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The Keep | Jennifer Egan

I‘m having a little gothic/horror weekend. ☠️

The Keep is a gothic revenge tale about two cousins and a castle in Europe. Tagged ⬆️

Hide is a thriller/horror tale about a girl playing a game of survival in an amusement park. Tagged ⬇️

Hidden Pictures is supernatural horror about a kid being haunted in a house in New Jersey. He draws increasingly disturbing pictures for his babysitter. Tagged ⬇️

Hidden Pictures: A Novel

vivastory Thanks for the tag! Both Keep & Hidden Pictures are on my TBR. I've seen Hide floating around social media the past few days but I didn't know what it was about. Sounds good. Adding it to my TBR 📚📚📚 2y

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Megabooks @vivastory I‘m pleased with how much I‘m enjoying HP! His debut was a surprise pick for me, and I‘m liking this even more. About 33% in. I just started The Keep now that I have a moment to sit down. (The other two are audiobooks.) Hide is up after HP. I‘ll tag you in my reviews if you want. 👍🏻👍🏻 2y

vivastory I'd def like to see your reviews! I appreciate it! I have Impossible Fortress on my TBR shelves. I was recently thinking of reading it. I just placed a hold on HP at my library. Premise of Hide reminds me a bit of the following, which I meant to read last fall & didn't get around to

Reprieve: A Novel

vivastory And apparently full contact haunted houses is a real thing?! I can't even process it...😬 😱 2y

Cinfhen You‘ve gone from #MemoirGirl to #HorrorGirl - what‘s going on ?!?! 😝😜😘all three sound ghoulishly good 2y

Megabooks @vivastory I have heard of full contact haunted houses, and I just don‘t think I could do it!! 2y

Megabooks @vivastory it looks like reviews on Reprieve are mixed on here. I‘ll probably wait to see what you think because we often agree. Impossible Fortress was different than anything I read that year in a good way. (I read it for the #BotmChallenge. I‘m not sure I would‘ve picked it up otherwise, but I‘m glad it put him on my radar.) 2y

Megabooks @Cinfhen only one memoir so far this month! It just seemed like I needed a good scaring this weekend! 👻 2y

squirrelbrain Ew, too much horror for me! 🤣 2y

Megabooks @squirrelbrain lol! It‘s like an itch I have to scratch sometimes! 😂☠️ 2y

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick Hidden Pictures had me at New Jersey. 2y

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The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After | Elizabeth Weil, Clemantine Wamariya

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How does one process a genocide? Clementine walked out of Rwanda and seven other countries on her way to America, and she is still coming to terms with what happened to her. Her sister, Claire, was her tenacious protector, yet Claire was abused by her own aid-worker husband.

Not so surprisingly, she found comfort in writer/survivors like Ellie Wiesel and Audre Lorde. She is amazing but wants you to know she is not unique. 😢 5⭐️ 👍🏻👍🏻narration

Megabooks #booked2020 #aboutgenocide @Cinfhen @BarbaraTheBibliophage @4thhouseontheleft 4y

alisiakae Great review! I especially agree with your last sentence. She is amazing, but we have to remember that those who choose to tell their stories don‘t necessarily hold a unique story, there are millions more stories similar to hers. 😞 4y

Megabooks @4thhouseontheleft Thank you! I hate that there are millions like her in this world, but I‘m glad that she came forward with her story, so that those of us living in comfort can begin to understand. The Rwandan genocide is the first one I remember paying attention to on the news, and I was about he sister Claire‘s age when it happened. It‘s just so hard to believe how difficult their lives were. (edited) 4y

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Cinfhen This book was so touching 😢horrible that it occurred so recently in history. 4y

Cinfhen See, you LIKE memoirs 💖📚🙏🏻 4y

Megabooks @Cinfhen I know! Less than 30 years ago. So terrible. 💔💔💔 Yes, I guess I am a #memoirgirl! 👍🏻 4y

Verity I‘ve heard such great thing about this book, but I just can‘t bring myself to read it. Rwanda was just so awful - even the war reporters who covered it still have PTSD from it, I can‘t imagine what the survivors feel. 4y

Megabooks @Verity I didn‘t think I could read it either, but I‘m glad the booked2020 prompt made me face a book about genocide. 4y

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The Giveaway: The True Story of One Soul's Journey | Malini Pamela Benda

Congrats to my lovely friend #MySisterFromAnotherMister and fellow #EightiesGirl @Lizpixie on her BIG Litsy milestone 🙌🏻
My 3 favorite genres are Historical Fiction, Contemporary Fiction and Memoirs. Hard to choose a favorite but these are the first three books I thought of that each earned 5 shiny stars and I would recommend wholeheartedly 💕
#LizPixies3x3Giveaway ~ you‘re the Queen of #PayingItForward 🙏🏻👑💖

Megabooks I can only think of two genres I like: sociology and literary fiction. Maybe I like memoirs?? What do you think? 4y

Cinfhen I definitely think you‘re a #MemoirGirl 😉 @Megabooks and I think I‘m beginning to lean more towards sociology too, rather than historical fiction 4y

Megabooks @Cinfhen thanks for the help, friend! We really are #readingbuddies 😁😁 4y

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Cinfhen Actually @Megabooks we‘re REAL friends who know each other‘s reading preferences 😘😘 4y

Megabooks @Cinfhen ain‘t that the truth my dear!! Sending infinite hugs!! 😘😘🤗🤗 4y

Cinfhen Received and cherished xxx 4y

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