Giving thanks for her Saturday morning sticker club! This book gets 5⭐️s already and I‘m not even at page 1 yet!
Deifio Very cute! 4h
Scochrane26 Hope you like this one. I loved it, as usual. 4h
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Giving thanks for her Saturday morning sticker club! This book gets 5⭐️s already and I‘m not even at page 1 yet!
These little parcels of loveliness are winging their way to very special people. I hope they arrive in time for the holidays - but if they don‘t…. Forgive me and remember I did post them in November! 🤣🤣
It has plenty of time to take the slow road! My #jolabokaflodswap is in the Mail. 👏🏼🎉👏🏼🎉👏🏼🎉
I dare not click on the link!! 🤣🤣
So this is going to be my January reading pile. Thank you SO much @Chelsea.Poole for giving me so much to choose from. Patrick Radden Keene was on my list last year and his new one looks fab, I listened to The Stacks interview Amanda Montell and she sounds very fab and Betty I know nothing about! Amazing list thank you Chelsea #newyearwhodis2022
Dear publishers - please make pretty bookmarks for every book I buy! 🤩
I popped into my local Indie to pick up my order ( tagged book) and then a telephone enquiry came in and she was occupied for 15 mins or so - which gave me time to browse before check out! Oops!
#newbookday
The jacket review says …” NDiaye excels at luscious, forensic descriptions of the ritualistic preparation of food” - think I‘m in for a treat!
When I leave our new house and walk down the lane - I feel like I‘m walking through a Miss Marple book!
#bookmail!
I love this series - and I‘m all caught up! How long can I leave book 6 on the shelf before it leapfrogs the TBR pile I wonder! 🧐
pickI can forgive a few historical bendings of the truth - this is of course fiction. I really enjoyed spending time in the Arctic with these women - seeing their vulnerability in nature actually give them the strength to shake off the constraints they've lived under in nineteenth century society. There's some great detail of the expedition - that helps you really feel the depth of cold a winter in the north can offer. Grab a blanket and dive in!
Because life‘s too short not to have PomPom lights on your bookshelves! 🤣
So lovey to hear your news @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks and admire your beautiful stationary! 🎃👍🏼🎃 #litsylove
Saw this in a bookshop today - it was fascinating. Each mathematician had a double page spread - on the right a photo of their chalkboard and on the left an interview about their work. Would make a fab Christmas present !
Saw this is a bookshop today. Don‘t think we‘re the target audience! We know how to do this without a manual! 🤣
If felt good to be back out in the world a bit today. #bookshopsrock
Oohh - three stacked this month 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
https://crimereads.com/the-best-debut-novels-of-the-month-november-2021/
This week I did my first #readingonlocation for nearly 2 years. I love finding a quiet reading space that adds something to my reading. This week I took the tagged book - all about a band of women travelling across the Arctic Circle to try to find Franklin. - to the Polar Museum, part of the Geological Dept at Cambridge University
A group of amazing Littens have put together a new account - @LitsyEvents ….. as a space to go and see all that‘s going on in this amazing community and reduce the risk of missing out ! Check it out. And a huge thank you from me for pulling it all together ♥️
#two4tuesday
1- Moving house this year put my goodreads goal in serious jeopardy! I‘d usually be done by now - but I think i‘ll be a close call on Dec 31!
2- I‘d love to read book 1 on the Wheel of Time series.
This books is starting off well! What a great list of characters - this could double as a nineteenth century careers department list for women! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
The British Library knows how to do a Christmas jumper ! 🥳
Uniqlo has just launched their Christmas PJs! Love the print !
pickA fictional imagining of the real life disappearance of Agatha Christie in the mid 1920s. It's a fun page turner with a few jarring niggles (Benedict hasn't quite got the voices right for the English describing the weather and i'm not 100% convinced Mrs Christie would have used the term "unreliable narrator" as often as she does in this book!). But the period detail was great and Benedict creates a very plausible explanation for the mystery!
pickA novelette which is sparse and plainly written - which creates such an evocative and precise moment in time and place. Every word on the page is important, but seems effortless. The characters and streets we met here, in 1985 Ireland, will stay with me for a long time - I don't know how Keegan did it in such few words!
Something to feel the wait time..!
https://www.tor.com/2021/11/12/wheel-of-time-first-turn-soundtrack/?fbclid=IwAR1...
so-soMoney laundering is just the start of the criminal activities that 'Uncle' Sheeky & family are involved in. But rather than a 'thriller' this is more about trust and the need for family. It's strong on evoking a time & place - from the bodega's of Brooklyn, to coffee shops and community bakeries. But the non linear time line is a little clumsy and the author, whilst pushing for authenticity has over complicated everything! Sometimes less is more!
Phew! Just got in there! Head over to @monalyisha and sign up for those last few spots. This is a fun one. The lovely Alyisha matches you up with a fellow Litten and you swap lists of the best things you‘ve read in 2021. Then in January- choose some things off the list you‘ve been given and you have some fab reading lined up for the first month of 2022. I‘ve participated for the last 2 years and it‘s been fabulous!
Image from Inkwell Threads
Handy T shirt if your SO needs some subtle hints! 🤣🤣🤣
https://inkwellthreads.com/products/all-i-want-for-christmas-is-books-tee?utm_so...
I so want to read this series - but I think I‘m going to get to the TV show first - I do t rate the speed at which I can read 14 chunksters! #book2screen
Couldn‘t resist these stamps - love this art work #litsylove
Time to sort out Christmas stamps! Love these ones #litsylove
It‘s blanket season! 👍🏼
Set your alarms for registration day!
I love this “swap” where you swap book recommendations and read from each others recommendations. It‘s a fab way to start a new year of reading. Come join in the fun!
@monalyisha is the queen of book people matching!
#newyearwhodis
Oh thank you thank you thank you @bookish_wookish more to look forward to this festive season. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
This is a super fun, low key swap that will ensure your 2022 starts off with bookish treats. ahead over to @bookish_wookish page to sign up 👍🏼
✔️ Just started the tagged book - only one chapter in
✔️ I discovered Storygraph this year and love it
✔️ Murder Isn‘t Easy - all about Agatha Christie as a forensic expert!
#weekendreads
Oh @candority I‘m so grateful to you for doing this again! One of my favourite books recently ( tagged) was discovered though this swap - thank you @jenniferw88 !
So of course I‘ve just signed up! If you fancy starting the year off discovering some great new reads - head over to @candority page and sign up too! #bestof2021swap
pickAlways good to discover a new series! Really liked being back in the Icelandic landscape - surrounded by lava flow, moss and the biting wind. This moved at a fast pace and introduced some characters that im sure will stay for the series. Whilst I enjoyed the writing, the plot was a little simplified and the ending a bit of an anti climax. Saying that - I'll definitely read book 2!
These are Molly Yeh‘s 12 must have cookbooks - drawn by the wonderful Jane Mount. Might pull my books out this weekend to pile up my favourite 12!
Wow - can‘t wait for this!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=25ECFdDHTFw&fbclid=IwAR1TdzAQgSGFC2USPCjM3w4EqiDCF...
Museum postcards got me through lockdown! I loved exploring museums collections - 1 card a day! I‘ve since become a bit addicted to them! These ones are sooo beautiful ♥️
Super cold outside - but the sun through the glass is a wonderful glow in which to read the first in a new Icelandic crime series. 👍🏼
My new little indie bookshop is in a village that I seem to need to drive through to go everywhere…. Which of course means I need to pull over and make a quick stop! #bookhaul!
#thoughtfulthursday
🎃 Good overall - with a few ups and a few downs!
🎃 our lounge furniture is arriving - the room has been empty and waiting for 4 months - so excited to see the room come together and to have somewhere cosy to cuddle up.
🎃 I‘m grateful my mum has got through the week - she bravely underwent a procedure yesterday and I‘m thankful she‘s feeling well.
How‘s things with you - @UwannaPublishme @StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego ?
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