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Just starting this one. #spookyreads #spookyseason #bookspin

#HauntedShelf recommendation
My favorite Simone St. James book!
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Thank you @Deblovestoread for part II of the summer swap gifts. I love the Harry Potter book sleeve… it‘s so nice and big for large books! I‘m excited to read the book too. I love it all!! @Bookgoil #LitsyLoveSummerSwap #LLSS

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#CoverLove #Purple Another one of my favorite authors! 👻
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

I enjoyed this haunting historical fiction ghost story set right after World War I in an asylum for shell-shocked soldiers. It really showed how PTSD was viewed back then. The spookiness was well integrated with the men's natural fears. I did think the ending was a bit unrealistic.

Major book slump this month...
Back at it tomorrow! 😁

I‘m just going to call this one, I‘m clearly not that interested in this one. 🤷🏻‍♀️

My Sunny Boy kept me company while I finished this one 😻. This is the 2nd novel by St. James that I‘ve read and loved, I definitely need to read more of her work. I was hooked from start to finish. It has a little bit of everything: ghostly figures, mysteries to solve, likable/sympathetic characters, action, drama, vivid descriptions, and romance sprinkled in. The MC and supporting characters all had wonderful arcs. I‘m happy with how it ended.

St. James knows how to write a good ghost story without being cheesy or over the top. This a is a good atmospheric story set in a creepy house turned mental hospital that was left abandoned by a family that was never heard or seen from again. Something bad happened in that house and something residual is still there that no one can explain.

Simone St James writes some great books that also make for great audiobooks. This one is set shortly after the end of the First World War and deals with the trauma created during the war. Amongst this there is also a mystery behind what is going on at Portis House. My third book finished for #AuthorAMonth @Soubhiville

Being the big wimp that I am this about taps out my spooky meter. It helped to have a little romance on the side.

#AuthorAMonth #SimoneStJames

#Scarathlon #BatBrigade Book points 2901

I started this for #AuthorAMonth when I was in a different place mentally than I‘ve been in the past few days. And I just didn‘t have the bandwidth anymore for a story about WWI soldiers with PTSD. I still have Ghost 19 I‘d like to read, but this is an “it‘s not you; it‘s me” #bail.

#Scarathlon #PhotoChallenge #Death/Dead #BatBrigade

Also, first up for #AuthorAMonth

Well, this came in the mail today and I honestly do not remember ordering it. I love Simone St. James, so I‘m sure I must‘ve, I just don‘t remember doing so.

I loved this because it starts with a cliche, the haunted madhouse, & works backwards to get to a story that‘s anything but. This is the only Simone St. James story that I haven‘t found frightening, but it was such a great character novel I didn‘t care, I just wanted to see how the plot evolved. Aside from the lack of creepiness it has all the elements I‘ve come to think of as typical St. James like the quippy dialogue & the post-war love story.

Loving this new cover. My favorite of her historical fiction ghost stories. From St James IG ⬇️

#BookMoods #Silence One of my favorite St. James books!
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#BookMoods One of my favorite books with a #4WordTitle!
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

I‘m a couple days late for opening my #litsylovevalentinesswap but it‘s been a busy week at work and home.
Thank you so much @BookwormAHN I love all of it! I tried out the coffee this morning and it was really good! Can‘t wait to use my book sleeve, I‘ve been eyeing one for a while, and the cats on it are purrfect 🥰

Thanks for the tag @TheSpineView
1- Both even though sometimes a slow burn can just drag.
2- loved this book 💜
I tag @LitStephanie @kwmg40 @Catsandbooks @curiouserandcurioser
#Two4Tuesday

#12Booksof2021 #8thBookof2021 #August I love how Simone St. James mixes mystery with the paranormal, and this one was definitely one of my favorites of hers. The Guncle was a very close 2nd favorite in August. @Andrew65

Thanks for the tag @Eggs 😺
1- Greatest achievement was getting my shih tzu puppy Luke house trained and mostly able to walk on a leash. Greatest challenge is we are still working on his biting and barking.
2- Silence For The Dead by Simone St James
3- For the plague to be under control or at least not have my vacation canceled.
I tag @Chrissyreadit @katy4peas @rsteve388
#WondrousWednesday

I just couldn‘t finish this one. I‘m a little disappointed in this one. But hey, an author can‘t have 100% success every time, right?!

Thanks for the tag @merelybookish 😺
Here is my #Top21of21
My favorites were Silence For The Dead, Summer Sons, The Book of Accidents and Dark Disciple.
I tag @iread2much @MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm @sharread @Cupcake12 @bookish_wookish @Blerdgal_Fenix

#GratefulHarvest

Five books from my Kindle with #silence in their title. The tagged book & The Fountains of Silence (both #sundaybuddyread picks) made my Top Reads of 2021 list.
The bottom three books are still in my #TBR. 📚📚📚

I loved this book. This may be my favorite St. James novel. Kitty gets a job as a nurse at Portis House a hospital for soldiers considered crazy. But of course there are complications like the cute patient 16, the fact that Kitty has no idea what she's doing and there are ghosts 💜
I loved this round of #LMPBC Thanks @JackOBotts @MaleficentBookDragon @Reggie
#Scarathlon2021 #TeamHendrix
#Wickedathon @StayCurious
#Screamathon @4thhouseontheleft

@BookishTrish , @StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego , @BeeMagical - I'm so excited for LMPBC! What are your thoughts on theme? This time of year I read a lot of spooky/cozy/seasonal (fall/Christmas) themed books but I also like gold old fashioned mysteries, YA Fantasy, lots of stuff!

@kspenmoll - thank you for the wonderful #litsylovefallswap package! The scarf is so soft and cozy and I am so excited to read the books! @rsteve388

This was great. It‘s 1919 England and Kitty Weekes is running away from danger straight into a haunted asylum. This was put in the mail this morning to you @BookwormAHN and should be there by Monday.

@JackOBotts thanks for picking this book. I‘m barely at the part where Kitty does her first night shift. Holy crap, the hairs on my arm stood up. Lolol it‘s my first Simone St. James and it‘s really good so far.

Thanks for the tag fellow #TeamHendrix member @MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm 👻
1- Absolutely
2- Silence For the Dead
Also tagging #TeamHendrix
#TwoForTuesday @TheSpineView

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Ghost stories aren't typically my thing, but I did mostly enjoy this book. I liked trying to piece the mystery together, even though I was way off! There were a few loose ends and odd things in the end, though.

Loved this. No surprise, I've never read a book from her that wasn't great. Great #gothic feels, engaging stories (for both timelines), and characters that I cared about, even if they were a little cliched. Read this with #sundaybuddyread

This one was a lot of fun to read with #sundaybuddyread group. It was suspenseful with likable characters and spooky too. Kitty was a strong female lead. This took place in an asylum where Kitty works as a nurse. Of course, she starts to investigate the hauntings and question how the men are being treated by the doctors. A great read. #audiobook #bookhangover

Triggers for child/sexual abuse and suicide.

Thank you Aletheia!!! This was a lovely birthday surprise!!!

Read for #sundaybuddyread for August, I really enjoyed this spooky ghostly book, set in a house turned into an asylum for WWI veterans suffering from PTSD. Kitty is on the run from her past & fakes her way into hiding out there, pretending she is a nurse & finds that bad things are happening at Portis House. I liked the characters, gothic vibe, atmospheric setting & all the twists. It kept me absorbed & is in my top favorites from the author. 👻🖤