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#NoPlaceLikeHolmes

Yesterday‘s prompt #Bus #SchoolSpirit

This was just what I needed. And I‘m so glad I read it now since it‘s set over the summer. Daphne has just been left by her fiancé. She has moved into an apartment where the guy has just been left by his girlfriend

Daphne is counting down until she can leave this town where she knows no one. And what‘s she‘s counting down to is a read-a-thon that‘s she‘s organizing at the library where she works

And of course things happen in the 108 days

A book mostly about unrequited love, but also about how choices effect your life, faith, being different, astronomy and friendship.

Thomas is an older journalist and writer who gets interested in astronomy and a female astronomer that supposedly hunting a house. Grace is several decades his junior falling in love for the first time.

Another #Booker book read

#BoardingSchool #SchoolSpirit

#WeeklyForecast

Continue with my buddy reads; The Hound of the Baskervilles #NoPlaceLikeHolmes, Dark Fire #ShardlakeBR and Trans Like Me #SheSaid

I‘ve just started Blue Sisters and so far loving it

I also want to get to The Clue in the Broken Locket #NancyDrewBR

I just love this description of the oldest sister

Just started this, and I know I‘m going to love it when I love the first paragraph.

#SheSaid
@Riveted_Reader_Melissa

#BookReport

I continued with The Hound of the Baskervilles #NoPlaceLikeHolmes and Dark Fire #ShardlakeBR, and I started a new one, not pictured, Trans Like Me #SheSaid

I finished Enlightenment.

Surprisingly for me at least since everybody seems to love it, I DNFed The God of the Woods

I started Funny Story. I wanted to read it while it was still summer since it seemed like a summery book

Some people are natural storytellers.

#FirstLineFridays

#Library #SchoolSpirit

Too obvious?

I had no idea about the historic use of “they”

#SheSaid
@Riveted_Reader_Melissa

After visiting her parents grave, a woman makes the impulsive decision to stay at a monastery, and this turns into more than a few days. Escaping her life and failing marriage, she seeks the solitude and repetitiveness among the nuns. In the middle of this the monastery experience a mouse invasion, a person from her past comes back and a sister returns in a coffin.

This book will stay with me.

I‘m late in starting my #Booker reading

#UnpopularOpinion ‼️ I just can‘t. The writing is just not doing anything for me. I‘ve made it to page 58. I don‘t care about the characters. I‘m not sure if it‘s because I‘m reading the book right before it‘s due back at the library and I really want to read something else or if it‘s just the writing

While pregnant with her second child, Cusk decides to write how it was to be pregnant and become a mother. Cusk gives the unfiltered truth according to her, and not everyone took lightly to that.

What I took away from is was that it doesn‘t matter how many books you read about this, your pregnancy and child will not the fit what‘s written. And how hard that can be to figure things out and how lonely it can being alone with a child.

11 stories about Sherlock Holmes.

I loved that we got his first case since he‘s always THE Sherlock Holmes in the movies and series. We also get another early case. We also meet his brother, Mycroft and Professor Moriarty

#NoPlaceLikeHolmes

September‘s #BookSpinBingo card is ready

Both the spin numbers are buddy reads, #BookSpjn is with #SheSaid and #DoubleSpin is with #ShardlakeBR

Here‘s to another great reading month

September! Autumn! Where has the year gone?

A little late, but here‘s my #BookSpin, #DoubleSpin and BookSpinBingo list

Mostly buddy reads and books I own. I‘m trying to get my library books under control, but you would never guess that from this list.

#Teacher #SchoolSpirit

#WeeklyForecast

I will continue with buddy reads; The Dark Fire #ShardlakeBR and The Hound of Baskervilles #NoPlaceLikeHolmes

I‘ve just started Enlightenment and I‘ll see how that goes since I don‘t have the best track record with Sarah Perry

Afterwards I want to get to The Good of the Woods

Both library books are due back on Friday so we‘ll see how it goes

I suppose it would be good for her to meet other babies. As far as I knew, my daughter believed that she was the only one of her kind. I worried that the truth might come as something of a shock.

(Writing about attending toddler group)

I‘ve been having a slow day.

Mostly Reading.
Breakfast with tea and a BookTube video.
A 2 hour walk, and dropped by a cottage on the way home to buy a pastry. Off course I eat it straight away when got home
I‘ll do the same tomorrow
We have to be in the office 3 times a week now, and the increase from 2 to 3 days are hard, so apart from working I‘ll be taking it slow (re: Reading). I‘m going to a book launch on Thursday open to everyone

#BookReport

I continued with Dark Fire #ShardlakeBR and finished The Voyage Out #VirginiaBloomsberries

I‘ve almost finished A Life‘s Work

I‘m about halfway through Stone Yard Devotional and hope to finish today

Virginia Wolf‘s debut novel published in 1915. I‘m not sure how I feel about it, soft pick/ stretch so-so, so far going with the pick since I always was intrigued enough about the story to pick it up and continue reading.

Rachel travels to South America on her father‘s ship accompanied by her aunt and uncle. While on the trip it is decided that she will stay with her aunt once they reach South America.

Unlike her later novels this one has

Finished with this month‘s chapters for #ShardlakeBR

You know how to stop right in the middle of things @dabbe I really have to restrain myself to not keep reading

It‘s been awhile since I was this angry while reading a book, and the last time was when I read Invisible Women. Angry because this really highlights all the wrongs women have gone through all the way back to the Greeks. Women has only been seen as carriers of babies and mothers, and anyone else are seen as threats. Even if things are far from perfect in 2024, I‘m still happy that I‘m living now.

And the suffragettes, I knew they were fighting

Nine is an orphan pickpocket who has been taken in by Pockets. He wants gifts from his crew every day. One day Nine steals a tiny house. Only it‘s starts growing and when she knocks at the door she‘s let in only to be told that the one that‘s knocks at the door will brake the curse. Nine might be in for more than she bargained for, for breaking a curse is never easy

This was a fun read and I‘m already waiting on the second book from the library

#WeeklyForecast

I want to continue Dark Fire #ShardlakeBR and finish Rhe Voyage Out #VirginaBloomsberries

I‘ve just started A Life‘s Work and want to continue that

I want to get a start on my first read from the Booker Longlist with Stone Yard Devotional

At first I thought this was a criticism of colonialism, but then they continued to talk about the suffragettes and women‘s vote, so maybe it‘s a metaphor for women‘s situation?

In my intro it said that one could find references to several authors and among them Ibsen. In his play “A Doll‘s House” Nora is called in the original the “little lark bird” by her husband and a lark bird would be kept in a cage

Or maybe I‘m reading to much into this?

#BookReport

I continued with the buddy reads; Dark Fire #ShardlakeBR and Unwell Women #SheSaid which I hope to have finished before tomorrow‘s weeklong forecast

I finished The Ghost Ship

I read So Late in the Day, My Name is Lucy Barton and The House at the Edge of Magic. These last two where the first books in different series and I‘m definitely continuing with both

Cleghorn has turned her attention to diethylstilboestrol (DES), a synthetic oestrogen.

Who could ever thought that this was possible? I‘m speechless

I raced through this novel, there‘s just something about Strout‘s writing that captivated me

Lucy Barton is looking back on her life and especially focusing on a time she spent in hospital when her mom came to visit even if they hadn‘t spoken in years. Her mom tells her stories about people from her childhood. In between Lucy will tell other stories as well

About mother-daughter relationships and their complexities

I think it‘s time for me to realize that Keegan isn‘t for me. This is the 3rd book I‘ve read and every time I feel a little underwhelmed. It‘s hard to explain but I always feel that I‘m missing something since I don‘t love them like so many others.

Our protagonist has discovered a cursed house and its inhabitants is going over the curses.

This is one of the last one, and I guess we all can relate to the horribleness of this

I have some time before the Rachel Cusk Event starts later today.

So to pass the time after work I‘m sitting in a cafe and has just started a new book

This prologue certainly pulled me in

It‘s the 1840s and Scotland is going through huge changes. For landowners it‘s more economic to have sheep on their land that tenants. The priest John Ferguson takes the job to travel to an island with only one inhabitant to tell him that he need to relocate. A book about these two men who don‘t speak each other‘s language and how John is learning Ivar‘s language so they can start communicating. There‘s something tender about this short novel

I hope this isn‘t true

#WeeklyForecast

Continue Unwell Women #SheSaid and Dark Fire #ShardlakeBR

I want to finish The Ghost Ship

I want to read So Late in the Day and My Name is Lucy Barton, maybe I can even read The house at the Edge of Magic

#BookReport

I continued Dark Fire #ShardlakeBR and Unwell Women #SheSaid

I finished Little Rot

I read The Password to Larkspur Lane #NancyDrewBR and Parade

I‘m currently reading The Ghost Ship

Well imagine that

Statistics from the 1910 US census

Miri and Leah.
As Miri tells of the time after Leah came back from a sea mission. How Leah has changed.
Leah tells the story of the sea mission and how something went wrong and she and three colleagues stayed in the submarine for months.

What is love? That ending really had me asking that question

And several thing that was revealed, had me asking: Did Leah‘s employer plan this and what they the experiment?

Like some of Cusk‘s other novels that I‘ve read, this focuses on art and creation. There‘s several artist named G, some men and some women, and she looks at how society treats them and the expectations of motherhood.

I‘m going to an event with Cusk next Wednesday and now I feel prepared. Maybe I‘ll even gets some new insights then

In the gardens of the Palais des Tuileries, a butterfly fluttered in the warm spring air. Soaring, turning, dipping, it flew over the formal lawns and beds of red and yellow tulips, past the elms and the holm oaks, before coming to rest in a haze of lavender.

(l love butterflies and can‘t you see that)

The staycation is over. Actually it ended on Monday when I had my first workday at 3 weeks of vacation.

So how did my reading go?

I finished my current reads, A Flat Place & Caledonian Road. I kept up with my buddy reads Nancy Drew, Shardlake , Sherlock Holmes and started Unwell Women #SheSaid

From my stacks I read the ones with dots next to them.
So 8 of 19 that I owns and 5 of 10 library books, so in total 13 books

At other times the museum is crowded and the atmosphere completely changes. People push and shove each other trying to see, like people trying to see the aftermath of a car crash or some equally gruesome spectacle. They take photos with their phones, like voyeurs, and in fact sometimes I think they don‘t even see what it is they‘re photographing. They‘re just making a copy to take away with them, and somewhere in that process they turn what is

A look into the country life of the British authors, Virginia Wolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosalind Lehmann

Most of the time is spent with Wolf, starting in 1917 as she recovers from illness. This was a quiet time in her life and since the notes from this period is different from the ones she made before and after, they are usually excluded by biographies. So I found this period interesting.

I hadn‘t heard about Warner and Lehmann before

#WeeklyForcast

Continue the buddy reads Dark Fire #ShardlakeBR and Unwell Women #SheSaid

I want to finish Little Rot

I want to read The Password to Larkspur Lane #NancyDrewBR (Faded Page) and to read Parade. Parade is due back at the library on Friday, but I‘m also going to an event with Cusk next week

Hopefully I‘ll get a start on The Ghost Ship

The Victorian men really didn‘t want women to read now, did they?

#SheSaid