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#TTT #TakeThreeThursday on Saturday @dabbe

A few of those tiny states were difficult to select. In actuality, I had 47/50. I live in NJ. I have work and familial tires to New England, so those are on lock. I've driven up & down the East Coast a ton. It's some of those states in the middle where I get muddled up. But I'll share with you all how to always find Kentucky on a map. 😉

This is a first edition copy from my library….that cover. Pub date 1976. I‘m glad I went into this book blindly bc you think you‘re just getting a coming of age book in the 1950s in the South but it‘s so much more than that. Covers the severe racial injustice that was going on at the time and the path of one young privileged white coed from slight concern for the plight of blacks to an a more evolved compassion and understanding. #Alabama

Scavenger hunt #green #hauntedshelf #grimreaders @CSeydel

“It was the best first kiss in the history of first kisses. It was as sweet as sugar. And it was warm, as warm as pie.”

#Treats

#HauntsAndHexes

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#HauntsandHexes #Blood Remember it was quite amazing!

This might be one of the best known true crime books. A John Cusack movie was even made of it (I have heard it is not good so I am passing on it). I found the book itself to be a bit scattered. Lots of characters (in every sense of the word) most not really having anything to do with the story beyond giving the book a particular vibe. Savannah itself comes off as a very well drawn character, and for that I think the author did a good job. 👇

I spent last weekend in Vermont, where I had the luxury of looking up towards the mountains and then back down to the southern lowlands of Pat Conroy‘s magnificent prose at my leisure. What a life! ♥️📚🍁

*The view was spectacular and the book was many, many stars. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

“I felt perfectly safe in my rolling metal fortress, rusted and dented as it was. Nothing and no one could get to me, and nothing and no one did—with one very notable exception. Her name was Chablis.”
Have to admit, the one thing I didn't expect in a Southern Murder book was a side character who is Trans and the author respecting them. Learning today about beloved Lady Chablis a Trans performer in Savannah who died in 2016 of pneumonia at age 59.