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Top Ten (Tuesday) Books That Creeped Me Out

30 October 2025 By fakesteph

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Artsy Reader Girl that combines lists and books. This weeks topic is… books that creeped me out. Creepy, just the way they are supposed to be: Daughters Unto Devils The Women in the Walls House of Leaves I Hunt Killers Creepy because of the characters […]

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It’s Readathon Time

20 October 2025 By fakesteph

It’s Dewey’s 24-Hour Readathon. Now that I’m in my 30s, I am a little more relaxed about readathon. I still stocked good food, but I got a good night’s sleep and let myself wake up naturally, and I’m going to go to bed when I get tired. And because I went to bed early, I […]

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WOW: The Hidden Memory of Objects by Danielle Mages Amato

8 March 2025 By fakesteph

Waiting On Wednesday, hosted by Breaking the Spine, lets us book hoarding bloggers highlight a book we’re excited for each week. This week I’m waiting on The Hidden Memory of Objects by Danielle Mages Amato. GoodReads Description: Megan Brown’s brother, Tyler, is dead, but the cops are killing him all over again. They say he […]

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Top Ten Tuesday… I Loved More Than I Thought I Would

21 February 2026 By fakesteph

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish that combines lists and books. This weeks topic is… I Loved More Than I Thought I Would. I wouldn’t read a book if I thought I wouldn’t like it, but these are all books that I picked up out of curiosity […]

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WOW: The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas

15 February 2026 By fakesteph

Waiting On Wednesday, hosted by Breaking the Spine, lets us book hoarding bloggers highlight a book we’re excited for each week. This week I’m waiting on The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas. GoodReads Description: Sixteen-year-old Starr lives in two worlds: the poor neighbourhood where she was born and raised and her posh high school […]

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Sundays In Bed With… Relaxation.

12 February 2026 By fakesteph

Sundays in Bed With… is hosted by Kate, aka Midnight Book Girl, and is a way for us to share about what we’re reading and what’s going on in our lives. This week, I’m relaxing after a hectic start to the new semester. I’m still reading about 10 books, and I’ve finished none of them. […]

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HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

25 December 2025 By fakesteph

HAPPY HOLIDAYS. Apparently, I haven’t been able to keep up with December. I swear I only missed one week of blogging, but it looks like I missed a whole month. I’ll update, soon, but for now, let me wish you all happy holidays, for whatever holiday you celebrate. And if you don’t celebrate, just go […]

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Cover Reveal: The Outs by E.S. Wesley

24 August 2025 By fakesteph

THE OUTS Caleb’s been changing ever since the memory-stealing blackouts—the Outs—started. He used to be a good, dependable, honor-student, but now his parents have vanished, and something inside tells him their disappearance is his fault. That something has a voice—a voice that’s pushed him to kidnap a little girl. Caleb believes he did it to […]

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Sundays In Bed With…

14 August 2025 By fakesteph

Today is just going to be a quick post. I’m reading way too many books at the moment, but I just finished Imprudence by Gail Carriger. Lots of thoughts on it later this week. No Man’s Sky finally came out and it is everything I hoped it would be! There are two weeks of summer […]

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What My Students Are Reading: Perfect Chemistry by SImone Elkeles

29 April 2025 By fakesteph

I’ve had this blog for a long time, and I’ve grown and changed a lot during that time. One of the major changes in my life over the last few years is that I became a teacher. So, in an attempt to come up with some features that better fit my current life, I’m going […]

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Things I like in real life: Coffee, books, makeup, sunshine, laughter, roadtrips.
Things I like in books: Serial killers, heartbreak, betrayal, lies, boarding schools, twists.


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