Maggie Holt has just inherited the home her family abandoned and fled in the middle of the night when she was just 5. The same home her father profited off of by writing a sensational Amityville style ghost story about. Maggie doesn‘t remember anything about her life in the home, but she‘s determined to find out what really happened. She “🎵better beware, be canny and careful.🎶” An engrossing twisty dark read. I could hardly put it down.

This year has been rough to say the least- my family is still reeling from some important losses in our lives and so this book found me at the perfect moment. The breezy idyllic coastal setting was just what I needed, where all problems are solvable and not too big. Polly was a delight, and I honestly wish I lived in Huckle‘s countryside cottage. This book made me laugh in a very personally dark time. #beach #light #feelgoodread

Mostly underwhelming and kind of pretentious. Tbh the book lost a lot of points on the very first page, when Lucy says that she took up smoking so that she would fit in in Parisian cafes 🙄🙄🙄 and never really recovered. Very obviously one of her early works, it didn't have the emotional resonance that her newer books contain. There wasn't really any driving force behind it or any discernable reason for it to be published.

This book was just so so cute! It's a perfect light fall read that captures the fun noncreepy spirit of the season. Reading this was like curling up with the book version of your favorite fall drink. I really want to go to a pumpkin patch like the one in this book! It's almost like a theme park- let me know if anyone knows of one similar or if the authors based it on a particular one! 🎃🍂🍁 #fallreads #fall #pumpkinpatch #autumn #autumnreads

A very atmospheric tale set in idyllic autumnal Vermont farmland featuring very creepy scarecrows. I thought it started out a little slow, but by the time the plot really starts up I was hooked! Can't wait to read the next book in the series! #autumn #fall #scarecrows

I've read a lot of graphic memoirs pertaining to grief and loss, and this one was decent but I felt like it was missing something. It didn't feel as deep, and spent more time on the history of surfing rather than working on connecting with the reader- and the connection to the history of surfing felt kind of non-existent and out of place.

I also got to meet Meg Cabot which was so amazing! I've been reading her books since the mediator series and 1-800-whereareyou.

So cute! I picked this arc up at ala a couple weeks ago! This book was really the perfect summer read and made me want to move to a tiny island immediately.

I abso-positively adore all of Lucy Knisley's books I've read, and this one was no exception. She makes pregnancy accessible and intersperses her personal journey with fascinating facts about the history of women's pregnancy health. This book would be amazing for someone who's given birth or is hoping to. The art is beautiful and emotional, I loved every moment and am so glad that Lucy survived her harrowing labor (those pages are AMAZING btw)

An absolutely lovely wish fulfilment ya that would've made my middle school lotr obsessed self so happy. 😍 I loved reading this book and sped through it over the weekend. Cute cute cute! A great cast of characters, and the main character has a pretty great growth arc, so don't let her put you off at first! This book will make you want to visit Ireland, and take a nostalgia trip through the extra features of the extended edition lotr movies.

If you weren't a modest prepper, you might be by the end of this book. 😨 A truly terrifying and all too realistic scenario- what if one day, unannounced, the taps ran dry? While the human body can go a while without food, dehydration is deadly within a few days and that really ramps up the chaos in this book as neighbors turn on each other, and a band of teens traverses a torn and dangerous landscape in an effort to find water. So good, so tense.

When lil Cricket cuddles up to a good book. 😻 #myheart #catnap #catsandbooks #crickethildegardandzeldanorris #catsoflitsy

Very, very cute and definitely unique to the genre. This book had a twist that I never saw coming, and it also refrained from falling into the creepy rape zone that so many books in this genre tend to. Charlotte Darling is an adorable heroine you can root for without her character ever becoming too unrealistic or quirky for the sake of quirky. Reed is a phenomenal love interest, with way more depth than is standard. #catsandbooks #romance 😍

I identified with so much of this book! I think the length was great, because sometimes comic strip style books can be tedious, and the entry in the back was very interesting to read about, especially since she touches on some things about the internet I've definitely noticed before.

Honestly this is between a pan and a so-so for me. A lot of elements I like, a seemingly normal supernatural society and wlw, but I just couldn't get into it. I didn't care one bit for the characters and thought they were over the top and obnoxious almost the entire time. I really liked the art!

Up next! I'm soooo excited! 😆

Supes cute! Definitely was a set up for the next book, which I'm really hoping will be about anyone but Feyre and Rhys. Don't get me wrong, I love those two to bits but they're super played out and I'd rather only see them in secondary roles from now on.

I was surprised by how cute this was! I ended up really enjoying it. The characters were all flawed and interesting and made for a good read, even of some of the resolution seemed a little unrealistically sped up and the conventions themselves weren't completely believable. (I think at one point the taxidermy convention was definitely mentioned as lasting a week, but concluded in three days)

Giving this book a go! I always find con books hard to read- I think because I was so deeply embroiled in that scene throughout college. But I'm enjoying this one so far!

Very, very adorable. The dialogue is pretty unrealistic at times- the characters are in their 60s for most of the book and they talk like they're in their 20s which bothered me a bit.

Absolutely beautiful graphic adaptation of a ya novel that is seemingly timeless. I especially appreciated how they subtly updated the technology throughout.

Whhhhhhhhhyyyyy won't they just tell us? 😑

(I'm all for them releasing a digital book with details of his storyline, but I just can't help but feel that it's unfair that they won't tell you in the actual print book?)

I hate when I find typos in books, it immediately jolts me out of the reading zone. 🙁

It's gorgeous outside so I'm taking advantage of the weather and having a little picnic lunch break for some #lunchreads 😊

Just some #breakfastreads before I head off to work this morning (😩 I don't wanna goooo haha)

I usually love Holly Black's books but this was 95% meh for me, and only bouyed by the ending which was actually pretty good. I just believe I shouldn't have to slog through almost an entire book to reap the rewards. 😩 Jude was a character I never connected with or particularly cared for, and most of the other characters were overused tropes. But because the ending was good I might continue on with the series.

Haha oh man I know this feeling so well. 😂

So cute! The author basically lived my childhood dream. The pictures are great, and this book serves as a nice introduction into wildlife rehabilitation, and the importance of not "rescuing" baby wildlife until you know for sure that it's been abandoned.

A beautiful tribute to a troubled and often misunderstood artist. Absolutely gorgeous illustrations, this book is a good jumping off point for children interested in art history.

Not my favorite book, I had to read it for work. I thought a lot of it was underdeveloped and that the end was way too rushed, with not much planning. The writing was compelling and engaging though!

😆😆😆 Y'all I'm so excited for this book!! 😍😍😍

Cute and ultimately forgettable, I read this very quickly over a lunch break.

While parts of this book were really interesting, I found it hard to pay attention to and also hard to hear at times (the only time I listen to audiobooks is when I'm commuting). This would be a really good audiobook for audio walks or while star gazing, but traffic definitely drowns it out.

I'm really loving this series! The characters are great and I really love the drawings even though they can occasionally be awkward. I imagine the 3rd volume will catch up with the end of the anime series as this one almost did.

Also, sorry for my inactivity, but my MAJOR book slump has continued throughout the summer. I'm hoping I'll break through soon, but I'm also not forcing myself to read through it. 🙂

...is this a thing? Do people actually wear underwear under their swimsuits??

I don't know why I'm continually surprised by all the moments of humor, but I love them!

Also more food!!

Only 100 pages in and I know two things:

1. I want to live in Three Pines.

2. This book is making me so hungry!!! 🤤🥐🧀🍗

Oh my gosh this book was just so, so flippin' cute! I was not a fan of this duo's previous work, but this book seems like they actually learned that toxic and abusive relationships aren't something to be romanticized. The main character has healthy and supportive relationships with other girls!!! It's sad that this is so exciting to me!! Vaughn and Oakley are adorable and care for each other in a healthy way. A great read. 😆👍💯❤️

Okay so I figure this is just another way of saying his posture is good? But I can't help but imagine him with his arms extended just like clotheslining people he walks by. 😂

I've been using this book as my #lunchread book at work! The one thing that stands out to me about The Love Interest is how... incompetent every one of them is so far? ? Like Kaylee being totally tone deaf, and Caden's "parents" actively antagonizing him?

I watched the anime with my sister the other week when she was visiting, and the anime just... ends? So in an effort to find out what happens I've started reading this super cute series!

I adored this series. The drawings were gorgeous and dynamic, the characters all realistically complicated. This last book was a collection of extra shorts. While I loved the story of how Masako and her husband met, I kind of wish the main storyline had had more time as I still wasn't 100% convinced by Daikichi and Rin's romance. I just felt like... His feelings were very sudden? Great series overall though!

🤔🤔🤔 I have mixed feelings because I love all the characters sooooooo much. But. I wasn't completely sold on the whole moving a father/daughter type relationship into a romantic one???? I did appreciate though that Daikichi went about everything super respectfully. Idk. I'm hoping the extra edition will resolve some of these conflicted feelings I have.

This volume was so good! It set up the main conflict for the conclusion of the series.... Something that's outside of my comfort zone, but Yumi Unita has been pulling off with class. The end with Kouki's revelation was just amazing!!

A perfectly cheesy beach read. I've never read a book where two people are so bad at being in a fake relationship, it was kinda amazing. They couldn't even manage it and their lives depended on it! 😂 I appreciated that there was clear effort in steering away from harmful and toxic tropes these kinds of books tend to fall into. An alpha male infused romance where he respects and actually loves his partner! It's sad that this is rare and uncommon.

Loved loved loved this volume, especially after the prior one! Rin becomes interested in learning who her birth mother is, and the search culminates in what I thought was a very heartfelt breakthrough for a character that had always been aloof with motivations that are far different than all the others. Moving on to the next volume, I'm quickly approaching the end of this series!

Probably my least favorite of the series so far as this volume is super bogged down with flashbacks of Rin and Kouki in middle school and all of their relationship drama. Not to say I didn't like this volume! There were lots of great moments, and some adorable scenes between the two. I think... I just don't entirely understand the rationale behind some of the characters decisions in this one.

So glad Daikichi is finally referring to himself as Rin's dad!!!!!! 😆

There was a major time jump with this volume, 10 years! I'm not completely captured with high school Rin's storyline yet (basically she's beautiful and her childhood bff, Kouki, is in love with her). MEANWHILE my heart was completely ripped out by Daikichi and Nitani-san (Kouki's mom) in a flashback finally discussing their long time feelings for each other. 💔 Why do these two have to be practical all the time????????