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Watching this in the background while I read the tagged book.

#HolidayMovie #WinterGames #TeamFozziwig @Clwojick @StayCurious @BarkingMadRun

Determined to finish this book today!

First time cracking open a book since leaving for vacation! Really need to finish this book so I can move onto some of my newer acquisitions.

Mixed reviews from the Guelph chapter of #GirlyBookClub - several women couldn‘t even get through it and for others, it was one of their fav reads this year. The conversation is always more fun when we have such different opinions!

Warning: Not a popular opinion ahead! Ok... I tried to get into this book I really really did! I got about 25% in at 125 pages and I just found myself harrumphing everytime I went to go read this book.. books should make you feel joy, not feel like a chore.. I just found I really didn‘t care about the story,this just wasn‘t my cup of tea, but as usual; if it looks interesting to you go ahead and read it...it‘s just lil old me‘s opinion 🤷🏼‍♀️

Diane Setterfield, I love you and I will read anything you deign to put in front of me.

I am really trying to finish this before I leave for vacation on Friday. I have 250 pages to go, so that might not be possible...

Monday night reading 🌸🌺🌷

Ultimately a pick though it took me a long time to get into properly. The characters really breathed once I got to know them and it had a very Victorian feel to it, like apart from a few stylistic things it could have been written in the 1870s. The writing about the river was so beautiful, and the drama of the ending got me very involved even if I didn‘t love all of it to begin with.

What a cute cover 🥰 excited for this month‘s book club pick!

Friday night reading 🌸

Greetings from rainy london! I‘m audiowalking at around 2 hours today for #mrbook1inamillion readathon. Got held up at work and out this eve so I think I‘ll only get to around ten hours but still a pleasure to be reading with you all. I love seeing Americans‘ daytime posts when it‘s night now for me

#litsypartyofone #24b4monday @MrBook @Alisnazzy @Lynnsoprano @Clwojick @TheReadingMermaid @TheReadingMermaid @Andrew65 @Rachel.Rencher @jb72

I got roped into playing two games of Super Smash Bros. but now I am free to read my book while my bf keeps playing with our roommate.

Reading > video games

Tonight‘s #bookanddinner! Chicken coconut curry and hibiscus rosé hard cider :)

I‘ve got Sunday breakfast started, now starting a new book while the potatoes cook. #SundayFunday

.... #bookhaul again lol

This book centres around story telling with the theme of the river flowing strongly through it. A tale of discovery and loss, love and cruelty and the mystery of life. I thought it was enchanting. The depth of the characters drew me in and I was kept guessing until the threads of the story started to come together as one. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I liked this book. Setterfield again wrote a compelling turn of the century mystery testing and questioning what makes a family. She takes on the role of story and why humans tell stories and how we tell stories in this wonderful book. She rubs folklore up again science winding you deeper and deeper into the story until like the characters, truth and fiction is hard to place.

I can honestly say that to begin with I really struggled with this. Once I got past the half way mark it was a whole different ball game! I started to enjoy it a lot more. There are a lot of characters and multi faceted stories all intertwined so at times it is hard to keep up if not focused. All in all it turned out to be an enjoyable read and I am definitely pleased I saw this through to the end. #onceuponariver #justfinished #threestars

Lazy chilly Sunday Morning in bed trying to finish this book! I have been so unfocused this past week! #sundayreads #lazymorning #chilling #gottofinishthis #onceuponariver

UK cover as seen at Waterstones in Westminster

I was FINALLY able to finish this one! When I started it I was really enjoying it but set it aside for something else...and didn‘t go back for months 😱. I finished it as an audiobook and it was so touching. I loved how the story mixed the supernatural with the realistic and how so many of the characters connected to each other in unexpected ways. Definitely recommend! 🌟🌟🌟🌟

#7covers7days #covercrush Day 1

The perfect (purr-fect?) evening 🧡 #catsoflitsy

#7covers7days #CoverCrush Day 3

Looking forward to getting stuck into this one!

This was a decent book but a little slow in the middle. I liked the ending. A young child is rescued from the river and there are numerous people who would claim her for their own. The family with the kidnapped child, the grandfather whose missing a granddaughter, the woman missing a sister, and a nurse who would just like to have the child. Who is the child? Where did she come from?

This was a decent book but a little slow in the middle. I liked the ending. A young child is rescued from the river and there are numerous people who would claim her for their own. The family with the kidnapped child, the grandfather whose missing a granddaughter, the woman missing a sister, and a nurse who would just like to have the child. Who is the child? Where did she come from?

I love that fall means semi-annual library book sales, although some area libraries only do them once a year around here l. At any rate, there are plenty of book sales to be found and we went to our first of the season yesterday! I‘m happy with the books I found but there was one in particular that caused me to audibly gasp in excitement. Can you guess which one? I think I‘ve made this very easy for you. 😉

Have you read any of these?

Thankyou so much for the tag @Tanisha_A ❤

@batsy I tag you to post 7 covers you love for 7 days. No explanation needed. And also use the tags. You up for it? 🙂

#covercrush #7days7covers #day1

Started this one as well.

📖 𝐆𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐀𝗪𝐀𝐘 📖⁣
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𝐎𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐔𝐩𝐨𝐧 𝐚 𝐑𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫 by 𝐃𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐝 combines folklore, science, magic, and myth. It sweeps readers along on a current of charmingly eloquent storytelling as powerful as the flow of a river. 🌟🌟🌟🌟⁣

The generous folks at Simon & Shuster have provided a copy for me to give to a lucky U.S. resident.⁣
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Enter by midnight PDT tomorrow night, Sunday, September 8: https://tinyurl.com/y6og4n2q

Reading so I can fall asleep....

So good. It's been awhile since I've read a book that has sucked me in like this one! Kind of dark fairy tale, kind of mystery, all kinds of amazing prose. With limited time to read, I rarely want to reread books, but as soon as I finished this I wanted to start it over.

1. Loving it so far! Can't wait to finish but don't want it to end!
2. Sleep??
3. Chocolate Chip cookie dough
4. Used to play piano but haven't in years
5. Will do 😉

#friyayintro
@howjessreads

Slow vendor events are great places to catch up on some reading. Still loving this book! #ireadanywhere

I'm about halfway through this book and loving it! It's been awhile since I've read anything that has me as hooked as this book does! Who is the little girl who came back from the dead? Why has she lost the ability to speak? So many questions I can't wait to find out the answers! #unputdownable

Audio-puzzling 💕

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️: such dreamy, beautiful writing.

1. Pasta. Piles of it. In any form.
2. My weighted blanket. ❤️❤️❤️
3. Just started tagged book.
4. @Lovesbooks87

#wondrouswednesday

Quiet, cosy, meandering, sometimes melancholy, always charming. Another fine yarn from Diane Setterfield - a bit of a shaggy dog story, but the sort you can curl up with and enjoy on a wet afternoon by the fire.

I was listening to this audio book and walking at the arboretum near my house when I passed 15,000 last week! 🤓🤓🤓

Loved this book, and it‘s really all about the river, and the tale involves quite a lot of crying as well.....

#crymeariver
#ayupaugust

*Joe Cocker was born in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, in 1944.

Honestly, I liked the premise of this book -- the role of storytelling and how it shapes us. But this was also a book that I could have put down and left unfinished (had I not been desperate to reach the midway point in my Goodreads challenge 🙈). I wish there had been more about the Quietly as well.

This book was sooo good. I loved the dreamlike atmosphere and the unique characters. Pick this up if you like magical realism or historical fiction.

The photo is of Henry Taunt, a Victorian photographer that inspired one of the characters.

Four months ago I had surgery to repair my broken leg. Yesterday I finally was able to move back into my own home. I‘ve still got more recovery ahead-I‘m walking with a cane and wearing a knee brace-and am told it will be another six months before my leg is back to ”normal”. Emotionally I‘m all over the place, but grateful to be back in my cozy environment with all my books again. This title is just what I‘m needing, a fairytale escape!

Nearly made my 70k steps target for the week, and we had Sports Day at work yesterday so had a bit of a run around there!

Only one book read this week. Lovely cover and it's beautifully written, though needed a bit of an edit!

#bfc @wanderinglynn