The Bookish Ashley

October turned out to be the perfect mix of cozy nights, suspenseful plots, and heartfelt reflections. From twisty thrillers to honest essays, my reading list this month had a bit of everything. Here’s what I picked up in October: 1. Tell Them You Lied by Laura Leffler This one pulled…

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️☆ (4/5 stars) Eli Rallo’s Does Anyone Else Feel Like This? feels like a long, heart-spilling phone call with your best friend—the one who’s equally lost, equally overthinking, and equally determined to make it all work somehow. It’s raw, messy, and refreshingly human. Rallo captures the chaos of your twenties—the…

Halloween isn’t just for haunted houses and horror movies — sometimes the scariest monsters are the ones inside people’s minds. If you love a story that messes with your head, keeps you guessing, and makes you sleep with one eye open, psychological thrillers are where the real magic (and mayhem)…

Tell Them You Lied is a dark, psychologically charged exploration of female friendship, artistic obsession, and the blurred line between creation and destruction. Laura Leffler weaves a story that’s both intimate and unsettling, grounding it in a vividly drawn world of early-2000s New York and the emotionally claustrophobic art school…