Finishing this one up for the Austentatious Book Club live show on Friday @ 4pm PST on readbyzoe's channel with myself, Zoe, @maureenkeavy and Tashapolis! Come join us 💜😊📚

Klebold is the mother of one of the perpetrators of the awful shooting at Columbine High School. This book is filled with grief, anguish, and self-hatred, but also self-awareness and intelligence. It's a gut-wrenching read and I had to take it slow.
I talked more about this in my October Wrap Up (I haven't uploaded a wrap up in SO LONG and have been editing all day so I'm so happy to have finally done one!) and my channel link is in my bio! 😊⬆️

I'm 70% through this book and it is incredibly disappointing. We know very little about the two protagonists and what we do know continues to be reiterated, like we're walking in circles instead of adding layers, richness, or depth. The plot is fun but the character development is shallow and I only have 30% left 😐

I tried The Trees 🍁🍂 out in my Try a Chapter tag video! 📚🎥 One day, Adrien wakes up to trees 🌳that have mysteriously grown to full size overnight 😱 He's trying to find his wife and meets Hannah, trying to find her brother who is a forester. I love 💜 the beautiful writing that takes its time to capture the little details and the magical realism ✨.
My channel link is in my bio if you wanna see which book I decided to continue with! 😊⬆️

I really enjoyed this! 👍🏼 The characters were sketched equally beautifully in their triumphs and follies. Examines the repercussions of long-standing trauma and grief and illustrates the many pressures and standards to which society holds women.

It's super rainy 🌧today which really reminds me of the tone of EILEEN. ☔️
It was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 📚🏆 and is like a case study of a lonely woman with a lot of self-hatred. Working at a boys' prison, she is enamored by a new worker, Rebecca and they get into a complicated entanglement.
It's not something I'd offhandedly recommend to just anyone but I thought it was SO interesting and still think about it to this day.

I don't think I will be the same person after finishing this book as compared to when I started it.

One of my highly anticipated fall releases! 🙆🏻 This is about Dr. Genevieve Summerford, a psychiatrist whose patient is arrested for murder in 1907. She doubts her skill as a clinician and is confronted with a secret about this patient.
It sounds like EVERYTHING I love: women in the mental health field 💜, mystery 🕵🏻‍♀️, and morally grey 🤔 ethical issues. This is another book in my September Book Haul video 📚📽 which is on my channel now! 💕

Hi, new friends! ?? First of all, ? thank you SO MUCH @kdwinchester for interviewing me and @Litsy for having me as your Shelf Talker this week! If you want to check out my interview, it's on the @Litsy page ?
Here's a book I featured in my September Book Haul ? video, and I'm so excited - a humorous, heartwarming tale about a Chinese-American family from @hmhbooks and if you're looking for my channel, search "squibblesreads" on Youtube!

I don't know where to begin with my frustrations with this book. I've DNFed 4 super hyped books in a row and am just 😔😔😔

My body is not ready for this 😭💜

Too many pages, not enough reward. Too many more potentially rewarding books on my shelf with more depth to continue, and this was too convenient and lacked depth. DNFed at page 75.

All sorts of tropey goodness: love triangle, instalove, "not like the other girls" from pg.1, "final duel", down on his luck guy vs rich dude. But the writing is non problematic and it reminds me of Grisha (the ONLY series I like besides Mistborn) + The Night Circus so I am LIVING for this ???

"It doesn't seem fair that men preoccupied with being fit are naturally assumed to be vain." THANK YOU GINA WOHLSDORF for working against the 1-dimensional athlete/gym-goer stereotype. ?? My friends who are athletes are passionate and kind and are hurt by this stereotype constantly perpetuated.

People have grinned once on pages 41, 42, 43, 54, and 56, and twice on page 51. Either no other verbs exist or we are secretly in a toothpaste commercial.

A missing poet. A sheltered sister on the hunt for him. A netherworld of terrible monsters. Victorian day London. YAAASSS 🙌🏼 One of the books in my June haul with Brittany from @UnderTheRadarBooks on my channel! 💜📽

There is non-consenting sexual activity, slut-shaming, and incongruence with character development. DNF at 50%. 😕

300 years, 8 generations, 2 countries and 1 epic tale. Gyasi uses Ghanian myths and legends to portray intergenerational trauma and family ties. 4.5⭐️ and full review up on my Booktube channel! 💜

Found this baby when I went book shopping with @UnderTheRadarBooks 😊 It's about a group of intertwined people at Westish college: baseball players, a professor, his wife, and a roommate. I'm early on in it but so far, so good! ⚾️📚📝

After an AMAZING (but exhausting!) week at BEA meeting all my Booktube friends, I am finally starting my second 😂 book in May - this bleak, disturbing, but important and enthralling short story collection about three linked families. 💕

IS ANYONE GOING TO BEA/BOOKCON?! I'll be there! 🙋🏻 Because I have to take time off work/school, I've been so busy and haven't had time to read but last night read a little of this! A good look at humanity and family dynamics.

Working on these 3️⃣ today but The Girl in 6E is 😱😏, sexy and suspenseful and thrilling and EVERYTHING, and I am LOVING it. Happy May 1st!

Very stoked to jump into We Love You, Charlie Freeman 🌿, which examines race, ethics, and family dynamics. I LOVE a good thought provoking book rife with social commentary. 🙌🏼 💜

SOME MORE CRAY CRAY 😱 Reminiscent of a sympathetic, multiple POV version of You by Caroline Kepnes mixed with the despair of What She Knew by Gilly Macmillan. High praise, I know, but it's GOOD. 🙌🏼

800 pages of CRAY CRAY 😲 This is less a stereotypical thriller with one BIG plot twist but more of a Nordic police procedural with a ton of small but sharp unexpected twists & turns. I could not put it down. MANY difficult topics but SO worth it. An examination of mental health and psychopathy. 💯

BEYOND EXCITED for both of these new releases today! HAPPY BOOK BIRTHDAY! 🙆🏻🎁🎉

Spending this beautiful Sunday writing a paper and starting I Let You Go, a thriller that's been very highly praise, about a mom whose son was killed in a hit and run incident, and also continuing with The Crow Girl! 💕📚 Hope everyone had a great weekend 😊

I was expecting more from this book - a myriad of existential questions were set up (How can we truly understand a person? Should an author defend their characters? When the body is tired nature is helping us?) but not fully explored in comparison to And Again by Jessica Chiarella which I LOVED.

"Now, sitting in this cave of lightly perfumed silk, what had seemed constant and unquestionable feels as delicate as the steam floating over her tea. As fragile as an illusion." ?

Working on this GORGEOUS book for Dewey's today! It looks so little and unassuming but I've heard it's suuuuper sad and also beautifully written. GOOD LUCK IF YOU'RE READATHONING TOO! 🏁🙋🏻💕

THIS BOOK IS MASSIVE, like 800 PAGES! But so good. So creepy, raises questions about POC and females in the police force and is just an all around addictive read 🙆🏻

I think out of all the books I've read, this has been one of the best ones in terms of evoking all 5 senses, not just sights and sounds. I'M LOVING IT! 😍💜

Every death is a love story. It's the goodbye part, but the love is still there, wide as the world.

Sepetys introduced an IMPORTANT, sadly overlooked,upsetting event in history. However, the sentence structure was ALL short and simple and I think had it been written more poetically and evocatively, its effect would have been much greater. Bleak and awful, but didn't live up to its potential. 3.5⭐️

I hauled this from the library! A short story collection with magical realism and horror elements, in the same vein as Kelly Link and Aimee Bender. THAT COVER THOUGH 😍🙌🏼

Literary fiction & magical realism. A poignant, raw, intricate portrayal of multigenerational grief and the ties that bind. Makes extraordinary out of the ordinary. I'm in LOVE. 😍

A woman's mother in law died many years ago and her husband told her it was a car accident, but she was murdered. In the present, another family members died under suspicious circumstances. The writing is simpler and less nuanced so it moves quickly, 55% through and enjoying it so far 😊

The rain on her dress and his shirt would stick them to each other, dissolve the skin between them, until their veins tangled like roots, and they breathed together, one scaled and dark-feathered thing.

Boca de miel, corazon de hiel. Mouth of honey, bitter heart. 💜

I am OBSESSED with Jane Steele, our unstoppable, plucky, anguished Victorian vigilante serial killer narrator inspired by the tale of Jane Eyre. It's written in a Bronte-esque style BUT with diverse characters, wit and wiles, and a badass heroine. 😍🙌🏼

The blurb for this book says it's a thriller and it keeps you guessing until the last page. I DID enjoy it, don't get me wrong, but it is more of a suspenseful contemporary focusing on grief, the unknown, and crimes against children rather than a harrowing thriller.

Look at the mystery I found at the library! It's about a man who is investigating a slew of deaths with the last known descendant of HP LOVECRAFT 🙆🏻 So excited to start this!

OMG LOOK AT THIS COVER 😍 This is the story of a 17 year old girl navigating the summer of the serial killer the Son of Sam. I'm so glad my library had it! 💕

This book sounds exactly like a baby The Night Circus - a circus setting, love, duels, rivalries. 🙌🏼 I'm so excited to buddy read this with my bb Alexandria at The Books Buzz! 🐝

Now these wasps are dead and all the heaviness has gone out of them and I think - how strange that being alive seems to make you heavy.

This gorgeous sci fi book came in the mail for me the other day! SO BEAUTIFUL 😍

I am starting this THRILLER (YES THRILLERS ARE MY FAVE EVER) with a few Booktube buddies tomorrow! SO ESSITE 🙆🏻👏🏼💕💜😊

100% on the defeating mental health stigma and appropriation front, 50% on the feminism front - it was neither intersectional nor inclusive and I cannot promote it as feminism that truly equally benefits all females.

A graphic novel: The story of 2 Aboriginal brothers who get caught up in drug abuse and gang violence find healing in traditions and community. Well researched and gorgeous art, highly recommended! 😊👌🏼

"Most people are easy: their unhappinesses are our unhappinesses, their sorrows are understandable, their bouts of self loathing were fast-moving and negotiable. But his were not."