Welcome to Litsy!

I'm desperately in need of a year that is better than this past one. At times I struggled with this book because reading about Maisie's pain reminded me of my own (very different) pain. But in the end the intricate (convoluted?) storyline drew me in and distracted me. 🌟🌟🌟🌟

This was an easy read but was slow in parts and didn‘t have the pay off that I hoped for.

Picked up a fun read for the upcoming Tgiving break

#weeklyforecast
~Finish Maisie Dobbs #serieslove2023 #14books14weeks
~Read 2 chs. Barbizon
~Start Agatha #nunlit
~ 2 chs. Broken #rushathon #August2023

It was good to be back with Maisie Dobbs again. She is on her way back to England when she becomes involved in a murder on Gibraltar. This is a very different Maisie who is dealing with a lot of baggage life has left her with.
1st book finished for #BacklistReadathon @Clwojick @TheAromaOfBooks. I look forward to moving onto the next book. #SeriesLove2023 @TheSpineView

Spending the day catching up with Maisie Dobbs after a few years away, following her sojourn.

Couldn‘t ask for a better reading location for reading today, with the view of the beach from the campsite we are staying at in Northern Scotland.

#SeriesLove2023 #JoysOfJune @TheSpineView

Following a deep loss, Maisie stops for a short stay in Gilbralter, just a short distance from Spain‘s war, and witnesses a murder. While trying to solve the questions that come up, she sees the next steps to her future.

This is next up for me in the excellent Maisie Dobbs Series. #Danger #ReallyRandomFebruary

Against a backdrop of tension, turmoil and aggression in Franco‘s civil war in Spain, Maisie Dobbs attempts to find some calm after losing her husband and child in Canada. Unable and/or unwilling to return to England immediately after the double tragedy, Maisie spends a year or two in India in order to grieve in privacy before returning home. Once she takes to decision to go home, though, great unease and trepidation cause her to debark in 👇🏻

#QuotsyJan20

(Day 7 - #Discontent)

*The character speaking is referring to Spain under Franco, when the country was facing civil war. Some things change; some things stay the same.

#WinterGames #MerryReaders #TBRRead Well knocked another off of Mount TBR.

1/ Miss Kopp‘s Midnight Confessions (physical book) and A Dangerous Place (audiobook)
2/ The Lord of the Rings
3/ Goodreads

#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain

Finished first book for #mounttbr2019 and #booked2019. Now on to 2nd book for both of those challenges! @Cinfhen @4thhouseontheleft @BarbaraTheBibliophage

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don‘t do anything about it. ~ Albert Einstein

Well that seems timely! #booked2019 #mounttbr2019

This has been on my bookshelves for quite awhile so figured I‘d finally read it for 1st prompt of #booked2019, female detective. @Cinfhen @4thhouseontheleft @BarbaraTheBibliophage #mounttbr2019

#adventrecommends Day 12
I guess you guys have figured out that I‘m a sucker for mystery series novels, especially British ones, Anglophile that I am. Maisie Dobbs is just a swell woman, particularly considering the time period. The setting is between the two World Wars, and she actually practiced as a nurse in the first one. To date, there are 14 novels in the series (tagged book is 11th), the first titled “Maisie Dobbs,” ⬇️
@emilyrose_x

As our library doesn‘t have this whole series on #audiobook, this one was a few books ahead of where I had left off previously. So it contained some shocking and sad elements in Maisie‘s life that I hadn‘t expected. The story dealt with the conflict in Spain and the international efforts to stem the rise of fascism. Again, this series is a great way to learn about history.

I was absolutely devastated at the beginning of this book.😭😭 No spoilers,but seriously. Maisie is on a solo journey to heal herself and ends up in the middle of dangerous distractions. She tries to solve a murder that no one wants solved inadvertently steps into something much more serious. Once again, 💜💜💜this book and can‘t wait to read the next in the series.

I have been slipping in my reading lately, so I am trying something new. Every Monday, I will post a photo with 3-4 books that I plan to read that week. I am hoping that will help with planning and accountability. Sometimes I just can‘t decide what to read! I am sure that I will add books as I get them, but these books will be the goal. #weeklyreads #bookgoals

Not my favorite in the series, but worth the read.

Look at all my goodies and an extra book! 😁 thank you so much @Melissa_J what lovely thoughtful gifts ❤️ your bookmarks will be on the way by the end of the week! Just need to actually get to the PO!

This definitely wasn‘t my favorite Maisie Dobbs book but it was still pretty good. Seems like poor Maisie can win for losing. She has to deal with a horrific loss and even then her murder solving skills are still sharp. Hopefully more happy things for Maisie in future books!

#SassyBookworm 😏 #MaisieDobbs #HistoricalFiction

Enjoying this beautiful Kentucky day outside!!! It‘s a fabulous 61 degrees (F) and my kiddo and all my fur babies are gonna soak up every bit of it that we can! So relaxing listening to a book and enjoying a wonderful glass of tea thanks to @seglitis (loving Mommy‘s Little Helper today!).

#SassyBookworm 😏 #ReadEverywhere #SpringWeather #CountryLife #MaisieDobbs

Sad, clever, very readable. A really good addition to the series even if it in no way went the way I was hoping it would after the end of the last book. I hope for better fortune for Maisie in the next book.

Here‘s this afternoon‘s Train home book. I‘m hoping my concentration has recovered enough to cope with this after a 10 hour shift! It‘s been a struggle since my virus a couple of weeks ago. Lots of naps after work instead of reading.

One of the things I love about Maisie Dobbs is her resilience. In this book, grief and loss take her into some dark places and she comes through. Always a great story and setting. I'm listening to this series and the narrator does a phenomenal job with the voices.

Helping me through the winter blues - 💜on my coffee & Maisie - dear Maisie, whose sadness reminds me that there are worse things indeed than the winter blues #20booksofsummer ❄️winter❄️

Oh Maisie! A dangerous place indeed💜my heart aches for you.

Maybe not such a good choice in comfort reads this w/e after all.

My #20booksofsummer (winter❄️) list has flown the coop already!! Oh well some months are like that. I've always despaired of June - grey bleak days & long cold nights. A miserable month.
Maisie will have to work hard to lighten this mood!

I felt the need to listen to an audiobook and even though I've missed some books in this series it feels good to be listening to a Maisie Dobbs story again. 😊

I think this may be the only book that I've read which is about the Spanish Civil War, other than Hemmingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, and of course this is a very different take. Maisie Dobbs, I'm pulling for you!

Wow- I love it when a series can surprise you. Now I know that one of the best thing about a series is when you can just sink into it quickly because of all the previously gathered context& familiarity with the characters and place. This book has started in such a new way that I gasped out loud. It's told from a different perspective & throws you into a different mode of reading from the first page. I'm even more excited to see what happens now!

I have a love hate relationship w/ this series. I love Maisie when she's feisty. I hate the daily itemized list of what she's wearing. The story was interesting & I'm fascinated with the time frame between the two World Wars.

Spending a little time with this before dinner. The first chapter threw me for a bit of a loop bit it's classic Maisie now.