#7Days7Covers #CoverCrush

Day # 6

Who else wants to play? @keepingupwiththepenguins , have you been tagged yet? Post 7 covers that you love over 7 days; no explanations. Try to tag someone new each day. 😀

#FolioSociety

How my Friday night is shaping up.

😆😆

#7Days7Covers #CoverCrush

Day # 5

Who wants to play along? @Aimeesue , have you been tagged? Post 7 covers that you love over 7 days; no explanations. Try to tag someone new each day. 😄

#7Days7Covers #CoverCrush

Day # 4

@MicheleinPhilly , have you been tagged yet? 🤔 Post 7 covers that you love over 7 days; no explanation. Tag a new person to play each day.

Oh oh, #NYRBBookClub. I read Part One of this and HATED it. 😬😬

Does it get any better? Did I bail too soon?

#7Days7Covers #CoverCrush

Day # 3

Let‘s see ... @mklong , have you been tagged yet? Post 7 covers you love over 7 days, with no explanation, and tag a new person with each day‘s post. 😃

#7Days7Covers #CoverCrush

Day # 2 of posting a cover that I love with no explanation (that last part is hard 😆).

@rubyslippersreads , I‘ll tag you to play along as well! Tag a new person with each day‘s post.

#7Days7Covers #CoverCrush

Day # 1

Thanks for the tags @BarbaraBB and @CarolynM (I asked the latter for a tag! 😆😘😘).

Okay, @Melissa_J . Are you playing yet? 7 days, 7 book covers you love with no explanation. Tag someone new for each day of your posts. And go!

Woohoo! Congratulations, @GrilledCheeseSamurai , on your big 100k! 🎉🎉🎉 What a great giveaway! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

What does Litsy mean to me? I must say, it has very much become a social “checking in” time for me over the last couple of years and I look forward to seeing what everyone is up to (and reading) each day.

I‘ll tag a “new-to-me” Litsy user, @DavidDiamond !

#SixDigitSamurai

Well, it‘s not really a #ChippyTea ... it‘s more of a “lazy lunch at home” tea. 😆

#RedRoseSeptember

#Tubthumping 🛀 📚
#RedRoseSeptember

It‘s time, everyone! Time to vote on our #NYRBBookClub October pick!

I hope you like what I picked. 😬

I seldom make the effort to do these, but I‘ll do this one for you @vivastory ! 😆😆

1. The tagged book; Blood Meridian; A Little Life (and many, many more).
2. 84, Charing Cross Road; The Diary of Anne Frank; Lolita; Anne of Green Gables.
3. By TBR, do you mean unread books in my house? Over a thousand. 😆
4. In Bed With the Georgians. 4 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
5. I‘ll tag whoever else would like to play!

#WondrousWednesday

Oops.
#BookMail

#FurrowedMiddlebrow
#DeanStreetPress

Currently reading!

In 1924, 171 popular authors of the day were asked to contribute to the teeny, leather bound library of Queen Mary‘s Dollhouse in Windsor Castle. This previously unknown story by Vita Sackville-West was her contribution and is reproduced here for the first time (with beautiful Art Deco-esque illustrations). It‘s an absolute delight!

Thanks again for this lovely swap gift, @writerlibrarian !

My current buddy-read with @shawnmooney .

I‘m really enjoying it so far (but will HE? He‘s been on a bailing streak 😬).

#PersephoneBooks

Congratulations on the great big Litfluence, @Megabooks ! 😘😘

I would have to pick the tagged read as my favourite of the summer (thus far), just because of the glossary of “dirty” Georgian slang included at the back of the book.

I‘m off to fasten another button on my blouse or else I‘ll be showing off my ‘apple dumplin shop‘ and looking like a ‘bawdy basket‘. 😆😆

#25Etsy

Oooo, I‘m LOVING the feel of this month‘s #NYRBBookClub pick, you guys! I‘m at the halfway point and finding it hard to put down. It‘s quite warm out, thus the #heavypour. 😆😆

I‘m shelving a few more of my holiday book shopping finds.

I had to restrain myself from shoving small children aside when I spotted these #SlightlyFoxed editions on the shelf at a secondhand bookshop. 😆😆

I‘m home from my (almost 5 weeks!) of travels and trying to shelve some of the books I bought. I was very good at #PersephoneBooks, wasn‘t I? 😄

I hope to catch up on lots of my Litsy friends‘ recents posts now!

Jane Austen‘s burial site at Winchester Cathedral. Isn‘t it amazing that it doesn‘t mention she was a writer?

I was walking around the north nave of the cathedral, looking all over for her gravestone, until I glanced down at one point and realized I was standing on it. 🤭

And I went to Agatha Christie‘s house, too!

I liked looking at the bookshelves in her bedroom; she had several by PG Wodehouse and Miss Mapp by EF Benson. We could be friends. 😆

Have I said how much I‘m loving this holiday?? ❤️❤️

I‘m still travelling and having SO much fun. This place was super-high on my “bucket list” (and it didn‘t disappoint!). ❤️❤️

Relaxing with a pint after touring No. 1 Royal Crescent, a Georgian townhouse in Bath. I picked up this saucy book in the gift shop. 😁

I have finally made the pilgrimage (and reined in my purchases to 3 books as I have soooo many other bookshops to hit and such a small suitcase 😆😆).

#PersephoneBooks

I‘m loving my new Litsy mug. 💛❤️💙

Thanks so much, @Litsy !

I‘ve been MIA for a little while and THIS ⬆️ is what has been keeping me so busy. It was a brilliant week and highly recommended!

#ColoradoAntiquarianBookSeminar
#CABS2019

Sunday night. Let‘s see how this one starts. 😊

#NYRBBookClub
#NYRB

I don‘t remember this part of The Bayeux Tapestry... 🤔

#TopSixReads of 2019 (so far, anyway... and I could probably pick six different ones tomorrow 😆).

Thanks for the tags, @Cinfhen and @ErickaS_Flyleafunfurled ! 😘😘

I really think all adult fiction should break up the text with little illustrations, don‘t you? They‘re like little reading rewards.

This is an illustration of Miss Pringle, the martyrish grump of a school-cleaner. 😆

I‘ve just started my first Miss Read novel and finding it a perfect companion for this rainy day.

And one final post for #BooksIDidntBuyAtTheBookstore from my trip. This one had my favourite title (and blurb) of the bunch. 😆😆 Poor Dotty.

This one is for you, @Reviewsbylola and @vivastory ! 😆

And another one of the #BooksIDidntBuyAtTheBookstore. 😆

I‘m road-tripping and stopping in a few bookshops along the way so I thought it was time for a few more #BooksIDidntBuyAtTheBookstore.

I think I lost my girlish laughter YEARS ago. 😆

#DownUnder

This novel, set in a 1950s Sydney department store‘s frock shop, has been described as Barbara Pym in Australia. That‘s good enough for me (and I hope to get to it soon)!

#WanderingJune

Trying my new white tea (Bai Hao Yin Zhen) in my new glass teacup - both were gifts from the lovely @writerlibrarian for the recent #SummerSantaGoesPostal.

Thanks again! The tea is wonderful and I‘m loving this little double-walled cup. ❤️

Rosé and A Wreath of Roses on a Sunday night. ?

#AfricanLady
#WanderingJune

And the second post!

I meant to pick up some of these teas when I was last in Montreal but never had the chance. The flavoured black tea and that white tea both smell amazing. I‘m definitely drinking the white tea in the pretty, new double-walled glass teacup! And look at that teeny little teacup! 😍 The socks are SO my thing and these journals are always my favourite for travelling. Thanks so much, my friend! 😘😘

#SummerSantaGoesPostal

I will do this in two posts; books and extra treats. 😍😍

Thank you SO much, @writerlibrarian , for all of these lovely reads! I especially love the 1941 vintage Canadian history by Leacock with all the gorgeous old illustrations! ❤️❤️ And I cannot wait to dive into A Note of Explanation - I‘ve wanted to read it for AGES. You‘ve spoiled me!

#SummerSantaGoesPostal
#SummerSolsticeBookExchange

Thank you, @BookishMarginalia , for this great swap!

I‘m preparing for a midnight opening. 😆

#SummerSantaGoesPostal
#SummerSolsticeBookExchange

@writerlibrarian @BookishMarginalia

#Mountains

The tagged book is a memoir of an Oxford mother who, in 1985, packs her four daughters (age 5 to 11) into a camper and sets out on a storybook journey through Europe. Along the way they visit Hans Brinker‘s Holland, Heidi‘s Alps, Pinocchio‘s Tuscany, and many more sites made famous in children‘s literature. I think she must‘ve been a brave soul, indeed. 😆

#WanderingJune

And now a little Georgette Heyer break. ❤️

#WalkLikeAnEgyptian

In 1930 a group of 5 young archaeologists set out to excavate the site of Tell el Amarna, taking the author of this memoir with them as field secretary. Mary Chubb describes her time there with wonder, living in a house “where Nefertiti must once have walked and talked”.

#WanderingJune

I think I‘d #FlyAway to pretty much any location in this book. 😄

#WanderingJune

#LostinFrance

First sentence: “It was on Christmas Day, 1943, that Hilary Wainwright learnt that his little son was lost.”

Wainwright, a poet and intellectual, sets out on a journey through post-WWII France to search for a child lost five years before. I haven‘t read this recent addition to my #PersephoneBooks collection yet but it is blurbed as “page-turning”, “gripping”, “powerful”, and “emotional”. That‘s good enough for me!

#WanderingJune

Well, it would appear that these streets DO have names. 😉 #PromptFail

#WhereTheStreetsHaveNoName
#WanderingJune

#PersephoneBooks
#NYRB