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Category: YA fiction

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No filter, real life cozy. This blanket has earned a year round spot on our sofa. #ocenchanted

I don’t know what happened to my original review- but luckily it was over on Goodreads so I’m moving it here so that I can post my review of The Night Country next week. Self-rescuing princess for the win and not in a frilly pink princess way- but a dark goth princess that can kick butt. It was so dark and twisty and is for sure a one sitting read. I love fairy tales, and it compares to the original Grimm Tales in scariness. Warning- this is a slow start, stick with it and go down the rabbit hole. It’s also a YA without much romance which may make it an even more significant sell as there is a market for that as well. Alice’s grandmother wrote a series of fairy tales called the Hinterland. Alice and her Mom have kept on the move for her entire childhood and she has never met her Grandmother, read the stories or visited the estate called The Hazel Wood. But one day Alice comes home from school to find her mother missing and a passage from one of her grandmother’s stories lying in her bed. She then teams up with a fan of her grandmother’s, Finch, in the search for her mother. I don’t want to give much away, but I don’t want to undersell this one. Let’s say this if you like YA fantasy, dark, scary stories that include murder as a fairy tale side dish then this is your Harry Potter. Read it now before it becomes famous. #bookstagram #bookreview #yalit #ya #amreading

This awesome new release is not on Kindle, but you’ll want it as a book anyway. I’d say it’s just scary enough (spooky is a better term for most of the short stories) for kids that are school age. German fairy tales gets all the attention, and I’m pretty happy that this compilation made it to print. There are 48 stories, some famous and some new ones, all re-written in modern language so that you could be hearing it from your neighbor or your grandmother. Folk tales are one of my secret weapons in tempting kids into a history study. These stories have fairies, boggarts, and, changlings (my favorites) all in stories that are perfect as fireside or bedtime stories. The black and white illustrations only add to your own imaginations. I’ve got nothing negative to say on this one, except that I wish there was a sequel!! #bookreviews #fairytales #betweenworlds #celtic

From the publisher: The March sisters—reliable Meg, independent Jo, stylish Amy, and shy Beth—have grown up to pursue their separate dreams. When Jo followed her ambitions to New York City, she never thought her career in journalism would come crashing down, leaving her struggling to stay afloat in a gig economy as a prep cook and secret food blogger. Meg appears to have the life she always planned—the handsome husband, the adorable toddlers, the house in a charming subdivision. But sometimes getting everything you’ve ever wanted isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. When their mother’s illness forces the sisters home to North Carolina for the holidays, they’ll rediscover what really matters. One thing’s for sure—they’ll need the strength of family and the power of sisterhood to remake their lives and reimagine their dreams. Reading this take on Little Women was so fun. This story centers more on the older two sisters (as the title implies), but all the characters you’ll want in a retelling make an appearance. It’s not a spoiler to tell you there will be a second book centering on Amy and Beth. Now, if you somehow skipped reading Little Women, that doesn’t matter, this stands alone as a modern-day Romance novel. If you did read the original, I think you’ll love the modernization of the March Family. I enjoyed the alternating chapter viewpoints, and overall it was like a doughnut for my brain. I’d call it a beach read, only you can’t buy it till December, so maybe a Christmas Break read whether you are kucky enough to be on a beach or not! #bookreviews #bookish #megandjo

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This is a holiday classic book at our house. It's Yuletide here. " He's taking a switch To redden your backside Once he finds out you've been naughty not nice The Yule Lord is coming to town..."

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