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Evening reading. Enjoying a Moscow Mule on this humid evening, watching the sun slowly disappearing in the trees greenery as it goes down to let the moon shine. #candlelight
#JimmyPerez #porchlife

My last day of work!!!!! Reading on my porch, ordering grinders for dinner. I am soooo excited!
Continuing the Shetland series. #JimmyPerez #porchlife

Maybe the best Shetland book yet. So sad that I only have one left to read. I had lots of suspects, but it turned out that none of them was the killer. So many twists and turns! Great plot, beloved characters, and, having watched the series, I can picture the beautiful setting. Recommend as always. I have no cold weather pictures, but I do have rain, which is definitely in keeping with the story.

Since we‘re getting drenched by the rains from the not-a-tropical-storm, it‘s a perfect day to stay in and read.

Picked up my library hold yesterday. The website for hubby‘s new doctor actually suggests bringing a book, since he tends to spend a lot of time with patients and get behind. I appreciate their honesty, as well as the reading time.

This was one of my favorites of the series. Starting with a landslide at a funeral that uncovers a body in a nearby Croft that was thought to be abandoning, Perez has to discover who the victim is what happened to her. I cannot believe there is only one more book left for me to read! Luckily I have the entire Vera to look forward to.

I like Ann Cleaves‘ empathetic approach to her characters, and there‘s something about her writing that I find really pleasing and comforting. I‘ve read quite a few of hers now, and perhaps inevitably the story structure is getting a little repetitive. But for an easy comfort read this is my current go-to writer.

First book finished for #20in4! 4.5 hours of reading. Perfect timing too, as I need it to be an early night. Tomorrow after we get back I‘ll start a new one. I loved this book; the way the story unfolds is dreamlike. It‘s a book to savor, which is an odd thing to say about a mystery, but there you are. Just a terrific series. Another book crossed off my #BookSpinBingo card!

We finally got some rain!

I‘m definitely in, and I‘ll be reading a lot two of the three days, so we‘ll see how it goes! Saturday we have a trip north for my sister-in-law‘s funeral, but tomorrow and especially Sunday are dedicated to books. I‘ve had a good reading month, and it‘s helped a lot. Life is bittersweet, gotta concentrate on the sweet and on the now.

I‘ve been reading a lot this past month, as shown by my #BookSpinBingo card. But it‘s been a tough month, albeit with bright spots. I got 💉 no 1 two weeks ago & my husband got 💉 no 2 a week ago. But the day after my first 💉 my dear sister-in-law died. She‘d had chronic health issues but was only 58. My brother and I lost our parents as teens and we‘ve always been close. But he‘s doing reasonably well, & here we all are. Love, hug, and be kind.

A darker installment in the series, fitting for the dark January days during which I read it.
#ShutdownReadathon book 20

A miracle of lockdown- I read a book in a day 😁 wasn‘t working today which made it possible of course. Another great one in this series, which I‘ve nearly finished.

I also watched Atonement with my daughter 😢😢 didn‘t hit me as hard as the book, but still sad and infuriating.
A productive non work day.

It‘s just my name 😁
My current title is Head of Academic Quality and Standards, university manager is probably the profession.
Working - usually double the hours!
Tagged book is today‘s choice
Absolutely not, I don‘t think I‘m coping well at all so nothing I could pass on! Trying to focus on positive things, we‘re all at home and well and still getting paid.
#allaboutme

This is the first Ann Cleeves I've read, although I have watched the TV adaptation of the Shetland books. This is the 7th in the series but it's careful to recap the characters' backstories as it goes along. It's not outstanding, but is a good murder mystery, with likable characters ⭐⭐⭐

Look how pretty my fireweed drink is! Just made it on my lunch break, and enjoyed a glass while I read Ann Cleeves!

I finished book number 1 of my #readathon! I do love reading about Shetland. Someday! #deweys24hourreadathon

So good, can‘t wait until the next one is released.

I love this series! Always a solid mystery with a twist I didn't see coming. Love the language of Ann Cleeves writing style and learning Shetland words like Knapping - losing the accent for the benefit of Soothmoothers - those not native to Shetland. I hope when I visit no one Knapps for me. #shetland #bookishtravels #teaandbooks

Perfect weather for reading the latest Shetland Mystery. 🌧🌧🌧
#shetland #rainydayread #lovemylibrary

Getting ever closer with the #24in48 #Readathon , just over two hours to go and 7.30 pm here but also have other things to do in preparation for work tomorrow. Finished the second section of the Group Read for Cold Earth So now halfway through the book and will move back to Botswana with Mma Ramotswe!

Time for a change of tempo, and reading the next section of Cold Earth for a Group Read. #24in48 #Readathon Now up to page 712 in Pillars Of The Earth after a concentrated read on that today.
Dong well so far on the Readathon and ahead of schedule!

Switched to the physical book on waking up this morning. Great to be back in the Shetlands with Jimmy Perez. Now above 4 hours but need to eat to keep my energy up! #24in48 #readathon

Starting Cold Earth by Ann. Cleeves, Book 7 in the superb Shetland Series by Ann Cleeves. I love the remote location and the characters and feel of community within the book. I love spending time with Jimmy Perez. If you can‘t tell in thoroughly recommend this series. #shetland

These will be my books for the #24in48 Readathon. I will be starting in around 2 hours at midnight and reading midnight UK time on Friday/Saturday to Midnight Sunday/Monday. Don‘t think I will get to 24 hours but let‘s see how much I do clock up. Strategy : Physical books when I am awake enough, Audiobook (The Pillars Of The Earth) when too tired to physically read or am driving. Already part way into three of these.

This could end badly...

My #readathon stack for tomorrow! I have an unavoidable church thing in the afternoon, and let's face it, I won't be staying up all night. 😜 But hopefully I'll have a good 10 hours of reading time! So I have a couple of addicting thrillers, a graphic novel and some kidlit to break things up, and When Dimple Met Rishi and A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty on audio, for when my eyes need a break. #deweysreadathon

I really enjoyed this book, I have seen the series, Shetland, which is very dark & moody and helped set the scene reading the book as the Shetland islands are very different to where I live now or grew up. The book & the series are not miles apart & I'm looking forward to reading more in the series.

#crimethriller #shetland #murdermystery

This will be me really soon... today is my last day at work & then I'm on holiday! We're off to Dorset & it will probably rain so somehow I don't think I'll look quite as glam as the lady in this pic (found via Pinterest) 😂 but I really don't mind!

Taking The Pillars of the Earth, The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and The Stars Are Legion books with me to read & am hoping to keep up with #lotrchapteraday & The War on Women on my kindle 📖

And home from work, it was a tough shift, but now I'm in my onesie with a glass of Malbec 🍷 & im going to read a chapter or three before bed!

#bookish #bookworm #booksbeforebed

I loved this book and the whole series! I missed books 5 & 6 so will have to go back, can't wait! #books #bookcollection #

So far so good! I love this series, set in the Shetland Islands! #books #pages #words #anncleeves #bookaddicts

Bk7 in the Shetland series.Not as good as previous ones, it felt a bit rushed I think,but still a pick for me. I read them more for the atmosphere and the beautiful descriptions of life in Shetland, it's so hard to find great stories based in the Scottish Isles,either Shetland, the Orkneys or the Hebrides. Jimmy Perez is at Magnus Taits funeral when there's a landslide. Rushing down to check, he finds the body of a woman, but was she already dead?

Got to Chapter9 with Flavia but wasn't really feeling it, so I'm switching to the last (so far hopefully) Shetland book, No7 in the series. Attending the funeral of Magnus Tait, DI Perez watches as torrential rain triggers a landslide that sweeps down to the sea. But along with the mud, a body is uncovered. Sounds like another great addition to a fantastic series!