

3.75 🌟
Some useful things in here but the photos are gorgeous.
3.75 🌟
Some useful things in here but the photos are gorgeous.
Chapter 11 - Tom Lefroy.
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Pinched from FB.
Chapter 10 - Novels and Sensibility
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Chapter 9 - Youth, Beauty and Housekeeping!
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Chapter 8 - Marriage - Cassandra & Tom 💔
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Too many favourite authors to choose from, but I ❤ his Oscar Wilde Mysteries. #pop22
5 🌟 and read in time to hear her talk this evening!
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Chapter 7 - Napoleonic Wars.
In love with Lucy here... I cannot emphasise this enough! 😂😂😂
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Not quite what I was expecting - it's more about his ancestors than him - but I still enjoyed it.
4 1/2 🌟
Just found another fun, no time pressure reading challenge!
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/73bb273b-ab5b-4a5a-bf28-573b5ee...
Chapter 6 - Philadelphia Hancock & co.
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It's a while since I posted about this show, so thought I'd amend this with a new series of Beat the Chasers starting Monday! Plus it's related to books 😂
Anne won't be on the new series as she had Covid during filming, so Issa replaced her.
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Chapter 5 - Reading School for Girls
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Chapter 4 - a girl's "accomplishments"
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Chapter 3 - boys, boys, boys! (and income)
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Chapter 2 - a very cold winter and Jane's early years.
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Chapter One - Parsonages and Potatoes 😂😂😂
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TODAY starts the buddy read of this book, starting with the INTRODUCTION (not Chapter One)!
It tells us of the importance of houses in Jane's novels and life, and also that everyone has their own version of Jane, and that this is Lucy's!
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Not a book to read at the start of a pandemic, but a few years down the line is OK 😂.
Turns out coronavirus has been around since at least 2006 but it's managed to be contained, only becoming a pandemic when it escaped Asia.
#Tbrdeckofcards #titlebeginswithe @Clwojick
#ReadingAfrica2022 #gabon @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB
4 🌟
Just bought this at this bookshop!
Just some of the cards and presents for my birthday! Currently in Norfolk so I suspect there may be more when I get home tomorrow!
Yes, I read this book out of order so that I could get #Botswana completed for #ReadingAfrica2022, but I'm definitely going to be going back to the start!
5 🌟
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Visited this independent bookshop today & bought this! 😂
4 1/2 🌟 because when I started reading it I quickly remembered who the murderer is, as I've watched Suchet's version too many times 😂😂😂
Using for the above #pop22 prompt, as well as #52Booksin52Weeks #Tbrdeckofcards #bilingualcharacter @Clwojick @Cinfhen @Cortg @KarenUK @Kalalalatja @4thhouseontheleft @Megabooks @Laughterhp @squirrelbrain @RaeLovesToRead
She Said won for April (it was up against Sugar, but I think the things I learnt from She Said will stay in my mind longer, although it was very close).
But The Priory of the Orange Tree won overall as I loved all the fantasy elements and I could picture the settings, characters etc. It was also a much lighter read than She Said, even though it was longer!
#readingbracket2022
Any UK fans of Jay Blades / The Repair Shop interested in a book tour?
Going to see Secrets of Dumbledore later today... wearing odd socks to represent Grindelwald (Slytherin) and Newt (Hufflepuff) 😂😂😂
Top 54
Left 85
Right 96
#roll100 @PuddleJumper
Will probably get to 54 and 96 as I have 2 holidays in May and don't want to take the hardback (85)
4 1/2 🌟
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#booked2022 #thinkgreek @Cinfhen @4thhouseontheleft @BarbaraTheBibliophage
#pop22 #constellationintitleorcover @RaeLovesToRead @Kalalalatja @Megabooks @KarenUK @Laughterhp @Cortg
I think I've remembered to tag everyone! 😂😂😂
Pic taken from Lucy's instagram.
The #jahome buddy read will start on the 7th May and will be a chapter-a-day (38 in total). #PemberLittens
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Thank you @Leniverse for everything in my #speculativespringswap - I love it all! I'm going to use the tagged for #tigeronthecover #pop22. And After 8's are my favourite chocolates so they'll be saved til last!
Thanks @Avanders for organising!
Tagging #pop22 crew - @Cinfhen @4thhouseontheleft @Laughterhp @Kalalalatja @Cortg @KarenUK @Megabooks @squirrelbrain @RaeLovesToRead
4 1/2 ?. Two things prevent this from being 5 ?, the first being that Ottilia is too "perfect" (she doesn't seem to have many flaws), and there's no link between the title and plot.
Second book for April's #roll100 @PuddleJumper
#Tbrdeckofcards #52Booksin52Weeks #relatedtothewordgold @Clwojick
#booked2022 #murdermystery @Cinfhen @4thhouseontheleft @BarbaraTheBibliophage
Today's chapter made me finish the book! 😂
4 🌟 & I'm definitely a Thornton girl!
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"Above, there circled my first seagull." ?
4 1/2 ?
#Tbrdeckofcards #52Booksin52Weeks #publishedbysimonandschuster @Clwojick
#ReadingAfrica2022 using it for #southsudan but will also work for #sudan, #egypt, #rwanda, #uganda and #tanzania @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB
#booked2022 #involvesanexploration @Cinfhen @4thhouseontheleft @BarbaraTheBibliophage