A list of books I want to read 📚
#TheAmalfiCurse #SarahPenner #TheWeddingPeople #AlisonEspach #StungWithLovePoemsAndFragments #Sappho #TheBookEaters #SunyiDean #TheLibrarianOfAuschwitz #AntonioIturbe #TheBookThief #MarkusZusak #BookLovers #EmilyHenry #TheMidnightLibrary #MattHaig #ReadingLolitaInTehran #AzarNafisi #LastNightAtTheTelegraphClub #MalindaLo #TheCuriousIncidentOfTheDogInTheNightTime #MarkHaddon #TheDiaryOfAnneFrank #MustLoveBooks

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way—in short, the period was so far

This was an interesting ending to the Charlotte Holmes series. It wasn‘t what I expected but maybe that‘s a good thing. Overall I enjoyed the ending. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
#AQuestionOfHolmes #BrittanyCavallaro #CharlotteHolmes #Mystery #YoungAdult #Contemporary #Romance #Fiction #Audiobook #MysteryThriller #Retellings #Thriller #Crime

Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small: to wit, a workhouse; and in this workhouse was born; on a day and date which I need not trouble myself to repeat, inasmuch as it can be of no possible consequence to the reader, in this stage of the business at all events;

Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner.
#AChristmasCarol #CharlesDickens #Classics #Fiction #Christmas #Fantasy #Audiobook #Literature #HistoricalFiction #Holiday #School #BookClub

Jay hit the door with his shoulder, but it didn‘t splinter beneath his weight or anything quite so dramatic. The handle, which was probably old and in disrepair anyway, fell apart on impact and the door shot open, banging against the wall on the other side.
#DeadSilence #KimberlyDerting #TheBodyFinder #YoungAdult #Paranormal #Mystery #Fantasy #Romance #Supernatural #Thriller #Fiction #Crime #Suspense

My mood map of 2025 📚
#CardcaptorSakuraClearCardVol1 #Clamp #Manga #Fantasy #Comics #Romance #GraphicNovels #Shojo #Magic #YoungAdult #Fiction #MiddleGrade

Any recommendations 📚
#ThisBookWontBurn #SamiraAhmed #YoungAdult #Fiction #RealisticFiction #Contemporary #SocialJustice #BooksAboutBooks #LGBT #Audiobook #Teen #BannedBooks

Violet strained, searching for the sensation through the suffocating blackness. It wasn‘t the kind of thing she could see or hear, making it all the more difficult to pinpoint.
#TheLastEcho #KimberlyDerting #TheBodyFinder #YoungAdult #Paranormal #Mystery #Fantasy #Romance #Supernatural #Thriller #Fiction #Suspense #Ghosts

This was a fun read. It was so interesting with the circus, the cruise ship, the murders. It was all one big spectacle. I can‘t wait to see what happens in the final book. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
#EscapingFromHoudini #KerriManiscalco #StalkingJackTheRipper #HistoricalFiction #Mystery #YoungAdult #Romance #Historical #Fantasy #Thriller #MysteryThriller #Audiobook #Fiction

Violet leaned forward on her hands and knees over the frozen landscape. Inside her boots, her toes felt as if icy shards were burrowing beneath her skin and slithering into her veins.
#DesiresOfTheDead #KimberlyDerting #TheBodyFinderYoungAdult #Paranormal #Mystery #Romance #Fantasy #Supernatural #Fiction #Thriller #ParanormalRomance #Ghosts

Violet Ambrose wandered away from the safety of her father as she listened to the harmony of sounds weaving delicately around her. The rustling of the leaves mingled gently with the restless calls of birds and the far-off rushing waters of the icy river that lay beyond the trees.
#TheBodyFinder #KimberlyDerting #YoungAdult #Paranormal #Mystery #Fantasy #Romance #Fiction #Supernatural #Thriller #ParanormalRomance #Suspense

Some more reading stats from this year 📚
#BatmanOneBadDayCatwoman #GWillowWilson #Winter #MarissaMeyer #NineteenEightyFour #GeorgeOrwell #UndercoverHusband #CindiMyers #Comics #GraphicNovels #Batman #DCComics #Superheroes #GraphicNovelsComics #Fiction #ComicBook #Crime #Mystery

Some stats of my reading this past year 📚
#CardcaptorSakuraClearCardVol2 #Clamp #Manga #Fantasy #Romance #Comics #Magic #GraphicNovels #Shojo #YoungAdult #Fiction #MiddleGrade

I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull.
#RobinsonCrusoe #DanielDefoe #Classics #Fiction #Adventure #Literature #HistoricalFiction #Novels #18thCentury #ClassicLiterature #School #BritishLiterature

January Book Spin 📚
#Fahrenheit451 #RayBradbury #TheIllustratedMan #TheLastBookstoreOnEarth #Awakened #AQuestionOfHolmes #Disclose #TheMurderOfRogerAckroyd #FiveLittlePigs #PrincessOfSouls #CardcaptorSakuraClearCardVol3 #TwinsOnTheDoorstep #AMillionWorldsWithYou #CountAllHerBones #TheEscape #HowFarIllGo #KillHerTwice #AForgeryOfFate #ACourtOfMistAndFury #CapturingTheDevil #BookSpin #Classics #Fiction #ScienceFiction #Dystopia #School #Literature

“Ashton, it means the world to me that you would come here to fix this thing first thing in the morning.”
#DaddyDefender #JanieCrouch #OmegaSectorUnderSeige #RomanticSuspense #Romance #Suspense #CategoryRomance #Mystery #ContemporaryRomance

The day began as a beautiful and vivid dream. It was one of those rare days when the sun was out, and the light was soft and warm, Easter yellow. We were in the garden, just my mother and me; Mary had gone out with father, but my mother was eight months pregnant and tired, so I had stayed to keep her company.
#TheLastPrincess #GalaxyCraze #YoungAdult #Dystopia #Fantasy #Romance #ScienceFiction #PostApocalyptic #Adventure #Fiction #Royalty #Teen

This was such a great story. I can‘t wait to read the rest of the series. I always get a big smile whenever I read these books. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
#CardcaptorSakuraClearCardVol2 #Clamp #Manga #Fantasy #Comics #Romance #Magic #Shojo #GraphicNovels #YoungAdult #Fiction #MiddleGrade

When my mother was alive, I was a different person. That little girl wore simple clothes and wildflowers in her hair and could sing any aria or tavern song known in the Northern Kingdoms.
#OfIceAndShadows #AudreyCoulthurst #OfFireAndStars #Fantasy #LGBT #YoungAdult #Lesbian #Queer #Romance #Audiobook #Fiction #HighFantasy #YoungAdultFantasy

When I was seven winters of age, my mother caught me in the hearth stacking red-hot coals with my bare hands.
#OfFireAndStars #AudreyCoulthurst #firstline #openingline #Fantasy #YoungAdult #LGBT #Romance #Queer #Lesbian #Fiction #YoungAdultFantasy #HighFantasy #Magic

And now!
Ladies, gentlemen, and Fey!
#TheCircusRose #BetsyCornwell #Fantasy #YoungAdult #Retellings #LGBT #Queer #Romance #Lesbian #YoungAdultFantasy #FairyTales #Fiction

My Christmas present from my mom 🎄
#Spindle #EKJohnston #christmas #christmasgift #christmaspresent

My Christmas present to myself 🎄
#TheIllustratedMan #RayBradbury #JaneEyre #CharlotteBronte

It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be encountered, before the adverse hosts could meet.
#TheLastOfTheMohicans #JamesFenimoreCooper #firstline #openingline #Classics #Fiction #HistoricalFiction #Adventure #Literature #Historical #American #Novels #ClassicLiterature #War

This is such a cute series. I‘m going to enjoying what happens next for Sakura and her friends. I‘m going to enjoy reading this series. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
#CardcaptorSakuraClearCardVol1 #Clamp #Manga #Fantasy #Romance #Comics #GraphicNovels #Shojo #Magic #YoungAdult #Fiction #MiddleGrade

This was a very good read. It didn‘t have as much suspense as I originally expected. Overall it was an enjoyable read. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
#TheObsession #NatashaPreston #Thriller #YoungAdult #Mystery #MysteryThriller #Audiobook #Horror #Suspense #Contemporary

Four years.
48 months.
1,461 days.
35,064 hours.
2,103,840 minutes.
126,230,400 seconds.

That‘s how long I‘d waited for the new book by my favorite author, Lukas Gerbhardt: Don‘t Tread on Me.

To put it in perspective, I was graduating middle school when I read Lukas‘s last book, A House of Wooden Windows.
#SuggestedReading #DavidConnis #YoungAdult #Contemporary #Fiction #BooksAboutBooks #RealisticFiction #Audiobook #YoungAdult #Contemporary 💘💘

Sunrise, but no sun.
The merchant ship Marie tied up at the Liverpool docks hours ago, beneath an overcast sufficient to obliterate the moon and the stars—and now that dawn has arrived conditions have not improved.
#Marley #JonClinch #firstline #openingline #HistoricalFiction #Fiction #Christmas #Retellings #Holidays #Historical #BritishLiterature #Fantasy #BookClub #Classics

Scaling the back of a house spider-man style hadn‘t been part of my Saturday-night plans.
#Busted #GinaCiocca #YoungAdult #Contemporary #Romance #Fiction #Mystery #YoungAdultRomance #Teen #YoungAdultContemporary #Ebooks #Audiobook

This was a very interesting read. Blending mystery with vampire lore was very interesting. I can‘t wait to see what happens in the rest of the series. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
#HuntingPrinceDracula #KerriManiscalco #StalkingJackTheRipper #HistoricalFiction #Mystery #YoungAdult #Romance #Historical #Fantasy #Horror #Thriller #MysteryThriller #Audiobook

You saw me before I saw you. In the airport, that day in August, you had that look in your eyes, as though you wanted something from me, as though you‘d wanted it for a long time.
#Stolen #LucyChristopher #firstline #openingline #YoungAdult #Contemporary #Fiction #Romance #RealisticFiction #Thriller #Mystery #Australia #Dark #Teen

Something was draped across Dad‘s outstretched arms. A deer? A fawn that was injured? It was sprawled and long legged, something that had been caught in a poacher‘s trap maybe.
#TheKillingWoods #LucyChristopher #Mystery #Thriller #YoungAdult #Contemporary #RealisticFiction #Fiction #Teen #Crime #Audiobook #MysteryThriller

Happy 250th Birthday to Jane Austen 🎂🧁🎈🎉
#NorthangerAbbey #ProdeAndPrejudice #SenseAndSensibility #Emma #Persuasion #JaneAusten

I have a heart for every year I‘ve been alive.
There are seventeen hidden in the sand of my bedroom. Every so often, I claw through the shingle, just to check they‘re still there.
#ToKillAKingdom #AlexandraChristo #HundredKingdoms #Fantasy #YoungAdult #Romance #Retellings #EnemiesToLovers #YoungAdultFantasy #Pirates #Fiction #Mermaids #Romantasy 🧜🏼‍♀️🫀🫀🫀🫀🫀🫀🫀🫀🫀🫀🫀🫀🫀🫀🫀🫀🫀

This was such a sweet conclusion to the story. I‘m glad Sakura found her happiness. It such a sweet series. I can‘t wait to read the next chapter of the series. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
#CardcaptorSakuraVol9 #Clamp #Manga #Fantasy #Shojo #GraphicNovels #Romance #Comics #Adventure #UrbanFantasy #Magic #Romantic

Mrs. Oliver looked at herself in the glass. She gave a brief, sideways look towards the clock on the mantelpiece, which she had some idea was twenty minutes slow.
#ElephantsCanRemember #AgathaChristie #HerculePoirot #Poirot #Mystery #Fiction #Crime #Classics #Detective #MysteryThriller #Audiobook #Thriller #MurderMystery

Mrs. Ariadne Oliver had gone with whom she was staying, Judith Butler, to help with the preparations for a children‘s party which was to take place that same evening.
#HalloweenParty #AgathaChristie #HerculePoirot #Poirot #Mystery #Fiction #Classics #Crime #MysteryThriller #Audiobook #Detective #Halloween #Thriller

ICYMI: Grady Hendrix's "HOW TO SELL A HAUNTED HOUSE" is officially being adapted into a movie!

Legendary Entertainment won the movie rights to the bestselling novel and is currently developing the adaptation, with James Ashcroft attached to direct.

The movie adaptation is still in early development phase so not a lot of details have been shared!
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Author Photo by Albert Mitchell!
#HowToSellAHauntedHouse #GradyHendrix

Win every club there is a club bore. The Coronation Club was no exception, and the fact that an air raid was in progress made no difference to normal procedure.
#TakenAtTheFlood #AgathaChristie #HerculePoirot #Poirot #Mystery #Fiction #Crime #Classics #Audiobook #Detective #MysteryThriller #MurderMystery #BritishLiterature

This was an interesting read. Although it didn‘t have me on the edge of my seat like I expected to. Overall it was very enjoyable to read. I would recommend if you‘re into supernatural reads. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
#TheHacienda #IsabelCanas #Horror #HistoricalFiction #Gothic #Fiction #Mystery #Historical #Thriller #Audiobook #Fantasy #Paranormal

At six thirteen a.m. on a Friday morning Lucy Angkatell‘s big blue eyes opened upon another day and, as always, she was at once wide awake and began immediately to deal with the problems conjured up by her incredibly active mind.
#TheHollow #AgathaChristie #HerculePoirot #Poirot #Mystery #Fiction #Crime #Classics #Audiobook #MysteryThriller #Detective #MurderMystery #BritishLiterature

“Linnet Ridgeway!”
“That‘s her!” said Mr. Burnaby, the landlord of the Three Crowns.
#DeathOnTheNile #AgathaChristie #HerculePoirot #Poirot #Mystery #Fiction #Classics #Crime #MysteryThriller #Audiobook #Detective #Thriller #MurderMystery

The September sun beat down hotly on Le Bourget aerodrome as the passengers crossed the ground and climbed into the air liner Prometheus, due to depart for Croydon in a few minutes‘ time.
#DeathInTheClouds #AgathaChristie #HerculePoirot #Poirot #Mystery #Fiction #Crime #Classics #Audiobook #Detective #MysteryThriller #MurderMystery #Thriller

This was such a great read. It‘s really building up to the conclusion. It has me so excited for the final book. I can‘t wait to see what happens next. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
#CardcaptorSakuraVol8 #Clamp #CardcaptorSakura #Manga #Fantasy #Shojo #Comics #Adventure #GraphicNovels #Romance #UrbanFantasy #Magic #Romantic

It was five o, clock on a winter‘s morning in Syria. Alongside the platform at Aleppo stood the train grandly designated in railway guides as the Taurus Express.
#MurderOnTheOrientExpress #AgathaChristie #HerculePoirot #Poirot #Mystery #Classics #Fiction #Crime #MysteryThriller #Audiobook #Thriller #BookClub #Detective

I believe that a well-known anecdote exited to the effect that a young writer, determined to make the commencement of his story forcible and original enough to catch and rivet the attention of the most blasé of editors, penned the following sentence:
“‘Hell!‘ said the Duchess.”
#TheMurderOnTheLinks #AgathaChristie #HerculePoirot #Poirot #Mystery #Fiction #Classics #Crime #Audiobook #MysteryThriller #Detective #MurderMystery #Thriller

This was an amazing ending to a great series. It completely took me by surprise. It was so great. It was filled with so much drama and heart. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
#Reign #KatharineMcGee #AmericanRoyals #book #books #bookbag #bookbags #bookbinding #bookbeau #bookblog #bookblogs #bookbloggers #bookblogger #bookbackpack #bookbackpacks #booknerd #booknerds #booknerdsunite #Romance #YoungAdult #Audiobook #Fiction #Contemporary #ChickLit #Royalty #Fantasy #NewAdult

The intense interest aroused in the public by what was known at the time as “The Styles Case” has now somewhat subsided.
#TheMysteriousAffairAtStyles #AgathaChristie #HerculePoirot #Poirot #firstline #openingline #book #books #bookcase #bookcases #bookcover #bookcovers #bookcoverdesign #bookcoverdesigner #bookclub #bookclubs #bookvibe #bookvibes #bookvsfilm #Mystery #Fiction #Classics #Crime #Audiobook #MysteryThriller #Detective #MurderMystery 💘

This was a cute little story. I‘ll have to see about getting the next book in the series, to see what happens next. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
#IsleOfEver #JenCalonita #book #books #bookbag #bookbags #bookbinding #bookbeau #bookblog #bookblogs #bookblogger #bookbloggers #bookbackpack #bookbackpacks #booknerd #booknerds #booknerdsunite #booknerdy #booknook #booknation #MiddleGrade #Fantasy #Mystery #Adventure #HistoricalFiction #Fiction #MagicalRealism #Audiobook 💖