Yay for #buddy reads! Almost done with Cooking for Picasso & The Rescuers #sundaybuddyread #childrensclassicread3024 #january
The three below are in process. I should finish Maisie Dobbs this week. #serieslove2024
pickWell I‘ve done it again! Seems I read this book 2 years ago. As I was reading it , it felt very familiar and as I neared the ending I knew all the answers. 🙃. With so many books on my TBR shelf, it almost seems a waste of a read!
But maybe not, I did enjoy it and thought I was very clever for knowing the ending! 😊
pickLast weekend, I went back to Karen pirie, book 6, which was interesting after seeing the enjoyable adaptation and excellent actor in lead role, albeit not my image of the character. Here, Karen is investigating two unconnected murders while her boss hopes that it will blow up in her face. A page turner and another good outing for a well drawn character.
So far I only have one book for the #20in4 #ReadAThon
The one I didn't finish in #JoysOfJune
Will see what I feel like reading once this one is finished
@Andrew65
Quick update on my #JoysOfJune #ReadAThon progress
I'm only left with Still Life for the weekend, but it is my mother's 60th birthday and we're taking her away for the weekend, so I'm hoping to finish. 🤞🏻
@Andrew65
A few minutes later, they stopped outside a small café. Chevrolet jumped out, opened the back door and gestured that she should leave.
'Please, Commandant Pirie, go inside', he said. 'My boss, he is with the judge, just round the corner. He told me he will meet you here.'
'How will I know him?"
Chevrolet looked her up and down. 'He will know you, madame. You do not look French.'
And with that, he was back in the car.
pickAn enjoyable read. I‘ve not read one of her books for some time. She mentions places that I know well in Scotland.
Was a perfect distraction and quick read. A more gentle read than some of her previous books.
#joysbooks2021
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pickI really enjoy the Karen Pirie series, and this book is no exception. A book set in February 2020, so only a few faint mentions of COVID. The cold cases featured here are interesting, and it is great to see Jason « the Mint » Murray coming into his own as a copper ?
« Karen emerged from the dystopian fluorescent gloom of the Gayfield Square station into sparkling sunshine on Leith and the rest of the city. »
(in best Proclaimers accent) ? And while the chief / put SUNSHINE on Leith ?
pickListened to this on audiobook and totally loved it despite having already read it as a #NetGalley book. This really is an excellent book and recommend it strongly, great storylines, great characters, actions, and a strong Covid 19 the e running through it so very current.
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Enjoy Val McDermid‘s latest - absolutely up to her normal standard. DCI Karen Pirie is a wonderful character. #valmcdermid #stilllife #books #fiction #karenpirie #bookstagram #crimefiction #book #bookphotography #booklove #bookcommunity #bookish #booknerd #scottishfiction #scottishcrimefiction #scottishnoir
pickLoved this book, and has to be the first one I‘ve read that got Covid 19 into the book! This was a very enjoyable double plot, and was good to introduce a new character in the series and I hope she‘ll figure strongly in the future books. Bit globe hopping visiting England, Ireland, Northern Ireland and France as well as the Scottish setting. Totally recommend this series. #NetGalley
#24B4Monday now at 19 hours 5 mins and 1071 pages.
Going back to Still Life for the twin readathons #24B4Monday #ReadingRush
So far at 13 hrs 16 mins and 731 pages for #24B4Monday and 2347 pages for the week long #ReadingRush Readathon.
How is #24B4Monday going for you?
Reading Still Life, the sixth book in the Karen Pirie Series which is due to be published on 20th August. #NetGalley
So far clocked up 2 hrs 55 mins for #24B4Mondsy and 144 pages.
#NetGalleyReadathon #ReadingRush
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