Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃♀️
@lyzzybee
Reader, may be quite fond of books 💙📚 book reviewer, book blogger, runner, volunteer, transcriber, editor, parkrun Run Director, Birmingham, UK. Book reviews at
Rhoda Baxter's "The Christmas Express on the Brambleberry Steam Railway" was a lovely read, with tough issues covered but a sweet and kind community trying to make things OK. librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/08/07/b... @jeevanicharika.bsky.social
I enjoyed reading Caroline James' "The Nile Cruise" over the weekend librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/08/03/b... @carolinejames1.bsky.social #booksky📚💙
What I added to my wishlist in July librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/07/31/w... #booksky 📚💙💡
Two Wedding Planners and an Actual Marriage – Victoria Lavine – “Not That Kind of Proposal”, Huma Qureshi – “How We Met” and Jeevani Charika’s “The Wedding Planner’s Guide to Stealing the Bride” #20BOS26 librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/07/30/t... #booksky 📚💙💡 @jeevanicharika.bsky.social
Two wonderful characters – book reviews for Amman Brar – “Mr Sidhu’s Post Office” and Mel Pennant – “Miss Hortense and the Last Rites” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/07/29/t... #booksky 💙📚
... and Tyson Yunkaporta - "Sand Talk" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/07/16/b... /booksky 📚💙💡
Book review catch-up! First off, Two books about nature and renewal – Maceo Carillo Martinet – “Healing the Land Teaches us Who We Are” and Lea Korsgaard – “The Butterfly Season” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/07/10/t... #booksky 📚💙💡
A really lovely read, set in Como in Italy and full of family drama. What would you do if you suddenly found you had two sisters? Sue Moorcroft - "Secrets of the Italian Guesthouse" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/07/07/b... @rararesources.bsky.social @suemoorcroftauthor.bsky.social @booksky 📚💙
Did I read the 30 books I needed to read to stay on track last month? I did not. But look, there's more of a space on the shelves! State of the TBR July 2026 librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/07/01/s... #booksky 📚💙💡
A new experiment for me in blog posts - What I added to my wish list in June 2026 librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/06/30/w... #booksky 📚💙💡
A book of the year for sure: Sathnam Sanghera – “Tonight The Music Seems so Loud” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/06/29/a... #booksky 📚💙💡
Two good summer reads – Phillipa Ashley – “A Wedding Under the Cornish Sky” and Katie Clapham – “Receipts from the Bookshop” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/06/26/t... #booksky 📚💙💡
Finally getting some more reviews out there with two about queer books – reviews of Layla McCay – The Queer Bookshelf” and A. J. West – “How Queer Bookshops Changed the World” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/06/23/a... with mentions for @paulmagrs.bsky.social and @proud-geek.co.uk #booksky 📚💙💡
A lovely book from the British Library Women Writers series, Cynthia Asquith's "The Spring House" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/06/17/b... #booksky @britishlibrary.bsky.social 📚💙
Pushing through my NetGalley reads for this month, Two novels set in the 1970s – Krystle Zara Appiah – “Half Lives” and Michelle Huneven – “Bug Hollow” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/06/11/t... #booksky 📚💙
... and Finished at last: Review – Henry Eliot – “The Penguin Modern Classics Book” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/06/09/f... #booksky 📚💙💡
I've got behind sharing my blog posts / reviews. So first of all Nonfiction time – Martin Parr and Wendy Jones – “Utterly Lazy and Inattentive” and Jan-Werner Müller – “Street, Palace, Square” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/06/07/n... #booksky 📚💙💡
Two really important novels treating the Windrush Scandal really well - I'd recommend reading one or both of them! Eden McKenzie-Goddard – “Smallie” and Laura Blake – “Go Home Birdie Brown” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/06/05/t... #booksky #windrushgeneration 📚💙
Two romance novels reviewed, with a reminder that it's OK to read genre and that we all need stories and consume them in different ways. Two romances, but wait ... Katie Holt - "The Last Page" and Hannah Bonam-Young - "Out on a Limb" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/06/04/t... #booksky📚💙
Two music books from the same publisher – Kate Mossman – “Men of a Certain Age” and Anna Doble – “Connection is a Song” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/05/31/t... #booksky 📚💙💡 @nineeightbooks.bsky.social
Two important campaigning books on disability matters: Bethany Handley – “My Body is a Meadow” and Saba Salman – “Double Discrimination” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/05/28/t... #booksky 📚💙💡
Two crime novels (can you believe?) – Philippa Perry – “Shrink Solves Murder” and Mel Pennant – “A Murder for Miss Hortense” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/05/26/t... #booksky 📚💙
Two signed copies of nonfiction books – Corinne Fowler – “Green Unpleasant Land” and Robin Ince – “Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/05/24/t... #booksky 📚💙💡
Two new instalments in series I’m enjoying – Kiley Dunbar – “Making Sparks Fly at the Highland Repair Shop” and Christie Barlow – “The Clock Maker’s Cottage” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/05/22/t... #booksky 📚💙