3✨ A lot happened in this book. It was very detailed, and goes through several generations and families. It runs more as a history book than a story. I kept trying to connect to this world as I know it in Game of Thrones, but it got me more lost. #ReadingWesteros @5feet.of.fury

2✨ There was a complexity to this book that I didn‘t have a lot of time for. It had a lot of deep thoughts and concepts to work through to see the big plot between the four sisters. On a logistic level all siblings having PhDs in different fields doesn‘t seem very likely. I like that they were in all walks of life and dropped everything to help their sister who was struggling.

I normally get the Mini Brand mystery balls for my kids. It‘s every day things that are miniature that are fun to get for their Barbies. However, I saw a book version and got this book, a Goosebumps book, and a Mad Libs activity book. So cute!

Finally got my library back after it‘s been a dumping zone as I rush to clean high traffic rooms. Spent all day cleaning and now I‘m going to enjoy a little cozy read with my cold drink and candle. 🥰

Yay! My first year in this swap. 🥰 #jolabokaflodswap @MaleficentBookDragon

Last day of the State Individual Championships! One of my students is doing very well, and the others are being matched with very advanced players. I finished this very amazing autumn vibe book on the way here, and the only reason it is 4✨ is I wanted a lot more. The idea of a couple of families farms being holiday hot spots for town and community is a very fun read. I appreciated the quick prologue background to know the MCs back story.

4✨This continued to follow a family and friends with some of their adventures. There was moments of joy, and some bittersweet. We get a sort of epilogue with the Story Girl predicting futures and then a wall breaking during one of the predictions that broke my heart. In the end it was a lot of lasts for the characters that made the ending very sad. #KindredSpiritsBR @BarbaraJean

I managed to become a chaperone again for the Chess Team while their coach is on Medical Leave. I‘m in the Tempe area and was introduced to this lovely park. This is an amazing reading trip! 😍 Go Chess Kids ♟️ 👑💛

5✨Madi‘s grandmother passed away when she was about 13. Madi dreams about the love of her lives and the only real clue in this dream is the initials JR. After a tough break up with her boyfriend, she heads to Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 for a business venture. Being connected through ancestry and a mission to spread her abuela‘s ashes in her home country. This was the perfect companion on a long road trip. This is my last #OUABC until I pay off some debts.😭

5✨ I laughed, cried, and loved this book. We follow Elizabeth, a cultured East Canada teacher, when gets a position in the frontier to teach a small town that has never had a teacher. Her struggle to hard living is a major learning experience to her. She tries to hold her head high, but what she doesn‘t struggle with is loving and teaching her students. As a teacher struggling myself this was the book I needed. #FoodandLit 🇨🇦

1.) I got the anniversary Loungefly backpack of my favorite character. 2.)I‘m coordinating with the adults in the family to get these Link Squad toys for my son that he loves! 3.) Baby E tried Eggnog for the first time… safe to say he loved it! 4.) My oldest F was in the Veterans Day Parade with her Girl Scout troop. 5.) And we celebrated both my girls, dolls birthdays. 🥰💛

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3✨ Going in with a few spoilers I expected bullying, and telekinesis. I did not expect it to hit my feels as much as it did. Typically every girl gets her period around the age of 12. I know for me it was a difficult transition, but for Carrie it was so much worse! This plays on real feels of mine as a kid, and the worst bullies on the face of the planet. It has me thinking who was the real “monster”. #LosersClub

4✨This was really fun to read. It follows several children with basically everyday life. They have some major scares that turn out to be just them being overly scared (the world ending from a news article). They also have adventures, fights, disobedient moments, envy of the others, storytelling, and health scares. Overall, it is a story with multiple mini stories that mostly flow nicely with the main storyline.

2✨This is one of the Down the Rabbit hole books (4/5) and while it had a very good Alice feel, where she went into basically another dimension. It played like a cross between The Christmas Carol, Alice and Wonderland, and the movie: It‘s a wonderful life… but with a guy she‘s meant to be with. For how short it was it just had a lot going on.

4✨A bit sad for this one. Abandoned and then shortly after found by the person that raises her. She goes through school to be a wish granting fairy. The other young fairies judge her differences. It also had an interesting spin on her interest in Aurora. #SeriesLove @TheSpineView @Andrew65

18 books read this month. Glad my October was mostly horror books to help with spooky season. Adventurous, Mystery, and Dark. 🧟‍♀️😱🥰💛

Watch Mommy Die was my DNF this month. It just didn‘t flow very well, and not sure why it was so long when most of the story was done in the first 100 pages.

Added Horrorstör for October with wild card Lethal Licorice. It was a pretty good month. ?

#WinterGames2024 is back! So excited to join into the fun. If you want to sign up go to @StayCurious or @LiseWorks pages for the sign up form. 🥰💛❄️☃️🧣🧤

4✨This has to be the creepiest one I have read so far. I‘m not a fan of life like dolls though. Slappy is a ventriloquist dummy found by Lindy. Her twin, Kris, is jealous and decides she wants one too. Thats when some weird stuff starts to happen. I almost finished this one last month. 😅 #SeriesLove @TheSpineView @Andrew65

My spread for the month. 🥰💛 @TheAromaofBooks

Saving this one from my oldest. Translation: “Dear Mommy I heart you like books” 🥰💛

Here is my total for #HauntedShelves #TeamFlurken 1,253 pts. It was a really busy month, but thank you for the fun. 🥰🧟‍♀️🙀

3✨ Being the last in the series a lot has happened to these characters. This may have been the first time I realized it included some history to this fantasy world. Naturally, I knew it was using real places, but I thought that was it. Like with the other two, I was only interested in one of the POVs. #SeriesLove #HauntedShelves #TeamFlurken

3✨ On Max‘s birthday party they find a mirror hidden in the attic that causes him to be invisible. Along with some friends and Max‘s brother they take turns to see how long they can remain invisible. The longer they stay invisible the more uncomfortable they feel. This caused it to be pretty repetitive, but definitely spooky. #HauntedShelves #TeamFlurken #SeriesLove

3✨I found this one hard to get through. It didn‘t catch my interest as much as most. It followed the same pattern that Nancy is really amazing and she gets herself in some dangerous situations with not super great people. #NancyBR #SeriesLove #TeamFlurken #HauntedShelves

3✨ As the last book in the series I don‘t want to say much about what is happening in this book. As a series it was funny, each book featured one of the agents and it all wrapped up nicely by the end of this book. #SeriesLove #TeamFlurken #HauntedShelves

3✨This novella in the series needs to be read after the first three main books, or at least after “Forever My Girl”. It starts at the very beginning of Liam‘s journey to show his perspective throughout the time before his friend‘s passing (which starts book 1). I have to say that this helps give perspective on the Liam we loved to hate in the first one, and for me I like him so much more now. #HauntedShelves #TeamFlurken #SeriesLove

3✨Even though I may have given this second book in the series the same rating as the first, I think I liked this one a bit more. There was a few things going on at once: a murder of a co-worker, a missing vampire, a purist cult that hates vampires, and a traveling supernatural killer. It made for a fun read. #SeriesLove #TeamFlurken #HauntedShelves

4✨I don‘t know what it is about this book that made me like it so much. Being in a store overnight to try to catch a vandal was an interesting storyline. Then being way more than that was even more intriguing. Normally, I can handle gore and this book had a lot! There was a few scenes I had to pause to take a breather from the very vivid descriptive writing on the gore. Overall, I would say this was the most memorable story I read this month.

5✨The second book in the Amish Candy Shop series. This one I really enjoyed with the candy competition. It was interesting that the murder happened using an allergy. It focused on talk of different districts being more or less strict in the Amish ways, and young people making a choice to be baptized into the community or not. #SeriesLove #TeamFlurken #HauntedShelves

3✨This is a light read after the war. A nice break for the characters. #TeamFlurken #SeriesLove #HauntedShelves

Did my chaperone thing at homecoming tonight. Paris in Love. Decorations were beautiful. I was at the ticket booth for the majority of it so I was really busy. It was FREEZING 🥶 in the gym. Soooo glad I brought my sweater. 🤭 Ironically, listening to the tagged also happening at homecoming for the high school kids.

DNF- I really liked the first book in this series, but was not a super fan of the second. Then I just could t get into this no matter how hard I tried. I got over 50% and just wasn‘t interested anymore. #SeriesLove #HauntedShelves #TeamFlurken

4✨ I should have read this ages ago! High school me loved Tamora Pierce and read 2 different quartets. This one is exactly what I remember of her writing. Packed with great writing, well thought out characters, battle scenes, and a coming of age story. Kel just wants to be treated fairly and she expressed this A LOT through the book. That would be my only complaint on repetitiveness. #roll100 #HauntedShelves #TeamFlurken

2✨ Its a 2nd book (normally not a fan). I loved Warm bodies so much that it took me a while to pick this up. It alone was perfectly fine! The story line here of the cure was very unique, and fun to read. It still has some main characters and they basically evolved more because their world is changing again. The element of Z‘s children is where I lost interest. Something big was further happening which will conclude in the last book in the series.

3✨ I‘ve always been a fan of his movies. He is just a really confident and funny guy. This book goes over his life. I was surprised by his younger years, and how he started to get noticed. I really liked the notes to himself that can give you some ideas on how to either get green lights in life, or how to change your situation for more opportunities. I also loved his love story. I‘m so glad they found each other. #HauntedShelves #TeamFlurken

3✨ Another water based creepy short story. #HauntedShelves #TeamFlurken @PuddleJumper

I actually started this Monday, but… life be busy! Either way. Getting stuck in an elevator?! Worst fear ever!! #NancyDrewBR @Librarybelle

For those that successfully made kettle corn and caramel apples. You are rock stars! ⭐️😅 I am not proud of those two, but I tried! #FallJamboreeDoodles #HauntedShelves #TeamFlurken @PuddleJumper

Decisions in my nightly reading is not easy when I have so much good stuff on my list! 🤪😵‍💫

4✨This was such a cute intro into Dream Harbor. I‘m not a fan of instant love, but I did love the atmosphere and character development. Jeanie needs a change of scenery when her high stress job causes her previous boss to have a heart attack, and cause her to rethink her career. At first she is a basket case, but then she meets Logan the farmer. Super cute, a bit spicy, and a series I‘m definitely going to continue. #SeriesLove #HauntedShelves

After a long week of kids with the flu, and still having to work it‘s a root beer float dinner kinda night. Plus a really good book. 🥰

3✨ Short creepy story of our POV characters noisy neighbor. The neighbor is Erich Zahn who plays every night. Over time the music seems to change and our narrator finds out why. 😬 #HauntedShelves #TeamFlurken

4✨I loved the thriller vibe of the fictional true crime direction this one went. It went back and forward in time which is always a struggle for me to keep straight, but that was what built the suspense as Holly investigates a few missing persons reports in the tail end of the Covid years. I couldn‘t put it down and real life really got in the way! #LosersClub #HauntedShelves #TeamFlurken

Mickey and Friends Trick or Treat #HauntedShelves #TeamFlurken

Mickey‘s Spooky Stories #TeamFlurken #HauntedShelves

When you have littles your Halloween viewing looks different. 🤣 Hey Bear Sensory Halloween edition. #HauntedShelves #TeamFlurken @PuddleJumper

DNF🛑 True crime books are normally really interesting for me. With this one it definitely had its moments of being interesting. I just was not a fan of the layout. It‘s starts pretty much at the beginning with the murder. Then he is arrested not even halfway through. I stopped reading a little after the arrest because I didn‘t really see anymore point to continue reading. #HauntedShelves #TeamFlurken