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hello, my inky friends and welcome to this fall*tastic month!
for your book*hoarding pleasure: here are all of november 2024’s weekly reading book review episodes—complete with title links where you can shop online at bookshop.org and support local indie bookstores while sending yourself bookmail.
you know, if anything sounds interesting and like you might wanna read it and enjoy it, too. :)
have a happy, story*filled day!
xo,
*hallie :)
✨📖 weekly reading book review november 2024: episode one!! 📖✨
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here’s what i read this week:
🧡 THE SECRET LANGUAGE by ursula nordstrom (out of print)
❤️ WE SOLVE MURDERS by richard osman
🌳 THE FOREST FOR THE TREES: AN EDITOR’S ADVICE TO WRITERS by betsy lerner
👻 STAGE FRIGHT by wendy parris
🍱 THE RESTAURANT OF LOST RECIPES by hisashi kashiwai
currently reading :
🔎 TANGLED UP IN LUCK by merrill wyatt
currently watching:
🍫 WONKA
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6166392/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
maaaaaybe (probably) reading next:
🎹 THE NOTES by catherine con morse
💚 TALE OF THE FLYING FOREST by r. m. romero
🎧 & it’s time for my audio re-read of isabel ibañez’s WHAT THE RIVER KNOWS in time for tomorrow’s release of the sequel: WHERE THE LIBRARY HIDES !! eeepppp!!!! 😆😆😆😆😆😆🥳💃🏽
audio of WHAT THE RIVER KNOWS on libro.fm: https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9781250336040-what-the-river-knows
WHERE THE LIBRARY HIDES: https://bookshop.org/a/5254/9781250822994
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what stories are you loving right now?!
😄🎬🩰🎭📝💜
wishing you a safe & merry election*day eve,
🩷xo,
*hallie 🤓
✨📖 weekly reading book review november 2024: episode two!! 📖✨
here’s what i read this week:
🔎 TANGLED UP IN LUCK by merrill wyatt (middle grade town mystery fun!!)
🐈 THE GHOST CAT by alex howard (edinburgh historical character snippets; adult fiction; only a couple cusses.)
currently reading (& totallllly obsessed with how wonderful it is/feels like it was written for me):
🌳 TALE OF THE FLYING FOREST by r. m. romero (cozy faerie tale middle grade fantasy reminiscent/for fans of diana wynne jones & catherynne m.valente)
maaaaaybe reading next:
💛 WHERE THE LIBRARY HIDES by isabel ibañez
bn special edition (shown in video): https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/where-the-library-hides-isabel-iba-ez/1144473442?ean=9781250377166
❤️🔥 THE MEMORY POLICE by yoko ogawa
💜 THE WAND KEEPERS: A SKY FULL OF DRAGONS by tiffany mcDaniel
i also watched (for the first time ever; golly, i’m brave!!):
🎬 THE MUMMY (1999) 🫣
chin up and carry on, my cocoa-laden peeps!!
💖xo,
*hallie 🤓
✨📖 weekly reading book review november 2024: episode three!! 📖✨
this week i read:
💚 TALE OF THE FLYING FOREST by r.m. romero (middle grade faerie tale quest; 9,000 🌟s from me!!!)
💛 THE HUNDRED YEAR HOUSE by rebecca makkai (i fell in love with her writing after reading I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS FOR YOU. this book’s acknowledgments ended with “this book started as a short story about male anorexia. i have no idea what the &@#% happened.” 😂🍂)
(links to barnes & noble)
currently reading:
🤍 INVISIBLE KITTIES by yu yoyo
🧡 DUST & GRIM by chuck wendig
miiiight read next:
💙 INKSPELL by cornelia funke
(links to barnes & noble)
🩵 LOTERÍA by mario alberto zambrano
🎧 & currently spinning on repeat in the studio:
🎹 BEETHOVEN BLUES by jon batiste
(links to barnes & noble)
what stories are you loving right now?!
😄🌟🎬🎭⚽️🎵✏️📖
💖xo,
*hallie 🤓
✨📖 weekly reading book review november 2024: episode four!! 📖✨
not sure what was up with this week, but i was actively reading at least three books at a time…?!?
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the books i finished this week:
🪦 DUST & GRIM by chuck wendig (also collected his book GENTLE WRITING ADVICE this week! ✏️❤️)
🐈 INVISIBLE KITTIES by yu yoyo
💔 LOTERÍA by mario alberto zambrano
💖 DINNER FOR VAMPIRES: LIFE ON A CULT TV SHOW WHILE ALSO IN AN ACTUAL CULT! by bethany joy lenz (!!! so stupid good !!!)
still currently reading:
😬 THE ATLAS SIX by olivie blake (might be headed to the DNF pile…?!)
✒️ NOVELIST AS VOCATION by haruki murakami (🙌🏽)
💚 THE QUEEN OF OCEAN PARKWAY by sarvenaz trash
💜 THE WAND KEEPERS: A SKY FULL OF DRAGONS by tiffany mcDaniel
🎧 + an audio re*read of isabel ibañez‘s WHAT THE RIVER KNOWS so i can enjoy the sequel WHERE THE LIBRARY HIDES even more!!
river audio: https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9781250336040-what-the-river-knows
definitely re*reading Next for book club:
🌸 THE UNMAKING OF JUNE FARROW by adrienne young
audio: https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9780593787328-the-unmaking-of-june-farrow
& i’m off…. happy monday, my story friends!!
💘xo,
*hallie 🤓
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let me know your favourite kind of pie (& plz save me a slice) & recommend a murakami book for me if you’re a fan! 😄💙
✨🩵 fave reads of the month!! 🩵✨
in no particular order:
🖤 INVISIBLE KITTIES: A FELINE STUDY OF FLUID MECHANICS -or- THE SPURIOUS INCIDENTS OF THE CATS IN THE NIGHT-TIME by yu yoyo
👉🏽 quirky little vignettes of life with a cat; with chunky, clever (charcoal?) doodles by the author
💜 THE WAND KEEPERS: A SKY FULL OF DRAGONS by tiffany mcdaniel
👉🏽 pick your favourite middle grade magical boarding school, add a dash of the absurdist magic of jessica townsend’s NEVERMOOR series, and turn up roald dahl’s quirky up to eleven.
💚 TALE OF THE FLYING FOREST by r.m. romero
👉🏽 faerie tale middle grade quest perfection. no notes.
🩷 DINNER FOR VAMPIRES: LIFE ON A CULT TV SHOW WHILE ALSO IN AN ACTUAL CULT! by bethany joy lenz
👉🏽 a suck-you-in memoir you won’t (really, really won’t!) want to put down