New Release Tuesday

Using suspenseful podcast clips to weave a twisty tale of a missing student and her sister who is desperate for answers, The Lake of Lost Girls is perfect for fans of I Have Some Questions for You.

It's 1998, and female students are going missing at Southern State University in North Carolina. But freshman Jessica Fadley, once a bright and responsible student, is going through her own struggles. Just as her life seems to be careening dangerously out of control, she suddenly disappears.

Twenty-four years later, Jessica's sister Lindsey is desperately searching for answers and uses the momentum of a new chart-topping true crime podcast, Ten Seconds to Vanish, that focuses on the cold cases, to guide her own investigation. Soon, interest reaches fever pitch when the bodies of the long-missing women begin turning up at a local lake, which leads Lindsey down a disturbing road of discovery.

In the present, one sister seeks to untangle a complicated web of lies.
In the past, the other descends ever deeper into a darkness that will lead to her ultimate fate.

This propulsive and chilling suspense is a sharp examination of sisterhood and the culture of true crime.

HAPPY READING!!

Cover Runway Sunday

   

They say you shouldn't judge a book by its cover, but we all know we do it. Sometimes the cover initially catches our eye, drawing us to give a book a closer look. It's the first thing we see, our first impression. Every Sunday I'm going to post some of my favorite covers of books coming soon!

The only thing sixteen-year-old Mullory Prudence has left of her mom is a warning: "Run if the strange finds you." But mysterious warnings don’t pay the bills or help take care of her sick Gran. And they certainly don’t make her miserable after-school job any more bearable. When unexpected letters start appearing in peculiar places––sealed in bags of dog food and hidden in the refrigerator––Mullory knows she should avoid them to heed her mother’s warning, but her curiosity thinks otherwise. She uncovers an invitation from Stoutmire Estate to compete in a game of Mystery Royale for the chance at a sizable inheritance.


Dizzy with the prospect of billions, Mullory enters the game only to unearth the true prize––the illusionary magical properties of Xavier Stoutmire, a recluse without an heir. A recluse who was expected to keep his magic in the family, especially when there isn’t enough for each member. With a prize worth killing for, the game is simple: be the first to solve the mystery––who killed Xavier Stoutmire? One week full of lavish parties dripping with enchantments, in a mansion brimming with clues of the past, and everyone’s a suspect. To win, Mullory will need to untangle a twisted family web and decide who she can trust…


Whitaker Stoutmire, the golden boy who’s harboring deadly secrets?

Ellison Stoutmire, his closed off twin, who saw something she shouldn’t have?

Lyric Stoutmire the youngest sibling, exiled by the family and burning with resentment?

Or Mateo Cruz, the only other outsider whose reserved manner allows him to hide in the shadows... At least at first.


But most of all, Mullory must ask herself, why? Why her? A question most strange, indeed.

HAPPY READING!!

November Spotlight Read

 

I love animals of all shapes and sizes, except spiders, they are devil with their legs and their mandibles.  I've read books on the creatures we've lost before I could see them with my eyes, but this isn't that book. This is about the amazing creatures that are almost extinct, are weird, and have been doing weird things to keep themselves alive. It's fully illustrated and I'm so excited to get my hands on this one!

The world is more astonishing, more miraculous, and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings. In this brilliant and passionately persuasive book, Katherine Rundell takes us on a globe-spanning tour of the world's most awe-inspiring animals currently facing extinction.

Consider the seahorse: couples mate for life and meet each morning for a dance, pirouetting and changing colors before going their separate ways, to dance again the next day. The American wood frog survives winter by allowing itself to freeze solid, its heartbeat slowing until it stops altogether. Come spring, the heart kick-starts itself spontaneously back to life. As for the lemur, it lives in matriarchal troops led by an alpha female (it’s not unusual for female ring-tailed lemurs to slap males across the face when they become aggressive). Whenever they are cold or frightened, they group together in what’s known as a lemur ball, paws, and tails intertwined, to form a furry mass as big as a bicycle wheel.

But each of these extraordinary animals is endangered or holds a sub-species that is endangered. This urgent, inspiring book of essays dedicated to 23 unusual and underappreciated creatures is a clarion call insisting that we look at the world around us with new eyes—to see the magic of the animals we live among, their unknown histories and capabilities, and above all how lucky we are to tread the same ground as such vanishing treasures.

Beautifully illustrated, and full of inimitable wit and intellect, Vanishing Treasures is a chance to be awestruck and lovestruck, to reckon with the beauty of the world, its fragility, and its strangeness.

HAPPY READING!!

October Wrap Up

READING GOAL MET! Seventy books read and everything from here on out is a bonus. Honesty, despite how busy I got this was a great reading month for me. I only DNFed one book, and everything else I read was perfect. It was a lot of small reads, but that's okay. Reading is reading, I met myself where I needed to. I won't force myself to read a long book when I don't have an attention span.

Sometimes when I'm busy I just want to read something short so I feel like I'm doing more than just going to work. So, short reads for the win! 

Also, did you know you could put more than one library card on your Libby account? I did not know this until I was talking to my sister-in-law last week. So we swapped cards, and while I haven't taken super advantage of her library yet. She wasted no time loading up on audiobooks, which I'm totally here for!

Now, on to my October Stats: 

Books Read: 10
BINGO Books: 2

A to Z Challenge: 1

Pages Read: 1160

Currently Reading: Weyward

Only one book for my A to Z Challenge because I've had so many library books. Like so many. Not only did a whole bunch of holds come in, but then I had time to wander around. So no it's a stack. I haven't had a stack of library books in a minute. Good thing it's been rainy and cold. Perfect weather to read all day.

I'm telling you this year's BINGO card is crazy. I only managed one square there too, and okay it was a double BINGO. These last few squares though, I don't know if I'll manage to knock them off. 

HAPPY READING!!