pickI found Fake Law surprisingly funny, despite the serious subject matter. The Secret Barrister has a wonderful turn of phrase, and doesn‘t hold back in criticising those who deserve it. But even without the laughs, it's a good read, and a crucial lesson in critical thinking and media literacy. Full review: https://keepingupwiththepenguins.com/fake-law-the-secret-barrister/
so-soIt‘s another female detective series with a fairly straightforward story—I had it figured out before the halfway point. Still, the plot and writing style are good.
pickI found this surprisingly riveting at times, though some parts are slow. It charts both the census itself and the things it recorded, touching on things like industrialisation, the Highland Clearances, the Potato Famine, emigration, immigration, WWI, WWII... all kinds of things which affected the population of the UK. Also there's a bit on the wider “British Empire“.
Today's reading is getting me off to a good start with #BookSpinBingo!
pickLent to me by a friend. Delightful. A well written , eloquent love story. Actually a few love stories or maybe better , stories of love. Set in France and England. Took me a while to read but I did enjoy it.
#ShowandTellTuesday with #LitsyCrafters and @Catsandbooks
I‘m working on a planned pooling project! You have to count the stitches per colour of a variegated yarn and put in the number of stitch repeats into plannedpooling.com and determine how many stitches per row to do to get a cool kind of plaid pattern. Keeping the number of stitches the same is hard and requires varying tension and frogging a lot. This has taken me ages but I love it!
pickMy first taste of William Boyd, and I rather enjoyed it. The main character is, for the most part, a likeable character - apart from when he seem to go a bit mad and out of character, turning into a mad stalker for an entire chapter. Do all of Boyd‘s books have a disturbing obsession with sex filtering through?
Book 59/80 #Read2025 @DieAReader
pickThe true friendship and love Andrew and George shared was so touching to read about. I can only imagine writing this wasn't the easiest for Andrew given how much he and the fans still grieve over the loss of George but I am so glad he wrote it and that I read it. It made me laugh it made my cry in the best of ways that a book about their enduring love and support for one another only could. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
pickYou have to like the writing style of Edgar Wallace which is very simple without any gloss-overs. I especially like his crime novels because tgey are that dry. This one follows episodically the life of master criminal Arthur Milton who purges the crimes of others by doing the work of Scotland Yard.
😂😂 I must go in quest of people named Wickham. In the meantime, who‘d like to take a turn about the room?
