I'm now reading Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout. The 4th 'Lucy Barton' book. Set during the pandemic. I'm reminded of what a weird time it was.💙📚

Finished reading All I Desire by Dorothy Lambert over the weekend. A comfort read, a Furrowed Miiddlebrow title from @deanstpress.bsky.social 💙📚

Currently reading The Art School Murders by Moray Dalton. It never ceases to amaze me how many Golden Age mysteries @deanstpress.bsky.social have reissued - so many to choose from.

A good month of reading in July. Highlights of the month was Crooked Cross by Sally Carson and The SafeKeep by Yael van der Wouden. What did you read in July?

Loved The SafeKeep, a good choice I think for our book group. Now reading another women's prize winning novel. The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht. 💙📚

Finally! I'm sure almost everyone has read this much talked about novel. My book group has chosen it for our August book, and I'm enjoying it a lot so far. 💙📚

Oops, realised I haven't posted what I've been reading the last few days. When the Cranes Fly South by Lisa Ridzen. Almost unbearably poignant at times. Such a good depiction of aging, memory and loss of control. 💙📚

I keep having to buy ebook copies of books I already have due to my stupid hands It's getting expensive! Just started Crooked Cross by Sally Carson. I was given a beautiful Persephone edition for Christmas, but I have had to buy the ebook now so I can read it. 💙📚

Alongside my usual book. This year I am also reading Feminist History for everyday of the year by Kate Mosse. A nice range of pieces, an easy little read for each morning over breakfast. Today, a rather glaring error. Rather surprised.

Currently reading The Sentence by Louise Erdrich. A book about a ghost in a bookshop. I love a book with enthusiastic book people as characters. It also has snow, which with another heatwave on the way, is oddly soothing (I don't usually love snow except to look at). 📚💙

A good month of reading in June, highlights were The Correspodent and Smallie. Both 5 stars and highly recommended, but everything I read was good this month. (Full list in alt text) what good things did you read in July? 💙📚

Currently reading The Spring House by Cynthia Asquith. I had a lovely hard copy sent to me some time ago, however still can't read physical books, I downloaded a Kindle copy. Unfortunately I have to turn pages the wrong way, and keep getting lost. @britishlibrary.bsky.social it's doing my head in!

I'm just getting started on The Correspodent winner of this year's Women's Prize for fiction. I bought it weeks ago, in a big post birthday ebook haul. I've been looking forward to it. 💙📚

Started reading Colour Scheme by Ngaio Marsh. This should prove interesting as it's set in New Zealand during WW2. 💙📚

Started reading Days of Light by Megan Hunter. I think I'm really going to enjoy this. Very beautifully written. 💙📚

Books finished in May. (A seventh was started but I'm still reading it). Book of the month = Strange Flowers by Donal Ryan/Spiderweb by Penelope Lively. The Pearl that Broke its Shell very memorable too. 💙📚

Out of curiosity, I just listened to The Boys of Dungeon Lane. It's very nostalgic, (the Beatles were not my era) but it's pretty good. Macca's still got it. Fav tracks so far,,Days we Left Behind, the duet with Ringo and Mamma Gets By. 🎵🎵 shall no doubt listen again.

Now reading This Bed Thy Centre by Pamela Hansford Johnson. PHJ'S first novel, which is excellent so far. First published in 1935, it was apparently banned by Battersea library. Tame by today's standards of course but surprising for its time. 📚💙

I'm currently reading Bassett by Stella Gibbons, which I am enjoying a lot. 💙📚

Following a recommendation from my sister, I started reading Strange Flowers by Donal Ryan yesterday. I had meant to read something by him for ages, it's my first book by him. 💙📚

Reading The Crooked Tree by Una Mannion. Not my usual thing perhaps, enjoying it on the whole, though not sure it delivers on all it promises. Over halfway through now. 💙📚

My birthday today. 🎂 I got my favourite chocs, my very favourite perfume, a voucher for ebooks some lovely cards and was then taken out for a very posh afternoon tea. Am about to fall asleep over my book now. There are left over cakes in the fridge. 🥳

I don't have any pets, but these two muntjac were nibbling foliage outside my flat window yesterday evening. I live 3 miles from city centre but overlook a wildlife reserve. 😃

Thank you @britishlibrary.bsky.social for this lovely edition from the women writers series. I am struggling to read physical books at all these days, but if my hands settle down, I'm sure I'll love it. @stuckinabook.bsky.social 💙📚

Now reading The Pearl That Broke its Shell by Nadia Hashimi. A bargain Kindle purchase by an author who has written several books. Has anyone read her before? 💙📚

A thoroughly enjoyable month of reading in April. Books of the month Enigma by Robert Harris and The Mercy Step by Marcia Hutchinson, two very different books. Full list in alt text. What brilliant things did you read in April? 📚💙

Now reading, Women's Prize shortlisted The Mercy Step by Marcia Hutchinson. I've been dancing around this one for a little while. Glad to have started reading it. 💙📚

Sitting in a sunny suntrap, the communal gardens where I live. Listening to incredible birdsong, reading and getting some vit D 6 months since I moved here. ☺️ #happyFriday

Thanks to @jacquiwine.bsky.social tempting recommendation, I am now reading Through A Glass Darkly by Helen McCloy. I can tell it's going to be a page turner. 💙📚

Now reading my next book group read: The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali. 💙📚