I am posting one book per day from my extensive to-be-read collection. No description and providing no reason for wanting to read it, I just do. Some will be old, some will be new. Don‘t judge me - I have a lot of books. Join in if you want!
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pickThe 3rd in the Shardlake series and full of interesting facts. I did find the book repetitive in parts, there are only so many times that you can talk about the weather or visit your horse in the stables. It's quite amazing how trouble finds Shardlake or he finds trouble himself. Due to the similarities between the first three books, at this stage I don't feel inclined to carry on reading anymore in the series. It's a good 16thcentury period read.
pickIt can be daunting to dive into a series of novels when there have been thirteen previous titles and you‘re looking at book fourteen
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Been looking forward to this all day 😆
York do a big city read where the library give away copies of a certain book for people to read and they have events going on related to it and reading group discussions in all the different libraries. This is the perfect choice seeing as it‘s set in York! I‘m loving it. The main characters live in my area so I know the streets mentioned, makes it a vivid read.
pickCouldn‘t decide if I‘d read this before. However what a laugh I had . I believe this was her first book. I just loved it. I‘m on a quest to read her books when I find them in op shops or the library. When she described a holiday in Scotland I was right there with her, having spent many holidays their myself. Seems a lot of this book drawn from her own life. What a hoot.
I love the feistiness of Margaret of Anjou, Henry VI's queen, but I am not wowed by her parenting:
“Bonville and Kyriell were dragged in front of the court. Before the king could say anything—earlier he had promised to save their lives—Margaret turned to her son and asked what should be done with the two men; “Let them have their heads taken off,“ was the boy's cool reply.“
I ❤️ the Shardlake series and this one‘s on sale today. Highly recommended for any lover of English historical fiction.
I messed up the stopwatch….I forgot to stop it and went to bed. But I am guessing I read about 12-13 hours. I read the tagged book, half of the section for the Sunday Buddy Read and about 100 pages of The Eighth Life. What I had planned.
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