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Happy Friday to ya! Yesterday was the coolest mail day over here. I finally got this ridiculously fun phone case for my new phone, and the #bookmail that arrived at the same time kind of matched it 😮. The phone case is from @society6 - artist tagged in my photo! The book is by @rob_rufus and, while outside my normal genre, looks SO captivating. Synopsis below.

In other news, I didn't realize I'd have to re-upload and save allll my Lightroom Mobile presets on my new phone. Send backup 😅.

Thanks to @turnerpub for the review copy!

PARADISE, WV:
In a poor West Virginia town decimated by the opioid epidemic, teenagers Henry and Jane have it worse than most. Their father is Hollis Lusher, a convicted serial killer known as "the Blind Spot Slasher." Despite being bullied and ostracized, the siblings maintain their father's innocence. But now, a popular true-crime podcast is coming to town, and their presence is turning all eyes to the Blind Spot Slasher's case...and to Henry and Jane.
Meanwhile, an eager young officer, Lieutenant Elena Garcia, is put on the case of a missing girl. Despite warnings from her superiors, Garcia begins to probe deeper into the case and realizes there may be other mysteries buried in the flood of opioid-related crimes. With many deaths quickly labeled as overdoses, or "No Human Involved," she fears the drug epidemic has created the perfect storm for a Blind Spot Slasher copycat to thrive. Unless, that is, they never caught the real Blind Spot Slasher at all.
An amateur private investigator is also on the case: Henry's new friend, Otis. A home-schooled genius with his own family issues and a suspicion their father might be innocent, Otis makes it his mission to help Henry and Jane find the real killer. As the three probe into the evidence, they discover a possible connection between the killings and a doomsday, snake-handling cult–propelling them all down the dark backroads of Appalachia to find justice for Hollis, and themselves.

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Hiii 👋👋 So many people are doing meet me in memes, but I don't have time to look for memes that describe me 😅😂. So here are just some #meetthebookstagrammer facts instead!

Name: Joli (short for Jolissa)
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Fav genres: Literary fiction and memoir
Day job: Writer/Content Lead
Ideal vacation: Mountains, day hiking, sightseeing
Family: 👩👨‍🦱👼👧🐶
Coffee or tea: Coffee!
Hobbies besides reading: Baking, puzzles
Random fact: I played the flute in school until my high school band director asked if anyone would be willing to learn French horn because we didn't have any. I volunteered and ended up loving it, and being decent at it!
LQ fact: I'm definitely not the only face behind LQ! I rely on contribs to post awesome stuff too 😄

Do we have anything in common?

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Bright cover alert! Excited to be a tour stop for ALL ARE WELCOME by @wizpower in August. Looks super fun! Thanks @otrpr and @amazonpublishing for the copy and for including LQ on this tour!

Synopsis:
A darkly funny novel from a fresh new voice in fiction about brides, lovers, friends, and family, and all the secrets that come with them.
Tiny McAllister never thought she’d get married. Not because she didn’t want to, but because she didn’t think girls from Connecticut married other girls. Yet here she is with Caroline, the love of her life, at their destination wedding on the Bermuda coast. In attendance―their respective families and a few choice friends. The conflict-phobic Tiny hopes for a beautiful weekend with her bride-to-be. But as the weekend unfolds, it starts to feel like there’s a skeleton in every closet of the resort.
From Tiny’s family members, who find the world is changing at an uncomfortable speed, to Caroline’s parents, who are engaged in conspiratorial whispers, to their friends, who packed secrets of their own―nobody seems entirely forthcoming. Not to mention the conspicuous no-show and a tempting visit from the past. What the celebration really needs now is a monsoon to help stir up all the long-held secrets, simmering discontent, and hidden agendas.
All Tiny wanted was to get married, but if she can make it through this squall of a wedding, she might just leave with more than a wife.

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I got some happy #bookmail over the weekend! YOURS CHEERFULLY by @ajpearcewrites is coming out in just a couple weeks. I grabbed Dear Mrs Bird too when I saw it in the used section of my local bookstore 😍. Looking forward to reading both of these!

Have you read Dear Mrs Bird?

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How lucky can a bookworm get?!? My favorite local bookstore had a USED but pristine copy of The Four Winds 😲🤯. Needless to say, I jumped on it 😍. I've been trying hard to concentrate any book buying on used copies, so this is just 👌👌👌.

Do you prefer used or new? Or a combo?

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Becky again! 👋

Some of my favorite @airbnb books are those that feature local history, flora and fauna, and sometimes even local authors. In the Blue Ridge Mountains, there are quite a few reference books for hikes and waterfalls too! 🏞

What book(s) would you share to feature your neck of the woods?

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Becky here with a #bookstagram takeover!

Taking a mini mid-week vacation with my family and, as always, am loving the variety of books available at our @airbnb!

What gems have you found at vacation rentals? 💎📚

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New (to me) books Tuesday! The three on top are pretty much pristine copies courtesy of @goodwillbooks, and the bottom one (Anxious People) I found for $5 on Facebook Marketplace!! Could NOT believe my luck with that one 🤩🤩. Now, to sneak them in my TBR somewhere........😅.

What's the last book you bought?

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