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Joined June 2017

Bohemian, Book Lover, Believer that books have power, future Flight Attendant
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Clown in a Cornfield by Adam Cesare
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Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
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Beast | Brie Spangler
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I don‘t know what fell first, me or the football.
In theory, it was the football because good old me, all meat and muscle, can‘t be trusted to walk and chew gum at the same time, let alone rescue a misthrown ball.
#Beast #BrieSpangler #firstline #openingline #book #books #bookshelf #bookshelves #bookshelfie #bookshelfies #shelfie #shelfies #bookstack #YoungAdult #LGBT #Romance #Contemporary #Retellings #Fiction #Queer #RealisticFictiom 🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵

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Of Beast and Beauty | Stacey Jay
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Orleans | Sherri L. Smith
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New Moon | Stephenie Meyer
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At last.
At the top of a winding staircase, she‘d found it.
Disregarded by everyone but the aging queen. How could she ever forget the trouble it had caused her?
The mirror.
#SnowWhitesMirror #ShonnaSlayton #FairyTaleInheritance #firstline #openingline #book #books #bookshelf #bookshelves #bookshelfie #bookshelfies #shelfie #shelfies #bookstack #stack #Fantasy #Retellings #YoungAdult #FairyTales #FairyTaleRetellings #HistoricalFiction #stacks ❤️❤️

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Cinderella's Shoes | Shonna Slayton
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The air chilled Nadzia to her core as she ran down a dark passageway into the deepest part of the castle. A single torch on each wall cast a pale, flickering light on the uneven damp stones.
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Cinderella's Dress | Shonna Slayton
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Nadzia tucked the cleaning rag into her apron in exchange for her feather duster. She held it out like it was a dance partner and placed her other hand against her chest in mock modesty.
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Jungle (Revised) | Upton Sinclair
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It was four o‘clock when the ceremony was over and the carriages began to arrive. There had been a crowd following all the way, owing to the exuberance of Mariija Berczynskas.
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Her Dark Curiosity | Megan Shepherd
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The air in my crumbling attic chamber smelled of roses and formaldehyde.
Beyond the frosted windowpanes, the rooftops of Shoreditch stretched toward the east in sharp angles still marked with yesterday‘s snow, as chimney stacks pumped smoke into an already foggy sky.
#HerDarkCuriosity #MeganShepherd #TheMadmansDaughter #firstline #openingline #book #books #YoungAdult #HistoricalFiction #Fantasy #Horror #Romance #ScienceFiction #Retellings 💗💗💗💗

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The Madman's Daughter | Megan Shepherd
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The basement hallways in King‘s College of Medical Research were dark, even in the daytime.
At night they were like a grave.
Rats crawled through corridors that dripped with cold perspiration. The chill in the sunken rooms kept the specimens from rotting and numbed my own flesh, too, through the worn layers of my dress.
#TheMadmansDaughter #MeganShepherd #YoungAdult #HistoricalFiction #Horror #Fantasy #Mystery #Historical #Romance #ScienceFiction

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Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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I am by birth a Genevese, and my family is one of the most distinguished of that republic. My ancestors had been for many years counsellors and syndics, and my father had filled several public situations with honour and reputation.
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Down with the Shine | Kate Karyus Quinn
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GHABI4ROSES Thank you. I get it and APPRECIATE IT. 2y
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I‘ve had this on my TBR shelf for quite a while. It was so exciting to finally read it. I loved the character of Feyre. It was such a unique retelling of Beauty and the Beast. I can‘t wait to read the rest of the series. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
#ACourtOfThornsAndRoses #SarahJMaas #book #books #bookhoarder #bookhoarders #bookhaul #bookhauler #bookholic #bookholics #Fantasy #Romance #YoungAdult #NewAdult #Fiction #Fae #Retellings #Magic #FantasyRomance ❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹

Liatrek Obsessed with this series ❤️❤️❤️I read for the first time a few months ago and now doing an audio listen 🙂 hope you enjoy 2y
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The Reader | Traci Chee
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Schizo: A novel | Nic Sheff
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It‘s starting again.
There‘s a sound like an airplane descending loudly in my ear. I can‘t quite place it. The sweat is cold down my back. I feel my heart beat faster. My hands shake.
#Schizo #NicSheff #firstline #openingline #book #books #bookshelf #bookshelves #bookshelfie #bookshelfies #shelfie #shelfies #bookstack #bookstacks #stack #stacks #bookstore #YoungAdult #MentalIllness #Contemporary #MentalHealth #Fiction #RealisticFiction 🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎

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Tempest (UK) | William Shakespeare
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Shipmaster
Boatswain!

Boatswain
Here, master; what cheer?

Shipmaster
Good! Speak to th‘ mariners; fall to ‘t yarely, or we run ourselves aground; bestir, bestir.
#TheTempest #WilliamShakespeare #firstline #openingline #book #books #bookshelf #bookshelves #bookshelfie #bookshelfies #shelfie #shelfies #bookstack #bookstacks #stack #stacks #bookstore #Classics #Plays #Drama #Fiction #Fantasy #School #Theatre #Literature #Poetry #ReadForSchool 🤍🤍

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Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
#RomeoAndJuliet #WilliamShakespeare #firstline #openingline #book #books #bookshelf #bookshelves #bookshelfie #bookshelfies #shelfie #shelfies #bookstack #bookstacks #stack #stacks #bookstore #Classics #Romance #Plays #Fiction #Drama #Love #Historical #Adult #Relationships #Classic 🩶

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A Midsummer Night's Dream | William Shakespeare
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Theseus

Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour
Draws on apace; four happy days bring in
Another moon; but, oh, methinks, how slow
This old moon wanes! she lingers my desires,
Like to a step-dame or a dowager,
Long withering out a young man‘s revenue.
#AMidsummerNightsDream #WilliamShakespeare #firstline #openingline #book #books #bookshelf #bookshelves #Classics #Plays #Fiction #Fantasy #Drama #School #Romance #Theatre #Literature #Poetry 🖤🖤🖤🖤

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Black Beauty | Anna Sewell
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The first place that I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow with a pond of clear water in it. Some shady trees leaned over it, and rushes and water-lilies grew at the deep end.
#BlackBeauty #AnnaSewell #firstline #openingline #book #books #bookshelf #bookshelves #bookshelfie #bookshelfies #shelfie #shelfies #bookstack #bookstacks #stack #stacks #Classics #Fiction #Childrens #Animals #YoungAdult #Horses #HistoricalFiction #Adventure 💜💜💜

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All We Have Is Now | Lisa Schroeder
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Emma | Jane Austen
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We rowed out through the harbor, past bobbing boats weeping rust from their seams, past juries of silent seabirds roosting atop the barnacled remains of sunken docks, past fishermen who lowered their nets to stare frozenly as we slipped by, uncertain whether we were real or imagined; a procession of waterborne ghosts, or ghosts soon to be.
#HollowCity #RansomRiggs #Fantasy #YoungAdult #Fiction #Paranormal #HistoricalFiction #Horror #TimeTravel 🧡

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I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen. The first of these came as a terrible shock and, like that changes you forever, split my life into halves: Before and After.
#MissPeregrinesHomeForPeculiarChildren #RansomRiggs #firstline #openingline #book #books #bookreports #bookreport #bookreview #Fantasy #YoungAdult #Fiction #Paranormal #Mystery #Horror #HistoricalFiction #TimeTravel ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

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Cyrano de Bergerac | Edmond Rostand
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How to Disappear | Sharon Huss Roat
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Standing by my locker, I can already feel the sweat circles forming on my T-shirt. Nobody can see that, I assure myself. Not through the enormous sweater I‘m wearing, or beneath my nearly impenetrable wall-o-hair.
#HowToDisappear #SharonHussRoat #firstline #openingline #book #books #bookrecommendation #bookrecommendations #bookreport #bookreports #bookreview #YoungAdult #Contemporary #MentalHealth #RealisticFiction #Fiction #Romance #Teen 💟💟💟💟

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Down with the Shine | Kate Karyus Quinn
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“I gave you my name for a reason, Lennie. It might not be worth much now, but someday, someday real soon, I‘m gonna make it so Cash is a name nobody ever forgets. I‘m serious, Lennie. People are gonna remember us.”
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Another Little Piece | Kate Karyus Quinn
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The field didn‘t end so much as trail off, beaten back by the rusted-out trailer and circle of junked vehicles surrounding it. As if they had forgotten how to be still, the girl‘s bare and bloodied feet tripped and stumbled over each other.
#AnotherLittlePiece #KateKaryusQuinn #firstline #openingline #book #books #bookquote #bookquotes #bookqueen #YoungAdult #Horror #Paranormal #Mystery #Fantasy #Thriller #Fiction #Romance #Contemporary 💘💘💘💘💘

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Ethan Frome | Edith Wharton
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The Cruel Prince | Holly Black
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KristiAhlers 😆 2y
Gissy 😂😂😂😂 2y
batsy Lol! 😆 2y
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Texas Witness | Barb Han
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In merry England in the time of old, when good King Henry the Second ruled the land, there lived within the green glades of Sherwood Forest, near Nottingham Town, a famous outlaw whose name was Robin Hood.
#TheMerryAdventuresOfRobinHood #HowardPyle #firstline #openingline #book #books #bookperson #bookpeople #bookpassion #bookpicture #bookpictures #Classics #Fiction #HistoricalFiction #Adventure #Fantasy #Childrens #Literature #YoungAdult 💓💓💓💓

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The Queen of Nothing | Holly Black
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ElizaMarie ❤️❤️❤️❤️ 2y
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Midnight Sun | Stephenie Meyer
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You Will Be Mine | Natasha Preston
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Thursday
February 1

Valentine‘s Day. Ugh. Of all the holidays, this one is my least favorite.
I give the paper hearts Charlotte decorated our living room a mental eye roll. Two of my roommates, Sienna and Charlotte, are super into Valentine‘s Day.
#YouWillBeMine #NatashaPreston #firstline #openingline #book #books #bookpassion #bookperson #bookpeople #Thriller #Mystery #YoungAdult #Horror #MysteryThriller #Suspense #Fiction #Romance #Contemporary

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This was an interesting read. It was definitely a different take on the story of Pinocchio. It was very interesting to see the story from the perspective of the Blue Fairy. Overall it was a very fun story to read. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
#WhenYouWishUponAStar #ElizabethLim #TwistedTales #book #books #bookshelf #bookshelves #bookshelfie #bookshelfies #shelfie #shelfies #Fantasy #Retellings #YoungAdult #Fiction #FairyTales #Magic #YoungAdultFantasy #Novels 💕💕💕

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The Lost | Natasha Preston
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The Cellar | Natasha Preston
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Saturday, July 24th (Present)
Looking out my bedroom window, I‘m faced with yet another dull English summer day. The heavy clouds made it look way too dark for July, but not even that was going to faze me.
#TheCellar #NatashaPreston #firstline #openingline #book #books #bookperson #bookpeople #bookpassion #bookpicture #bookpictures #bookphoto #bookphotos #Thriller #YoungAdult #Mystery #Fiction #Horror #MysteryThriller #Contemporary #Suspense ❤️‍🩹

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Geekerella | Ashley Poston
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The stepmonster is at it again.
Raffles, discount coupons, and magazine sweepstakes lay strewn across the kitchen table. My stepmom sits straight-backed in one of the creaky wooden chairs, delicately cutting out another coupon, dyed blonde hair piled on top of her head in perfect ringlets, lipstick the color of men‘s heartblood.
#Geekerella #AshleyPoston #OnceUponACon #firstline #YoungAdult #Romance #Contemporary #Retellings #Fiction #FairyTales

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The Twice Lost | Sarah Porter
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“Hello,” the young man in the lab coat purred into a round speaker, his hands fidgeting. Ripples of azure light reflected on his cheeks. “Are you awake?” There was no response.
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Waking Storms | Sarah Porter
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The last words were the ones about Lazarus, come back from the dead to tell everyone . . . everything. That was all wrong, bogus. If you‘ve seen death from the inside, Dorian thought, you keep your mouth shut.
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Lost Voices | Sarah Porter
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“Lucette? Did you even hear the question?”
Luce had been gazing out the window at the darkened sky sinking over the harbor still dotted with rough floating ice, the mountain walls of shadow-colored spruce and rusty boulders under the greenish, glassy dusk of a coming storm.
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The great problem is at length solved! The air, as well as the earth and the ocean, has been subdued by science, and will become a common and convenient highway for mankind.
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If I Should Die | Amy Plum
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In the dead of night I sat on a bridge spanning the Seine, watching a bouquet of crushed white lilies float toward the spotlit Eiffel Tower. I strained to listen for the words I thought I just heard.
#IfIShouldDie #AmyPlum #Revenants #firstline #openingline #book #books #bookperson #bookpeople #bookpassion #bookpicture #bookpictures #bookphoto #bookphotos #YoungAdult #Fantasy #Paranormal #Romance #ParanormalRomance #Supernatural #Zombies 🖤🖤🖤🖤

Ladygodiva7 Oohhh I like that filter on books! 2y
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