Yikes!!! Good book. Perfect Halloween read. Pretty sure this was the scariest of the SK books I‘ve read thus far. So unsettling, disquieting and bad to the bone. Dean was insulted by the cover. Lol

Combustible kids who‘ve been neglected and abandoned by their rich politician dad. Quirky MC. This is what I love about BOTM, I probably would‘ve never picked up this book had it not been a choice. Magical realism, quick engaging read.

My BOTM pick. Only on p31, a bit odd thus far, we‘ll see. Pairing this with Pet Sematary for a fun October🎃👻
So chilly today, I think I‘m staying put!

1. Grayson by Lynne Cox
2. Purplish pink t-shirt “Ocean State Rhode Island since Seventeen ninety”. My friend Melissa bought for me.
3. I flew home from FLL on Monday
4. Yes to both
5. 🌸🐙💕🏄🏽‍♀️
#friyayintro @howjessreads

To get an idea about the book, Michel Faber‘s review in The Guardian is much better than I could ever give. 22June2012
I almost bailed, but Caeneus kept me reading. I enjoyed Moonstone much more. #Iceland

This book was...different. Very well written, enjoyable, but a bit strange. 3.5⭐️ set in 2001 and the 16th century. Cameo appearance by Shakespeare. Protagonist time travels via her dreams and each time she comes back, her real time existence is altered, leading others to believe she is mentally ill.

I love Betty White!!! This is a short and sweet book. Loved it on audio bc she narrates. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ good soul.

My first Hilderbrand, won‘t be my last. I really enjoyed this slice of family life during the Summer of ‘69. Loved how the chapters were named after songs of the era. Good, solid story 3.75⭐️

They‘re up!! Yahoo! Chose this one. Didn‘t get confetti-ughh....Whyyyyy? Lol #botm

A distance swimmer and a lost baby whale. Set near Seal Beach and Catalina Island, Ca. 5⭐️. Such a feel good read. If you love the ocean and marine mammals, read this.

I adore this author!! I‘ve been watching her talks on YT also. She‘s def motivating!!

LOVING this book!! I thought I found this through Litsy, but I‘m noticing all the other posts are old. Not sure how I found this book, maybe booktube?

Goofy, but cute. 3⭐️. Some chuckles, a vampire from the Bronx, (he was fun) and the first time I‘ve ever read of a werebear. A nice little tour of Venice, and a little mystery, with “malcontent” vamps abducting mortals and brainwashing them.

Book Depository Haul...my library doesn‘t have the Elif Shafak book (valid) and I need the SK for a buddy read in October (no, I can‘t get it out of the library bc I need to keep a King around me for awhile😀). This was supposed to be my last purchase for 2019, until I found out about the upcoming BN sale. Oops. Shout out to my geranium...she‘s really blooming...I think she likes Mexican coffee-I love it☕️🖖🏽

Sometimes...you just have to get your vamp on...shout out to The Naughty Librarian on YT for bringing this book to my attention. I‘m only on page 14, but there‘s some serious schtick going on.

Pleasantly surprised with the way this fleshed out. I‘m 4 decades out of the demographic for this one, so the teen romance drama was a bit annoying, yet this is what I loved about the book: the road trip which brought me through NoCal, Oregon, and Washington, the side characters, the up-trading on Craig‘s List and of course, the ‘68 Firebird Convertible with stick shift. This started out a 2.5 for me and ended at 3.75🚙

I had no idea the US was bombed from the air by a Japanese soldier...Brookings, Oregon

Sorry about my foot, it‘s been a bad hip spell. Dean Martin on my lap modeling with current read.It‘s slow, but so am I. I‘m digging the ‘68 convertible Firebird, but all the ex boyfriend angst is getting tiresome. I‘m sticking with this one bc it‘s a road trip in Northern Cal. Always up my alley🏔

Loved this book!! Hooked me right in. Ana, a 15 yo Dominican girl, marries 32 yo-she immigrates to Washington Heights-it is a story of survival and strength. Inspired by author‘s mother. Mid 1960s.
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Xena tolerated being a bookrest, I‘m shocked.
I‘m really enjoying this book, although, I‘m finding historical inconsistencies-e.g. there was no NYPresbyterian in the 60s. Columbia Presbyterian and NY Hospital were separate entities until sometime in the 90s, or early aughts, can‘t remember, precisely. Still, Im enjoying Ana‘s story.

I captured the graffiti this time, which bodes well for my reading experience of this book! After much consideration, I went with this one. I liked the description and the reviewer‘s reaction to it. It was a tough choice between this and The Reckless Oath We Made, but I was jonesing for some historical fiction and a good protagonist.
Happy BOTM day, folks!! #botm

This book is so strange but so good. Took me forever to read, yet it wasn‘t boring. Just a slow, haunting burn. SK does it again. 🏖🏖🏖🏖 Book 30 for 2019

Library Haul📚❤️ I‘m still reading Duma Key but I‘m ready for the heat wave this weekend, baby! Now I just have to buy stuff for a vegan sundae, and I‘m going to have a jolly good time!!🎉#libraryhaul #heatwavereading

Absent with a Chainsaw
Hahahahaha...I‘d read that.

Almost 1/2 way in, and I know this is an unpopular opinion, but to me, this book is thoroughly overhyped and meh.
Maybe it‘s an age related bail, probably better for 20 somethings.

WOW!! For a YA novella (180 pages), this really was so engaging. A High School setting, with students who, as ghosts, get “stuck” at the HS they died in. It‘s a book about grief, loss, and how the truth heals. Recently reviewed by a fellow Litten. (Book 29) #Michigan 🦋🦋🦋🦋 @Victoriahoperose

RIP Mr. Iacocca. Loved your book! Read it just as I was coming into working world and you inspired me. Thank you❤️

#top6reads @Cinfhen

📚Tagged Book
📚Kindred
📚Daisy Jones and The Six
📚The Seven Or Eight Deaths Of Stella Fortuna
📚The Story Of Arthur Truluv
📚Bag of Bones
I dl‘d PicCollage, but I don‘t have the photos to put in it, I was wondering if you can just access the photos somehow from google? I haven‘t had time to explore. Sorry. It looks so pretty with the photos!

Helpful housework hints...don‘t go for perfection, give yourself timed cleaning snippets. I like how she says “soap is soap”, so if you have some shampoo you‘re not using, you can clean your toilet with it! I thought that was a valid point, so I did it🌸 now my toilet smells like tea tree shampoo. It‘s all good! (Book 28)

#BOTM, you rock!! That was super fast delivery, and you excite my life📚💙❤️🧡💛

I had to put RWARB on hold and pick DK by SK up. Engaging already! Now the problem is I have 3 books going at once. We‘ll see what happens🤓

Just so happens I‘m reading 2 pink books at the same time. I‘m diggin the tips in this book!! Writing them down in my journal. Today‘s lunch was a Vegan Reuben (sauerkraut, tempeh and I think cashew cheese), I don‘t know, everything on #goodkarmacafe ‘s menu is superb. Spent time with my friend Andrea, and life is good. Stay cool out there..it was 93 in Red Bank, NJ🌞

Folks, I didn‘t get confetti this time, which is disconcerting. I wonder if they knew my little hands were ready to take a screen shot. It was so anticlimactic. I depend on the confetti #botm. Ok, well, moving on (which seems a bit easier the older you get), I chose this baby, and baby, I‘m excited!!📚❤️

🦋besides my frantic run to BN a couple of weeks ago, I don‘t normally go to bookstores, however, I have purchased an iced tea in the past along with a book, I think.
🌸 my toaster oven, it feeds me.
🌻I have no clue how to put a photo on top of a photo, I love when WWF sends me bookmarks bc I love animals
😀 Tag, you‘re it!! The recycling men are here, gotta go!
#wonderouswednesday @Eggs

Pride Month Read🌈 with Caesar Salad and Tempeh. #GoodKarmaCafe delish vegan food. Red Bank, NJ.

Enjoyable saga involving two families. At the heart of it, is a love story, which began in childhood and survived some major trauma. Good read. 4⭐️

🏖It‘s the highest point on the eastern seaboard between Maine and Florida. Gertrude Ederle learned to swim here🏊‍♀️
🏄🏽‍♀️ What I used to like best, but can‘t do anymore was SUP
🍓Blueberrries (couldn‘t find blueberry emoji)
📚 print
✋🏽 @marleed
@howjessreads #friYAYintro

Some delish vegan comfort food and a very good book on a rainy night in Jersey. #kayaskitchen Belmar, my happy place🐾❤️

🌻 I‘ll Give You The Sun
🌻The Sunshine Boys
🌻Here Comes The Sun
#ManicMonday @JoScho

I have to bail. 80 pages in and it‘s as bad as doing a 12 hour shift at the Wall. Lol To me, this book is like watching paint dry.

Sandy Hook, E beach, Gateway Recreational, NPS.
Beautiful day to start this one. So far on p36 and I‘m hoping it takes off soon, bc It‘s a bit of a slug right now🤞🏽

Hahahaha...such a blast from the past I had to take a photo. I find it interesting that 3 out of 3 of the people who took out this book were men, a book about a female detective.
38 years ago. Wow!

I enjoyed this approximately 10 year snapshot of Mary Glatzle‘s NYPD career from Academy days (1969) to her promotion to first grade detective in 1979. It covers some pivotal cases she was on in her SCU days. That was a super rough time period in NY-a Lot of discussion about juvenile street crime. Also a lot of rape, so this could be triggering. She came on the job at a time when women had different shields and were called Policewomen.

🎼Biggie, 36 Mafia
🏄🏼‍♂️Summer
📚 I‘m not sure bc I read across the genres
🐾 Vegan chick‘n sliders which are probably burning as we speak
🌻 okie dokie
@howjessreads #friyayintro

Muggable Mary on the Boards in Belmar. #NYPD #femaledetective

Outstanding debut.5⭐️ what an epic family saga!
#Connecticut #Calabria

Turns out, American copy wins. This is why, and this is why I‘ve lost my bookish mind....last night I noticed in the British copy, 2 things were missing: Map end pages of Ievoli, AND the family tree (which I have posted below). I want you to know I didn‘t sleep well last night (hence losing my bookish mind over details). I went to Barnes and Noble today to secure an American copy. I left BN on a bookish high and drove through puddles of sewage👇🏽

For those of you with the British copy of tagged book. Your copy does not have the family tree, so I‘ve taken a photo for you.

Duma Key-Book
Brand New Key-Song by Melanie “I‘ve got a brand new pair of roller skates, you got a brand new key”😀
Key Largo, which I‘ve never seen or I‘ve seen and forgotten. Lol
#Manicmonday @JoScho

Rainy day, but my British edition came in, thanks #bookdepository for such a timely delivery. Now I can continue this baby. #battleofbookcovers British cover wins again! It‘s absolutely beautiful! If only all battles were this beautiful🦚$15.74