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I read and loved all these! I have a few more I'm planning on reading next month as well. Fantastic job matching @Jerdencon and I @monalyisha #auldlangspine

@Jerdencon Thank you for picking this book! I've never heard of it before and loved it! #auldlangspine @monalyisha

Such an interesting thought - and so true.

#12booksof2021 #January

This was my favorite 5⭐️ in January. Great YA story.

I have another book from this author coming up to read, and I‘m looking forward to it.

Thanks for the tag @Andrew65 and @Crazeedi ! 💙

Amelia ♥️ I related to her so much. It touches on so many different emotions, but mainly grief and how it changes us, how paths can converge but also change (and how that‘s okay, because life is so fluid anyway). Just a great read that will break your heart but fill you with so much hope too. Loved it! I read this because @robinb loved it so much ♥️♥️

So many great books this month!

Here are my May reads, with Embodied and the tagged book as my favorites.

I loved this one so much more than I was expecting to. It made me want to read the Ormond Chronicles, the fictional fantasy series Amelia loves, & visit Valerie's, the bookstore that's central to the plot. I loved the story of two broken people finding each other through their pain. 

It‘s not just a love story, it‘s about grief and growth, and figuring out what you want in life when the world turns upside down, & being brave enough to go for it.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5/5 This book deserves more hype! #nofilter

For my next installment of ‘books I chose to read solely based on the beauty of their cover‘...

I loved Amelia Unabridged and all of the complicated Feels it is making me feel! It was a fairytale-esque book with the feel of a quaint town plus the magic of a sweetly budding Amore coming together to form a poignant memoir of how our drowning MC Amelia emerged from the tumultuous Sea of Grief and managed to find refuge on its shores with another who was coping with his own grief demons. This was beautifully written and beautifully narrated

February reading report! Amelia Unabridged was my favorite by a landslide. The MelissaSue81 ™️ emoji rating system at work.

This book was lovely. I will definitely re-read it. If you have dealt with a big loss, have newly adult children, and/or loved the gentle magic of books like The House on the Cerulean Sea, you should give it a try.

I can honestly say I didn‘t even know what this book was about and brought it just because of this cover. 😍😍But the story was absolutely beautiful! Amelia is very excited to met her favorite author. But when his meet and greet is canceled she is upset. Only to found out her friend Jenna met him. When Jenna dies in an accident Amelia is sent a deluxe edition of the book she has to found out who sent it. I loved Amelia and Nolan!

Oh, this was a book made for my soul. Amelia, Nolan, Jenna, and Alex were all so real, and the emotions were tangible. And the imagination! Everyone read this. #yalit

This is a book written for book lovers & dreamers! It‘s lovely, heartbreaking & beautiful! It‘s an impressive debut and I genuinely loved it! Amelia & Jenna become friends at a bookstore and grow to share a love of the fictional Orman Chronicles- but after high school graduation, the book leads to their first major fight- it goes on to delve into grief, love, friendship, imagination & finding your own path. Recommended for readers of all ages!

This YA book was such a wonderful surprise! Amelia and Nolan find each other through happenstance as they are both dealing with devastating loss. But while this is a story of healing, hope and finding your someone who gets you, it is also very much about family…not necessarily your biological one, but the family you make. The writing here is simply magical, deeply felt and heartbreakingly honest. And while yes, it deals with grief, it also 🔻

Last one, promise

“I could step into a page and roam the described landscape independently of the characters that inhabited it. I‘ve plucked the ring from Frodo and felt its inscribed Elvish on my fingertips. I‘ve sneaked gulps of milk from the Boxcar Children‘s hidden stash beneath the waterfall, borrowed Harry‘s broom while he studied with Hermione, and played with the Bennet cats while Elizabeth and her sisters were dancing at Netherfield.” *

“I prefer my books to have already been occupied, to have stories independent of the one carried on the page. I like to imagine my used books as little soldiers that have gone off to serve their duty elsewhere before coming into my hands.” * ~Ashley Schumacher

*Subject to change upon publication.

Ohhh, this book....

“I‘ve lived in books. I‘ve eaten and breathed books for so long that I took it for granted. I assumed that, if they saved me once, they would always be there to pick me up...” * ~ Ashley Schumacher

❤️😔

*Subject to change upon publication.