Instagram story viewer> @reader.bea> Tagged

Beatrix.Bunny.&.Books

@reader.bea

931

followers

944

following

☕️🐦‍⬛🪴📚🖤🐇🌈🧿
📍 Twin Cities, MN Mood Reader
Romance, Mystery, Thriller
🚫AI. Images & captions my own
📚 98/year
County Library Challenge 8/41

POSTS STORIES REELS TAGGED

Haunted Minnesota: Wabasha Street Caves 👻

For my one of my latest Haunted Minnesota adventure, I ventured underground to explore the historic Wabasha Street Caves with friends in St. Paul, Minnesota!

Dating back to the 1840s, these man-made caves have served many purposes over the years, from silica mining and mushroom farming to a Prohibition-era speakeasy and nightclub.

With connections to notorious gangsters like John Dillinger, Ma Barker, and Baby Face Nelson, the caves have no shortage of fascinating history and chilling legends.

From stories of murdered mobsters buried beneath the floor to reports of mysterious apparitions, it’s easy to see why the Wabasha Street Caves have earned their haunted reputation.

Would you explore these caves after dark? 🔦

📍 Wabasha Street Caves | St. Paul, Minnesota

#HauntedMinnesota #WabashaStreetCaves #HauntedHistory #SaintPaulMN #GadgetGirlBooks

16

0

A night at a haunted location followed by a visit to a Halloween pop-up with friends that also love the paranormal? Sign me up!

Tonight was a fun night spent with my spooky squad friends Bea @reader.bea and Katherine @kdgt7 on a history tour of the Wabasha Street Caves @wabashastreetcave followed by a visit to the Tavern of Horror Halloween pop-up at the Twin Cities 400 Tavern @twincities400tavern! During the tour, we learned about how the Wabasha caves came to form, the Prohibition era of the caves, spooky happenings that have taken place and more! After we had ourselves a spooky time spent at the Tavern of Horror popup with Halloween themed drinks and amazing woodfire stove pizza! We had the best time!

Have you ever visited the Wabasha Caves?

#spookyseason #wabashacaves #tavernofterror #spookysquad #gadgetgirlbooks

29

6

*Spooky Book Friend Get-Together*

What happens when you stick spooky book friends together? They have a hauntingly good time. 🕯️👻📚 My friends Bea @reader.bea, Katherine @kdgt7 and I had a really great time enjoying the Minneapolis Haunted Candlelight Trolley Tour @minneapolistrolley together! We met up at the Pillsbury Club Mansion @pillsburyclub before the tour started! Katherine and I arrived earlier than expected and grabbed a cocktail before the tour began! Once we were on the trolley, we drove around different areas of Minneapolis, learning about the paranormal history that the city had to offer! Various stops included the Foshay Tour, Nicollet Island, First Avenue, the Basilica, and several other spots! After, we enjoyed amazing food at Luna & The Bear Restaurant @lunabearmpls! We shared spooky stories of the paranormal, future plans for other spooky tours to check out, our lives as pet owners, and so much more! A huge shoutout to our server, Rodney, for being so awesome! We loved hearing about his experience with the paranormal, which made our night that much more fun! I’m excited that it is finally spooky season and tonight was the perfect way to kick off the start of October!

What is your favorite paranormal spot in Minnesota?

#spookyseason #hauntedminneapolis #hauntedtrolleytour #pillsburyclub #gadgetgirlbooks

33

4

1 year on booksta 🌷🫶
Thank you for all joining.. Never did a proper intro so i thought why not do this way..

#feed #explore #fypシ❤️💞❤️ #bookstagram #instagram

3

63

that time i actually won something in an online raffle 💙

happy first bookstaversary, Bea! 🥳 thank you so much for being so generous!! 🤍 your handmade crochet birkin is so pretty irl 😍 i wish i had your crochet skills (i tried once and failed miserably 🤣)

please follow @reader.bea and give her account some love, booksta besties! 🤍✨

#bookstagram #giveaway #bookcommunity #readersofinstagram #crochetbag

3

17

About a week ago, I heard someone on the radio talk about how keeping a gratitude journal improved their mental & physical well-being. It also triggered a memory of a Self-Publishing Live Show speaker saying something similar.

As some of you may know from my taking a brief break from social media, things were quite stressful in July… not to mention the fact world news has been depressing for ages.

… So I thought I’d try gratitude-journaling in a notebook I’d had kicking round for a while, and which makes me chuckle every time I read its cover.

✍️ I’ve found the process quite helpful. My spirits have definitely felt lifted by doing it. In fact, I’ve noticed a mood dip on days I was ‘too busy’. I don’t write war & peace – just anywhere from 3 to 10 lines of text.

One of the things I’m grateful for is having lovely followers like you that encourage and support on my writing journey as I use it to process and deal with the loss of my two furbabies and soul dogs, Bijou and Ramsey. It’s cathartic to share their stories with you, as well as knowing that, one day, I will give them immortality through the written word in my Secrets of the Spitz, pet-themed urban fantasy series which they’ve inspired me to write.

🙏🥰🙏You guys are all pawsome: thank you for your likes, your comments, your shares and reposts!

In this post, I thought I’d highlight one particular follower, @reader.bea , as she sent me a gift which arrived around the time I started my gratitude journal.

📚 She did a giveaway to celebrate her 1-year bookstaversary. While I wasn’t lucky enough to win her crocheted Birkin, or the duo of kids book she illustrated, she was generous enough to send all contest entrants a 4 pack of her pen & ink animal drawings, accompanied by a beautiful card she drew as well. How awesome is she?!

🖋️I particularly loved the loon on the card. They’re Minnesota’s state bird (where she lives). As a Canadian, I have a link to loons too: our $1 coins are called loonies due to the bird being on them.

52

50

*Bookish Outing*

Bea @reader.bea and I had a fun afternoon spent having bookish adventures and catching up! We met up at the Rogers Hennepin County Library to get our Hennepin County Library passports stamped! I also got my Anoka County library card added to the Hennepin County Library system to allow for greater access to e-books and audiobooks on Libby!

Next, we went to visit a new to us bookstore, Enzo’s Wonderland @enzoswonderland in Monticello, MN! I’ve been on a mission to visit this bookstore for months and it was very much worth the wait! This bookstore had everything you could think of including custom bookmarks made by a local artist, page holders (also made by a local artist), custom jewelry, book nooks, plants, puzzles, tarot cards, board games, card games, a variety of books, and so much more! I ended up picking up a copy of Minnesota Hauntings by Ryan Johnson, a new tarot card deck, and a bookmark!

We grabbed lunch at Nordic Taphouse @nordictaphouse nearby the bookstore where I tried their fish and chips, which were really good! I also had a blast catching up with Bea on what we were each up to over the summer, plans for fall and our next outing for spooky season! Thank you so much for a fun day, Bea!

Have you visited Enzo’s Wonderland yet?

#bookstagram #mibaroadmapcontest #enzoswonderland #bookfriends #gadgetgirlbooks

31

4

Thank you @lunatonks_777 for giving me this idea! I have some tips on how you can get started on classics. To each to their own, it might work for some but not for others!

#classics #feed #explorepage #bookstagram#fyp[ classics bookstagram booktok fyp feed explore ]

3

71

✨Slick Trip by Lucy Castle is finally LIVE ✨

🔗Find your copy here: https://a.co/d/01dZ2qYy

What to expect:
🚗Road trip
✨Omegaverse
🎀Bratty Omega
💙Possessive Alpha
🛏️Forced proximity

19-year-old Cooper has a plan: drive Grandpa’s car from Illinois to California and earn some cash. Then Jon—his brother’s best friend and Cooper’s archenemy—is assigned as his unwilling babysitter. Cooper is livid. Yeah, he used to have a crush on Jon, but that was before Jon did something unforgivable.

Jon knows exactly why keeping his distance from Cooper matters. One reckless decision a year ago proved that some lines should never be crossed. Especially not with Cooper, the one person Jon would walk through fire for. He promised Cooper’s family to keep him safe, but if anyone is a danger to Cooper, it’s Jon himself.

When biology intervenes and things get heated, will Jon and Cooper finally admit how they really feel?

68

30

✨Slick Trip by Lucy Castle✨

📖Coming August 21
🔗Preorder here: https://a.co/d/01dZ2qYy

What to expect:
🚗Road trip
✨Omegaverse
🎀Bratty Omega
💙Possessive Alpha
🛏️Forced proximity

If you’re a fan of forced proximity, only one bed, bratty twinks and tattooed brat tamers, you might want to read this omegaverse romance! It’s hot, hilarious, and comes with a happy ending.

19-year-old Cooper has a plan: drive Grandpa’s car from Illinois to California and earn some cash. Then Jon—his brother’s best friend and Cooper’s archenemy—is assigned as his unwilling babysitter. Cooper is livid. Yeah, he used to have a crush on Jon, but that was before Jon did something unforgivable.

Jon knows exactly why keeping his distance from Cooper matters. One reckless decision a year ago proved that some lines should never be crossed. Especially not with Cooper, the one person Jon would walk through fire for. He promised Cooper’s family to keep him safe, but if anyone is a danger to Cooper, it’s Jon himself.

When biology intervenes and things get heated, will Jon and Cooper finally admit how they really feel?

Character art by @the_demi_goddess_solis

50

7

Twilight review in the big '26, better late than never, right?

#book #twilight #bookreview #bookstagram #booktok

[twilight twilight edits Stephanie meyer edward cullen bella swan vampire fantasy romance]

QOTD- When did you read twilight?

200

147

Happy Sunday, everyone!

@seealliread tagged me in this fun challenge a few weeks ago. I had so much fun making this.

I’m only able to tag a few and all are welcome to join in🫶🏻

56

35