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Hemy's Book Club

Bookstagram Challenge Alert! #SaveFCB 📖💕
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For those of you who don’t know, our wonderful local independent bookstore - @friendlycitybooks - was hit by a car a few weeks ago. Everyone is ok and we’ve set up a (very cute) pop-up shop at

Helloooooooo Friendly City Books: Pop Up Shop Edition! 😍📚
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For those who don’t know, a little over a week ago, my beloved local indie bookstore was hit by a car. Crazy, I know! Thankfully everyone was ok, but it will take some time to repair

Emily and I are so excited to announce our September #HBCxFCBBookClub pick - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid! 💚
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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo is the story of two women - the secretive, aging Hollywood star, Evelyn Hugo

#BookReview - The Ones Who Don’t Say They Love You by Maurice Carlos Ruffin ⚜️ [Thank you to @randomhouse and @oneworld for this gifted copy!]
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Maurice Carlos Ruffin’s The Ones Who Don’t Say They Love You is a collection of short s

Thank you so much to @simonandschuster for gifting me a copy of Mona Awad’s All’s Well! 💊🎭
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Y’all, I love some weird feminist literature. And when it comes to bizarre, spooky, dark, edgy, off-putting, bold, brilliant, and daring

Idk about you, but I’m feeling thirty-two! ♌️🎂
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Yesterday was my 32nd birthday! Embarrassingly enough, I spent most of last year somehow thinking I was already 32?! Weird, I know… But at least I don’t feel any older than I alread

Happy National Book Lovers Day! 📚 [Thanks to @grandcentralpub for gifting me a copy of Seven Days in June]
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In honor of Bookstagram’s most beloved holiday, here’s a stack of my absolute favorite books that I’ve read so far this ye

Rachel and I are so excited to announce the August #HBCxFCBBookClub pick - When the Reckoning Comes by LaTanya McQueen!
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When the Reckoning Comes is the story of Mira, a Black woman who has built a life for herself far away her small, segregated hom

#BookReview - Cultish by Amanda Montell 🛸✨
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Hemy is doing really well these days!! He’s no longer experiencing any pain and he is making a strong recovery thanks to physical therapy! He still walks a bit funny and gets tired quickly, but ever

#BookReview - Tokyo Ever After by Emiko Jean 👑🌸
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When I was a tween, I was *obsessed* with The Princess Diaries. Mia Thermopolis was my everything and Julie Andrews as Queen Clarisse was (in my mind) the coolest grandmother on earth.
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All of that

A million thank yous to the tagged publishers (plus a few booksta friends) for sharing all of these gorgeous books with me! ☀️💖
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There are few things that feel more summertime to me than a huge stack of new books to add to my TBR list. And wow wow

#BookReview - The Startup Wife by Tahmima Anam 👩🏽&zwj;💻⚡️
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The Startup Wife the whip-smart, own-voices feminist tech start-up story we’ve all been waiting for and I absolutely adored it. If you loved Amanda Montell’s Cultish, Anna Wie

#BookReview - Seven Days in June by Tia Williams 🔥❤️ [Thanks to @grandcentralpub for gifting me this book!]
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If you haven’t read Seven Days in June yet, what the heck are you waiting for?! Do yourself a favor and put it at the top of your TBR

For our July #HBCxFCBBookClub pick, we’re going with a backlist pick - TJ Klune’s The House in the Cerulean Sea!
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The House in the Cerulean Sea is probably one of the most popular books here on bookstagram… sometimes I feel like t

Happy Monday! ☀️🌈 [Thanks to @epicreads for gifting me this copy of I’ll Be the One!]
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Before June is through, I wanted share a colorful stack of some of my favorite YA LGBTQ+ authors and stories, and a few that I’m excited to read in t

#BookReview - Black Water Sister by Zen Cho 🌙✨
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I’m still trying to get back into the rhythm of reading and posting regularly. Between Hemy’s recovery and post-move unpacking, there’s a lot of distractions… BUT OMG THIS BOO

Happy Adoptiversary to my sweet Hemingway! 🎉🎊
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I can’t believe it’s been FIVE YEARS since we brought Hemy home for the very first time. Where has the time gone?!
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Every dog parent thinks their dog is the best in the world… but

Happy Saturday! 🌺🌿
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It has been a very rainy week here in Mississippi. I think we’ve had something like 8+ inches of rain in 7 days?! But thankfully we haven’t floated away yet and the sun is finally starting to peek through today. Fin

#BookReview - The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo ✨🍾
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Ok, June is definitely my favorite month of 2021 so far because SO MANY of my favorite authors have new books coming out!
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I first fell in love with Nghi Vo last year when I picked up The E

Emily and I are so excited to announce that our June #HBCxFCBBookClub Pick is… One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston! 💖💙💜
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YALL. Words cannot describe how excited I am to read this book. I have been COUNTING DOWN THE DAYS until I could get my h