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A lovely day of reading!📖📚

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Y’all my reading slump has consisted of me playing my back log of video games 🎮 I’m sorry lol I will get back to reading soon!

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January, 1933 The diary of Anaïs Nin [Volume One: 1931-1934]

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My current read for the next couple days or week. So far so good 👍🏾

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I will be back with a new post either tonight or tomorrow! Sorry I have been M I A. ❤️📚❤️

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‘Fake It Till You Bake It’ is on my flop list… it’s just not good… 😢

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Rainy days and a good book = relaxation ❤️📚❤️

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Tag Game!

Thanks @wonkyreads for tagging me

Relationship status: single because I’m working on me

Favorite color: Purple any shade of purple

Favorite food: Pizza and Chicken

Song stuck in my head: Plastic off the sofa by Beyoncé

Last thing I googled: Consumer Cellular phone company

Time: 8:55 am

Dream trip: Spain or England because I love the Spanish language and England because of the beautiful buildings

Tagged people: @bookaholic76 @kristee-reads @meerawrites @bookmac95 @captainbooksnob

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God help me finish this book lol it’s messy and funny at the same time…

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Another book haul!!! I think the Jeanette McCurdy book is going to be great, as well as ‘You Truly Assumed’.

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It’s a good idea to always carry a book with you just in case you fall into a bottomless pit, because if you do, you’re probably gonna be there for awhile.

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If no one has told you this.. here you go! Be blessed and be a blessing to others!

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The middle book mark says it all lol…📚❤️🤓😊🌟

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I read anywhere I catch a moment to do so!📚😊🤓❤️

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Out and about today and decided to carry this tote! Super cute! Still reading ‘Fake It Till You Bake It’.

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Suburban Horror: a reading list

Good Neighbors by Sarah Langan

Welcome to Maple Street, a picture-perfect slice of suburban Long Island, its residents bound by their children, their work, and their illusion of safety in a rapidly changing world. Arlo Wilde, a gruff has-been rock star who’s got nothing to show for his fame but track marks, is always two steps behind the other dads. His wife, beautiful ex-pageant queen Gertie, feels socially ostracized and adrift. Spunky preteen Julie curses like a sailor and her kid brother Larry is called “Robot Boy” by the kids on the block. Their next-door neighbor and Maple Street’s Queen Bee, Rhea Schroeder—a lonely community college professor repressing her own dark past—welcomes Gertie and family into the fold. Then, during one spritzer-fueled summer evening, the new best friends share too much, too soon. As tensions mount, a sinkhole opens in a nearby park, and Rhea’s daughter Shelly falls inside. The search for Shelly brings a shocking accusation against the Wildes that spins out of control. Suddenly, it is one mom’s word against the other’s in a court of public opinion that can end only in blood.

The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

Fried Green Tomatoes and Steel Magnolias meet Dracula in this Southern-flavored supernatural thriller set in the ‘90s about a women’s book club that must protect its suburban community from a mysterious and handsome stranger who turns out to be a blood-sucking fiend. Patricia Campbell had always planned for a big life, but after giving up her career as a nurse to marry an ambitious doctor and become a mother, Patricia’s life has never felt smaller. The days are long, her kids are ungrateful, her husband is distant, and her to-do list is never really done. The one thing she has to look forward to is her book club, a group of Charleston mothers united only by their love for true-crime and suspenseful fiction. In these meetings, they’re more likely to discuss the FBI’s recent siege of Waco as much as the ups and downs of marriage and motherhood. But when an artistic and sensitive stranger moves into the neighborhood, the book club’s meetings turn into speculation about the newcomer. Patricia is initially attracted to him, but when some local children go missing, she starts to suspect the newcomer is involved. She begins her own investigation, assuming that he’s a Jeffrey Dahmer or Ted Bundy. What she uncovers is far more terrifying, and soon she–and her book club–are the only people standing between the monster they’ve invited into their homes and their unsuspecting community.

White Smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson

Marigold is running from ghosts. The phantoms of her old life keep haunting her, but a move with her newly blended family from their small California beach town to the embattled Midwestern city of Cedarville might be the fresh start she needs. Her mom has accepted a new job with the Sterling Foundation that comes with a free house, one that Mari now has to share with her bratty ten-year-old stepsister, Piper. The renovated picture-perfect home on Maple Street, sitting between dilapidated houses, surrounded by wary neighbors has its … secrets. That’s only half the problem: household items vanish, doors open on their own, lights turn off, shadows walk past rooms, voices can be heard in the walls, and there’s a foul smell seeping through the vents only Mari seems to notice. Worse: Piper keeps talking about a friend who wants Mari gone. But “running from ghosts” is just a metaphor, right? As the house closes in, Mari learns that the danger isn’t limited to Maple Street. Cedarville has its secrets, too. And secrets always find their way through the cracks.

The House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddons

Thirty-something Colquitt and Walter Kennedy live in a charming, peaceful suburb of the newly bustling Atlanta. Life is made up of enjoyable work, long, lazy weekends, and the company of good neighbors. Then, to their shock, construction starts on the vacant lot next door, a wooded hillside they’d believed would always remain undeveloped. Soon, though, they come to realize that more is wrong than their diminished privacy. Surely the house can’t be “haunted,” yet something about it seems to destroy the goodness of every person who comes to live in it, until the entire heart of this friendly neighborhood threatens to be torn apart.