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📚 March Scavenger Hunt 📚
#scavengerroad26

Thank you for the tag @myreading_road
and thank you for making this community more fun with your awesome hunts! 🤗🩷

Here are the prompts for this month, as well as my picks for each prompt:

3️⃣ A book with 300 pages or more
Scenes From A Tragedy, Carole Hailey

🌊 Water on the cover
Her Name Was Rose, Claire Allan

🐶🐈‍⬛ A dog or cat in the book
Whistle, Linwood Barclay

🎁 A book that cost you nothing
Out Of Nothing, Daniel Locke & David Blandy

🎀 A female MC
Shield Of Sparrows, Devney Perry

🔍 On the cover: something beginning with C
A Deal with the Elf King, Elise Kova (👑)

I'll tag some of u awesome ppl, but everyone are welcome to join in on the fun. Make sure you check out @myreading_road page and get all the details for her hunts. 🤗🩷📚

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📚 🔎 April Scavenger Hunt 🔍 📚

Thank you @myreading_road
for creating these amazing challenges and for tagging me! I'm having so much fun every month! 🫶❤️
#scavengerroad26

Prompts and my picks:

4️⃣ or more colours on the cover
Killer On The Road by Stephen Graham Jones

💡 A book you've recommended to someone
The Seventh Sister by @dawnkurtagich
(I recommend it to EVERYONE)

🌏 Set in a different country to yours
The Whispering Muse by Laura Purcell

🍽 Food in title/on the cover
A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers

✒️ Unread book by an author you've read before
Flesh and Bone by Jonathan Maberry

🔍 On the cover: an animal, grass, somewhere you could hide something
You're Not Supposed To Die Tonight by Kalynn Bayron

I'll tag some of u awesome ppl, but everyone are welcome to join in on the fun! Don't forget to add #scavengerroad26 to your posts. 🤗❤️🫶

#bookchallenge #readingchallenge #bookishlife

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📚 July Scavenger Hunt time! 📚

Thank you @myreading_road for creating these amazing hunts! I always have fun doing them!

#scavengerroad26

🎄Christmas in July theme (interpret how you wish)
A Merry Little Meet Cute by Murphy & Simone

❄️Title begins with a letter in WINTER
Rotten Tommy by David Sodergren

🔁A book you have/might reread
Violet by Scott Thomas

🔠Author with an inital in their name
Bath House by P. J. Vernon

⏳️A book that's been on your TBR since the start of the year
Angel Down by Daniel Kraus

🔍 On the cover: sun, fireworks, or something you'd find at the beach
Reckless Girls by Rachel Hawks (flip flops)

I'll tag some of u awesome ppl, but everyone are welcome to join in on the fun. Don't forget to use the hashtag and tag @myreading_road 🤗❤️

#scavengerhunt #bookshelves #bookshelf

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✩ Meet me in fives of the big four ✩

No pressure to those who I have tagged of course!! I’m just super chuffed to not be *too* far behind on a trend xoxo

🏷️ #meetmein5s #horrorbookstagram #horrormovie #gamenight #musicilove

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Here's my take on the popular #thisismyjam challenge that's going on around bookstagram. I have put a spin on it by choosing two books for each prompt, one fiction & the other nonfiction. Thanks a bunch to @mims_is_reading for tagging me. I have tagged a bunch of you (no pressure!) but feel free to take part if you see this ;⁠)

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QOTD: Speaking of jams, what sort of jam do you like the best and why? Let me know in the comments 💛✨
AOTD: I love mango jams. They are sweet but slightly tart and let's say I love all things mango 🥭

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•• Book Review ••

Motherthing
by Ainslie Hogarth

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️

This weird little book had been on my radar for years, but for some reason I was always hesitant to pick it up. It turns out my gut feeling was right: this just wasn’t the right kind of weird for me.

The premise sounded really intriguing: Abby and Ralph live with Ralph’s overbearing and toxic mother, Laura. When Laura, who despised Abby, takes her own life, Ralph falls into a deep depression and becomes convinced that her ghost is still living in the basement.
Abby, who survived a traumatic childhood and longs for a mother figure, desperately tries to hold their lives together. As her obsession with an elderly resident at the nursing home where she works grows stronger, she becomes increasingly unhinged and starts making some truly disturbing decisions.

This was definitely one of the weirdest books I’ve read lately. Reading it felt almost like an invasion of privacy. I usually love stories that let you get this deep into a character’s head, but for some reason this one just didn’t fully work for me. I think a lot of it had to do with the writing style and tone of the story which I didn’t vibe with.

I did enjoy the mix of horror, dark humor, and family drama to some extent, and there were a few moments that made me uncomfortable in a good way.
I also think the author did a good job of exploring grief, depression, complex issues surrounding motherhood, and the impact of toxic relationships.

But especially the second half of the book felt slow and dragged at times, becoming a bit repetitive. It also got quite gross in places, but not in an entertaining way. Additionally, spending so much time in Abby’s head became a bit tedious and monotonous after a while.

Overall, I’m glad I read it because it’s unique and memorable, but it wasn’t a book I loved. If you enjoy weird, unsettling literary horror stories, it’s worth checking out. For me, though, it was more interesting than enjoyable.

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📚 Book review: The Reformatory, Tananarive Due

#februarybookreview challenge (I rarely ever do these, so I decided to join in and be more mindful about reviewing in the future... 👀 Wish me luck)

I just finished this masterpiece and I cannot stop thinking about it. The Reformatory is historical fiction that reads like horror, but the terror isn’t just paranormal, it’s history.

Set in 1950s Florida, the story follows 12yo Robbie Stephens Jr., who is sent to a brutal reform school for defending his sister. What unfolds is both heartbreaking and haunting. Robbie can see... More. And through what Robbie sees, we uncover the devastating truths of a system built on Jim Crow injustice.

What makes this book especially powerful is that it’s inspired by Tananarive Due’s own family history. Her great-uncle died at a real Florida reform school, and she spent years researching and writing this story.
Her father was a freedom lawyer during the Jim Crow era, and he colaborated with her on the novel.
You can feel that depth, emotion, and purpose on every page of The Reformatory.

This isn’t just horror. It’s horror with meaning.
It’s important and impossible to forget. Read it.

QUOTD: What are you currently reading and how are you liking it? 👀

PS. I tagged some of you awesome people, but everyone are welcome to join in with their February reviews. ❤️

#TheReformatory #TananariveDue #Bookstagram #BlackAuthors HistoricalFiction

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🔎 February Scavenger Hunt 🔍

Thank you @myreading_road for creating this awesome challenge! I had so much fun with it! 🤗

💕A book told in dual POV
💕The Book of Accidents, Chuck Wendig

✌️Two word title
✌️King Sorrow, Joe Hill (my current read 🤗)

💖A book in your favorite/most read genre
💖Old Country, Matt & Harrison Query

🌹Pink or red writing
🌹Knjige Krvi, Klajv Barker
(Serbian edition of Books of Blood by Clive Barker)

✒️An author who shares your first name or initial
✒️Mariana Enriquez (initial)

🔍On the cover: a key, a heart, a couple, something that flies
🔍We Used To Live Here, Marcus Kliewer (birds)

I'll tag some of u awesome ppl, but everyone are welcome to join in on the fun! Make sure to tag @myreading_road and use #scavengerroad26
🤗❤️📚

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#matchmymug Christmas edition! 🎄🎅 🎁

Thank you @just_another_horror_lover_ and @tashandcasey_talkbooks for the tag! 🤗❤️

Gremlins is my favorite #christmas movie, thus the set-up. 😁🤗

I'll tag some of u awesome ppl, but everyone are welcome to join in on the fun! ❤️🤍❤️🤍❤️🎄

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🎄📚 December Scavenger Hunt 📚🎄

I was tagged by the awesome @tashandcasey_talkbooks to do this fun challenge. Thanks girls! 🤗🎉

Prompts and my picks:

☃️Set in December or Christmas theme:
A Merry Little Meet Cute, Murphy & Simone

🔠Title starting with letter D:
Devolution, Max Brooks

📕A book u want to read, or have read this month:
The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre, Philip Fracassi

❤️💚Both red and green on the cover:
A Certain Hunger, Chelsea G. Summers

🎶A title that includes a word from a Christmas Carol:
Bright Young Women, Jessica Knoll
("Silent night, Holy night, all is calm, all is bright...")

🎅A character that would make a good Santa or Mrs. Claus:
Eddie Flynn from Steve Cavanagh Eddie Flynn series. He wouldn’t have any trouble figuring out what everyone wants, and he’s very resourceful, so there’s no doubt in my mind he would manage.😁

I tagged some of you awesome people, but everyone are welcome to join in on the fun! 🤗❤️🎄

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📚 Nothing like a good SCAVENGER HUNT! 📚

This one was created by the awesome @myreading_road but I saw it on another lovely Aussie's page, @chips_and_things

Here are the prompts and my picks:

🚫NO in the title
Sleep No More, by Greg Iles

🔥EMBER, a cover that brings heat
Dare, by Harley Laroux

🥸A Male MC, or a moustache on the cover
A Deal With The Elf King, by Elise Kova

👨‍👩‍👦Found Family trope
Blood Sugar, by Daniel Kraus

🏖️A place where you would love to relax and read
Bad Summer People, by Emma Rosenblum

🌎Set in a country you want to visit
Bloodfever, by Karen Marie Moning

I'll tag some of u awesome ppl, but everyone are welcome to join in on the fun either way. 🤗✌️

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This is my first #nordicnoirnovember read of the season
If you’re a fan of the genre and would like to join in our discussions, join the @coldhaunts group chat for Nordic Noir or horror reads. Give @readbydusk a follow and she’ll add you to our group
Now back to this book:
It was a first read by the author, and I’m glad I discovered her. Although not a Scandinavian author, the vibe and atmosphere of the book was very similar to the typical gory and dark setting you can expect from a Nordic Noir thriller.

#qotd : what are you looking forward to in November?

#nordicnoir #coldhauntsbookclub #scandinavianvibes #bookishpost #bookworm #bookblogger

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