Cressida left her village to become a famous dress designer in London, but when the Blitz destroyed her home and her business, she had no place to go but back to the home where she was never welcomed. Her neighbor Grace has been a blessing to the community, helping when her father lost interest in caring for his parish. Grace is to mary a preacher and would love to wear her mother's wedding gown. Would Cressida share her talents with⬇️

Book 1 of a new series for me! Detective Lavender , set in the early 1800s the Detective is called from London to investigate the disappearance of the heiress of a crumbling estate. Her half brother and sister run it at the moment. She has not reached her majority so is still technically under their care. As the book develops, one realizes she's has not been well treated, as she lived away till she came back to care for her dying mother. ⬇️

Who is looking forward to reading this??? A go to author me! Can't find on libby yet, I'll have to check for physical copy at my library!
@BarbaraBB @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs @Librarybelle @Read4life @Andrew65 @TheSpineView @dabbe

Book 2 of the Rockton/Casey Duncan series.
The story continues in Rockton, a town hidden in the Yukon that is invisible to the outside world. Casey and Duncan are exploring a cave and find the girl they thought had died in the wilderness. But no, she's been held captive in pit in the cave for 16 months. So did the 2 other women who they presumed were lost actually captured by some maniac and kept in a cave? The setting of this book is truly⬇️

Freya has avoided her antique mentor for 20 years, since she believes he helped kill her love in Egypt at that time. When her mentor Arthur is found dead, and she receives a letter from him telling her to where to find the unique bird he's looked for, she is pulled back into the career she was so good doing. If you like descriptions of antiques and a whodunit story, you will like this book. Between a 3 and 4 for me

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii
✨️Watching the sunrise and sunset
✨️cooking over the campfire and eating outside
✨️watching Gunner having fun at camp, and then crashing for some zzzzz's
✨️sitting on the porch at camp in comfys and reading the day away
✨️ looking forward to my kitty Klinger welcoming me home!

Another excellent story by Hannah. Frankie's brother goes to Vietnam and his friend says "women can be heroes too". This Frankie's decides to enlist, but only the army will accept her. Her time in the medical Corp is Vietnam is eye opening, how medics worked under the most horrific conditions. I don't know if how she brings the book to a close is what I expected and liked. But Frankie's growth as a woman between the 50s ideas of womanhood⬇️

#ThreeListThursday #TLT @dabbe
1 Steely Dan greatest hits or Aja
2 Doobie Brothers greatest hits
3 Huey Lewis and the News greatest hits
Honorable mention- Jim Croce Time in a Bottle, Steve Winwood Hits
Trained every morning at 5am for 10 years with the first 2 albums in my headphones , same songs every day.

What a fabulous book! Based on a real person. Maizie was raised by her older sister in NYC. When her sister married a mob boss life became easier. Maizie rand the booth of the movie theater, and spent her nights walking the streets , helping the homeless of the city. Her friendship with a little nun was a beautiful part of her life. I highly recommend
#ReadAway2024 @Andrew65 @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES

Not sure how to review this. I've loved all his books, but this one left me shaking my head. I didn't know it was short story collection. And each one left me wanting resolution. I've never been a short story reader so maybe that's why. The book was beautifully written as all his books are. Lyrical, excellent use of language. Can't even discuss the stories, read for yourself if you want! ⬇️

Books 2, 3 and 4 of the Quinn & Costa crime series. Book 2 tells the story of a student killed who was investigating something killing the wildlife. The team gets caught in a web of child trafficking. Book 3 begins with a bomb exploding a pleasure cruise, and a detective who was on the trail of a cold case murder is killed. Does the case relate to the explosion? Book 4 is set in the bayou of Louisiana, where several young girls have been⬇️

#wondrouswednesday @Eggs
Thanks for the tag @TheSpineView
1 every summer the bookmobile would come every couple weeks, and in between a lady at the end of our road had library books to check out, so I had 2 places to keep my reading addiction going till school started!
2 I multi use buy fromAbe books or Amazon, borrow from libby, and the library
3 see tagged, 2nd in a series
Who wants to play??
@curiouserandcurioser @Coleen_Nieto @Cupcake12

Rita is a crime scene photographer who sees ghosts. She has seen them all her life, being born in the Navajo nation. One ghost haunts her relentlessly after she photographs her body in pieces everywhere.
I definitely recommend this if the crime scenes don't bother you! Looking forward to next book in series
#Serieslove2024 #ReadAway2024 @TheSpineView @Andrew65 @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES #litsylove @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @TieDyeDude @Read4life

So I don't read many paranormal books, but I got this at the local library at the lake. Luzia sings phrases of magic to help her through the drudgery of a scullion in a home in Madrid. When her mistress catches her turning burnt bread into a golden loaf, she thinks she can use Luzia to open the doors to the rich and influential people of the city. When she commands Luzia to break a glass and assemble again, Santangel is there , a stranger⬇️

While at the lake I've gone to the local library, the girl there told me she read the 7 books in this series in a week! A new series?! Yes!
Casey takes a friend who needs to disappear to a place totally off the grid, in Yukon territory. Rockton doesn't exist , you must be approved to get there. Casey is a detective, the sheriff of Rockton has never lived anywhere but there. 3 murders happen in a town of 200⬇️

Sorry I've been away from you all! I had such a busy April with my sister's medical issues, and then packing up a household of stuff to bring to the cabin! We've been here a week, one week to go! I have lots of book reports to post! But I'm just chilling and reading the days away!!
#litsylove #peaceful #serenity #watersoothesthesoul

May is almost halfway done!! The Birthday Fairies are getting ready to celebrate June Birthdays! Whoohoo! If you would like to add your name to the list so we can sing and dance and celebrate with you, send the date and your handle to LitsyBirthdays@gmail.com, but only for yourself please!!
🎉🎂🎶🌷🎈💐
@julesG @robinb @CarolynM @KarenUK @squirrelbrain

#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView
1 see above
2 I'm not sure yet! A visit to the library is coming. Ill be taking some books from my tbr stack at home on vacation

#wondrouswednesday @Eggs
1 the return of the Baltimore orioles!
2 Saint Mazie
3 two weeks at the cabin on the lake!

Happy spring my Litsy friends! I've been MIA, between garden, and lots of days with my sister who has been having cardiac issues, I've not been on here . But our 2 week vacation at the cabin by the lake is next week so I hope to catch up! My French lilacs are blooming!
#litsylove @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @TieDyeDude @Read4life

#wondrouswednesday @Eggs
1 my mom and dad, deeply loved each other,showed me true love
2 my husband, children and my sister
3 the Cleavers!

My current stack of library books!!
#libraryhaul #litsylove

Reading tagged book at the moment. This paragraph struck me. Let's all try to be "real human beings" with each other. We are more alike than we are different
#litsylove ?❤️?⚘️ @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
@TieDyeDude
#wearebettertogether

#Bookspin #Doublespin @TheAromaofBooks
At least I read both books last month! Yay!! I hope to do even better in April

April #readyourkindle #readyourebooks @CBee
I didn't accomplish one last month😮‍💨
I'm determined to do better this month!!

#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain
So in audio the Bombay book went back before I finished, so it's on hold again. Currently listening to the Undertakers Assistant . Reading The Lion from library, not sure if I'll finish. Sisters Sweet is my kindle book as soon as it charges(I had it charging but it says low battery so it might be dying on me). I just finished Vera Wong, review coming!

#libraryhaul @Librarybelle here's my recent stack! Lol
#litsylove #litsymademedoit
Tagged book is current read!
#ReadAway2024

#BooksinBloom @Catsandbooks
March 15 to 22
Join in if you want, set your own goals!!
🌸💐🌹🥀🌷⚘️

#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView
🧡 I'm not named after anyone
🧡 of course Lady Diana popped in my head! And also Diana the goddess of the hunt!

This is way late! But thanks @TheSpineView for tagging me!! #ThreeListThursday #TLT @dabbe (this list is just recent books, I've read many awesome nonfiction in the past)
1 any and all Erik Larson books (Isaac's Storm, Devil in the White City, etc)
2 I've Seen the End of You (tissues ready)
3 1491

I have come to love this author! This was a definite 4.5☆ and a great audiobook. Ruby McTavish is the matriarch of Tavistock NC. When she dies her adopted son, who is her heir, receives a letter from the uncle and has to return to Ashby house to get things in order, even though he vowed never to return. Jules, his wife, just knows they will make their home there. And as the book unfolds, we read Ruby's letters that hint at dark secrets⬇️

Just WOW . 5☆ This was an excellent read. I had to keep putting it down because I knew the protagonist was in trouble again! You ever read books like that? Red is an orphan who reads fortunes through the square of Sevens layout. After her father dies when she is 7, she is fostered by a kind man who raises her. She finds out she is the heir to the DeLacy fortune and vows to claim it , though the family doesn't realize she exists. ⬇️

#ReadAway2024 #Serieslove2024 #bookspin (read a library book)
@Andrew65 @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES @TheSpineView @TheAromaofBooks #52bookclub24 #30 #pickedwithoutreadingtheblurb @BarbaraBB
I wanted a new series and saw this one posted but didn't read anything about it. A definite 4.25☆ Kara is back in her hometown on administrative leave from LAPD . She stumbles across a murder on her morning jog. Thus begins her involvement with the FBI ⬇️

#ReadYourKindle @CBee
My books for March!!

#MotivationalMonday @Cupcake12
✨️ a medical test on Wednesday, and writing notes
✨️The Women
✨️ history-fiction or non-fiction
Want to play @Mimi28 @Jari-chan @kspenmoll @CBee @BarbaraBB @KarenUK
Or anyone!!

I read as an audiobook, the narrators were very good. Lenna is an understudy to Vaudeline who is a medium. Lenna wants to find the answers to her sisters death. No women are allowed to enter the London seance society, so they go undercover with the help of Mr Morely, one of the directors. Several plot twists makes this an fascinating read
#52bookclub24 #arevengcharacter @BarbaraBB

#WhatsNewWednesdays #litsylove @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @TieDyeDude @Read4life (thanks for the tag sorry I'm late)
I spent the last few days making 45 bookmarks for my daughter's library group!!

I'm so late, but thanks for tag @TheSpineView
#wondrouswednesday @Eggs
1 A new book-open the book and breathe!
2 fresh baked buns- I would come home from school and my mom would be taking out of oven
3 spring rain-no description needed!!
4 fresh cut grass-so intoxicating
5 scent of fresh air when you open the window and the breeze flows
I could list many more, as I'm default 'smell' person!!

#ReadYourKindle #ReadYourEbooks #February2024 @CBee
Well I read 3 out of 4 books! Working on number 4 but not sure I'll be done!

#ReadYourKindle #ReadYourEbooks #March2024 @CBee

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @julieclair #LitsyLoveBingo
This is as far as I've accomplished! No bingo but lots of fun!

#MotivationalMonday @Cupcake12
🌷 vet appt for puppy, make 40 bookmarks for my daughter's library event, younger daughter's birthday, read as much as I can!!
🌷🌷so many, but I'll say Cinderella because dreams really do come true!
🌷🌷🌷sunshine and WARM!! Also everything growing green and blooming!! My favorite time!!
Who wants to play?
@RamsFan1963 @squirrelbrain @AmyK1 @kar2b (got your letter!) @Patchshank (got yours too!) @DarkMina

If you are on #Storygraph I'd love to connect, if you want please post your handle so I can find you!
Also this⬇️
#FullSnowMoon
I thought it was so beautiful Saturday night!

@TheAromaofBooks
#Bookspin #Doublespin
Posting so I'm sure to have it up in time! Life gets 🤪

Spring is almost here, and the Birthday Fairies are so happy to celebrate March birthday littens! If your birthday is in March and you'd like us to shower you with ❤️, send your handle and birthrate to LitsyBirthdays@gmail.com and we'll celebrate with you!!
🌷🎉💗🎶🥂🎈💓
@julesG @CarolynM @robinb @KarenUK @squirrelbrain

Thanks for the tag @Read4life !
#wondrouswednesday @eggs
1 I have a lot but I'll say Vera
2 Montalbano
3 see tagged for #readyourkindle
Everyone's welcome to play!!

#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView
1 2005, when I married and moved to the farm, my last ofma y many moves! ❤️
2 Demon Copperfield, the most recent one that I remember and I highly recommend!

#ReadAway2024 #readyourkindle (number 12) #52bookclub24 #51relatedtothewordWild @andrew65 @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES @CBee @BarbaraBB
3☆ The premise of the book was very intriguing, and the authors description of the National Parks she visited-all but 1 park, were great. Alas her personality throughout the book is irritating and way too self centered. And she wonders why she is where she is!

#MotivationalMonday @Cupcake12
🌷 appointments and making pizza rolls for a memorial birthday party Saturday
🌷🌷70s music!!
🌷🌷🌷Michael McDonald
Want to join in @Arvena @Jari-chan @ElizaMarie @RamsFan1963 @kezzlou85 @squirrelbrain @dabbe

#sundayfunday @BookmarkTavern
Unfortunately I don't think I ever have, only because I fall asleep too easily! But last night I did stay up way past my usual bedtime to finish tagged book!