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🍂🍁🎃 FALL FLATLAY 🎃🍁🍂

Autumn is obviously the best season and the perfect time for those cosy reads. Thanks @robreview.s for the tag.

Whats your favourite autumn book recommendation?

Tagging a few to share yours.

#flatlayfriday #booksta #Bookstagram #fallflatlay

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Emily & Ander have always loved getting lost in fantasy worlds—now, they are building their own forever!
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From DnD campaigns & Disney princesses to their own world ❣️

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October Stack! 📚 🍂

Thanks for tagging me @book.arcana! It's been a few since I've done a month book stack and I'm really feeling the autumn season this year!

A few of these I haven't read yet, they're just patiently waiting on my shelf to get some TLC 🤣

What book is everyone looking forward to reading this month?

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🎃👻 Last, Now, Next Spooky Edition 🕷️🦇

Fully committing to spooky season this year. I finished reading Wednesday Used To Live Here a couple of days ago which was a solid start to the month and currently working through Styx, Exquisite Corpses and the new Audible Dracula (which is really good so far). Next up I have a few choices but have shortlisted the ones shown.

What are your reading plans for October?

Tagging a few to share yours.

#lastnownextreads #booksta #spookybooks #booksofınstagram

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💍 Emily & Ander 💍
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Just a peek into their fairytale engagement.
You’ll be seeing more of this ✨magical✨ session!

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🧟🕷️ SPOOKY SEASON STACK 👻 😈

As spooky season approaches I'm hoping to read some more of these. I've already kicked things off with Ring Shout and The Ship of Death, both were great reads. Have you started any spooky reads or what's on your tbr?

Tagging a few to share your spooky stacks 🧟🧛☠️

#spookyseason #horrorbooks #thrillerbooks #booksta #octobertbr

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📚10 Books before the End📚

I was tagged by the wonderful @litwithgabs and @the_bookish_wife_life

When I had did my list from last year, I think I had read only 4 out of the 10. I'm a mood reader, I can't help that. I think I do have a better chance this year to actually read them all. Or at least, most of this stack.

Books mentioned:

Nemesis by @harperblackbooks
Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas ( 30% into it)
Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Theo of Golden by Allen Levi
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Katabasis by @kuangrf
The Knight and the Moth by @rmgillig ( I had promised @bookishgoesbrat that I would read it soon)
Daughters of Crows by @mark___lawrence

Wish me luck. I will be tagging a few people to see if they have a 10 before the end list.

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Books I loved before joining Bookstagram

Thanks for the tag @kellis.booknook
I’ll tag a few myself!

We were gonna take a break but I’m too grossly addicted to my phone and socials so we are just gonna ignore that. 😅

Most of these picks I read over a decade ago

Night: an autobiography first person account of Elie and his Jewish family as they navigate the horrors of the Nazi regime. A gut wrenching look into what they endured in the early phases > the ghettos > the concentration camps > and finally liberation. This book has stuck with me since 8th grade and I believe it’s one of the most emotional and compelling WW2 stories I’ve ever read/watched etc.

Lord of the flies: also a book I had to read in school where a group of kids are marooned on an island. They quickly try to create their own civilization but it slowly descends into barbaric savagery. A brutal look at human nature and how quickly order can turn to chaos.

The giver: I love dystopian and this is one of my favorites. A boy living in a seemingly perfect society begins to discover that their peaceful way of life comes with a much darker cost. A thought provoking look at freedom, conformity, and what it really means to be human.

Hunger games: dystopian world where children are tributes to the hunger games where they fight to the death for their districts. Katniss Everdeen volunteers to take her sister’s place and becomes a symbol for something much bigger.

The outsiders: A story about growing up on the wrong side of the tracks. While finding family in unexpected places. Where the people you think you understand are carrying struggles of their own. This is an emotion story friendship, loyalty, and loss.

Harry Potter: my all time favorite and probably the reason I started reading at all. Most of you, even if you haven’t read it. You know what Harry Potter is about so I’ll save the word count here lol

What are some of your favorites from before Bookstagram? Let me know in the comments :)

Those of you tagged. No pressure 🫶🏻

#bookstagram #booksta #bookchallengetag #classicbooks #booksireadinschool

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Summer Showdown- July + August Wrap Up ☀️

This summer was, well … it was a mixed bag. A tree fell on my car and house, BUT the books were f*ing 🔥🔥🔥 and the buddy reads were A+ vibes.

In July, I didn’t get as much reading done because of, well, the tree crushing my car and all. But I did read four books. Starling House was a paranormal romantic fantasy about a quirky haunted house. A Parade of Horribles (dungeon crawler Carl / litrpg / scifi ) was hilarious as always. Prepotente had me cracking up. Then Disquiet Gods (sci fi / space opera) was fantastic! Definitely one of my favorites in the sun eater series. I also read an ARC but I didn’t love it and I’m already rambling so I’m going to keep focusing on what I enjoyed.

For August, I was really craving a book I didn’t hear a lot about, so I grabbed The Night Ends With Fire off my shelf because all I knew about it was that it was a mulan retelling. This book was my favorite surprise of the summer. A bingeable romantasy seeped in Asian legends, and on the darker side too. I devoured it then flew right into boon 2, The Dragon Wakes with Hunger and finished off the Dragon Spirit duology. I just loved the imperfect FMC and one of the MMCs may be a new book boyfriend. The last page of the duology gave me CHILLS!

Then I read A Forsaken Prophecy which was a good time with amazing dialogue and banter. And if you know me, you know my obsession with dialogue. Another fantastic surprise was Lorelyi! @authoradb ‘s indie debut, this dark romantasy was written so beautifully with a super unique possession magic system.

Last physical book I read was Crescent City and I was stuck on ch 4 for about four months, but this buddy read pushed me through chapter 5 and, wow. I was hooked. This book is a lot of fun and if you’re an SJM fan as well, I encourage you to push through the first 100 pages because it was so so good! Then I read another ARC and again, The Ship of Death, which is not my usual read but i enjoyed it! Jumanji meets possession horror/thriller.

That’s it! What was your favorite read of the summer? Have you read any of these?

#bookstagram #romantasy #fantasybooks #scifibooks #cozybookstagram

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🌙💙Blue and Yellow! 🌙💙

Really I just wanted an excuse to use this song! So let me see your Midnight Sun books!

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Stephen King Stack

Thanks for the tag. @mountainsandmoodreads Stephen King has so many book and I’ve only gotten to a handful of them. Here is the stack.

First book : The Shining I read this as a teenager. It was scary and weird.

Scariest book : Pet Semetary. This was my favorite for several years. It’s insane and even King felt he went too far at the time. But it’s a great book.

Favorite book: the Stand. I complain about long books. But this one was 🔥. By far my favorite. . I honest think this is his best work.

Disappointing. 11/22/63
I know I’ll get shit for this one. But it was just too long. Sounds a bit hypocritical but there was a long time where it was just loooooong af. A good book. But I think the hype killed it a tad . That happens right?

Best movie: The Long Walk.
This was a surprise for me. I liked this way more than I thought I would. The story is crazy in the best way. And the movie was good too. Wasn’t a fan of the change in the movie, but both are great.

Book I haven’t read: Thinner. I just won this one so it will be up next. Another Richard Backman book. But he was written some good ones under this name.

Tagging a few. I think some of you will do it. And I expect some of the books to be ordered differently. But I would love to see your stack.

What your favorite King book? Any here match your taste?

#stpehenkingbooks #booksta #stephenkingfan #readeveryday #readingislife

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@hannie_books_ why did you do this to me haha

How many books do you have that begin with your first name initial!

The stack is large lol

Top to bottom since it’s hard to have all the titles clearly visible.

Comanche moon - Larry McMurtry
Criminal - Karin Slaughter
Chapter House Dune - Frank Herbert
Cities Of the Plains - Cormac McCarthy
Circe - Madeline Miller
Credence - Penelope Douglas 😅
Christine - Stephen King
Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
Cytonic - Brandon Sanderson
Crown of Midnight - Sarah J Maas
Choices of one Star Wars - Timothy Zahn (thanks again for this fairy mail @ashlynn_book_beats your tagged as well :p)
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Children of the fallen gods - Carissa Broadbent
City of lies and legends | City of souls and sinners | city of gods and monsters - Kayla Edwards
Children of dune - Frank Herbert
Cellos Gate - @mauriceafrich
Calamity - Brandon Sanderson
Carls doomsday scenario - Matt Dinniman
Chaosmage - Stephen Aryan
Congo - Michael Crichton (yes this is 3 in one I’m counting it 😂)

Thanks again for the tag this was wild I’ll tag a few as well, no pressure as always 😝

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