Meant to post this yesterday, but forgot. This was me all day yesterday. Wish it was me all day today! But I have to go to work and be a #saturdaylibrarian.
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Elizabeth and Zenobia | 
Meant to post this yesterday, but forgot. This was me all day yesterday. Wish it was me all day today! But I have to go to work and be a #saturdaylibrarian.
It‘s been a heck of a long week. Thank God it‘s nearly ov-
What?
TUESDAY? Can‘t be!
You‘re sure?
...oh.
Right. Well, I‘m glad I‘ve got a new library book and hot chocolate with Bailey‘s then.
pickThis was a quirky novel that almost hit the spot. I still enjoyed it but I wish some answers, particularly about Zenobia, had been answered.
#middlegrade
pickFirst book of 2018! I read this charming, gothic charmer in one sitting. While I selfishly would have loved it to be longer, it‘s really perfect just the way it is. Lovely start to the reading year!
pickThis was a very cute, thrilling... gothic horror story for children? I would have loved this book as a child (and I loved it now). It has mystery, action, family and friendship, and a strange invisible girl. 4/5⭐️
pickElizabeth and Zenobia are inseparable. Light and dark. Timid and brave. Yin and yang. So when Elizabeth‘s father decides to move the family to Witheringe House after Elizabeth‘s mother runs off with an opera singer, of course Zenobia comes along. Miller cleverly creates a world where Elizabeth and Zenobia certainly seem like two independent girls, while at the same time creating this undercurrent of emotion that suggests they are one in the same.
pickI finished this little gem of a story this morning! While I wish it was longer, I really did enjoy the magical element in the story and the mystery involved. But what the heck was Zenobia exactly??
pick5 🌟✨!! So creepy, so funny, so good. Mirrors and doubles feature brilliantly in this one. Elizabeth and Zenobia are hilariously different. The mystery is creepy, and I couldn't put this down. Highly recommend!!
pickNot going to lie, this gothic tale *did* freak me out - loved the various plot lines from the mysterious and creepy Witheringe House, to Zenobia's morbid obsessions which Elizabeth begrudgingly endures/indulges, the book which tells a completely different story when read after midnight and all the mentions of how hearing the music from the magic flute affects her fathers temperament. Creepy, addictive, brilliant.
