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Suzze

Suzze

Joined June 2016

Detroit bred. Retired from bookselling. Suzze on Goodreads. @suzzemom on Instagram @suzzereadsalot on TikTok. On Litsy since July 2016
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Flight or Fright by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Ray Bradbury, Joe Hill, Stephen King, Michael Lewis, Roald Dahl, Richard Matheson, Dan Simmons, Tom Bissell, Cody Goodfellow, Ambrose Bierce, Bev Vincent, E.C. Tubb, John Varley, David J. Schow, Peter Treemayne, James L. Dickey
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Ophie‘s Ghosts: set in the 1920‘s, Ophie and her mother move from Georgia to Pittsburgh after her father is killed by a white mob. They take jobs as servants in a mansion, where Ophie fully realizes her gift to see and communicate with the dead.
5 stars!!

I‘m starting December with Rachel Maddow‘s Prequel, a book that I‘m sure will be eye opening about history.

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Remarkably Bright Creatures | Shelby Van Pelt
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My reading wrap-up for April. I just happened to rate them all 4 stars.

Magpiegem Ooh the sensory comic anthology looks good. I haven‘t seen that one! 7mo
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Current read. I loved Mickey7 and so far, this one is just as well written and funny. Release date: 3/14

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The Housemaid | Freida McFadden
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Here are the 6 books I read in January. Good month!

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Comes out tomorrow! I read it last week and it‘s my favorite of Grady Hendrix‘s books. I had to close my eyes a few times (like it was a movie with a gory scene and not just words on a page).

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A World of Curiosities | Louise Penny
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Nimona | Noelle Stevenson
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Nimona
Lydia Netzer (try her!)
North Woods Law (New Hampshire Conservation Officers)
Nirvana
Norwegian Wood (The Beatles)

#manicmonday
#letterN
@CBee

Librariana Nimona is an excellent choice! 13mo
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Mehso-so

I really liked the premise of the book, three couples in a high-end secluded cabin during a fierce storm. Who knew what things awaited them?

But the storm never seemed to be as dire as predicted and neither did the book. I really enjoyed the first three quarters of the book, but it fell flat for me in the last quarter.

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My birthday reading!

kspenmoll Happy birthday! 🎈🎂🎉 1y
Jas16 Happy Birthday 🎉🎂🎈 1y
LeahBergen Happy Birthday! 📚❤️📚❤️ 1y
mrp27 Happy Birthday!! 🎉 1y
MaureenMc Happy birthday! 1y
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BOTM is available already! My box……

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Before You Knew My Name releases November 1

Look Closer releases July 5. Twisty, twisty, twisty!

Hatchet Island releases June 28. I love this series set in Maine with Game Warden Mike Bowditch.

#wondrouswednesday

Eggs Some great reads! 1y
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Insomnia | Sarah Pinborough
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My May reads. Most of them were arcs. My favorite was The Lost Girls of Willowbrook. Hear my thoughts on TikTok at suzzereadsalot

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My May reads. My favorite is The Lost Girls of Willowbrook. Most were advance copies, so check release dates.

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Unmasked: Memoir | PAUL. HOLES
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By Paul Holes. Subtitle: My Life Solving America‘s Cold Cases. He solved the Golden State Killer case. Really loving it so far. Sitting on my porch with my “reading cat” as my buddy.

StellaDz This is up next for me!! 2y
Suzze @StellaDz so interesting! 2y
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My father had beautiful rose bushes. That gene missed me. I did plant vegetables one year when I was much younger. Radishes, lettuce, cantelopes, pumpkins, beans. It was great! Never did it again. I‘m Thinking of maybe buying a tomato plant to grow in a pot on my porch.
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Eggs Good luck 👍🏼 🍅🤩 2y
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I realized today I‘d posted this on my TikTok (if you‘re not there, I‘m suzzereadsalot, and BookTok is a blast. Anyway, my BOTM showed up, um….not in great shape. Replacement on the way.

Kayla.Adriena Yikes! 2y
wanderinglynn 🫣😳 glad you‘re getting a replacement! 2y
jdiehr I hope when mine finally gets here, it's at least in good shape... 2y
Hooked_on_books When this happens, don‘t you wish they came with a video of how it came to be? You wonder what on earth they are doing to these packages! 2y
Suzze @Hooked_on_books absolutely! What a story they could tell. 2y
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A Rip Through Time: A Novel | Kelley Armstrong
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There are so many I want to read!
The Lesbiana‘s Guide to Catholic School
The Sisters Sputnik
are a couple….and the one pictured, A Rip Through Time.

No music. Unless I‘m outside and it‘s provided by the birds.

#Two4Tuesday

TheSpineView Thanks for playing! 2y
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Insomnia | Sarah Pinborough
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3.5⭐️. Kept me awake! 🥴

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Stay Awake: A Novel | Megan Goldin
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My April reads. All ARCs except Maniac.

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Stay Awake: A Novel | Megan Goldin
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Doesn‘t come out until August, but it was calling me. Great thriller with an unreliable narrator. When Liv falls asleep she loses memories of the last two years. And things have happened! I own two of her other books, The Escape Room and Night Swim. They are both moving up on my TBR!

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Rabbit Chase | Elizabeth LaPense
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Aimee, a non-binary Anishinaabe child is on a school field trip to offer gifts to the water spirits. She meets a rabbit and ends up in an alternate dimension with traditional Anishinaabe figures. Love native stories.

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1. An arc of Lily‘s Promise by Lily Elbert. This amazing 98 year old and her accounting of life through the Holocaust.

Maniac: The Bath School Disaster. 38 children and six adults killed in 1927.

Just Like Mother by Anne Heltzel. Comes out in May.

2. Podcasts. I just listened to the whole season of The Thing About Pam.

3. I think I‘ve only listened to one audio book! I‘m a Stranger Here Myself by Bill Bryson.

#weekendreads

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Sea of Tranquility: A Novel | Emily St. John Mandel
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Time hopping sci-fi. Very enjoyable. Comes out TUESDAY!

Deblovestoread I can‘t wait to read this! 2y
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The Violin Conspiracy | Brendan Slocumb
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My March reads! The Violin Conspiracy was my favorite! Nour‘s Secret Library is a picture book. Locke & Key is a graphic novel. The Reading List was for book group. The other three were all advance copies.

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One of my favorites set in Iowa recounts the life of Dewey Readmore Books, the cat in residence at the Spencer Public Library in Spencer, Iowa. I read it when it came out in 2008, hard to believe it was over 13 years ago! #roadtripusa2022

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February Reads!

CoffeeNBooks I loved The House in the Cerulean Sea! One of my favorite books I read in 2021! 2y
Suzze @CoffeeNBooks I resisted because I rarely read fantasy. I‘m so glad a friend said she thought I‘d like it. Loved it so much! 2y
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Hour of the Witch | Chris Bohjalian
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1660‘s Boston seems like a fun time. 😳 Painting is Mary Dyer, convicted witch.
I liked the book, Chris Bohjalian is one of my go-to authors.

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Sea of Tranquility: A Novel | Emily St. John Mandel
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1. Definitely back. My dream would be to go back to the mid 1600‘s in Quebec to meet my ancestors. But I‘d have to learn French too.

2. I just read Sea of Tranquility, the new Emily St. John Mandel, out April 5. There is time travel involved. And it‘s great.

TheSpineView Thanks for playing! 2y
cariashley Can‘t wait to read this one! 2y
Suzze @cariashley I actually liked it better than Station Eleven! 2y
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Giant Days, Vol. 4 | John Allison
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January reads! Giant Days, Vol. 4. 3⭐️, Wink, middle grade book, a middle school boy with a tumor. Excellent. , Verity, NOPE, Blue-Skinned Gods, can‘t say enough good things. ,Sea of Tranquility, loved it. I think it‘s better than Station Eleven. 4/5, Mickey7. Sci+fi with humor. I really liked it! (2/15), Chef‘s Kiss cute graphic novel. , Powwow Day and Lost Library, picture books. Both ok. Continued in comments.

Suzze We‘ll Soon Be Home Again, graphic novel with six children that survived the Holocaust. The Beekeeper‘s Promise light fiction set in WWII France, 3⭐️, Gone Tomorrow, good as all the Jack Reachers. 2y
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Sea of Tranquility: A Novel | Emily St. John Mandel
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Current read. 😀

EKonrad So jealous! How did you get it?! 2y
Suzze @EKonrad I‘m approved by many publishers on Edelweiss. This was one I was most excited about! 2y
EKonrad Oh gotcha! Can‘t wait to hear how you like it! 2y
Suzze @EKonrad Only 50 pages left, loving it so far! 2y
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Loving my current reads!

Blue-Skinned Gods ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I‘ve had this book for ages! Really need to get to it.

@rachelsbrittain

rachelsbrittain Love this! 2y
DebinHawaii I thought Radium Girls was really good! A tough read but so fascinating. 2y
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1. Only if it‘s all I have with me.

2. I like reading on my iPad. I use the Bluefire app to read Advance copies from Edelweiss. I like it because it tells me next to each title how many days I have left to read it.

TheSpineView Thanks for playing! 💙📖 2y
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Mickey7: A Novel | Edward Ashton
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I haven‘t read science fiction in years and this was so much fun! Mickey7 is an Expendable on a colonizing mission. His job is to do the dangerous stuff. If he dies doing it, they just generate a new one.
In this book, we get a good story along with a thoughtful treatise on immortality. Is a new Mickey the same as the old Mickey.
Read it! It‘s good. Release date: Feb. 15

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Wink | Rob Harrell
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Great middle grade book about a middle school boy who gets a rare eye cancer, and the weirdness of negotiating it with his friends, family and health staff. Along the way he makes new friends, learns guitar and learns to accept himself. ❤️

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1. The Alex McKnight mystery series by Steve Hamilton

2. Tahquamenon Falls
Pictured Rocks
Mackinac Island

@megnews

megnews I have a friend that loves Mackinac Island. I have to get there some day. Thanks for joining in! 2y
SilversReviews It was very good…fans of historical fiction and learning about the lifestyle and hardships in the early 1900‘s in the upper peninsula of Michigan will enjoy this book. 2y
Suzze @SilversReviews I recently bought that! Looking forward to it. 2y
SilversReviews @Suzze Enjoy!! I hope you like it too. It was a good one for me. 2y
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I don‘t exactly know how I feel about this book. It was a fairly light, quick read, and I enjoyed it, but I felt the present day character‘s backstory was there without a good reason. I gave it 3⭐️

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Powwow Day | Traci Sorell
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Loved the story and illustrations. Release day 2/7

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This book was SO GOOD! 5⭐️ for sure. My 2nd book of the year.

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I adore snow!! When I snows I sit and watch it come down. Fascinating.

As for a favorite winter activity? Reading in a comfy chair watching it snow, of course.

Climate change is really putting a damper on snow in SE Michigan. As a kid we got lots, now we seem to get so much less!

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Winnie the Pooh | A.A. Milne
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These are the books that entered the public domain on Jan. 1. Personally I‘m hoping for an amazing leather bound copy of Winnie the Pooh, to go with my copy I still have from Christmas 1957.

PurpleyPumpkin Ooh I wonder if these are on @SerialReader ? I will have to check. Thanks for posting this info!👍🏽 2y
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Book #2 of ‘22

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I have the worst memory! I hit an online book sale in July. When the box came I pushed it into a corner unopened. Guess what? I just opened it! Glad I hadn‘t bought any of these again in the meantime.

StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego 😆 That's a fun surprise. 2y
Suzze @StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego It was! I wondered about the box a couple of months ago. Then got busy and forgot again. 2y
Kangaj1 Fun! I really liked Pretty Things. 2y
kspenmoll What a wonderful surprise! Some great choices there! 2y
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The Paris Apartment | Lucy Foley
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4⭐️ Jess goes to Paris to visit her brother and finds him missing. What is happening in this apartment building? Lots of twists as Lucy Foley usually does. Release date 2/22/22.

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Snowmen at Night | Caralyn Buehner
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My favorite thing to do? Watch out the window while it snows. I‘m pretty much an indoors lady.

As a former children‘s bookseller, I sold so many of these every winter. I so love this book.

I‘m grateful for blankets. I‘m addicted to blankets and throws. And, since I‘m always cold, I almost always have one on my lap.

#wondrouswednesday @Eggs

Eggs I own several of the Snowmen series☃️📚🎄 Thanks for playing 🙌🏻 2y
CBee I think you and I are twins 😂 I‘m addicted to blankets and warm socks 😊 2y
Suzze @CBee We might be! I always have on cozy socks. I hate shoes. 2y
CBee @Suzze I kind of hate shoes too 😂😂 And shoe shopping is for the birds 🤦‍♀️ 2y
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I couldn‘t make up my mind, so I picked two! #botm

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Wish You Were Here | Jodi Picoult
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I have been spending my reading time catching up on ARCs. Here are three I‘ve rated 5⭐️.
Wish You Were Here comes out 11/30.
Yonder release date is 1/11
A Sunlit Weapon drops 3/22
Adored all three!

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1. Marble (but it‘s not heavy) with a sticker on it. St. Sweatpantsia. This is my iPad.

2. Ease of downloading advance copies.

@TheSpineView

#two4Tuesday

TheSpineView Totally makes ARCs easy to read. Thanks for playing! 2y
BookishGirl06 My kindle cover is marble too and looks really similar 2y
Librariana LOVE the sticker!! 2y
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The Perfect Family | Robyn Harding
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4⭐️
Good writing
Perfect characterization
Highly recommended
Release date: August 10

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3 1/2 ⭐️
Pub date: 7/13/21
Worth the wait

Reggie Ughhhhhhj I‘m so peanut butter and jealous of you!!!! 3y
Erinreadsthebooks I can't wait for this one 😍 3y
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Jonny Appleseed | Joshua Whitehead
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And I haven‘t even opened the box of Target B2G1. The top book was the winner and the next two finalists for the 2021 Canada Reads. (I‘m not from Canada) Delphine is a middle grade fantasy. Professional Troublemaker is the March pick for the Fantastic Strangelings Book Club. This is Chance is about a female reporter that covered the 1964 9.0 earthquake in Anchorage.
C.R. The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix.