Orquídea Divina has lived a life her grandchildren and family don‘t know anything about until she invited them to her funeral and to collect their inheritance.

I loved this magical realism story. The writing and characters were amazing and I loved how intricate the author was in weaving stories inside this story. The story kind of reminded me of Stardust but completely it‘s own at the same time. Probably be rereading this book a lot.
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Charlie Vega wants to have a good relationship with her body but it‘s hard when you are coming of age in a Connecticut suburb and your mother continues to leave weight loss shakes for you.

I really enjoyed this story and Charlie‘s issues with her body image. There were times that I wanted to knock Charlie around cause she is so hard on herself but aren‘t we all like this? Always comparing ourselves to others.

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There is no label —in any language —with the power to liberate. The only truth we can offer one another is love.”

In the second book we immediately pick up where Lobizona left off with Manu and her friends as they fight for a better future for all lobizones and brujas in this retelling of Argentine Folklore.

I loved being back in the world and can‘t wait for book 3. I love the characters and the world.

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Today‘s the day! The start of Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month.

From Sept 15-Oct 15 I‘ll be celebrating by reading Latinx authors.

This is my small stack. Not pictured because it hasn‘t been delivered is A Lot Like Adios by Alexis Daria and Cazadora. I started Cazadora by Romina Garber (tagged book) and I can‘t tell you how excited to be back in this world. ❤️❤️❤️

#latinxheritagemonth #hispanicheritagemonth #latinxbookstack

Nella Rogers works in the publishing business in NYC and the only black girl who works there. Until Hazel, another black girl, joins and Nella is so happy to meet her but then weird things start to happen making Nella question everything.

I enjoyed this book and the topic of internalized racism and how deeply it affects BIPOC but there were too many side stories and characters that it would take me out of the story.

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I don‘t know why I keep reading her books. They are all the same and I actually don‘t think it‘s her, it‘s me. I‘ve just out grown this author.

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What do you do when you become the governess of twins who catch fire? Lillian decided to help her old high school friend, Madison, out with a situation involving her husband‘s kids from a previous marriage.

The Husband and I listened to the audiobook on a road trip and really enjoyed it. The narration was perfect and there were so many LOL moments that kept us hooked.

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Decided to start with this recommendation for the road trip and am not disappointed!

Thank you to @LaraS for recommending it!

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My husband and I are going to Utah next week to meet our new niece! My sister in law gave birth to a beautiful baby girl named Penelope earlier in the month.

We are driving there so I am asking if anyone has any good audiobooks to recommend for the car drive?

I would greatly appreciate any recommendations. 😀

Best friends turned best enemies, Zorie & Lennon, find themselves stranded together in the Californian wilderness when a group camping trip goes south.

I really enjoyed all the hiking in this book! It was hard to believe, Zorie, who didn‘t like to do anything physical has no problem hiking in the back country in regular shoes for the first time ever. I did love Lennon and his dry humor. Reagan sucks. Overall great summer read!

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Birthday book haul!

How awesome that free comic book day lands on the same day as my birthday!?

Went to my fav comic books store in PDX called Books with Pictures and then made a stop at PDX‘s only black owned bookstore Third Eye Book. I love the owners of both places. So kind and always have good book recommendations.

Truly a good start way to celebrate my birth by supporting local small businesses.

16 yr old Quinn Hardwick‘s is having a tough summer in Seattle and to make it worse her former childhood friend moves back.

Quinn was a lot annoying but I had to remind myself she is 16 yrs old. It was ridiculed her to blame Wesley for her parents divorcing. Her father was the one who cause the split but she refused to see that. Which was a little frustrating. But I liked her friends and it was set in Seattle so that was a plus.

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It‘s a day for us and our love of books!

Happy National Book Lover Day!

I decided to share my TBR bookshelf. There are books behind the books you see in the front as well
It‘s overflowing lol but one day I will get through these! Will this shelf ever be empty? Lol yeah that‘s a no since I keep buying more 😈.

#nationalbookloversday #tbrbookshelf

This book was addictive and I couldn‘t put it down.

The story picks up a few weeks from where the first book ended. Pip has come to realize some hard facts about herself and tries to wrestle with the new her after what happened in the first book. I like Pip as a character but I really think Ravi steals the show and I wish we could get more of his story. Can‘t wait for the next book!

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So excited to read this book. How gorgeous is this cover!?

#newbook #preorder

Andra wakes up from cryonic sleep from a trip across the universe and it‘s 3102, a thousand years after she was suppose to be woken and she is no longer on earth and now she‘s a goddess. It took a awhile to get into this story but once I did, it was easy to get lost in the story. It was hard to get the flow of the way local people spoke but it kind of reminded me of how they spoke in that Disney movie Zenon so that made it easier to read.
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16 yr old Maggie Lynch is uprooted from her home in Chicago to Ireland after her mom marries in 1993, the height of Nirvana and the grunge movement. Seeing Maggie growth is the book was my fav thing in this books beside the obvious 90s music name drops. This book was very nostalgic even if I‘ve never visited Ireland, the music alone brought me there in the story. This story had heavy situations like suicide and drugs that tied in with the music.

I would have killed to be able to see Smashing Pumpkins perform at the record release party for Siamese Dream!

Luckily I got to see them a couple years ago and they played from this album and their others and it was amazing!

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This is the 6th book ins the series! It didn‘t disappoint. For a small group of people living in the wilderness a lot of dead bodies sure show up out of no where.

I initially thought this was just going to be a repeat of all the other books in the series but of course there was a fresh new take on it. There are some parts that get redundant but those help you haven‘t read the other books in the series yet. Couldn‘t put the book down.

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Betita, a 9 yr old gurl who holds onto hope even in the darkest moments after her and her mom are picked up by ICE and locked in a detention center.

I don‘t typically read middle grade books but this one did not disappoint. This story is told in Verse and it doesn‘t diminish the heartbreak and ugliness that happens in these dentition centers. This story was beautifully written.

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This book is a short story of a group of childhood friends that grew up under the shadow of dictatorship in Chile in 1980s.

While the story is short it def makes it point in the 70 pages it took to tell these children‘s chilling story of growing up and realizing the political agenda of toners infiltrating your life.

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This book! The first 50-80 pages were hard for me to get into because I hadn‘t caught the characters cadence but once that happen I couldn‘t put the book down. There was so much going on with the story but it worked and I‘m glad the author included them. Indigenous peoples life history and current life is deeply covered in layers of trauma that have never been acknowledge by everyone else until recently and the author tried to show that.

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The StoryGraph is in the Apple app Store! Just downloaded mine. You can follow me on there! My username is inkdrinkerpdx.

#iwillfollowback 😊

This was an ok romance. I think it went a lot longer than it needed too and that twist near the end came made me roll my eyes. Felt really unnecessary and would have wanted more of the couple actually being a couple if that makes any sense.

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Yvonne‘s in her senior year trying to decide what to do but has never gotten over the abandonment of her mom at 7 yrs old. Her relationship with her father is non-existent since he is a chef and owns his own restaurant so she doesn‘t see him often. Yvonne for me felt like a real character. She made very human mistakes especially for being 18 and approached them with maturity and honest communication. I really enjoyed this book.

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Love this authors romances and this one did not disappoint.

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The book was written as part biography and part self help inspo written between the facts of Fridas life and how you can apply her essence to your life. I don‘t typically read nonfiction books like this but was curious about Frida Kahlo since I never rally delved into her life and artwork before. Her life was astounding! The one thing I took away was Frida was just like me and you. A girl exploring her life outside what society wanted.

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Wowza! I can‘t believe I‘m already done with this book. And what the hell was that ending!? What a huge cliffhanger and reveal to end on!

I seriously can‘t wait for book 3!

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Penelope Prado wants to follow i her father footsteps, sharing her love of food and Xander Amaro is trying to find a place where he belongs.

I loved this book! I loved how the author didn‘t make Pen‘s depression+anxiety the main focus of the book but instead it was another aspect of Pen. How she got through her tough and regular moments every day. It‘s realistic for the culture and how someone deals with it day to day.

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This was suppose to be a twist on Jane Eyre but besides having the main basics, I didn‘t really get the same vibe.

This Jane tries too hard to fit in and be rich like everyone else and she fell in love so fast with Eddie and just let him walk all over her. I love Jane Eyre because she took control of her own life when it wasn‘t something a lot of women did in her time. This Jane was a little too desperate. It did keep me guessing tho.

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I loved all these short stories of the saints!

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My preorders were delivered today! I was not expecting to get them this quickly and before the release date. But I‘m so happy I did!

I forgot I had preorder a copy from One More Page Books when I ordered the owlcrate version 🤷🏽‍♀️. I‘m happy to have two versions! 😆

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Someone shared this in their Instagram stories and I can‘t believe someone would do this?! 🤯 I really shouldn‘t be surprised though.

After reading the synopsis I added the book to
my tbr. It sounds so good! Hopefully my library will have it .

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After watching the Netflix series I figured it was a great time to read this book so I could be back in the world and characters. It didn‘t disappoint!!

I loved all the action even if it was anxiety inducing. I really enjoyed the different POVs, especially those from different countries. With that ending I also wondering if we are going to get another side story. I hope so!
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This was a great palette cleanser between books. I loved that the twin brothers were from Oregon 😝 and the artwork in it is amazing. I really enjoyed the storyline even though it felt really choppy but it also made me want more of the story.

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Zara‘s family has waited years for their visa process to be finalized but some terrible things prevent that.

While this book deals with heavy subject matters like the very flawed immigration system here and the racism, I felt the book lacked Zara‘s voice as a character. I felt like I was being told rather than taken along in the story. Loved Zara‘s relationship with her parents. Wished we got more than the surface relationship with her friends.

Twin sisters, Stella and Desiree grew up in a small town called Mallard. One night they decided to run away to New Orleans where Stella abandons Desiree with no way to find her.

This story had me hooked. Why would someone decide to live white despite them being a person of color? I really understood why Stella did what she did. As a WOC I have had the thought that I wish I was white because it would make life easier.

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Today is the day!!!

Did I take work off so I can binge watch it? Yes, yes I did.

This pic was taken October 2019 during Leigh Bardugo‘s Ninth House book tour. This was the last book event I went to before COVID happened. 😱😱

She was so nice to meet and I can‘t wait until we can do these again.

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Wow this book was crazy! I had a few theories and was only partially correct. This was hard to put down because there was so much going on and I needed to know how the stories connected to one another.

Tarryn does a really great job of writing characters that are far from perfect but they are real in all their imperfectness.

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It‘s so sad to say goodbye to these characters and the world but all good things must come to an end.

I really enjoyed this book and I know there are some reviews where people aren‘t too happy. Was I sad I didn‘t get more Dani and Ryodan? Yes. But as a whole the story and ending were great! The only one I wish we had more of a story from is Christian and his uncles.

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Sorry not book related!

The husband and I got the Johnson & Johnson one-shot Covid Vaccine yesterday!!

So far neither of us have had any side effects besides some pain at the injection site for a few mins afterwards and that was it.

This morning my arm where I had the shot hurts with a little discomfort but it‘s not terrible.

I‘m so happy to be able to finally get it.

Wow I can‘t believe it‘s been 5 years since I joined litsy.

Happy litsyversary to everyone in the list!

I just finished this and I feel so sad. I can‘t believe this is the end?! And honestly don‘t know what to do with myself now. 😆

No more Jericho Barrons, Mac, Ryodan. Christian or Dani!

This is one of very few series that has so many books in it that I‘ve actually stuck with. I‘ve devoured each book because the world and the characters demanded it.

I need to talk to people who have read this. So many feels.

Yay for release day deliveries! Can‘t wait to dive into these books.

#ittybittybookhaul #preorders

I love this authors romances! I love how she writes friend to lovers romances that naturally take course. There is no one who needs to be saved or huge lies for the characters to figure out. I love her style and devour her new books so fast.

I did notice some similarities of this story to other stories she has written on the past but that didn‘t take away from the story or characters, just some scenes felt familiar.

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I got my book delivered on pub day and got the preorder gifts today.

So happy to get the second pin to go with the first one I got for King of Scars!

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A brides dream honeymoon becomes a nightmare when a man she had a one night stand with shows up.

This was a slow start for me but once the story got rolling I couldn‘t put it down. There is some stuff in here that some might say isn‘t plausible but I really enjoyed this book and couldn‘t put it down. There were some details in the book that the character would forget that left me wondering what the point was.

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Here‘s what happens when your mother dies. It‘s the brightest day of summer and it‘s dark outside. It‘s dark in your house, dark in your room and dark in your heart. You feel like the darkness is going to split you apart.

This book really broke my heart. Tiger is only 16 when her mother suddenly passes away. I loved the way this author wrote about grief while also highlighting all the children who are wards of the state.

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I watched this on Amazon Prime earlier today and it was so good!

Almost as good as the book but come on the book will always be better 😉.

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It‘s been 7 years since Tress Montors parents disappeared without a trace and she knows only one person with them that night that knows what happened, her ex best friend- Felicity Turnado. She‘ll get her truth even if she has to trap Felicity one brick at a time.

Wow! This book! It‘s was freaking nutso but in such a good way. After that cliffhanger I need book 2 now! This author is always an auto buy for me. Really enjoy her writing.

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