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Nina James @thewanderingreader.bsky.social · 22d

Happy Release Day to @allyoutthere.bsky.social ‘s newest middlegrade horror novel! MYSTERY JAMES DIGS HER OWN GRAVE is a graveyard adventure young readers don’t want to miss! 🪦🪏💀

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Nina James @thewanderingreader.bsky.social · May 19

Horror fans and Classic Lit lovers will devour this gruesome and gory graphic novel reimagining of a French lit classic! Be sure to add #TheCurseOfMonteCristo to your bookshelves! Review here👉🏽: www.goodreads.com/review/show/... @eeriesaga.bsky.social

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Nina James @thewanderingreader.bsky.social · Mar 31

Happy International #TransDayOfVisibility ! ✨🏳️‍⚧️💕 Today and always, this horror lover is celebrating the trans/non-binary horror authors that fill my shelves!

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Nina James @thewanderingreader.bsky.social · Mar 28

A tiny cult of two, a promise of angels and ascendance, and a calamitous consequence! I devoured CORRUPTED VESSELS by Briar Ripley Page (@flameswallower.bsky.social ) in one sitting! Check out my review here👉🏽 www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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Nina James @thewanderingreader.bsky.social · Mar 20

#HappySpring!🌷🌱 What’s on your spring reading list this year? I’ve added BETA VULGARIS by Margie Sarsfield and VOICE LIKE A HYACINTH by Mallory Pearson to my list! (Also please enjoy this super cute spooky spring tee my sister got me!)✨

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Nina James @thewanderingreader.bsky.social · Mar 2

YES!🙌🏽🔥💕

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Nina James @thewanderingreader.bsky.social · Mar 1

Oh my god all of these recommendations are great!!!♥️🙌🏽

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Nina James @thewanderingreader.bsky.social · Mar 1

I love the yearly transition from #BlackHistoryMonth to #WomensHistoryMonth ! As a Black woman, it just means the celebration continues. Time to celebrate some #WomenInHorror !!! Share some of your favorite women writing in thriller/horror fiction down in the comments! 🩸🔪♥️

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Nina James @thewanderingreader.bsky.social · Feb 25

Thank you!!!🙌🏽🔥

Nina James @thewanderingreader.bsky.social · Feb 17

“It is this world that makes monsters of us all.” This collection of speculative short stories by author Yvette Lisa Ndlovu ( @yvettel.bsky.social ) might be my favorite of the year so far (and it’s only February)! www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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Nina James @thewanderingreader.bsky.social · Feb 4

Your copy is looking good!! I hope I can keep my copy in good condition!!!!

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Nina James @thewanderingreader.bsky.social · Jan 27

I feel like diving DEEP into folk horror/ folk fiction this year. I’m craving lore and pagan rituals, harvest festivals and oral histories, village cults and old gods. Basically I‘ve got a hankering for Wicker Man vibes!
How about you? What’s a sub-genre you feel like binge-reading this year?✨

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Nina James @thewanderingreader.bsky.social · Jan 22

Really feeling the January Blues lately. 💙

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Nina James @thewanderingreader.bsky.social · Jan 19

Well….this sucks.

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Nina James @thewanderingreader.bsky.social · Jan 16

“Fern saw her far-off shadow on the long grass as she went by; she saw all their shadows, and they looked like giants, they looked like monsters, they looked like goddesses. They looked like witches.” #WitchcraftForWaywardGirls had me in a chokehold, y’all! 🔮✨

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Nina James @thewanderingreader.bsky.social · Jan 13

A bloody, wintery, vampiric tale of warning to those who wish for immortality. #YouCantTakeItWithYou by author @marcushawke.bsky.social is a reminder that sometimes dead really is better! Check this novella out before Winter’s end! 🧛🏻‍♂️❄️

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Nina James @thewanderingreader.bsky.social · Jan 5

A serial killer living amongst her fellow animal folk, small-town suspicions, blood, gore, and quite the body count! #BeneathTheTreesWhereNobodySees was easily 5/5 stars for me! This entire series can be found on Hoopla for those who are interested! 🧸🩸🔪

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Nina James @thewanderingreader.bsky.social · Jan 2

Listening to audiobooks and reading novellas really helps! But also, I work at a library (and formerly a bookstore), so I have the privilege of making it my job to read frequently. 🙋🏽‍♀️💕

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Nina James @thewanderingreader.bsky.social · Jan 2

NEW YEAR, MORE BOOKS! What are some Reading Resolutions you’ve made this year? A few of mine are to (1) support my local bookstores (2) take advantage of my library card (3) continue reading books I already own, and (4) attempt to read 200 more books this year!!! (Yes…I’m insane for that last one)

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Nina James @thewanderingreader.bsky.social · Dec 23

Filling my remaining December days with more winter hauntings! Anyone else a fan of the Christmas ghost stories from the #BritishLibraryTalesOfTheWeird collection? ❄️🎄☃️

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Nina James @thewanderingreader.bsky.social · Dec 19

True love is your husband going to bookstores while you’re at work, taking photos of #StephenKing books, texting said photos to you, and asking if he needs to bring back any of the books you don’t already own. A keeper, that one.💕

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Nina James @thewanderingreader.bsky.social · Dec 16

Right?! I love it!

Nina James @thewanderingreader.bsky.social · Dec 16

I don’t know about you, but I consider Susan Hill’s THE WOMAN IN BLACK (1983) to be required annual holiday reading! The perfect book to escape into on Christmas Eve if you enjoy eerie, Victorian gothic settings and angry, vengeful ghosts!✨

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Nina James @thewanderingreader.bsky.social · Dec 6

This looks amazing!😱

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Nina James @thewanderingreader.bsky.social · Dec 3

Two of my current December reads! Perfect for chilly nights at home with a cup of hot cocoa and a flickering candle! @valancourtbooks.bsky.social @swiftpress.bsky.social

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