Beach reading when it's not beach season is the best 😄😄😄

#monthlywrapup fir April.

Enjoying the nice weather and starting a new book ☺️☺️

Number 8 in the Brother Cadfael mysteries. Interesting twist - we don't start with a body or a crime, but a witness.

Keeping it vague, but I liked the ending when the real History suddenly shows up.

Enjoying the sun 😋

I was 15 pages into the book when I had the thought that you're not supposed to know what kid grows up to be Wolverine, lol

Really enjoying the art, so pretty 😍😍

#bookspinbingo list for April

A dark, gothic romance, based on the brides of Dracula. Loved the language and the atmosphere.

Bit of a slump month, imho. #monthlywrapup

Accidentally started the habit of finishing a library book on the way to the library...

Really good introduction to Spider-Gwen. And really, really good art.

Different book, different reading spot 😋

Enjoying a bit of outside reading 😄

Lots of good books this month 😊😊

#monthlywrapup

#WhereAreYouMonday In space!

Interesting book about the massacre of an isolated community by a band of Bigfoots. Loved the protagonist's journey and the format (diary entries mixed with interview excerpts), but the novel doesn't dig deep into its themes, especially the society breaking apart aspect.

#bookspinbingo #readyourtbr #offtheshelf @librarianna

Miss Marple solving a murder in a small village is always a good time. This one also has an interesting cast of characters and a rather clever puzzle mystery.

#serieslove2025 @Andrew65 @TheSpineView
#bookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks

Finished 7 books this month and almost had a bingo 😋

#monthlywrapup #bookspinbingo

Just started a new book ☺️☺️

#firstlinefridays @ShyBookOwl

"Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion."

Gethsemane Brown is a world class musician who finds herself stranded in the Irish countryside. Now she has to juggle her new job as music teacher/school orchestra conductor with investigating the death of her new ghost roommate. And then the murders start piling up 🤣

Maybe too many murders - the book could have a little less going on. 1/2 ⬇️⬇️⬇️

A very thoughtful, somber coming of age story. Ged is a talented young wizard, and well aware of it. He saves his village, attends wizard school, outwits a dragon, but also let's his pride get the better of him and unleashes evil into the world.

This one is a classic for a reason - the world and magic system are well realised and I loved to see Ged's character growth. The final confrontation with his shadow is also framed in an interesting way.

#bookspin list for February 😋
@TheAromaofBooks

A really cute queer retelling of Emma. It was such a nice, cozy read 😍😍😍

#WhereAreYouMonday

Enjoying a little trip to rural Ireland😶‍🌫️

#bookhaul Late Christmas present for myself 🙃😋

I've been enjoying Ryan North's FF run. Great art, fun sci-fi stories and the fact they're a family first at the forefront.

Also, dinosaurs 😍😍

And it was my #bookspin for this month.

Going with a re-read for my second book of 2025😊

#firstlinefridays @ShyBookOwl

It was a nice overview of pop culture during the 90's. It's a bit US/UK centered, but it covers a good range of topics: there's the first Iraq war, rave culture, the art scene, apocalyptic cults, Princess Di, the Internet starting to loom over everything. All in all, an interesting read.

#bookspinbingo #the52bookclub2025 #readyourtbr #offtheshelf

Getting back into #bookspinbingo. It's such a fun challenge 🤩

#firstlinefridays

Having fun with this gang 🤩

Finishing #adventrecommends with my favorite book this year. Harrow the Ninth is a total mindfuck and so entertaining and funny 🤩

Like the title says, this is one thing after another, making the overall plot a bit thin. But they're entertaining things (a bit tragic sonetimes) and I'm looking forward to read the rest of the series.

#adventrecommends

Every ten years, the six most talented magic users are recruited by the Alexadrian Society for very secret academic work.

Interesting story, compelling characters and a surprise twist before the cliffhanger ending (I thought this was a stand alone 🤷‍♀️).

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Another fave Christie book. This one is a departure from the usual formula: there's only one murder 🫨, it focuses on the alleged killer's psychology and ends it a good bit of courtroom drama.

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A bit of dark fantasy. This book follows people whose land has been invaded and now have to decide if they'll forge a new path ahead, or get stuck trying to get revenge for their people. Interesting read, with a sweet romance woved in.

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I'm really enjoying this series, despite the very meandering plots and the romance being a bit iffy. But the worldbuilding is cool, and there's a cool magic house and time traveling 🤷‍♀️

#adventrecommends @emilyrose_x

I also started a Discworld re-read this year and Mort is my favourite of the ones I read so far.

#adventrecommends

This was such a nice read! You'd think a book dealing with a pandemic and the post-apocaliptic world after woyld be grim, but the story focuses instead in the random connections people make and how small acts of kindness can reverberate throug peoples' lives.

Yes, there's some dark stuff going on, but it's not the point or the focus of the story.

#adventrecommends @emilyrose_x

Another new favourite!

Harry August keeps reliving his own life, but now the end of the world is coming.

I love the worldbuilding, especially the secret society of sort-of time travelers and all their traditions and customs. It also gets really tense in the end, in the best way.

#adventrecommends @emilyrose_x

I really dropped the ball on the Reading Africa challenge, but I did found a new author.

Paulina Chiziane is from Mozambique and a Camões prize winner. The book I read is not the tagged one, but it's about a mother and daughter and their lives between the colonial period and post independence.

Sent my #jolabokaflodswap today. Hope it doesn't take too long to arrive.

@MaleficentBookDragon

Two for one today ?

Patient Zero is an overview of infectious diseases through history and Quackery is about their "cures" ?

They're bith very informative and easy to read.

#adventrecommends

This one is a bit different from most Agatha Christie works - more a psichological thriller than a straightforward mistery - but is still one of her best.

#adventrecommends @emilyrose_x

I'm a big fan of Tessa Dare, she writes really fun, really sexy romances, and this one is one of her best.

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I followed along with Dracula Dayly and it was a fun way to get trhough this book.

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Soulless is the first volume in the Parasol Protectorate, a steampunk series with vampires, werewolves and a protagonist who is neither, but is extremely capable to defend herself with a parasol.

#adventrecommends

I've been re-reading Christie's books and there were a lot of good ones this year.

Death on the Nile is my favorite. I love the central love triangle and how long Christie takes establishing the characters and the relationships before getting to the murder.

#adventrecommends @emilyrose_x