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💬 Happy Tuesday! Did you pick up any new releases today? . Happy Release Day to Good Apple by @espassarella! Thank you to @tlcbooktours & @thomasnelson for gifting me this copy! I’m really looking forward to this debut! . . . s u m m a r y ⇣ “The thing about being an evangelical Christian and a Southerner living in New York City, raising her children in an apartment where one of them sleeps in a closet, is that there are a lot of people in your life to disappoint.” So says Elizabeth Passarella in her wry and witty debut, Good Apple. Among the people she has to disappoint are her parents in Memphis, who are bewildered by how their daughter went from interning for Ralph Reed (it’s a long story) to voting for Hillary Clinton; her parents’ friends, who don’t understand how a family of five lives in a two-bedroom apartment; and, perhaps most of all, her colleagues and neighbors on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, who are always surprised to learn that their sophisticated, irreverent friend is an evangelical Christian. Elizabeth keeps readers, no matter their faith or their politics, laughing and nodding along in solidarity, whether she is: • proposing the benefits of fighting with her husband on New York City street corners; • explaining what it was like to grow up as a Christian with a Jewish dad; • or recounting the surreal and terrifying experience of finding a rat trapped in her bedroom in her apartment on the eighth floor. Her love of the city is infectious. Her transparency about highly embarrassing screw-ups is refreshing. And her reminders of forgiveness and grace give us hope. Elizabeth is the smart, funny, red-state, blue-state, Southern, Christian New Yorker you didn’t think even existed–but now want as your best friend. . . . h a s h t a g s ⇣ #GoodApple #Fishoutofwater #NewYork #memoir #Christian #humor #nonfiction #tlcbooktours #desksetup #deskdecor #workfromhome #bibliophile #bibliofeature #readersofig #booklover #bookishlife #simpleandstill #booksofinstagram #lovetoread #beautifulbooks https://www.instagram.com/p/CKPurt-Dpzx/?igshid=2ibt04wwfne4

How many of you guys are going to @beaulitfulcon?

Happy Sock Sunday! This weekend has been filled with 2 days of back-to-back soccer games so I haven’t had much time to read 😢 Hopefully I can sneak some reading time in tonight! . 🧦 . { #partner } Thank you to @tlcbooktours for sending me a free copy of THE IRON FLOWER by @laurieannforest This is Book 2 in The Black Witch Chronicles, and it releases this Tuesday! . 🧦 . Goodreads blurb: . Elloren Gardner and her friends were only seeking to right a few wrongs, but their actions have propelled them straight into the ranks of the realm-wide Resistance against Gardnerian encroachment. As the Resistance struggles against the harsh rulings of High Priest Marcus Vogel and the Mage Council, Elloren begins to realize that none of the people she cares about will be safe if Gardneria seizes control of the Western Realm. With tensions heating up in Verpacia, more and more Gardnerian soldiers continue to descend upon the university…led by none other than Lukas Grey, now commander of the newly rebuilt Fourth Division base. Though Elloren tries to keep him at arm’s length, Lukas is determined to wandfast to her, convinced that she has inherited her grandmother’s magic—the prophesied power of the Black Witch. As his very nearness seems to awaken a darkness inside her, Elloren finds it more and more difficult to believe that she’s truly powerless, as her uncle always claimed. Caught between her growing feelings for the rebellious Yvan Guriel and the seductive power offered by Lukas Grey, Elloren must find a way to stay true to what she knows is right and protect everyone she loves…even if that means protecting them from herself. . . #socksunday #laurieforest #harlequinteen #epicbooks #fiercereads #booksinbed #socksofinstagram #sockstagram #tlcbooktours #jennblogsbooks #theironflower #theblackwitchchronicles #booktour #newrelease https://www.instagram.com/p/BnzJgeyhsEI/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1pwfkxpti2fqc

#tlcpartner Head over to the blog for my review of Cocoa Beach by @authorbeatriz . . #beatrizbinge #cocoabeach #beatrizwilliams #bookreview #fiction #bookaholic #bookaddict #booksofinstagram #instabook #reading #tlcbooktours #bookworm #bookswelove #historicalfiction #prohibition #bookaholic (at Riverbend, Montana)

Happy Monday! I just posted my thoughts on my most recent read HOT MESS by @emilybelden on my blog. Definitely check it out if you’re interested a quick and easy read about a girl who starts a new career in the restaurant industry. Also it’s got a lot of food in it which I’m always a fan of. Do you like to cook? . . . . . . #emilybelden #hotmess #tlcbooktours #fiction #graydonhouse #foodiefiction #booksandfood #books #reading #chicago #bookish #bookworm #bookclub #bookstagram #booksofinstagram #badassbookbabes

💬 Do you read more in the morning, afternoon, evening or at night? . I definitely read the most at night. It’s a wonderful way for me to relax after a long day. I also enjoy reading in the morning on weekends with a cozy blanket and warm cup of coffee. . Thank you to @tlcbooktours & @posthillpress for gifting me this gorgeous copy of Ruby Falls by @deborahroyce! This gothic thriller sounds absolutely fantastic! Is this one on your radar yet? . . . s u m m a r y ⇣ Like the chilling psychological thriller The Silent Patient, Deborah Goodrich Royce’s Ruby Falls is a nail-biting tale of a fragile young actress, the new husband she barely knows, and her growing suspicion that the secrets he harbors may eclipse her own. On a brilliantly sunny July day, six-year-old Ruby is abandoned by her father in the suffocating dark of a Tennessee cave. Twenty years later, transformed into soap opera star Eleanor Russell, she is fired under dubious circumstances. Fleeing to Europe, she marries a glamorous stranger named Orlando Montague and keeps her past closely hidden. Together, Eleanor and Orlando start afresh in LA. Setting up house in a storybook cottage in the Hollywood Hills, Eleanor is cast in a dream role—the lead in a remake of Rebecca. As she immerses herself in that eerie gothic tale, Orlando’s personality changes, ghosts of her past re-emerge, and Eleanor fears she is not the only person in her marriage with a secret. In this thrilling and twisty homage to Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca, the story ricochets through the streets of Los Angeles, a dangerous marriage to an exotic stranger, and the mind of a young woman whose past may not release her. . . . h a s h t a g s ⇣ #RubyFalls #psychologicalthriller #pageturner #bookclub #tlcbooktours #bookstagram #cozybooks #cozybookstagram #booknerd #bookishlove #bookrecommendations #readerscommunity #readersofinstagram #instareads #instabookstagram #aquietstyle #quiteoftheday #everysquarestory #apartmenttherapy #homedecor #hyggelife #hyggedecor #neutralstyle #cosyhome (at Connecticut) https://www.instagram.com/p/COvScyCNyAH/?igshid=456e2cnhnxfx

💬 Which genre do you read most often? Is there a genre you’d like to read more often? . Thank you to @amazonpublishing & @tlcbooktours for gifting me this copy of Only the Pretty Lies by @rebekahcrane42! This is a YA coming-of-age story that looks pretty adorable on the outside, but I have a feeling it will address some pretty heavy topics and will really challenge us to think about ourselves and the way we act on a regular basis. I’m so here for it! . . . s u m m a r y ⇣ A young love story about breaking painful legacies by the author of The Upside of Falling Down. Convention doesn’t carry much weight in Alder Creek. It doesn’t in Amoris Westmore’s family either. Daughter of a massage therapist and a pothead artist, inheritor of her grandmother’s vinyl collection, and blissfully entering her senior year in high school, Amoris never wants to leave her progressive hometown. Why should she? Everything changes when Jamison Rush moves in next door. Jamison was Amoris’s first crush, and their last goodbye still stings. But Jamison stirs more than bittersweet memories. One of the few Black students in Alder Creek, Jamison sees Amoris’s idyllic town through different eyes. He encourages Amoris to look a little closer, too. When Jamison discovers a racist mural at Alder Creek High, Amoris’s worldview is turned upside down. Now Amoris must decide where she stands and whom she stands by, threatening her love for the boy who stole her heart years ago. Maybe Alder Creek isn’t the town Amoris thinks it is. She’s certainly no longer the girl she used to be. . . . h a s h t a g s ⇣ #OnlythePrettyLies #Skyscape #booknerd #RebekahCrane #YA #romance #tlcbooktours #shelfie #shelfdecor #rainbowshelves #bookshelves #bookstack #bookstagrammer #bookster #booknerdigans #bookcommunity #darlingdaily #mybookfeatures #designyourspace #styleithappy #igreads #thebookstagram #themagicofbookstagram #yabookstagrammer #yareads (at Connecticut) https://www.instagram.com/p/CObi__CHNad/?igshid=1eung7e7vl52s

💬 What was the latest #bookmail you received? . Thank you to @lydiakang @amazonpublishing & @tlcbooktours for gifting me this copy of Opium and Absinthe! Isn’t this cover amazing?! Check out the summary below and let me know if you’ll be adding this one to your TBR too! . . . ✩ s u m m a r y ⇣ From the bestselling author of A Beautiful Poison comes another spellbinding historical novel full of intrigue, occult mystery, and unexpected twists. New York City, 1899. Tillie Pembroke’s sister lies dead, her body drained of blood and with two puncture wounds on her neck. Bram Stoker’s new novel, Dracula, has just been published, and Tillie’s imagination leaps to the impossible: the murderer is a vampire. But it can’t be—can it? A ravenous reader and researcher, Tillie has something of an addiction to truth, and she won’t rest until she unravels the mystery of her sister’s death. Unfortunately, Tillie’s addicted to more than just truth; to ease the pain from a recent injury, she’s taking more and more laudanum…and some in her immediate circle are happy to keep her well supplied. Tillie can’t bring herself to believe vampires exist. But with the hysteria surrounding her sister’s death, the continued vampiric slayings, and the opium swirling through her body, it’s becoming increasingly difficult for a girl who relies on facts and figures to know what’s real—or whether she can trust those closest to her. . . . ✩ h a s h t a g s ⇣ #LydiaKang #OpiumandAbsinthe @lakeunionauthors #historicalmystery #vampires #tlcbooktours #aquietmoment #livelifebeautifully #morningslikethis #cornerofmyhome #momentsofmine #bookaholic #bookstagramit #blissfulday #stillography #lovelysquares #nestandflourish #yabooks #bibliofeature #booknerdigan #bookster #bookcommunity #eachsquareastory https://www.instagram.com/p/CCRRmaVnFMF/?igshid=178dsnesr14r6