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Low pick. Not bad but not amazing. I really liked Muriel as a character and how she wouldn‘t bow to Jekyll despite their history. I think I‘m just not a huge fan of stories where characters from other stories are borrowed or reimagined. Some I like but most are a miss. I‘ll continue with the next book in the series and see how it goes. Overall an entertaining historical mystery.

Another solid book in the bakeshop mystery series… I love the heart that bleeds of the page and makes you feel like you are part of the Torte family! I truly hope this is a series that continues for many years to come!

Thank you @Gissy for the #CBBC package! It came over the weekend. I can‘t believe I have the last two books before getting mine back. It always seems to go so fast! #coffeebeanbookclub

Ending the holiday weekend with a little deck reading! 🤓

#protagwpet #bibliophile @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

I know this is really late but whatever!

“When Liza Mellincamp thinks about the last time she ever saw Violet Sullivan, what comes most vividly to mind is the color of Violet‘s Japanese silk kimono, a shade of blue that Liza later learned was called ‘cerulean,‘ a word that wasn‘t even in her vocabulary when she was fourteen years old.”

These books are so fun. Wish I had known it was a Christmas book before I had started, but still a good read in May. Apparently this was the last of this series written in the 60‘s and the rest were written in the 80‘s and beyond. #SeriesLove

Had to wrap myself up in a blanket to read outside today.

I'm a bit stalled on this one. It did nicely evoke the Welsh weather, but I'm kinda meh about how... gothic it is? I think I see what's happening already, and the melodrama (and the main character getting humiliated) just isn't my jam. Brand isn't my favourite classic crime writer in any case, I've just never quite clicked with her stuff.

(I'm sorry about all the posts today! 😬 It's really catchup for most of the week, I suppose.)

A view of the Bosnian-Serbian conflict told through the eyes of Muslim woman who suffered unspeakable horrors, became a freedom fighter, and ultimately escaped to Minnesota. Told in alternate timeline chapters, the “quiet librarian” sets out to solve the murder of a dear Bosnian friend.

If you‘ve enjoyed Sepetys‘s books, you‘ll really enjoy this, but it‘s definitely written for grownups.