november reading wrap*up
hope you had a delicious november!
here’s all the books i read.
or thought about reading this month! (i’ve included the nifty bookshop.org links for you too in case you want to order any of the titles for yourself!) :D
enjoy, and let me know what stories you loved this month!
✨weekly reading book review november 2023: episode one!!✨
this week i read:
☕️ THE GHOST IN APARTMENT 2R by denis markell
☕️ NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO PANIC by kevin wilson
✒️ THE PLOT TO KILL A QUEEN by deborah hopkinson
currently reading:
☕️ MALICE HOUSE by megan shepherd
hope to read next:
❤️ LOTERÍA by karla valenti
☕️ WHAT THE RIVER KNOWS by isabel ibañez
& my road trip music for the weekend to the scbwi carolinas conference was of course the & JULIET original broadway cast recording!
✨📖weekly reading book review november 2023: episode two!!📖✨
😎 in which a tired hallie returns from ya’ll fest and only read two books this week:
🖤 MALICE HOUSE by megan shepherd (signed copy from malaprop’s!)
❤️ LOTERÍA by karla arenas valenti (signed copy from when i met her at the scbwi carolinas conference ! that gorgeous cover art by dana sanmar )
currently reading:
🎶 JUKEBOX by nidhi chanani (middle grade graphic novel i found at blue bicycle books during ya’ll fest!!)
✨📖weekly reading book review november 2023: episode three!!📖✨
🥧 here’s what i read this week:
🎶 JUKEBOX by nidhi chaniani (middle grade graphic novel :01first second )
🧡 WHAT THE RIVER KNOWS by isabel ibañez (egyptology magical historical fantasy SWOON secrets spies and death and treasure from wednesday books )
😂 ONCE UPON A TIM by stuart gibbs (early middle grade peasant humor! from simon schuster kids )
📚 currently reading :
💚 VALENTINA SALAZAR IS NOT A MONSTER HUNTER by zoraida córdova (middle grade roadtrip family creature adventure from scholastic )
💙 THE MAGIC FISH by trung le nguyen (older mg graphic novel)
🩵 THIS IS SHAKESPEARE: HOW TO READ THE WORLD’S GREATEST PLAYWRIGHT by emma smith
☕️ also enjoyed/enjoying/hope to read next:
🎭 MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (i.e. pride & prejudice) by wm shakespeare (local school production)
🎬 COCO (why is it soooo sad?!?)
💜 THE TATAMI TIME MACHINE BLUES by tomihiko morimi (adult speculative fiction)
✨📖weekly reading book review november 2023: episode four!!📖✨
this week, i read:
💜 VALENTINA SALAZAR IS NOT A MONSTER HUNTER by zoraida cordóva
🧡 THE SEVEN YEAR SLIP by ashley poston
💚 THE MAGIC FISH by trung le nguyen
🩷 BEYOND THE WAND: THE MAGIC & MAYHEM OF GROWING UP A WIZARD by tom felton
🖤 BRIGHT BURNING STARS by a.k. small
i also re*watched:
🎬 THE TRUMAN SHOW
currently reading :
🎨 THE ART FORGER by b.a. shapiro
don’t forget, my favorite reads (by age group and category!) are organized for you over at bookshop.org so you can shop for all those holiday gifties!
don’t forget to let me know what stories you’re enjoying, too.
my TBR hasn’t buried me alive just yet… ;)
💖xo,
*hallie 🤓
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