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1) loved London, miss going there, wrong side of the Atlantic these days.
2) warmer than expected, a little over 70. No rain. Cloudy.
3) I haven't been on very many bad dates, but the dude I had a crush on in upper secondary made for a pretty awkward one once. Just sandwiches, coffee, and slow conversation.
4) two cats who are both babey despite being tennish years old
5) ok!
@howjessreads #friyayintro

Day 1: #7Covers7Days #covercrush

I remember buying this because I was intrigued by the cover.

Would you like to play @sudi?

Thanks for the tag @Kalalalatja.

#7days7covers #covercrush

Thanks for the tag @RowReads1 🤗

These are my all time favorite covers both by the same author. They have cutouts in the cover. Very ingenious.

I am late to the game. If you want to play consider yourself tagged!

It‘s been a stay at home and rest kind of day. Lots of reading and audiobook listening. #endometriosis

This is the book I‘ve picked out to read for tomorrow.

1) I've recommended Watchmaker to more people than I have any other book. Most have loved it. If you haven't read it, you should.
2) avengers endgame? It was a while ago, but I've been laid up for a month now.
3) watermelon, lime and mint salad. Or peach, farro & kidney bean salad if it needs to be real food.
4) 2 biological. 5 total. They're all much older than I am.
5) how tho? I'm unfamiliar with these here customs.
#friyayintro @howjessreads

I enjoyed it to a large degree. Good character development and Katsu was super cute but some odd plot points that I found a little jarring and I am left with so many unanswered questions. So frustrating.

I honestly don't know how I feel. One part of me loved it. The world building, the London setting, Gilbert and Sullivan, Katsu, the science. One part of me found simplistic the choice of the villain, Grace reduced to a plot object and not a fully fledged character she started as, the ending is... well.. rosy and I don't know, I usually catch on, but the Mori/Thaniel, I missed. So 3.5 ⭐️ #booked2019 #summer #bookgiftedtoyou

A third done. Still keeping interested. It's read with ice water Saturday here.
@LeahBergen i love the bookmark and the card. I finally went to get the mail this morning. 🙂
#summerreading

No sunshine today but I'm hoping it will be back soon. Appropriate bookmark for this book, the creation of a fellow Litten a few secret 🎅 ago. So far, i'm intrigued by the plot. Lots of telling which slows down the narrative, still i'm gonna keep going.

Next book is Sherry Thomas arc's of the up-coming Lady Sherlock #4. Next #booked2019 is #bookgiftedtoyou #bookedsummer

#summerreading
@Cinfhen @BarbaraTheBibliophage @4thhouseontheleft

I found it difficult to get into this book, but after the first few chapters I really enjoyed it.

Today is the end of 10 day Japanese national holiday week (the Heisei emperor abdicated and the Crown Prince has ascended the throne.) So nice surprise to find the watchmaker is Japanese in this wondrous mashup of historical fiction and fantasy set in Victorian London! All I will say is I need the clockwork octopus, and there is a very sweet gay romance as well. Enjoy!

1- I read it sometimes (once I start I can't seem to stop!)
2- Tagged! (Rumor has it there's one in the works 🤞)
3- rarely but print when I do
4- sure, sometimes
5- I've never seen one in the wild 😭
Hello and consider yourself tagged!
#HelloThursday @wanderinglynn

Not sure how I feel about this one. I liked the setting and all the clockwork, but I didn't 'click' with any of the characters. Most of Thaniel's chapters were jumpy and scattered.

I‘m ready for a lovely Spring day! I'm going to read outside for awhile! 💜📚💜

Part 7/9 of the home-library tour continues. ☺️

Do you own any of these? Have you read any?

#MrBooksBooks

Today in Kansas we‘re having some California weather! And a little bit of Spring is peeping through the ground!!

So excited about my Book Fairy box!! It was a present I bought myself since I haven't participated in a Litsy book exchange in a long time!
#IBelieveInBooksFairies #BookFairyBox #BookishGifts #BookishBox

Started this one last night - interesting so far

#friyayintro @howjessreads

1. Tagged.
2. Nope. Just working!
3. Beige because it has no pizzazz and looks horrible on me.
4. No clue!
5. Tagging some new Littens! @Anomis02 @teebe @Hannah8 @Gooders @S_Roy @megnews @cokersam

Happy Friday everyone! Hope your weekend is all book!💜💜💜💜📚📚

5 out of 5

I loved this book. It had such a lovely charm and I loved the characters of Mori and Thaniel

Everything was described so perfectly without being too much and the story when along at a perfect pace, very exciting but still easy to follow

I found Grace's character to be selfish and horrid but the ending felt right

Such a fun book! I really loved the creativity of the static luminiferous aether and the effects it has on the world. The characters were really fun and I just wanted them to be happy.

Sunny after a week of rain, but it's definitely fall now 🍂. Stopped by the cafe but didn't have my heavy bowie book, so rereading Watchmaker on my phone because it's my fucking favourite, that's why.

A quirky little genre-defying tale. Is it historical fiction? Mystery? Fantasy? A love story? Yes. A bit of all of those, but not entirely any one of them. The characters are well-developed and interesting, although I didn‘t find any of them particularly likable. The plot is as intricate as clockwork.

Steampunk, Victorian London, Japan, politics, class, love, friendship, clairvoyance, even kind of time travel of a sort, are all crammed into this story. I loved parts and was utterly confused by others. It is well written and I liked the friendship between main characters Thaniel and Mori. Other elements not so much. I didn‘t love this but suspect I will be thinking about it for a while. I also want a clockwork octopus now 🐙!

Starting this next but I‘ve read mixed reviews. Have you read and enjoyed this?

Such a pretty cover. Has anyone read this book? Is it good?

I enjoyed this story overall. It‘s a pick, with a few caveats: the ending doesn‘t quite deliver, swapping some of the carefully described pseudo-science for unnecessary & unexplained ‘magical‘ devices; and I‘m not sure about the handling of racism & racial stereotyping (sometimes felt like there was weird blurring between character inner monologues and the authorial voice). Curious to know what others think...

Another book that I absolutely loved! Set in Victorian England, the main character receives a pocket watch under mysterious circumstances and later has his life saved when the watch alarms just before an explosion. This leads him to search out the watchmaker, who's rather mysterious himself, and what follows is a fabulous story that I won't spoil at all. I can definitely see myself reading this book again, though & that's the mark of a good read.

It‘s like someone has looked into my soul 😄 “Grace rubbed her hair and felt like a Philistine for wanting rain. Throughout the winter she always believed that she was a summery sort of person. Unfortunately, this was not true... she was sick of being too hot. The sky showed no sign of greying, so she had resolved to spend the day in the cool of the library”.

Started this one now and enjoying it so far. Character and setting grabbed me straightaway & there are already several ~strange goings-on~ at the Home Office... I‘m basically happy! I think it will be a good holiday read.

Every day for 7 days, post the cover of one of your favorite books. No words. No explanations.

#7favesin7days / day 4

This was just the literary fix I needed. It scored 3s on GR but was a 4.5 for me. Put me in Victorian London with beautiful clockwork creations & an earnestly loveable protagonist, the plot can be as slow as thick custard but I‘m still delighted 🤗 This is a very wistful fantasy. A mystery slowly develops, the unravelling of it in the final chapters is a little Inception-ish. If you like Dickens plus Inception this could be for you.

Clever and atmospheric, sometimes baffling. I loved the excursion to 19th centuryJapan. I thought the plot had way more complications than it needed, not unlike a fancy watch...

#audiowalking this morning with my sweet daughter.

Spent my Saturday morning finishing up this read for #LMPBC. I'm a little conflicted after finishing it despite it being a very well-crafted novel. Magical realism in Victorian England ✔️ Elegant, dark prose ✔️ Witty, well-constructed characters ✔️ Historial fiction ✔️ Plot...❌ It didn't flow for me and felt a bit forced, it lost me.. overall, 3/5 ⭐

Will be sending this out to you @Dulcinella so it gets to you for June! 🙏 Thanks @oOArankaOo 💕

Maybe just maybe I shouldn't encourage #huxleythecat to sit on my books? 🤔

#currentlyreading #booksnbooze #bookclub

I should hope not!
#quote #introvert #bookworm

I quite enjoyed this even though there were some plot holes and messy writing at times. I enjoyed the imagery, particularly of Katsu.

#LMPBC time before bed. 141/318. I'm in awe of the detail in this novel!

All ready to start my #LMPBC May book! @danibolahood your lovely bookjig is in place, I love it! 😍 @oOArankaOo @Simona @Dulcinella @suvata Happy reading, ladies!

Yay! My May book for #LMPBC is in 🎉

@Simona @oOArankaOo @Dulcinella @suvata

My pick for #steampunk #booked18 but I can‘t review it, because this is also the book for my #lmpbc #groupT

I sincerely wanted to like this book. It has a good premise and lots of interesting elements, but it is very difficult to follow. Even now that I have finished it, much of the main plot is unclear to me. It reads like a rough draft full of the author's ideas but not yet organized into a cohesive story. This image is pulled from the Internet (Society 6) to depict Katsu, the mechanical octopus who plays a role in the book.

Loved (re-reading) this book! So many nice, filmic scenes, combined with steampunk and Victorian London. Win-win-win.
All marked up and ready to go its merry way tommorow for #round002 of #LMPBC!

This book was so good. I Cannot Even. My favourite moment is when MC calls the maker by his first name, it was such an intense yet vulnerable moment and everything about this was perfect! The aspects of the Japanese culture and 1880s England... just wow. I loved this.

Just over 100 pages left. Will send it to you by Wednesday or so, @Simona !
#lmpbc #litsypostalbookclub #round002

"I feel rather as though God has put some malicious booby traps into everyday objects." - Akira Matsumoto

Surely, "normal" people would've shares this sentiment during the scientific revolution if the late 19th and early 20th century.
My 21st century mind is baffled just reading about and trying to imagine an experiment being carried out xD

I'm really enjoying marking up my #LitsyMPBC pick and learning a thing or two myself in the process.
#LMPBC #round2