mo
TrishB ❤️😂always the horror Reggie!! 3mo
Ruthiella The Darkness is calling you! 😬 3mo
Bookzombie 😂 love that you are bothered that you grabbed a dirty knife! 3mo
Centique The Romance genre came knocking and the Horror genre stabbed it to death. Make sure you placate the Horror genre with plenty of reading Reggie cos who knows what it will do next! 3mo
Rissreadswithcats Oh Reggie, you are so fucked up but in a good way! 🤣♥️ Keep these stories coming! 3mo
Reggie @Centique I picked up a horror about evil beets and it was so horrible it knocked me into a reading slump. And then I picked up the real horror book, Liars. Oof 2mo
Reggie @Rissreadswithcats Lol. Bonus nightmare, my favorite from last year. I am a white girl. I‘m wearing a pink shirt with a pink hoodie. I have a pink backpack and I‘m in the mall right before closing. I go into a girlie clothing store and ask to use the restroom and the girl working says sure but hurry because we‘re about to close. I run in and while I‘m in the stall I hear a click. I pound on the door saying you locked me in here! But nobody 👇🏼 2mo
Reggie answers. Hrs later I‘m resigned to my fate of being locked in the restroom until I smell smoke. The mall has caught on fire. And I die in that restroom being burned to death. 2mo
Centique @Reggie that is scary as! Youve given me another reason to avoid malls! 2mo
Reggie @Centique where else would you go to get your fresh pretzels, your boba tea, your Sbarros pizza? Your next hot outfit for the dance?! lol 2mo
Rissreadswithcats I can never remember my dreams. I just wake up feeling yucky or anxious etc 2mo
Trashcanman 💪🏽 2mo
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Long Shot (Hoops, #1) | Kennedy Ryan
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This was a tough read. Iris and August meet in a bar on the night before he plays in the NCAA championships. There‘s a spark but she has a bf, Caleb who also is playing the next day on the opposite team. Iris stays with Caleb and we follow her descent into hell as she gets babytrapped, financially, emotionally, and physically abused. She manages to escape, heal herself and makes her way back to August. Kennedy is a great writer who can go 👇🏼

Reggie from hard serious topics to some romance, to the spicy, to funny. This was great. Pick! 3mo
CarolynM Mmm, tempting, but maybe a bit too much darkness for me right now. I‘ll bear it in mind, though😊 3mo
Lesliereadsalot Great review! I‘ll try it. 3mo
Reggie @CarolynM yeah, that first half is brutal. I kept thinking where‘s the effing romance. But the 2nd half, August had me melting and then crying with some of the things he said. 3mo
Reggie @Lesliereadsalot Thanks! Hope you like it! 3mo
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The (Fake) Dating Game | Timothy Janovsky
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I loved this. Holden is about to surprise his bf of 4yrs with tickets to LA for a chance to compete on Madcap Market, a game show Holden and his mother used to watch religiously until she passed away from cancer. However, his bf breaks up with him and he goes to LA wondering where he‘ll find a partner. Enter Leo Min. They agree to pretend to be together to get on the show. This was steamy (for reals if you‘re not into gay sex sit this one out)👇🏼

Reggie it was sweet, it took me back to my 20s where you meet someone and you get all those butterflies. Pick! 3mo
Bookzombie Stacked! 🙂 3mo
Reggie @Bookzombie despite me wanting to shake the main character a time or 2, it‘s very cute. 3mo
Bookzombie @Reggie It‘s interesting that it‘s a Harlequin novel. Not the kind of cover I expect for them. 🙂 3mo
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The Kiss Countdown | Etta Easton
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Mmnnnnnyghuhh, I did not like the MC, Amerie, (Why don‘t we why don‘t we fall in loooove🎶) but had to remind myself we are meeting her not in a normal period of her life but when she‘s in crisis. Her mom has health issues, her bf dropped her because she spent too much time with her mom, and then her job fired her. Anddddd she gets a notice saying her rent is going up 30%. Then she meets astronaut Vincent at a coffee shop and fake relationship👇🏼

Reggie ensues. I really wanted to dnf in the first 100 pages. The last 200, they‘re alright despite me wanting to get my word machete out at times. I did get emotional at the end but the fact I had to go through the first 100pgs makes it a soso. 3mo
Lindy Where did you find your word machete? I would like to get one too! 3mo
Reggie @Lindy there are time I read books and I just want to cut a paragraph or even a word, a phrase. Those first 100 pages I was in a wild word jungle. Oof. 3mo
Lindy @Reggie been there 😁 3mo
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I just wanna say I read 5 books of Abby Jimenez since Valentine‘s Day and she is what I needed. Yes, romance has a formula but for me not to get bored of her after 5 books really says something. I coulda picked up another of hers but it doesn‘t get published until April. She writes quirky, original characters, they have great banter. She writes about tough topics. I cried a lot, laughed a lot, felt my heart get full. Thanks Abby. See you in April.

Suzze Although I‘ve tried a couple of her books, they aren‘t for me. But I follow her on social media because her videos are the best! Her four dogs and her talented daughter are so much fun to watch! 3mo
BarbaraBB I haven‘t read her but now I want to. Where to start?? 3mo
Reggie @Suzze I figured she was an animal lover. Almost all of her characters have pets or they‘re fostering pets or adopting pets. It‘s very cute. 3mo
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Reggie @BarbaraBB start with The Friend Zone and follow the books from there. It‘s really nice in the later books to see old characters. 3mo
BarbaraBB Thanks! I will! 3mo
AmyG Thanks for the “where to start” rec. Pets…now I know why my daughter likes her books. 3mo
Reggie @AmyG yw, also, most of the pets in these books are rescues and they do add a lot even though they‘re only in there for a couple of pages. 3mo
Reggie @AmyG in fact the second book in the first series. The Heroine slams on her brakes to miss hitting the dog that runs into the road and then he jumps onto her car and goes inside through her sun roof. He belongs to this famous musician that‘s in Australia whose soon to be model ex gf was supposed to watch the dog but went to NYC instead. 3mo
Centique This is so awesome - i dont know many authors that you could read 5 books in a row and enjoy. This is a fan bus i need to get on 😍 3mo
Reggie @Centique she‘s great. In fact I know she‘s great because I read them back to back to back. The first book I read after her books I could care less about getting back to it. Just one more thing about romance, a lot of the main characters who are women have this woman who is whole heartedly in their corner, a fierce best friend and some of the stuff they say to their friends hits just as hard as the romance. So good. 3mo
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Just for the Summer | Abby Jimenez
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Justin puts out a Reddit post saying he is cursed being the guy who girls date before finding THE ONE. Emma reads and it and responds saying she is also cursed with guys dating her right before they find THE ONE. They decide to date to see if they can break the curse. They fall in love but this book got a little heavy that I forgot I was reading romance because they both have heavy family issues. This book squeezed my heart so hard. Pick!

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Yours Truly | Abby Jimenez
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It‘s 5%enemies to lovers and 95% fake dating and 100% my favorite book of Abby‘s so far. Only Just For the Summer left. Bri is a firecracker of a woman who is approaching divorce day from her cheating husband. Jacob is trying to find a date for the wedding of his brother who is marrying Jacob‘s ex, you know, so it won‘t be awkward. I laughed so hard but just like in her other books there were hits to the heart. What Abby excels at is those👇🏼

Reggie moments when her heroines or heroes realize they are being seen for the persons they are. They are soft and subtle and took my breath away every time. Pick! 3mo
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Life's Too Short | Abby Jimenez
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I finished this 2 days ago. Popular influencer, Vanessa, has a crying baby left by her sister who has problems with addiction. Enter next door hottie lawyer, Adrian who needs some sleep who doesn‘t know it yet but his gf Rachel is about to reveal to him she‘s married, helps Vanessa with baby Grace. They become friends and more. Vanessa had a tough family hand dealt to her and she handles it with grace, not the baby, but actual grace. lol, pick!

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A Little Life: A Novel | Hanya Yanagihara
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Litsy, I walked into Cheddar‘s 2 nights ago and when I walked in, there was a girl reading a book and of course I had to ask what she was reading. She picked it up and I had a visceral reaction when I saw it was ALL. I felt like that person who sees the ex who broke their heart over and over and over and over and over…..you get it……again. Lolol I just told her to get a box of Kleenex to carry around while she was reading it. She then told me 👇🏼

Reggie She was in the middle of the section called The Happy Years. And if you have read the book you low key hate Yanigihara for calling it that. Especially if you remember what happens on the very last page..😭😭😭😭😭I‘m not over you ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!Lol 3mo
squirrelbrain OMG - that section! 😭😭😭 3mo
Reggie @squirrelbrain the waitress was like what are you reading and I told her romance but I asked if she saw the girl in the corner entrance. She says yes and I ask if I can ruin it for her. She says sure. So I tell her it‘s about this guy named Noah, who starts to date this piece of shyt guy who beats him, he leaves him and falls in love with his best friend who he can‘t have sex with to his sexual traumatic young life, then at the end of the 👇🏼 3mo
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Reggie section called The Happy Years the author has a Mack truck drive into the love of his life and another best friend killing them, and the last section is him killing himself. We laughed incredulously and she says, soooo I‘m not gonna be reading that book anytime soon. It was hilarious. 3mo
squirrelbrain When you put it like that, it is rather funny! 🤣 3mo
TrishB Love it! 3mo
Lesliereadsalot Too funny! Such a great book, my favorite from 2023 3mo
Rissreadswithcats This book will always stay with me. 🖤 (edited) 3mo
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Part of Your World | Abby Jimenez
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This was Dr.City Mouse who was conditioned to accept the emotional abuse of her now soon to be cheating ex by watching her parents, is coming back from a funeral back to her big city but swerves to miss a raccoon and gets stuck when Mr. Country Mouse pulls her out and introduces her to the life of his small town that has a big heart. All the love she‘s been missing hanging out with people who have money. This was lovely. Another Jimenez hit. Pick!

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The Light Pirate | Lily Brooks-Dalton
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This was the most horrific book I‘ve read in a while. The first 100 pages just details this super hurricane that obliterates this family living in a podunk town in Florida. A woman gives birth during that hurricane and names the baby after the hurricane, Wanda. My stomach was in my throat those 100 pages. We follow Wanda as she grows up and learns to survive a Florida who has run out of time due to climate change. This book was full of love 👇🏼

Reggie and loss. A climate change horror pick! Also, Litsy, if I was in my 3rd trimester of being pregnant and I wanted to evacuate because there is a hurricane on the way, but my man said-Nah, we‘ll be fine- that is not the man for me. 4mo
Ruthiella I‘m often struck how your reading bounces between terrifying scenarios and horror and light romance! 😅 4mo
merelybookish So much to love about this review! 4mo
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Lindy Stacked! 3mo
Suet624 Yowzer, I'm with you. I'd be out the door. And I agree with @Ruthiella. 3mo
Reggie @Ruthiella I think u do the same thing but just with different genres. 🖤 I‘m sure in one of your sci-fi books the world ends and the next day your rereading an Austen. 3mo
Reggie @merelybookish thanks! ❤️ 3mo
Reggie @Lindy I hope you love it. 3mo
Reggie @Suet624 there comes a point where the dad whose job it is to turn back in the electricity and after weeks and weeks of calling city hall to ask for more help he just decides to go visit and finds one person who said the municipality is no more because everyone has left. Wishes him luck because there is no more county. No more tax money. No more paychecks. 3mo
Suet624 @Reggie just the way Trump and Elon would prefer it to be. 3mo
Rissreadswithcats This sounds BRILLIANT! Stacked! 3mo
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My gosh I loved this so much. 2 years after his death, Sloan is still beholden to the grief of losing her fiancé in a motorcycle accident. Until she finds a dog who leads her to his owner, Jason, who is better known as Jackson a bearded, budding rockstar. This was so good. Jimenez is a rockstar at banter, at romance, and at making me sob through the penultimate moment before the HEA when u think it‘s not gonna work out but it does. Pick!

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The guy on the left, Zachary Webber, narrates Jason in the tagged book. The other MC, Sloan, Jason‘s love interest is narrated by a woman. They do their own alternating chapters. There is a lot of banter but when they do their own chapters they also voice the love interest. Like Zachary will voice Sloan and when he does it‘s soooooo cute cause it reminds me of Fred Armisen‘s crazy character from SNL, Regine. Hilarious.

sarahbarnes Fred Armisen! 😍 4mo
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Conjuring the Witch | Jessica Leonard
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I liked this. A female rage story. Nicole and Steve Warby move back to his hometown and join the Lilian Church. When Nicole asks to be on the church council which has only be filled by men, it starts off this chasm of centuries retribution of what the men, especially the priest, call the witch of the woods surrounding the church. This was how everyone needs a villain, I‘m just always shocked when men choose women to be theirs. This was great.

Rissreadswithcats We certainly need more Female rage stories at the moment! I feel like I‘m in a Female rage cycle at the moment with what‘s happening in the world and going through menopause. Fun times! 🤣 3mo
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