pick#JuneSpecials Day 25: I featured these two #Beatles themed books at one point over the years at GatheringBooks.
See here:
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pick#JuneSpecials Day 25: I featured these two #Beatles themed books at one point over the years at GatheringBooks.
See here:
https://wp.me/pDlzr-an6
https://wp.me/pDlzr-bgZ
I haven‘t been keeping up with sharing my progress on #ReadTheWorld2025 !
This nonfiction book takes place in and around the Cambridgeshire Fens in England.
3/10 countries
Thank you @GatheringBooks !
#England
pickOnce Upon a Murder is a captivating and entertaining story filled with a smart and loyal protagonist, a motley cast of supporting characters all caught up in an intriguing mystery . . .
Read my full review here - https://www.escapewithdollycas.com/2025/06/20/flashbackfriday-featuring-once-upo...
I suspect my audiobook listening is about to fall off significantly…🙈
I‘ve discovered Desert Island Discs, a British radio show (now podcast) that‘s been around forever (since 1942).
The host interviews all manner of celebrities (authors, musicians, NASA scientists, etc) about their lives through the conceit of being stranded on a desert island. They basically create a mix tape; they‘re allowed 8 music tracks, 1 book, & 1 luxury item.👇🏻
pickFound this in a 2nd hand bookshop & couldn‘t resist after Family Roundabout. Tilly enters service as a 15 year old in the late C19th and watches as the family she serves grows up and grows old. Unhappy marriages feature again & there is a degree of contempt for the social norms of the monied classes. Tilly has more sense & more empathy than all of her so called betters. I‘ll be looking out for more Richmal Crompton.
so-soThis book had all the ingredients that I should enjoy, but somehow they just didn't work here. Miss Carter is a middle-aged woman, never married, who lives by herself in a small flat in London and works for the censor's office during WWII. Through a series of events, she finds herself in possession of an ifrit (i.e. genie). Part of the reason this book didn't quite work for me was that the ifrit's magic never really made sense to me. Apparently ⬇
bailedI tried not to, but I‘ll have to bail on this one (gave it 100 pages). Perhaps it‘s the timing. The plot is promising, the characters have potential but the writing feels clichéd and unnatural. It maybe unrelated (or not) but I read two pages of Ann Patchett and I can‘t stop thinking about that book now. #currentlynotreading
