Flowers in the Attic | 
For the #alphabetgame today, I am picking this one because it was a book that gave me a love for reading at a young age. I tore through these books as they were published and couldn‘t wait to go to the library and check them out. #LetterF @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
My next read. I am sooooo excited!
pickI have to say, I went in not knowing anything about what this book held. I was only told bits and pieces here and there. But finally after 28 years of hearing about it I found it one lovely day at Barnes & Noble. I was hooked, the story is deep and really paints a picture of loss, grieving, betrayal, abandonment. I would recommend it if you have always wanted to read it. But be warned. You will have a blizzard of emotions going through.
pickI‘m shook. I was expecting a vintage domestic thriller and got a very disturbing coming-of-age slow burner that I won‘t be quick to forget. Damn… that was dark.
What I can appreciate from this book is this: the very real issues of the teenage world of yesteryear are just as relevant today. A psychological caging of your hormonally-charged mind, where all of your childhood nightmares are on steroids.
Revisiting this during spring break...and wondering if I‘ll tear through it like I did in junior high?
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💖 My boys
💙 Flowers in the Attic. So far pick thought I know it's going to get dark soon
🖤 My husband. He always takes care of us.
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This is one book which is in my TBR forever. I have no inclination to read it as yet due to its content, having read from various reviews.
I definitely can‘t remember the FIRST romance novel I read, but the tagged book was probably the first that was sexually explicit, and of course I read it way younger than would have been appropriate. I‘m sure I‘m not the only one with a similar story on Litsy….😉
Looking forward to #Swoonathon throughout the month of February! @kimmypete1 @MidnightBookGirl
Fate was a grim reaper, never kind, with little respect for who was loved and needed... and grief, no matter on how your try to cater to is wail, has a way of fading away, and the person so real so beloved becomes a dim slightly out of focus shadow.
pickVirginia Andrews classic story flowers in the attic follows the Dollangangers. Difficult book to read but in my opinion definitely worth a read. May not be for everyone tho
Starting this today. I know people say it trashy but I absolutely adore VC Andrews books. I know most are by a ghost writer but I don‘t care I love them all. My mum got my into these so re- reading them in her memory ❤️
This week‘s suspenseful tv binge has totally made me want to go back and read Flowers in the Attic again. #scarathlon2021 #teamslaughter @Clwojick +41 pts
#LittensDressedInBlood Today's prompt is Tainted Love
I was obsessed with this series at a very young age (and likewise, the Heaven series), and it brought me to other even more gothic tales, although none of those featured such tainted love as the love that existed in the early VC Andrews books. Let us not talk about the pure crap that spewed forth under her name in the decades since her death though- that's pure horror!
Reading 4 books right now cuz nothing is holding my attention for very long
Cory was entirely different. While Carrie chattered on and on, he‘d sit and listen attentively. I recall Mrs. Simpson saying Cory was “a still water that ran deep.” I still don‘t know what she meant by that, except quiet people did exude some illusion of mystery that kept you wondering just what they really were beneath the surface.
#currentlyreading #bookblurbs #fiction #novels
bailedThis has been on my TBR forever, but I must say that I‘m not a fan. It reads like smutty MG, not even mature enough to be YA. Next!
Also Mena Suvari doesn‘t do the #audiobook any favors. 🙄👎🏻
pickThis was a reread for me - I read it a few times as a preteen, and I loved it just as much this time around. Which is kinda weird to say considering the subject matter, so I guess what I really mean is that I think it‘s a good book!
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#pop21 - book by an author who shares your zodiac sign
And with the completion of the tagged book, my February #BookSpinBingo is at an end. This month I managed one bingo and to read my #DoubleSpin read. My #BookSpin book, Hour of the Witch, along with The Five will carry over into March as I‘m currently reading them.
panFlowers In The Attic is a strange hybrid: a barely-comprehensible poorly-written story full of holes that still managed to disturb and horrify me. At first, I was frustrated by the mistreatment of the children, but all too soon I was frustrated by the children themselves, and the whole ludicrous set-up. Full review here: https://keepingupwiththepenguins.com/flowers-in-the-attic-vc-andrews/
pickThis book made me think, "What in the World?!?!" Great read...
#7Days7Books - 7 books that have left a deep impression or changed me - Day 2
Day 6
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Seven books that left a deep impression on me and changed me. #covercrush #vcandrews
Living in the desert means I have blooms like these in my yard! #bloominglitsy 🌵
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Seven books which made a deep impression on me.
Day 2 - Flowers in the Attic. I first read this around the age of 14 & I remember being absolutely scandalised and yet unable to stop reading it. I HAD to know what happened to Chris and Cathy.
Tagging - anyone who wants to join in the 7 days/books challenge.
pickThis is between a pick and a so-so for me. I wasn't for sure I knew the plot until the very end, but it was one of my top theories leading up to the big reveal.
Sorry. I couldn‘t help myself. Lol
A friend sent this to me. I loved these books so much when I was a teenager.
pickhorrendous, but really good. bracing. great Gothic story.
pickOh My Goodness!
This book is infamous and I was hesitant to pick it up because of all I knew about it, but Oh My Goodness!
I thought this an interesting look at abuse, trust, hope, despair, mental illness, blurred lines, survival, evil and the corrupting power of money and religion.
I have nothing but compassion for the Dollanganger children, they were put in an impossible situation and did their best.
I read this a long time ago: Chris, Cathy, and the twins are to be kept hidden until their grandfather dies so that their mother will receive a sizeable inheritance; however, years pass and terrifying things occur as the four children grow up in their one room prison.
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pickIncest is wincest amiright. JUST KIDDING IT IS NOT. This book is INSANE and crazy af. Though it‘s so good and I could not put it down. The premise is the father dies so the mom moves her and her four kids in with their grandparents. The kids are forced to live in the attic and neglected. There‘s so much to unpack all I can say is read it.
pickI saw the movie before I read the book, the latter was better
so-soI don‘t even know what to say but very eye opening and disturbing. 3/5
pickNot at all sure what drew me to this one today, but I had never read it before and I love a good controversial book so here we are. It didn't feel quite as scandalous as I was expecting given what I've heard if I'm being honest, and mostly I just felt unadulterated anger towards the whole situation. I read it pretty much in one go though, so that's enough for a pick!
📍 Basseterre, St. Kitts
Happy V.C. Andrews Day! Flowers In The Attic was first published on this day in 1979, forty years ago! I'll admit, I first heard about this one on the #MyFavoriteMurder podcast, but it would seem that most booklovers/crime junkies got their start with it, smuggled copies from the shelves of their parents or older siblings... I haven't given it a go yet. Should I? 😅 #SSDGM
pan2 ⭐️- Re-reading books I loved is kind of awesome - like Harry Potter, Sara Donati‘s Into the Wilderness, The Help ... Aaaand sometimes it‘s not so awesome.
I loved (much to my mom‘s chagrin and outright disapproval) the Flowers in the Attic series as a teen. After re-reading it recently, in my 40‘s, it is apparent that 13-year-old Laurie and 40-ish Laurie disagree on what makes a good read.
My review: http://bit.ly/FlowersintheAtticReview
An oldie but goodie for today‘s #ChillingPhotoChallenge prompt “poison”
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#horrorcovercrush day 6
First published in 1979 , the series kept its popularity with young teens (and adults)way into the 80s .V.C.Andrews wrote the first 4 before her death from breast cancer .It was a closely guarded secret for years that the books were ghost written after that .
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Interesting article 📚
http://mentalfloss.com/article/12689/your-favorite-authors-are-frauds-6-famous-g...
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pickIt was only suppose to be for a few days... weeks... just a couple months...
She promised her four beautiful children they wouldn‘t have to stay in the locked room together for long. Just until her father forgave her and placed her back into his will.
Then they would be free. Not only that - they would be rich!
But until then, the four children must never be seen or heard. For now, they can only have the attic.
Loved every dirty detail!
“... the twins recovered. Not in nine days... in nineteen days.”
Who else has read Flowers in the Attic? When her children were sick, should the mother have taken them to a doctor, despite the grandmother forbidding it?
Personally, I feel like this is the first time in the book, the mother really showed she is beginning to TRULY put herself first, and children second...
Currently reading Flowers in the Attic while waiting for the Eagles game to start.
I saw the movies but have yet to dive into the books - it certainly is dark!
(I think my kitty is trying to read alongside me!)
pickI have been wanting to read VC Andrews' books for the longest time, and I am so glad that I did. After receiving an ARC for Beneath The Attic, I decided to start reading her novels. I don't know what it is, but I cannot seem to put them down. The story is so intriguing and twisted, it's like a soap opera. There are so many series she has written and I cannot wait to read them all!
