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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) 5d
TheBookHippie Oooooo 5d
AmyG Cozy horror? Oddly sounds wonderful. 5d
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ImperfectCJ I just added this one to my e-reader for my upcoming trip based on this post! 5d
CoverToCoverGirl Cozy horror?? Terrifying.. 🤓 4d
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. 4d
Reggie @ImperfectCJ I hope you like it! It also goes well with a margarita. lol 4d
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. 4d
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? 1d
Centique OMG the murderous fairies! Sometimes kids books can be pretty freakin chilling 😱😱 4h
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. 4h
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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! 5d
sarahbarnes Wow, great review. 5d
Reggie @sarahbarnes Thanks! 🖤 4d
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Woodworm | Layla Martinez
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Um, okay, awesome, haunted house book, first paragraph, come through!!!!!

Bookzombie Wow! 3d
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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! 6d
CarolynM I love the sound of this. Stacked😀 6d
Reggie @CarolynM I think you‘ll like it a lot. 6d
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BooksandCoffee4Me You‘ve enticed me to read this! 😃 6d
Hooked_on_books I had fun with this one, too! 6d
Reggie @BooksandCoffee4Me Yay! I hope you like it! 6d
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. 6d
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! 5d
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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! 1w
TheBookHippie Cart reminds me of pushing my daughter around when she was small. So long ago! 1w
AmyG I loved laundry reading. Books and my favorite chore….laundry. 1w
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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 👇🏼

Reggie lost (not dead) to people like John. A hard pick. (edited) 2w
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. 2w
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. 2w
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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. 2w
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. 2w
kspenmoll Kudos to you- not sure I could read this although it sounds good. 1w
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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. 2w
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. 2w
Centique Wow those are some horrifying stories 😱 Im glad someone is telling them they deserve better! 2w
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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👇🏼 2w
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. 2w
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. 2w
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. 2w
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. 2w
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. 2w
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. 1w
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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? 2w
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. 1w
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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) 1mo
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👇🏼 1mo
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 👇🏼 1mo
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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! 1mo
TrishB ❤️😂always the horror Reggie!! 1mo
Ruthiella The Darkness is calling you! 😬 1mo
Bookzombie 😂 love that you are bothered that you grabbed a dirty knife! 1mo
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! 3w
Rissreadswithcats Oh Reggie, you are so fucked up but in a good way! 🤣♥️ Keep these stories coming! 2w
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 2w
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 👇🏼 2w
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. 2w
Centique @Reggie that is scary as! Youve given me another reason to avoid malls! 2w
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 2w
Rissreadswithcats I can never remember my dreams. I just wake up feeling yucky or anxious etc 2w
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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! 1mo
CarolynM Mmm, tempting, but maybe a bit too much darkness for me right now. I‘ll bear it in mind, though😊 1mo
Lesliereadsalot Great review! I‘ll try it. 1mo
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. 1mo
Reggie @Lesliereadsalot Thanks! Hope you like it! 1mo
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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! 1mo
Bookzombie Stacked! 🙂 1mo
Reggie @Bookzombie despite me wanting to shake the main character a time or 2, it‘s very cute. 1mo
Bookzombie @Reggie It‘s interesting that it‘s a Harlequin novel. Not the kind of cover I expect for them. 🙂 1mo
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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. 1mo
Lindy Where did you find your word machete? I would like to get one too! 1mo
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. 1mo
Lindy @Reggie been there 😁 1mo
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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! 1mo
BarbaraBB I haven‘t read her but now I want to. Where to start?? 1mo
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. 1mo
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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. 1mo
BarbaraBB Thanks! I will! 1mo
AmyG Thanks for the “where to start” rec. Pets…now I know why my daughter likes her books. 1mo
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. 1mo
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. 1mo
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 😍 1mo
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. 1mo
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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! 1mo
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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 1mo
squirrelbrain OMG - that section! 😭😭😭 1mo
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 👇🏼 1mo
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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. 1mo
squirrelbrain When you put it like that, it is rather funny! 🤣 1mo
TrishB Love it! 1mo
Lesliereadsalot Too funny! Such a great book, my favorite from 2023 1mo
Rissreadswithcats This book will always stay with me. 🖤 (edited) 1mo
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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. 1mo
Ruthiella I‘m often struck how your reading bounces between terrifying scenarios and horror and light romance! 😅 1mo
merelybookish So much to love about this review! 1mo
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Lindy Stacked! 1mo
Suet624 Yowzer, I'm with you. I'd be out the door. And I agree with @Ruthiella. 1mo
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. 1mo
Reggie @merelybookish thanks! ❤️ 1mo
Reggie @Lindy I hope you love it. 1mo
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. 1mo
Suet624 @Reggie just the way Trump and Elon would prefer it to be. 1mo
Rissreadswithcats This sounds BRILLIANT! Stacked! 1mo
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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! 😍 1mo
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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! 🤣 1mo
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The Dutch House | Ann Patchett
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I read this for bookclub this upcoming Friday. A brother and sister grow up in this mansion called The Dutch House and are thrown out of it when their dad dies and their stepmother takes over. I will admit for a minute I thought it was boring. But it got great. Patchett really knows how to write the minutiae between family members that endears them to you. Also, sometimes we think it‘s the place that matters but really it‘s the people. Pick!

Leftcoastzen Great review! I really liked this one as well. 2mo
TrishB Thought exactly the same 👍🏻 2mo
Centique Ooh you make this sound really good! On my list already but i should bump it forward. (edited) 2mo
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Jas16 Great review I will read anything Patchett writes. 2mo
BkClubCare The audiobook is well-done; especially if you like Tom Hanks 2mo
AmyG Loved this one…but I love a good, quirky, dysfunctional family. 2mo
sarahbarnes Great review! I‘ve wanted to read this one! 2mo
Rissreadswithcats Patchett knows how to write families! 2mo
Bookzombie I have enjoyed what I read of hers so far. I haven‘t read this one though. Great review! 2mo
Reggie @Leftcoastzen this goes behind Tom Lake and Commonwealth for me. Also, I didn‘t comment on ur post but those kitties were sooooo cute! 2mo
Reggie @TrishB 🖤🖤🖤 2mo
Reggie @Centique @Jas16 I think now that my parents are 69 and I‘m 45 and we are entering the final phase of our family this book told over 5 decades really kinda got to me. It‘s really good. 2mo
Reggie @BkClubCare I do like Tom Hanks but I think I would still think of his Forest Gump voiceovers or something. 2mo
Reggie @AmyG omg the mother taking care of the stepmother at the end. Holy eff I could not get over it. Poor Maeve!!!! 2mo
Reggie @sarahbarnes you will not be disappointed. 2mo
Reggie @Rissreadswithcats yes! In here there‘s so much nuance between the siblings. 2mo
Reggie @Bookzombie this is my 4th of hers and 3 of them were amazing, and the 4th one, I had to go watch the movie Congo to erase that book from my memory. lol 2mo
kspenmoll Great review-i still have not read this. 2mo
Amor4Libros I devoured this one on audio! I really liked Tom Lake, too. 2mo
sarahbarnes I‘m starting it on audio today! 2mo
AmyG Hahahaha right? 2mo
Bookzombie @Reggie This made me laugh! Very specific movie choice. 🦍I hope you are doing well, my friend. 💕 (edited) 2mo
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Bad Habit: A Novel | Alana S. Portero
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@Jas16 😭😭😭Thanks so much for sending this to me. We follow this boy‘s coming of age set in a neighborhood outside Madrid. Growing up he realizes that he‘s a she. With the help of his community and some very colorful women, the she inside of him realizes her full potential. There is a lot of hurt in this book. The internal prison she keeps herself in because of shame and fear of losing family but also her physical safety was hard to read. Pick!

Jas16 Great review! 2mo
Amor4Libros Right?!!! This one is amazing. I remembered that I picked this one up because one of my favorite Bookstagramer from Spain described this book as “The book I wished I had read when I was growing up” 😭 2mo
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First off much respect to Anne Rice. While most of us think we could write a book, she wrote not only one but several. She gave up Catholicism in support of her son who was gay. One of her books, Cry to Heaven, gave me a huge inkling I might be gay. However, I read Interview back in 9th grade and thought it was boring. I‘m rereading it again for a bookclub next week and man those feelings came back. Her writing is a heaping helping 👇🏼

Reggie of word salad, yes? Or is it just me? Shoutout to Trixie and Katya. (edited) 2mo
Ruthiella I loved this book when I first read it in the late‘80s. I can‘t go back to it because I don‘t jive with her style anymore. But I have super fond memories. 2mo
TheBookHippie I can‘t read her 🤪😵‍💫😅 2mo
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TheBookgeekFrau It's not just you 😂 It's so damn soggy, and wilted by the end that I just stopped reading her completely even though I really miss Lestat and Armand 2mo
itsjustme40something I've read every one of her books and I love her exploration of religion, history, sexuality and sexual expression. The Mayfair Witches will always be my favorite. I despise how the t.v show absolutely butchered that world, but My Lord is Interview with The Vampire a masterpiece on screen 2mo
Reggie @Ruthiella @TheBookHippie @TheBookgeekFrau @itsjustme40something soooo good news. The lady who comes into work on Tuesdays so I can leave work early to make it to book group asked for this Tuesday off. She has a new grand baby. What a relief, so I gave up and started a new book. It‘s like when ur not sure of ur upcoming wedding and your partner ends the engagement and surprisingly you feel relief not sadness. lol anyways happy reading ladies 2mo
TheBookHippie @Reggie 😂😂😂😂🤣😅 WHEW!!!!!!! Omg I‘d be so relieved!!! 2mo
TheBookgeekFrau @Reggie Yup, that exactly sums her writing! 😂😂😂 2mo
Suet624 @Reggie loved the fact you didn‘t have to go!. 💕💕💕 2mo
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CJ Leeds went on The Books in the Freezer podcast and said that most of women‘s horror is basically reducing the woman to just being a vessel for childbirth. And there was a neon sign of her statement in here. But Grady Hendrix does such a great job of humanizing these young girls who are basically shunned and dropped off at a home for pregnant girls in the late 1960s. It‘s very readable, it‘s light on the witchcraft for me but I didn‘t care.👇🏼

Reggie I cared about the girls. By the end I was sobbing. It shouldn‘t have struck me so hard and yet it did. Ughh, damn you Grady! lol pick. 2mo
TrishB I have it ready!! Great review. 2mo
intothehallofbooks I so glad you loved it too Reggie! It‘s still heavy on my mind and I finished it days ago. I listened to Hendrix talk about writing this on the She Wore Black podcast and I appreciate it even more after hearing how much it meant to him. He said he wrote it after finding out fairly recently that two women from his family were sent to homes for pregnant girls many years ago. 2mo
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AmyG I just started this. Nothing better than a book that grabs you in the first few pages. 2mo
Suet624 Well I've never read a Hendrix book but this one sounds like it's for me. Nice work, Reggie. You've made me stack yet another book just from your captivating review. 2mo
DrasticallyJill Great review Reggie! His afterword/acknowledgements had a lot of impact. His personal connection to the “Homes”, and how he researched it with help to make sure he treated a topic like this with accuracy. It was like a train of despair. But he was wonderful in terms of giving the reader lighter moments. The first two sentences made me laugh. And [tagging as spoilers]: Rose GOAT: “I'm on strike“. Beautiful. (edited) 2mo
AmyG @Reggie ….does your address still begin 807? I want to make sure I have the correct one. If not, can you email me at gratefulmom58, gmail? Thanks, friend. 2mo
Reggie @TrishB I can‘t wait to hear what you think about it! 2mo
Reggie @Suet624 🖤I hope you like him. He‘s so good and each time I picked the book up, I just fell back into it. 2mo
Reggie @intothehallofbooks @DrasticallyJill I went to Stokercon one year and went to a possession themed panel that Grady was on and you could tell by the way he talked he was big into researching whatever he was writing. And he was funny. Which didn‘t surprise me when he listed all the people he talked to in the afterword. I also wanted to say I love when the girls asked each other what they wished for and Fern says her wish was for Holly. Cause her👇🏼 2mo
Reggie Her mom said that when you have a gift you actually gave 2. Not only did I know that mom but I was so taken by Fern and her selflessness. And the other part I appreciated was the difference between Fern‘s and Holly‘s labors. One was so cold and indifferent, the other had live and care around her. Grady did so good. Glad we all liked it! 2mo
DrasticallyJill @Reggie Exactly! I am so glad everyone is giving this book props. It was outstanding. ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ five stars! 2mo
LeahBergen I‘m looking forward to this one! 👏 2mo
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Diavola | Jennifer Thorne
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Litsy, there are times I eat with family and for the 1 1/2 hrs I am with them it‘s pure torture, so I can only imagine what 9 days in a Tuscan villa with 6 dysfunctional family members feels like for Anna. A nagging mother who wants stuff to happen so she can be a mother. An emotionally absent brick wall of a dad. A clingy twin who can‘t take responsibility for his choices. A sister so insecure, who just comes off so hateful and jealous. 👇🏼

Reggie And oh yeah, the Tuscan villa is haunted. I was laughing a lot at the sheer audacity of this horrible family. Have ya‘ll ever seen that episode of Family Guy where Meg admits that she knows she has to be the most hated family member or else they all fall apart. This was a lot like that. Don‘t read if you need to like characters. But it was a pick. 2mo
Suet624 Well I surely won‘t be stacking this one but I love the review of it. 2mo
Leftcoastzen 👏😁Love your review! 2mo
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Bookzombie Great review! 🙂 I would stack if I hadn‘t already. 2mo
Reggie @Suet624 @Leftcoastzen Thanks, ladies. It was a total Jerry Springer show. 2mo
Reggie @Bookzombie I feel like I was on YouTube shorts where they go, members of Reddit what was the time you decided to cut ties with your family. And Anna goes but in that robotic voice they use, one time me and my family were staying at a haunted Italian villa. lol it was a little crazypants. I hope you like it. 2mo
AmyG I really liked this one. Horor and my love of dysfunctional families 🙌🏻 2mo
Centique Brilliant review - i would visit the haunted Italian villa with you but lets make it a Littens Reading Adventure, no dysfunctional family members. (How bad is this haunted villa anyway? 🤪) 2mo
Reggie @AmyG when she told the brother she had an abortion and then he proceeds to tell the worst person possible. And then later on she tells the parents on Anna. They were effing horrible!!!! 2mo
Reggie @Centique lately I find that the horror in horror books has been taking a backseat to their character‘s real life problems. The villa was creepy but I kept thinking what is this horrible family gonna do next? Christina Henry wrote this godawful book with really bad horror, but you know what I think about 5 months later? If she‘s gonna keep her and her son off the streets. Their affordable apartment was sold out from under them. She has a 👇🏼 2mo
Reggie moment where she says I‘m just so tired of just surviving. That‘s all I‘ve ever done since I‘ve had my son. None of that had to do with the horror in the book- which btw was horrible. Anyways, if you‘re thinking about tackling a horror book-go for Grady Hendrix‘s Witchcraft for Wayward Girls. It‘s light on the witchcraft and heavy on teenage pregnant girls of the 1960s. So good. 2mo
Centique @Reggie that sounds much more achievable for me! Ive been thinking about how a lot of the horror i come across (but dont watch! 🤪) is entwined w the characters personal issues. Like a parallel between whats evil and happens in reality and whats evil and unrealistic in the horror fiction. And i guess its often saying a lot about psychology and harm and repeating trauma… 2mo
Centique It was making me think the horror genre probably has a lot to say about the problems of real lives. 🤔 I probably thought about that because of some of your reviews! 2mo
AmyG Hahahaha…it was great. They were all so awful. Dysfunctional families are my cozies. 🤣 (edited) 2mo
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OMG IT‘S HERE!!!!!!‘ Alas, I will have to start you tomorrow BUT you‘re here and that‘s all that matters. 🖤🖤🖤

Blueberry 😆 3mo
DebinHawaii Woot! 🎉Can‘t wait to hear what you think! 3mo
Blerdgal_Fenix I have heard mixed reviews. I would like to hear your thoughts 3mo
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Hooked_on_books That‘s exciting! I can‘t wait for this one. 3mo
Suet624 🎊🎊🎊🎉🎉🎉 3mo
intothehallofbooks It‘s SO SO GOOD, Reggie. Just incredible. 2mo
Reggie @intothehallofbooks I‘m 100 pages in and no witchcraft but the horror of being a pregnant teen, to be shunned by your family and just dropped off with a bunch of strangers is enough right now. And he‘s just so readable. 2mo
intothehallofbooks @Reggie yes!! I can‘t want to see what you think when you finish it! 2mo
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Colored Television | Danzy Senna
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Lol, the amount of times I shouted what?!!!! Or what are you doing?!!!! astounded me. Jane is on sabbatical, living with her husband and 2 kids in a house loaned to them by a friend. She‘s finishing her second book so hopefully she can tenure and nothing will go right. She‘s mulatto and keenly observant on all things mulatto and race. Sometimes being so fixated on one thing doesn‘t allow you to see where the betrayal comes from. Oof. Big oof. 👇🏼

Reggie This was sharp, darkly comedic, and I‘ll read whatever she writes next. 3mo
TheBookHippie Ohhhhhkay fine I‘ll move it up to the top of the TBR stack 😂🤣🤷🏻‍♀️ 3mo
Reggie @TheBookHippie It was really good. There were some passages where you felt like she really had her finger on the pulse. I hope you like it. 3mo
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TheBookHippie @Reggie I am going to try to get to it this weekend! I was so burned out from reading THIS IS SO GOOD only to bail on so many popular books I was waiting, however this praise from you means it is most likely good! (edited) 3mo
Megabooks A lot of WTF moments for sure!! 3mo
Reggie @Megabooks I came off of my last break with my upper back kinda knotted up because I was cringing for her. It reminded me of when I decided to stop lying back in middle school cause the lies pile up, and it gets exhausting. And there are these adults just digging the holes deeper. It was crazy but in the end I wanted to jump in the book and punch a certain character for her. Despite her craziness I still wanted good for her. I really like this boo 3mo
Megabooks Agreed. She was a character you could root for despite her mistakes. 3mo
Centique This sounds good! I heard it being acclaimed on the Book Riot podcast too. 3mo
Hooked_on_books Loved this one! 3mo
Rissreadswithcats I‘ve never heard of this one, stacked! 3mo
squirrelbrain Looking forward to this - I *will* get to it soon! 🤪 3mo
Reggie @Centique she has this talent for writing uncomfortability you have to sit with it until she decides to dispel it. I hope you like it. 3mo
Reggie @Hooked_on_books she reminds me a little of Palahniuk and this horror writer Max Brooks III where they have this knack for converging events at the most awkward time. It‘s a talent. 3mo
Reggie @Rissreadswithcats it‘s soooooo good. I hope you like it if you get to it. 3mo
Reggie @squirrelbrain Lol I hope you have fun with it. 3mo
Suet624 Well you‘ve convinced me. 3mo
Reggie @Suet624 I hope you take a crack at it Sue because she has some commentary on what‘s happening right now that just kinda hooked me in. 3mo
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Mimosa | Archie Bongiovanni
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This book kinda hit deep for this gay country mouse. Mimosa is a GN about 4 very super queer people dealing with different issues as they‘re in their 30s. Which in queer world means they feel like they have also become invisible. The thing that hurt the most was seeing a 5 page montage of their friendship as it has grown only for them to grow in different directions realizing that their friendships no longer served them. Which, is sometimes 👇🏼

Reggie how it goes. A melancholic pick….sigh. lol 3mo
GatheringBooks First i am hearing of this graphic novel. Pretty sure will not find it here lols. Happy New Year, dear Reggie! 🥰 3mo
CarolynM Sounds tough. Hugs 🤗 3mo
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TrishB Sadly I think there‘s a time like that for a lot of friendships 💔 3mo
Reggie @GatheringBooks HappyNew Year Myra!!! 3mo
Suet624 😩 sigh. 3mo
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Into The Water | Paula Hawkins
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After reading Woman on the Train and thanking the universe I wasn‘t an alcoholic, I said it was good but that was enough Hawkins for me. Well my bookclub had other ideas. Tomorrow I‘ll be my 13th meeting with them. So there is a river that runs through this town. It starts off with a woman‘s body being found in the river that everyone wants to just say it was suicide. But it‘s not. All the characters in here are somewhat unlikable and messy👇🏼

Reggie but Hawkins made me care for them so that makes it a pick! 3mo
5feet.of.fury Nice! I‘ve had this one on my shelf for a while, hoping to get to it soon so im glad to see a good review come up. 3mo
Bookzombie I also said that book was enough Hawkins for me, lol. How many book clubs are you in? 🙂 Also, thanks for 👁️🍫. Love it all! 3mo
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Leftcoastzen Cool! 3mo
Reggie @5feet.of.fury I hope you like it. We were all over the place at bookclub today. It made for some great discussion. 3mo
Reggie @Bookzombie this one mainly and when I can swing leaving 2 hours early ion the 3rd Tuesday of the month the horror one. So 1 1/2. Glad you got the package. I loved that book so much. I can‘t wait for her to write another one. 3mo
Reggie @Leftcoastzen Thanks! 😎 3mo
Rissreadswithcats Yep that book was enough Hawkins for me too! 🤣 3mo
Jas16 I came home to a wonderful package from you. If I remember correctly you prefer not to be thanked publicly? If I am wrong I would love to post about it because I was overwhelmed. Thank you so much. 3mo
Reggie Jeez Louise I will never go ground shipping again. Sue from Vermont got hers like a day later. It‘s almost been 2 weeks. This is crazy. I‘m glad you finally got it. And I hope we both have better years, Jennifer. ❤️❤️❤️. And you can post if you want. The international girls did. 3mo
Suet624 @Jas16 @reggie Gah! I think last year you suggested I not post about your gift so I didn‘t this year!!! 😊 I‘ll have to remedy that!!! 3mo
Jas16 Good things are worth waiting and this was amazing. I echo your wishes, my friend, and hope that 2025 has only good things in store for us after the year we both had. 3mo
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Black Star | Eric Glover
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This GN is about 4 women scientists in cryochambers on a ship headed towards a volatile planet in search of a plant that could cure many diseases back home. Their ship gets hit by an asteroid and they crash land on to the planet. One survives and leaves the other alive scientist for dead because she can‘t open the chamber. Later on her guidance system lets her know the other woman is alive. It turns into a fight to the death because their 👇🏼

Reggie rescue ship, get this Litsy, only has room FOR ONE person. It was alright. 3mo
Ruthiella That‘s not much of a back up plan- only room for one? Who designed that ship! 😆 3mo
Reggie @ruthiella for reals I think some guy was like can we draw them in bikinis and have them fight in mud. And the collaborator was like you can only pick one so he picked the rescue ship having room for one person. LOL 3mo
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TrishB 😂😂 great review! 3mo
Reggie lol Thanks @TrishB 3mo
sarahbarnes 😆😆😆 3mo
Suet624 LOL 3mo
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Model Home: A Novel | Rivers Solomon
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I liked this so much. 3 siblings reunite after the death of their parents in the home they grew up in. The home they all believe is haunted. This is about how as adults we can be haunted by the trauma we experience as kids from haunted houses, from parents, from racism. There was a lot in here and it ends up being darkly brilliant. The writing is strange. Sentences will start out lovely but will end jarringly. It disorients you. Pick!

BarbaraBB I have this on my shelves. Can‘t wait to read it! 3mo
LeahBergen Great review! I‘m intrigued. 3mo
Lindy I was already looking forward to this. Thanks for making me even more eager. 🤩 3mo
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Hooked_on_books I completely agree. I found this wholly absorbing. 3mo
Reggie @BarbaraBb I hope you like it! 3mo
Reggie @LeahBergen Thanks! I hope you give it a try. It‘s really good. 3mo
Reggie @Lindy I can‘t wait to see what you think! 3mo
Reggie @Hooked_on_books there are books I take to work and don‘t even bother with for breaks because they just don‘t hold me. This one, even for my measly 15 minutes, I fell into with ease, or unease because of the story. It was soo good. 3mo
BkClubCare If I didn‘t already have this stacked, your review would have made me! 3mo
TrishB In the middle of it and a bit so-so but your review will probably make me carry on! The writing is so jarring- on purpose obviously. 3w
Reggie @TrishB I hope it turns around for you, TrishB. The ending, for me, made it way better. 3w
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Tom Lake and Unsheltered take my top spots for the year. Books about people ending up nowhere they thought they‘d be written in the loveliest of languages coloring scenes that talk to me months later. The Haar- elderly, gory horror, romance? I loved this book so much. AnnieBot-AI sentience and dysfunctional, abusive relationships-infuriating but give me all of it. Eyes are the Best Part- a daughter finding out she has a starting obsession 👇🏼

Reggie with the taste of eyeballs as all the men in her life fail her and inspire female rage! Beloved-every one should read be required to read this book. American Rapture-an over sheltered young woman coming of age set against a zombie epidemic. Zombies who go@into a sexual assaulting rage. Also, this is the book that made me realize my dad has- no can read-scenes. Animal death happens and he texts me while I‘m in line at Kohls to let me know how👇🏼 3mo
Reggie pissed he is. Never mind that there‘s a 4yo boy who gets killed by religious fundamentalists. It‘s the animal death that really bothers him. It made my night. Those are my 7 favorite for the year. Happy New Year Litsy! 3mo
Cathythoughts Hi Reggie 👋🏻 Happy New Year 🥳 😁 3mo
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Reggie Hi @Cathythoughts! Same to you! 3mo
BarbaraBB So happy to see you Reggie, wishing you a happy new year and taking a screenshot of your top picks! 3mo
CarolynM Happy New Year, Reggie😘 Lovely to see you here again 😀 3mo
Centique Aaaaaaahhhhhhh. Im just screaming Reggie‘s Back!!!!! Did you get the horror movie book i sent you around Halloween? Was worried to send anything else in case you moved. 🕺🕺🕺(dance moves there not house moves!) 3mo
Seabreeze_Reader Happy 2025 Reggie. Glad to see you posting here again. (From your prior post, sorry to hear about your grandma's situation and all the stress you've had lately. Take care.) (edited) 3mo
Rissreadswithcats We are all screaming Reggie‘s back baby! ♥️ And loving the new profile picture! (edited) 3mo
quietlycuriouskate Reggie's back! 😃 3mo
Librarybelle Welcome back! I loved Tom Lake, so glad to see it made it into your top picks! 3mo
Jas16 Reggie!!!!!! Seeing your post made me gasp with joy. Missed you! 3mo
Mollyanna Welcome back Reggie! I‘ve missed your reviews and fabulous wit. 3mo
youneverarrived Nice to see you back 💛 3mo
Ruthiella Happy New Year Reggie! I noticed you “liking” posts earlier. Glad to see you back. ❤️ 3mo
Billypar This is very timely because my hold for Tom Lake came in today, so I'm looking forward to starting that. Beloved is amazing - 2025 will be the year I finally read The Bluest Eye. I'm such a fan of the Eyes cover, and also the Haar one which I don't remember seeing before. Happy New Year and welcome back! 3mo
Leftcoastzen Happy New Year Reggie! 3mo
Reggie @Leftcoastzen Happy New Year Linda! 3mo
Reggie @Billypar Tom Lake was one of the first books I read last year and it has persisted. I hope you like it. Happy New Year! 3mo
Reggie @Ruthiella Thanks! Happy New Year Ruth! 3mo
Reggie @youneverarrived Happy New Year Katie! 3mo
Reggie @Mollyanna Thank you. Happy New Year! 3mo
Reggie @Jas16 here‘s to hoping this year is a better one for both of us. Thank you for the books. Happy New Year Jennifer! 3mo
Reggie @Librarybelle I think about Tom Lake a lot. It‘s one of the first books I read last year and it just stuck with me. Happy New Year! 3mo
Reggie @quietlycuriouskate The Back Street Boys- Guess who‘s back?!!! It‘s Me! lol Happy New Year! 3mo
Reggie @Rissreads lol thanks. I was the Burger King for Halloween. I gave out candy that day, went to have some margaritas, and did some karaoke. It was one of the best nights I had this year. I also got the two books in the mail today. Thanks, Rissa. Happy New Year! 3mo
Reggie @Seabreeze_Reader Thank you. We just chill, watch movies and play games. She still remembers who I am. She just repeats questions a lot and tells the same stories. I‘m just glad she‘s still around. Happy New Year! 3mo
Reggie @Centique I‘m sorry I did get it. The title makes me laugh because it‘s based on this trilogy of movies called I Spit in your Grave. I never would‘ve watched them but before we left for Covid back in 2020 this 70yo coworker I have, Carol, came in and told us about them. In the first 2, women get SA‘ed by a group of men and left for dead. In both movies, the women survive and come back to viciously kill every one involved. Imagine this 70 year👇🏼 3mo
Reggie @Centique your coworker describing a scene where the survivor girl puts a man‘s testicle in a clamp and screws it tight until it bursts. We all just stood there open mouthed as she described all the gruesome deaths. lol, thank you for the book, Paula. 3mo
Rissreadswithcats I really hope you enjoy them Reggie 🩷 3mo
Reggie @CarolynM Happy New Year CarolynM! 3mo
Reggie @BarbaraBB Happy New Year Barbara! 3mo
Centique @Reggie oh my god! That would be so bizarre hearing a colleague describe that. But go Carol! Breaking the mold 🙌 3mo
Suet624 Oh gosh, Reggie. I was worried about you and I‘m so happy to see your post. Happy New Year! 3mo
Reggie @Suet624 Hey Sue! Happy New Year! I had a respiratory virus for like 2 weeks. I still have a little congestion and a tiny cough but I‘m way better now than I was for the week of Christmas. I will say, the 8 cheesy Xmas romance movies I watched really pulled me through. lol 3mo
Suet624 😂😂😂 3mo
Bookzombie Happy New Year! Happy to see the Leede book was a top pick. I loved her first book 3mo
Reggie @Bookzombie Happy New Year Margie! I cried on the last hour of reading that book. And being someone who was raised in a Catholic household, I somewhat identified with the MC in here. I hope me and you have a better reading year, Margie. 🖤🖤🖤 3mo
kspenmoll Happy New Year !!!! It‘s wonderful to have you back! 💖💖 3mo
Bookzombie @Reggie 🖤I hope we both do too! I also hope you are fully recovered. 3mo
sarahbarnes Happy New Year!! I‘m so happy you‘re back and that you‘re okay! Here‘s hoping for a good 2025! 3mo
sarahbarnes Beloved is one of my favorite books of all time. 3mo
Amor4Libros I loved the audiobook for Tom Lake! Happy New Year, Reggie! 3mo
Reggie @sarahbarnes Happy New Year! And yes to Beloved. There are a bunch of scenes I can pull from there at any moment because she‘s such a strong writer. 3mo
Reggie @Amor4Libros I heard the audiobook was good. I think about that book a lot. And the daughter Emily. Happy New Year! (edited) 3mo
AmyG OH HEY!!! I am so happy to see you on here! Sorry you were ill, isn‘t everybody? I also like stories about the lives of people that just didn‘t turn out the way they planned. Rings true in alot of ways. Wishing you a very Happy, Healthy 2025! May the year be filled with only good things for you. 😘 3mo
TheBookHippie You‘re back! Yay! HNY. 3mo
Reggie @TheBookHippie Happy New Year! 3mo
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Shoutout to the new Barnes and Nobles in Santa Fe who didn‘t have the one book I wanted (isn‘t that always the way) so I came home with this. I really liked this collection of short stories who reminded me of Nathaniel Balingrud‘s short stories. The monsters aren‘t the horror, it‘s the people going through some of the toughest days of their lives. There are some, though, that made me so angry because he would take a character to the edge 👇🏼

Reggie and I would think WHAT‘S NEXT?!! And he would say-that‘s it, that‘s the end. lol. The first story is Pestilence, War, and Famine being told they have to go on a team building retreat. But not Death cause Death is perfect. So the Lesser Horsemen go on a boat and there they are with their coach Linda doing trust falls and talking about feelings. It‘s super creative and this and other stories told me that Keith has had some shitty jobs. All the 👇🏼 7mo
Reggie stories were a pick for me. 7mo
AllDebooks Lol 😅 Great review 👏 7mo
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Tamra Will check out! NM is wonderful. Sigh 7mo
sarahbarnes This is a great title for a story collection. 7mo
vivastory You had me at the Ballingrud comp 7mo
vivastory I was just browsing & noticed Rosson's upcoming scored a cover blurb by King 7mo
Rissreadswithcats You make everything sound soooooooo good! 🤣 7mo
Seabreeze_Reader Hi @Reggie. I noticed you haven't posted in a while. Hope everything is okay and you're just taking a little social media break. Teams are being formed for the October #HauntedShelf challenge (hosted by @PuddleJumper) if you are interested in signing up. 🎃🙂 7mo
PuddleJumper ❤️❤️ 7mo
Suet624 Wherefore art thou? Miss you. 6mo
Centique Hey Reggie! I sent you something for Halloween but its coming from the UK. Hopefully it gets there in time! 💕🧙💕 6mo
BarbaraBB Missing you! Hope all is well 6mo
TheBookHippie Checking in too, hope all is well. 6mo
CoverToCoverGirl Hey Reggie! Hope all is well and you‘re busy reading up a storm. 🙂 6mo
AmyG Same here….checking in. Hope all is good. 6mo
sarahbarnes Hi Reggie! Hope you‘re well. 🩵🩵 5mo
Librarybelle Just checking in. Hope you are well. 5mo
CarolynM Hi Reggie👋 I‘ve missed seeing you around. Hope all is well💕 5mo
Rissreadswithcats I‘ve been awol lately too Reggie. Hope everything is ok. X 4mo
Ruthiella Hi Reggie! Hope you are reading a lot of good books. 😊 4mo
BarbaraBB Hi Reggie, missing you 🤍 4mo
Cuilin Hi there, hope all is well. 4mo
AmyG I miss Reggie, too. Hope he is well. 3mo
TrishB Hope all is well Reggie ♥️ 3mo
CBee HI REGGIE!!! 3mo
Reggie @CBee Hi, Happy New Year! 3mo
CBee @Reggie same to you! Doing okay? 3mo
Reggie Yeah, my grandma got put into a home. She has dementia and so I‘ve been trying to go home, which is 4 hours away to see her as much as I can so I‘ve just been a bit stressed out and work is not reality right now. There is just a lot of craziness going on but imma try to be more present here. I‘ve missed ya‘ll. 3mo
CBee @Reggie oh honey, I‘m sorry. I‘ve been there (grandma and mom). You can totally email me anytime you need to talk (cydneybean@gmail.com). Hope you‘re taking care of yourself too. You know we all understand and love you! 3mo
Reggie @Cbee Thanks so much! 3mo
Rissreadswithcats I‘m really sorry to hear about your grandma Reggie. I‘m going through something very similar with my Mum and Alzheimers. 2024 was a tough year. I hope things get better this year for you and you get some reading and rest in x 3mo
Mollyanna I‘m sorry to hear about your grandma Reggie. My grandma had dementia too. It‘s so hard on the family members. Take care of yourself while being there for grandma. 3mo
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One Perfect Lie | Lisa Scottoline
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This was for bookclub where none of us cared for it. It gets a meh for me because there was a part where there was potential if she had rewritten the book. Is that a meh, Litsy? Idk. There was a man whose whole thoughts on the book were-This is an insult to our group. It‘s an insult to readers everywhere. I wanted to give him a hug. lol Because the book was so bad we went off topic and had some great discussion. Here‘s hoping for a better book!

vivastory An insult to readers everywhere lol 8mo
Centique Thats a legendary take on a book 😂 8mo
Suet624 Love this. 8mo
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Librarybelle That has to be one of my favorite takes from a book. 😂 8mo
vivastory I have been watching From based off of your recommendation. I'm currently halfway through season 1 & loving it. Also, just returned from the movies where I saw the new Aliens, Holy shit, have you seen it? What a banner year for horror movies! 7mo
Reggie @vivastory I‘m so glad you‘re liking it! I‘m gonna start season 2 on my days off. I haven‘t seen it but want to do bad. Maybe also this weekend. 7mo
vivastory @Reggie Looking forward to yr thoughts on it. A lot of scenes where I was 😲 lol 7mo
Rissreadswithcats An insult to readers everywhere. Classic! I hope so can use this quote one day! 👏🏻🤣♥️ 7mo
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The Prospects | KT Hoffman
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@sprainedbrain Jenni thanks for posting about this one. It‘s easily gonna be in my top10 this year. Gene is is a trans man on a triple A baseball team when someone from his past shows up and shakes up his season. This was lovely. When the world thinks less of you how do you exist? Are you allowed to hope for something? Are you allowed to want something for yourself? I cried quite a few times on this. This is trans joy at its best. Pick!

sprainedbrain ❤️ 8mo
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The Gay Best Friend | Nicolas DiDomizio
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Call it the leftover internalized homophobia but I wanted to scream at this pansy pollyanna to get it together. We follow Domenic as he is put into some really hard places during the bachelor and bachelorette parties of his 2 straight friends getting married. 2 words of advice. 1. You can just extricate yourself from your straight friends when they act crazy. 2. Alcohol is not your friend when you have secrets to keep. This book was a hot mess👇🏼

Reggie that I loved to hate and could not look away from. It‘s a pick, Litsy. It makes me feel guilty to say it but I enjoyed it. A pick! 8mo
TrishB Great review 😁 made me laugh! 8mo
sarahbarnes Missed your reviews lately! Thanks for making me smile 😃 8mo
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Jas16 Love this review. 8mo
Reggie @TrishB @sarahbarnes @Jas16 and despite the main character being a train wreck, there‘s some romance in here as well. 8mo
Centique I love this review too. What a treasure trove of Reggie reviews i found today! I needed it too, family has all been sick and im dealing with gastro zombies here while trying not to become one myself! 🧟‍♀️🧟‍♂️ 8mo
Suet624 Love to see you posting again. I missed you. 8mo
AmyG Ah-here you are! 😘 8mo
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Nearlywed | Nicolas DiDomizio
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I liked this book so much. It‘s a romance that drags you through the hard stuff. Two divorced men, one from a man and one from a woman are now engaged and are taking part in a tradition known as the early moon. It‘s the trip you take together to enjoy time to yourself before the craziness of getting ready for the wedding. But for these two men nothing will go right. Listening to it on audio in the car I couldn‘t see some of the road cause I 👇🏼

Reggie was sobbing so hard. lol, you know how it goes Litsy. A pick! 8mo
BarbaraBB Love your review again! 8mo
TrishB I need to tell my son about the early moon holiday! Any excuse for another holiday 😁 8mo
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TrishB But not one that makes you cry! 8mo
Jas16 Great review. This sounds really good. 8mo
Reggie @BarbaraBb thanks! 😊 8mo
Reggie @TrishB let‘s hope his is way happier than the one in here. 8mo
Reggie @Jas16 It‘s so good and you think it‘s gonna be light until things start happening. 8mo
Rissreadswithcats Awwwww Reggie. I love a good cry! 7mo
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We follow Demani who drives for an Uber like company. Her father has just died. She‘s trying to support herself and her mother who has become paralyzed with depression after the loss of her husband. While driving around the city, there are protests everywhere, even protests protesting other protests. She‘s also queer and falling for a woman named Jolene. This starts out so dark and the out of nowhere the comedy peeks through. So good. Pick!

sarahbarnes This sounds very good - stacking! 8mo
Chelsea.Poole I‘ve been so curious about this one. Thanks for the nudge. 8mo
Reggie @sarahbarnes at first I didn‘t think I would like it and then it won me over. 8mo
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Reggie @Chelsea.Poole I hope you like it! 8mo
Suet624 Already stacked but I‘m so glad to hear you liked it. 8mo
Amor4Libros This sounds so good, stacked! 😊 8mo
psalva I hope my queer book club gets to this one. Sounds good! 8mo
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The Z Word | Lindsay King-Miller
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I‘m pretty sure the title is a playoff of the show The L Word. Messy lesbian drama, pride celebrations, toxic sponsorships, and zombies, oh my. Total Pick!

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I loved this book so much. Thanks @Jas16 for sending it to me. It‘s 1960 and newly traded baseball player Eddie is having a horrible hitting slump. Mark is the reporter assigned to him to do a piece to make him more likable. Of course sparks fly.This is charming and sweet, discusses the things we deserve from those who love us. It also discusses grief and I don‘t really feel like there was a climax but I didn‘t care. I was just sad that it ended.

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The Four Winds | Kristin Hannah
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Litsy, you know I didn‘t pick this for myself. It was for bookclub. This was a story of a woman and her journey from sickly daughter to wife to single mother from the Great Depression to the Dust Bowl to her journey to the West. It‘s a hardscrabble life. Everything was so hard and sad. It‘s a good, compelling story but I didn‘t think the writing was all that. My first and last Hannah. A lot of the women at bookclub did not care for this AT ALL.

TrishB I stopped reading Hannah after 2, that was enough. 8mo
Lesliereadsalot Only made it through about a third of this one. So boring. 8mo
TheLudicReader I hated the ending. 8mo
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sarahbarnes I‘ve never felt compelled to read her. 8mo
Deblovestoread I hated the ending too. Wanted to throw the book across the room and then stomp on it for good measure. My first and so far only of hers. 8mo
Reggie @sarahbarnes I see so many people read her so I was like well I guess I‘ll see what it‘s all about. Not my thing. 8mo
Reggie @Lucidreader @Deblovestoread oh man, there were 4 women at bookclub who were pissed at the ending. They were so angry. Like why write a book about a woman, only to do that to her in the end. 8mo
Reggie @TrishB I hear a lot of them are sad. This one was enough for me. 8mo
Reggie @Lesliereadsalot you saved yourself a lot of heartache. Lol 8mo
Suet624 Ugh. I liked Hannah‘s first one but the others are 👎🏻 8mo
kspenmoll I am so glad to see your posts! This author never appealed to me. Good review! 8mo
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The Sluts | Dennis Cooper
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This book was WILD. WY-ALD. It was written in the early 2000s, in the format of a message board where men post reviews about male escorts and there is one about a guy named Brad and everyone wants to be part of the drama. This book is a trapdoor into a certain hell. It‘s full of lies and you don‘t know what to believe. Near the end the author slaps you with a word from a certain character and shames you. Lol A totally awesome Pick!!!

BarbaraBB This one sounds very good. 8mo
TrishB Loving reading your reviews this morning! 8mo
sarahbarnes Oh wow, this sounds intriguing. 8mo
Reggie @BarbaraBB @sarahbarnes This is in the top ten of the year so far for me. But it‘s not for the squeamish. There‘s some heavy stuff on the first couple of pages. (edited) 8mo
BarbaraBB That makes it even more tempting. Stacking! 8mo
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This was my 2nd time reading this for a horror bookclub I managed to make. My other group , sadly, was not picked up at the other library I used to go to. 😢. I forgot how devastating this book was. There are 2 sisters, an 8yo who we see the whole book through and a 14yo who might be possessed. And despite there maybe being a possession it‘s more about a dissolution of a family that broke my heart. Love this book and Tremblay as an author. Pick!

Ruthiella So sad and also so creepy! 😱 8mo
Reggie @Ruthiella we were introducing ourselves at bookclub and this young woman introduced herself, said her name, said she worked at the library, said she made candles in her spare time, and that she was a witch. I had to hold myself from laughing. And later when we were discussing the book she said she didn‘t like it because it was told from a kids perspective. That she hates children. And I so wanted to jump in and say that‘s very on brand for 👇🏼 8mo
Reggie your people! Building houses made of gingerbread and candy, luring kids inside so your people can try to push them into ovens. lol it was so funny. I had such a good time with that group. 8mo
Ruthiella @Reggie 😂 That was my first thought too, “of course you don‘t like children (except to eat them!)” 😂 8mo
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Black Sheep | Rachel Harrison
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I want to hate Rachel Harrison and say she‘s a hanger on with the cool horror clique. I want to yell Poser! at her and hate her books. But I can‘t cause she really does the intrapersonal very well between family members. It totally resonates with me no matter how watered down her horror elements are. I would recommend going in blind on this. I did and found it outrageous and hilarious. A young woman after a 6yrs absence is lured home. Pick!

TrishB Have this waiting on the pile! 8mo
Reggie @TrishB I thought it was fun. 8mo
vivastory I have read only one of her books (The Return) & didn't like it but am meaning to give her another try. I always enjoy the Books In the Freezer episodes where she's a guest 8mo
britt_brooke Just started this. My first time reading her! 7mo
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I did not like this book we read for bookclub. There was about 10 of us and I was the lone person who did not care for it. I really dislike books written for the gotcha! moments that sacrifice character and plot development. It was a no for me. I did enjoy the discussion. We laughed a lot and I walked out of there feeling lighter. So that was the win of this book for me.

Sace I read this one and I enjoyed the book, but can‘t remember a thing about it! 10mo
Ruthiella At the least you got something out of the discussion! 10mo
Leftcoastzen The gotcha ! really annoys me too! Not really fond of that style. 10mo
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Amor4Libros That sucks! I read The Leftover Woman and I liked it. Glad at least the discussion was good 😊 10mo
dabbe #fanofthepan! 🤩🤩🤩 10mo
Centique Im glad book club is a fun and light vibe. It looks great! And so sunny 🌞 I totally get what you mean about the “gotcha” moments. When you can see it coming and the author is playing their hand too heavily - they lose me. 10mo
vivastory Hey Reggie, I just read King's “Everything's Eventual.“ Have you read it? I hope you're doing well! 9mo
TrishB Hope all is well Reggie! 9mo
sarahbarnes Hope all is good with you! 8mo
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Ghost Radio | Leopoldo Gout
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Ever since reading his Piñata, I‘ve been on the lookout for this and found it. I was not disappointed. Joaquin runs a radio show called Ghost Radio where people call in telling their spooky stories. Joaquin has been close to death most of his life escaping two close calls. Something has been trying to reach Joaquin and as Joaquin starts to pay attention reality starts to blur and smudge and he has no idea what the hell is going on. It was a ??

Reggie creepy trip. A pick! Bonus points for certain sections where Joaquin and his gf Alondra had me laughing because they were so extra, so dramatic, passionate, I wanted to throw a glass of water on them sometimes, lol. 10mo
vivastory I have had this sitting on my shelves for Y E A R S. Will have to check it out 10mo
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Coincidence | David B Lyons
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It is wild to me that the song Kill the Poor by Dead Kennedys features prominently in back to back books I‘ve read.

Leftcoastzen That is interesting! 10mo
Ruthiella That is a freakish coincidence ! 🤯 10mo
Decalino I call it "book synchronicity"-- love when that happens 10mo
vivastory It's funny you mention that bc I've had death metal mentioned in a few books I've read this year lol 10mo
Suet624 Wow! That‘s wild! 9mo
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Cuckoo | Gretchen Felker-Martin
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This was SK‘s It meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The prologue could have been its own brutal short story. A bunch of teens are sent to a conversion camp in the 90s. A camp hiding a very cosmic horror. Years later the survivors will have to go back to finish what they started. This was great. Gretchen doesn‘t care about your feelings or delicate sensibilities cause she just tells it like it is. My only issue here is is that I wish she 👇🏼

Reggie had broken down some of the story into chapters focused on a single character so we get a better handle on them. It was hard to tell who was who sometimes. Still a great queer horror pick! 🏳️‍🌈 10mo
Centique Brilliant review Reggie!😍 10mo
vivastory You got me with your comparison. SOLD 10mo
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