pickI have always enjoyed Shirley Jackson's writing, and this is no exception. I like the fact that she researched and created a nonfiction work for children about this sad period of American history. Jackson wrote that if the girls had been disciplined, it wouldn't have gotten as bad as it did. I agree, not with corporal punishment, mind you, but something.
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pickEveryday Lives. Ghostly Tales.
Real Ghost Stories Online share the most haunting accounts from their podcast.
Great book for the spooky season. Glad I read this during the day. Some of these stories were scary.
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so-soThis was too young for me. It's on the lower end of YA and read more like middle grade.
It's a fun paranormal mystery with a side of romance. It just wasn't for me.
Wow, what a cover. I wish I could turn it into a Dixit card.
An intriguing but somewhat disappointing Cinderella retelling. (I'll put why in a spoiler comment.) Our Ella is sadly a ghost, and how this affects her life is told in a very visceral manner, consumed with how much Ella wants to feel and experience things and the strange, limited ways in which she can. Some of it really gave me the ick, to be honest, but the prose is beautiful.
A really interesting take on the magic boarding school story, because it's from the perspective of an adult and moreover, the adult primarily in charge of the safety of the kids. (How many times have I read one of these books going, “WTH is wrong with all the grown ups in this school?!)
I felt there were important issues raised around the nature of demons that weren't sufficiently explored, so I didn't love it as much as I might have.
pickThis was a pleasant surprise. It‘s sweet & makes some good points about the victims of society‘s True Crime obsession. There‘s a lot of social media speak, which may turn some people away but the way the FMC spoke was likely spot on to someone whose connection with the world is a therapist, social media & literally 2 people (until she meets her hot new neighbor & starts to take her life back)
pickA weird psychological horror story about a group of friends who try to play a prank at a movie theater with a mannequin but things go wrong and then they get worse 🐈⬛
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pickThis was just fun. Ozzy gives advice on various topics along with quizzes and medical miscellaneous 🖤
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pick“This is not so much a memoir of Johnny in the conventional sense as the story of a long, courageous struggle between a child and Death.”
Sad, but good. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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