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Teresereading

Teresereading

Joined January 2017

Love reading, history, family history, gardening, knitting etc. From Tasmania, a special island at the bottom of the world. Insta: teresereading
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A Small Place | Jamaica Kincaid
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If you go to Antigua as a tourist,this is what you will see.

#firstlinefridays
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Strike Your Heart | Amelie Nothomb
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Marie liked her name.
#firstlinefridays
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ShyBookOwl 💜 1w
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Untitled | Untitled
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1. Working in a sawmill stacking timber age15
2. My daughter and I sell books and clothes etc on eBay
3 sometimes, I enjoyed the opportunity to work from home during and post Covid
#wondrouswednesday
@Eggshells

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A Dangerous Language | Sulari Gentill
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She never knew she was found by a man leading a footsore bull.
#firstlinefridays
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1979 | Val McDermid
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Fat flakes blew into his face, cold wet kisses on his cheeks and eyelids.
#firstlinefridays
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The Time Traveler's Wife | Audrey Niffenegger
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Oh no! I read this book years ago. On my recent flight home it was almost my first ever binge but j missed the last 20.minutes when we started landing.
While I knew it was only 6 episodes, I didn't know it had been cancelled! Now I have just caught up only to realise it's been left hanging .......

TheLudicReader Is it any good? The movie they made was terrible. 1mo
MrsMalaprop @TheLudicReader It was a shocker. Would love to know if this series is better? 1mo
Teresereading Well because it ended mid story (the wedding) I‘m a bit 1mo
Teresereading Perplexed. I was enjoying it but there were some ‘ick‘ bits about older male 6 Yo girl which they try to address, I think our awareness has changed since book was published. There‘s a lot of loose ends/ foreshadowing that are left hanging because it didn‘t proceed to S2. 1mo
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Shame: A Novel | Salman Rushdie
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Found a Rushdie. Forgot that I had started a stack of books for this challenge.
Back from overseas and a yucky virus found me on the plane trip home 🏡 🙃
#authoramonth

Bklover Oh no! Hope you feel better soon! I‘m starting Midnight‘s Children tonight for #aam. Get plenty of rest! 1mo
Teresereading I loved Midnights Children 1mo
Jeg Those plane trips can get you! Hope you are better soon. 1mo
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I was born on an enchanted island.
Possibly the best first sentence ever!
#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

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Nick | Michael Farris Smith
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A heavy morning fog draped across Paris and there was the corner Cafe.
#FirstlineFriday
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We Own The Sky | Luke Allnutt
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She read up a storm before she left.

A book I just picked up from the hotel swap shelf!
#firstlinefridays #Amsterdam
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ShyBookOwl She's my kinda lady 📚❤️ 2mo
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The Red Pony | John Steinbeck
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At daybreak Billy Buck emerged from the bunkhouse and stood for a moment on the porch looking up at the sky.
#Firstlinefridays @ShyBookOwl

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The Shadow of Your Smile | Mary Higgins Clark
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Train journey
#currentlyreading

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That Lady | Kate O'Brien
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A random plaque on a hill above the palace in Madrid lead me to Kate O'Brien. Love these random book discoveries.

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Life or Death | Michael Robotham
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Audie Palmer had never learned how to swim.
#firstlinefridays
@ShyBookOwl

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Mehso-so

Blackwater is set in my home state so I was keen to read it. It uses elements of our convict past to create a creepy Gothic/Stephen King type tale. Disconcerting

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I never liked getting my hands dirty.
#firstlinefridays
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Teresereading On my flight to Belgium, I watched a documentary about Carol‘s husband and son travelling across US on a posthumous book tour 3mo
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I was at a dinner party in the summer of 1997.
#firstlinefridays
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Wizard of Earthsea | Ursula K Le Guin
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Monday commute
#authoramonth

Smrloomis This cover is AMAZING! 😍 3mo
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So Shall You Reap | Donna Leon
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On a Saturday morning in early November, Guido Brunetti, reluctant to go outside, was at home, trying to decide which of his books to remove from the shelves in Paola‘s study.
#firstlinefridays
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The Albatross | Nina Wan
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I forget why I went to Whistles that day.
#FirstLineFridays
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Business As Usual | Jane Oliver
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From the Court Column of the Daily Post,30th July, 1931.
#Firstlinefridays
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Spa Decameron | Fay Weldon
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Yuletide Break Special Offer for High Achievers
#FirstlineFridays
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The Priory | Dorothy Whipple
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It was almost dark.

It‘s been a few weeks, as I have been overseas. Just finished the first chapter of this read-along.

#firstlinefridays
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Call Me Evie | JP Pomare
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So new it isn't listed. Twisty tale set against a backdrop of lockdown. Read it in 2 sittings. In Melbourne for Easter break, very appropriate 📚
#ARC

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A Coffin for the Canary | Gwendoline Butler
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Before I knew what they were about they had me off the 9.20 train from Harrow and on to the train named Corruption.
#firstlinefriday
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Teresereading Halfway through and inspector Coffin is yet make an appearance 6mo
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Youth | J M Coetzee
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Mehso-so

An interesting if slightly depressing read. An emigrant and would be poet turned computer programmer struggles to reinvent himself in London.

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The accused, Chelsea Liew, was in court.
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Jeg I enjoy this series. 7mo
rwmg A wonderful series 7mo
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Youth | J M Coetzee
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Thank you!! 7mo
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There are lots of ways to start a story, but this one begins with a chicken.
#firstlinefridays #firstlinefriday
@ShyBookOwl

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Convincing Florence | Celine L a Simpson
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I had spent the last ten minutes not doing any work at all.
#firstlineFridays
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Zigzag Street | Nick Earls
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📚 Zig Zag Street by Nick Earls
✍️ Gabrielle Zevin, Markus Zusak, Zadie Smith
🎥 Zoolander
Band ZZ Top
🎵 Zanzibar by Billy Joel, Ziggy Stardust by David Bowie
I was surprised to find a few favourites in ‘a‘
@CBee #manicMonday #letterz

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Y is for Yesterday | Sue Grafton
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📚 Y is for Yesterday
✍️ Yangtze Choo and Yasmin Boland (I studied English Lit with her at Uni)
🎥 You‘ve Got Mail
👩‍🎤 Yusuf Islam
🎵 [Mellow] Yellow, Yesterday
#manicmonday #lettery
@CBee

Just a bit late….

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#litsylove
Happy 5th anniversary #LitsyLove
Such a great group. Not such a great photo…..

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Awesome photo ❤️❤️❤️ 8mo
StayCurious I love this! 8mo
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Tuesday's Socks | Alison Ragsdale
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1. Shrines of Gaiety Kate Atkinson
2. Because I love her writing
$twofortuesday
@TheSpineView

TheSpineView Thanks for playing! 8mo
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Collected Stories | Shirley Hazzard
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The Fergusons‘ door opened on a burst of light and voices, and onEvie‘s squeal of surprise -quite as if, Minna thought, we had turned up uninvited.
#firstlinefridays @ShyBookOwl
#bookclub

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1. Hard one - multitasking?
2. Family, my cat, art
3. Gardening, family history research
#wondrouswednesday @Eggs

Eggs #3 Agree! 8mo
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The Painted Drum: A Novel | Louise Erdrich
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Pickpick

Ebook library loan. Great read, an author new to me.
#authoramonth #louiseerdrich

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The Haunting | Margaret Mahy
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Poignant tale with a long lost relative.

thegirlwiththelibrarybag Great cover! Is it 80s or 90s? 8mo
Rissreads That is an awesome cover! 8mo
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I was approaching sixty when questions about what it means to be happy assumed a special significance in my life, setting me on a new path that led to a careful re-reading of Jane Austen's six novels.
A long one!
#firstlinefridays @ShyBookOwl

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Vanity Fair | William Thackeray
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📚 Vanity Fair, Very Hungry Caterpillar
✍️ Veronica Henry, Victor Hugo
🎥 Vertigo
Band The Veronicas
🎵 Veronica by Elvis Costello
#ManicMonday #letterv @CBee

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Grown Ups | Marie Aubert
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Reading on my commute
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Jane Eyre | Charlotte Bront
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There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.
#firstlinefridays
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📚 Tagged book and Under Milkwood Dylan Thomas
✍️ Ursula Le Guin
🎥 UP!
Band U2 and UB40
🎵 Under the Milky Way by The Church
#manicmonday
#letteru
@CBee

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The final tally!

Jeg Wow. Well done. 9mo
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Morgan's Run: A Novel | Colleen McCullough
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‘We are at war!‘ cried Mr James Thistlewaite.
#firstlineFridays
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Aussie Jingle Bells | Colin Buchanan
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And I've opened it. Amazing sleuthing by my #secretsanta. Love it, thank you so much ❤️💗💖
Happy Christmas to all!

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📚 Tess of the D‘Urbevilles
✍️ Thomas Hardy, J R R Tolkien
📺 Ted Lasso
👩‍🎤 Taylor Swift, The Travelling Wilburys
🎵 Thunder Road, Tiny Dancer
#ManicMonday
@CBee

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West with Giraffes | Lynda Rutledge
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Miracle Giraffes Ride Hurricane at Sea
#firstlinefridays @ShyBookOwl

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Reading Challenge | Lesley Yates
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thegirlwiththelibrarybag Well done!! 9mo
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My Mad Fat Diary | Rae Earl
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This is my fat, mad teenage diary, volume 1 -1989.
#firstlinefridays @ShyBookOwl

I hadn‘t heard of this, but we went to a live Hard Quiz show and Rae was one of the contestants. Very funny woman who lives locally. Curious so I borrowed from the library.