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10-18 Mar 22 (audiobook)
Not sure how I feel about this book. It was gripping and possibly well-written but also made me feel as though I needed a shower. As a teen in the early 90s, I liked the references to grunge and Nirvana; as a mother of a teenage girl who was suspended this week for spraying hand sanitizer on the candles in the school chapel, it is terrifying.
I did consider giving it a so-so, but ultimately this did not ring true for me.

I devoured this book. I had to sit back and think for a minute after I finished it. It was just so dark, but beautifully written and well though out. The characters just sink into your brain and you can‘t get them out. There is so much to this book - 90s culture, music, feminism and a haunting story about broken girls who succumb to a darkness that I didn‘t expect. This book is excellent, but very difficult subject matter.

If all the hormones and drama and internal torture and revenge fantasies boiling inside teenage girls actually boiled over into reality. Very dark and twisted.

"It was always another thing, being a girl." I don't think we can really appreciate the truth of this statement when we are young. In adulthood, it's glaringly obvious in every facet of life.

Ok

A Halloween-set gritty literary novel set in the 1990s with multiple narrators? Sounds like the perfect thing to start listening to on this October morning's road trip!

I just can‘t - I made it to 66% and when stuff from The Craft (a movie I loved 😀) started happening I had to stop. I just didn‘t like this book, I tried longer than I should have and now, nope. Done.

• Today‘s impromptu stop at the local LFL (Little Free Library) was fruitful! •

#TBR #LFL #LittleFreeLibrary #novels #fiction #allthebooks #bookhaul

Just finished this and I don‘t really know what to say about it. I was tempted to give up a couple of times, but felt that I had to see it out. These girls are messed up and I spent quite a few pages wishing Hannah/Dex would just run away from Lacey. It was longer than it should have been I think, felt kind of dragged out. My next book will have to be super fun and light to balance this out.

This has been on my TBR pile for so long that I have forgotten when I picked it up! It looks like it should be a good read, so I‘m heading to bed VERY early to get stuck in (and hopefully to catch some 💤💤 as I haven‘t slept well this week because of my rotten cough 😷)

I can't stop thinking about this book. It's intense, dark and unexpected. It takes place during 1991/1992 and one of the characters is obsessed with Nirvana and the descriptions we're so vivid that I had to listen to Nirvana while reading this book!

@mrozzz THANK YOU!!!! #ItsGottaGoGiveaway has arrived. So excited for my #bookhaul !!!!!

Throwback to two beloved books I read last year!

The fabulous @mrozzz is hosting a #giveaway 🙌🏻Check out her page for all the details
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Thanks for the opportunity 😘😘

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The lovely @mrozzz is having a book clear out giveaway. Click on her name for more info. Good luck all.
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Nothing ever ends well when Kurt is involved. Great story about the power struggle of teenage girls.

I am all over the place with my feelings about this book. I am 40 and I was a teen in the 90s. I see parts of my younger self in both Hannah and Lacey. I knew Nikki. I really felt like these characters were well drawn and the crazy obsessive teenage friendship was well done. There was a part of this story that really felt false to me and kept this from being a 5 star read, but spoilers so I won't share.

'It was one thing being a metalhead with a corpse on his T-shirt and a fetish for black nail polish; it was another thing altogether to be a girl wearing a pentagram. It was always another thing, being a girl.'

#Thrillsandchills #readathon I finished this before but I would add this as a thrills and chills book and it takes place on Halloween.

This is a great book for October! Perfect for people who want to be a bit scared. 😱💀 The text and audio are good. I‘ve read it both ways!

#30daysofreadathon #place places I will be reading this #deweysreadathon #f2f 📚 for #October #halloween

"They wondered at the consequence of teaching a girl she was weak instead of warning her she was strong." ??‍♀️

"...if girls knew what they could do, imagine what they might."??‍♀️

Long weekend wrap-up plans, as recommended by best bookish buddies.

Just on the edge of so-so and a pick for me. The focus on troubled female relationships pulled me through.

Thank you @hyacinth for the awesome gifts! ❤ the black cat!!!! You are a gem! ( I'll need to post a better pic of the pin! Its amazing!!!) #bibliophilebookexchange

This book is an insult to #badgirls everywhere. #augustgrrrl @Cinfhen

Halfway though and I feel like I've read/watched so many books/movies like this. I'll finish, but it's predictable so far.

I think maybe I just wasn't in the right mood for this one. Objectively, I know it was good, but I just didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would. It could also be the after effect of hearing so many folks speak so highly of it.🤷🏻‍♀️

Disturbing, fascinating, problematic, un-put-downable. I understand the mixed reviews but for this grunge kid, the time and place made me forgive the somewhat outlandish teenage drama. If you like a dark and twisty story, graduated between 86 and 92, love post punk or all of the above, I recommend this one.

This one has been on my TBR forever! Happy to be finally diving in ? Megan Abbott's blurb convinced me: "like lightning in a bottle, Robin Wasserman's Girls on Fire captures girlhood friendship in all its shattering intensity." New book+pedicure=perfect Sunday!

I couldn't do it. As someone else had commented, it felt like the author was just (unnecessarily) trying to go for the shock factor. The language, the situations....maybe I was just too much of a goody-goody in my teenage years, but I just wasn't enjoying it and I have too many other books I would rather get to than waste my time with this one.

I know this book is getting a lot of love but I hated it... and yet I couldn't stop reading it. Hannah aka Dex and Lacey have one of the most destructive friendships ever. I kept wanting to yell at them to stop. And omg there's this one scene with Dex at a party that was just awful.

This was set in (fictional?) Battle Creek, PA, but having grown up in a suburb of Detroit, I kept picturing Battle Creek, MI. I had a best friend in high school who was Lacey to my Hannah, minus about 75% of the crazy (and with none of the violence!). Still, she led and I followed, into more trouble than I want to remember. You couldn't pay me enough to go back to those angsty teen years, but I enjoyed the fictional journey. 👍

Wow wow wow! Good girl meet bad girl meet queen. Throw in Kurt cobain, teenage suicide and whispers of satanic worshipping. I was unsure who to root for. Utterly absorbing. Ps- this was a kindle daily deal so might still be out there for $1.99!

I do love this cover. Jumping onto this audiobook.

Starting this one while "cooking" (standing in kitchen while husband cooks). So far I am intrigued...

Origin stories are irrelevant. Nothing matters less than how you were born. What matters is how you die, and how you live. We live for each other, so anything that got us to that point must have been right.

Not exactly sure how I feel about this book. At times it was insightful and sadly beautiful; at others, Wasserman seemed to be going for the shock factor and it felt inauthentic. I have a little trouble with books where I don't really like or empathize with ANY of the characters, and this was one of those. Overall, though, it kept me interested and felt very original. 3.5 stars.

Almost halfway through and definitely enjoying it 👍🏻

#girlonfire #lyricalapril
@Cinfhen
Have this still to read on my kindle, but the image is rubbish on my kindle so these are from google!

Terrifying and nightmarish and creepy good.

The story of the friendship of two girls in high school that includes secrets, sex, Satanic rituals, and drinking among other things. Interesting but can be a bit boring at times. Overall I enjoyed it.

Today's #tbt - a book that I can't stop thinking about even though I read it weeks ago (and my current staff pick).

"'Girls had to believe in everything but their own power, because if girls knew what they could do, imagine what they might.'
Be careful. This book has the potential to burn it all down."