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1. Family lunch, then road tripping with some friends - all the way across the border into NSW - only to cross immediately back over to visit Cactus Country… & maybe jump on a paddle steamer in Echuca
2. I‘ve been disappointed that a couple of promising looking fantasy books were series starters & not standalones (I took them back to the library unread)
3. I can remember lots - but this is the famous 5 adventure that I daydreamed about the most

A wee #bookhaul from Wellington. I found three Secret Seven hardbacks from the 1960s with paper dustjackets in a great condition. A Nesbit book I‘d been looking for and a Borrowers hardback that is in much better condition than the old paperback on my shelf. And an Angela Thirkell i have been eyeing up online 😍 There would have been more but i was sharing one suitcase with my husband 🤪!

What a nostalgic little read! I absolutely LOVED this series as a child and my parents have returned my copies… hilariously I have written my name inside the front cover about 27 times 🤣

Fully expecting the series to have some problematic passages in the 21st century, but I really enjoyed this one!

My sister @sebrittainclark and I have taken up the tradition of gifting books on Christmas Eve for Jolabokaflod and I also almost always give out at least a few books as Christmas gifts

The urge to WELL ACTUALLY some random man who I overheard say “there were 3 magic faraway tree books” while looking at this tree 🤐 the restraint! And on my birthday too 😂

Folio Society has me wavering on their eye wateringly expensive postage fee with this being announced so soon after Diana Wynne Jones‘ Charmed Life…

#2023Book67
This book is definitely a product of its time in terms of the language used. But my real problem with it is that all of the action took place in the last three chapters and the mystery was resolved immediately.

I‘m posting one book a day from my massive collection. No description, no reason for why I want to read it (some I‘ve had so long I don‘t even remember why!). Feel free to join in!

#ABookADay2023

I was 😍🤩 when I spotted these signed, first editions - I‘ve not seen signed Blyton‘s before. Definitely my Rare Book Fair highlight.

What says - “lived through a global pandemic” like using your cloth mask collection to fill in the gaps in a box of books? 🤔