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Confidence
by Rafael Frumkin
Contemporary, LGBTQ | Published: March 2023 | Goodreads
At seventeen, Ezra Green doesn’t have a lot going for him. He is shorter than average, gap-toothed, internet-addicted, and halfway to being legally blind. He’s also on his way to Last Chance Camp, the final stop before juvie.
Ezra's summer at Last Chance turns life-changing when he meets Orson, brilliant and Adonis-like, with a mind for hustling. Together, the two embark upon what promises to be a fruitful career of scam artistry. But when they try to pull off their biggest scam yet--NuLife, a corporation that promises its consumers a lifetime of bliss--things start to spin wildly out of control.
What Moves the Dead
by T. Kingfisher
Horror, Gothic, Retelling | Published: 2022 | Goodreads
What Moves the Dead is Kingfisher's retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's classic "The Fall of the House of Usher.”
When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruritania.
What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark, pulsing lake. Madeline sleepwalks and speaks in strange voices at night, and her brother Roderick is consumed with a mysterious malady of the nerves.
Aided by a redoubtable British mycologist and a baffled American doctor, Alex must unravel the secret of the House of Usher before it consumes them all.
Febregency on YouTube
a regency readathon
details (here)
#Febregency
The main goal is to read a work that was popular during the regency era/written by a writer who lived during the regency era (1795-1837).
Group read:
Evalina
or The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World
by Frances Burney
Classics, Regency | Published: first 1778 | Goodreads
Read Christie 2023
hosted by Agatha Christie Limited
details | YouTube | instagram
This year we are focusing on the methods and motives used within Agatha Christie's books.
JANUARY: Jealousy
Sad Cypress
by Agatha Christie
Mystery, Hercule Poirot | Published: first 1940 | Goodreads
FEBRUARY: Blunt Object
Partners in Crime
by Agatha Chrisite
Mystery, Tommy and Tuppence | Published: first 1929 | Goodreads
MARCH: Anger
APRIL: Poison
MAY: Betrayal
JUNE: Gunshot
JULY: Love and Lust
AUGUST: Fall from a Height
SEPTEMBER: Hatred
OCTOBER: Stabbing
NOVEMBER: Greed
DECEMBER: Strangulation
Hell Bent
by Leigh Bargudo
Urban Fantasy | Published: 2023 | Goodreads
Find a gateway to the underworld. Steal a soul out of hell. A simple plan, except people who make this particular journey rarely come back. But Galaxy “Alex” Stern is determined to break Darlington out of purgatory―even if it costs her a future at Lethe and at Yale.
Forbidden from attempting a rescue, Alex and Dawes can’t call on the Ninth House for help, so they assemble a team of dubious allies to save the gentleman of Lethe. Together, they will have to navigate a maze of arcane texts and bizarre artifacts to uncover the societies’ most closely guarded secrets, and break every rule doing it. But when faculty members begin to die off, Alex knows these aren’t just accidents. Something deadly is at work in New Haven, and if she is going to survive, she’ll have to reckon with the monsters of her past and a darkness built into the university’s very walls.
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