bookedInTime

Repost for @Cuilin

Tagging #BookedInTime but open to all.

⚠️ This book is dark and detailed as it describes a voyage on a coffin ship during “An Gorta Mor”, the Irish famine. There are mysteries and many moral conflicts. Who‘s in?

kspenmoll I just got it from kindle. Sounds fascinating & a different read for me. Thanks for posting about it! 10h

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Cuilin

The Star Of The Sea | Joseph O'Connor

Tagging #BookedInTime and some others but open to all.

⚠️ This book is dark and detailed as it describes a voyage on a coffin ship during “An Gorta Mór”, the Irish Famine. There are mysteries and many moral conflicts. Who‘s in?

Suet624

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Suet624 Wow. Thanks so much for tagging me. I‘m definitely in. 1d

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Cuilin @Suet624 yay!! I thought you might like this. Feel free to tag others you think might also. 1d

Texreader Also works for #Ireland #foodandlit in March! @Catsandbooks (edited) 1d

Cuilin @Texreader oh nice. There‘s a reason you may like this book but I‘m saying no more. 🤫 1d

Bookwormjillk Have you ever listened to the audiobook? 1d

Cuilin @Bookwormjillk No I am curious about it though. 1d

ChaoticMissAdventures This sounds so interesting! I don't think I can fit it in this month but I am stacking it and excited to see what everyone thinks! 1d

Cuilin @ChaoticMissAdventures I understand, we won‘t start till March 1st. 1d

AllDebooks Absolutely, I loved this book. Time for a reread, methinks. There's also a sequel

Redemption Falls: A Novel

Cuilin @AllDebooks Yes!!! Glad you‘re in. The sequel was also pretty dark too. 1d

Deblovestoread I‘m in. 🙋🏻‍♀️ 1d

rubyslippersreads This sounds interesting. I might give it a try. 1d

Cuilin @rubyslippersreads wonderful. 1d

dabbe I'll take a look and see what March is like; this sounds interesting! And it's on the spreadsheet! 🤩 1d

Cuilin @dabbe at its core it‘s a murder mystery, I think you‘ll like it. 1d

Amiable Looks interesting! I‘ll see if I can get it. 1d

Cuilin @Amiable yay, hope you can. 21h

AnneCecilie I might join in 9h

Cuilin @AnneCecilie wonderful, I think libraries will have a few copies. 🤞 9h

Cuilin @Deblovestoread fabulous!! 9h

AnneCecilie I have ordered it in from the library and expect it to arrive soon, I‘m just hoping I have time for it 9h

Cuilin We won‘t start till March 1st as it‘s for March‘s prompt but do whatever fits your schedule. 8h

julieclair I'm definitely in! 3h

Cuilin @julieclair yay!!! Wonderful. 3h

JenlovesJT47 I‘d like to join! 🙋🏻‍♀️ 2h

Cuilin @JenlovesJT47 fabulous!!! 47m

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julieclair

Nonfiction Matters: Reading, Writing, and Research in Grades 3-8 | Stephanie Harvey

I have a fun variety of books to read for #MonthlyNonfiction2025 this month!

Ten Birds That Changed the World for #Naturalitsy @AllDebooks

Bad Feminist for #AuthorAMonth @Soubhiville

Blackbeard the Pirate for #BookedInTime @Cuilin

AllDebooks What a mix! Bad Feminist is very good. 1w

Soubhiville That is a fun mix! They all sound good to me. 1w

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ChaoticMissAdventures

Wolf Hall | Hilary Mantel

pick

"... it's all very well planning what you will do in six months, what you will do in a year, but it's no good at all if you don't have a plan for tomorrow."
I thought this was fine. I waited too long to read it and it has won so many awards, it could never live up to the hype.
Overall I love how readable it was, and even with 739 Thomas's it was easy to keep track of who was who, credit to Mandel that is no easy feat.
Do I think Cromwell needed?

ChaoticMissAdventures 3 books of this length? Not really. While this book was interesting and readable I feel finished and probably will not read the others. It is hard with historical fiction. The reader feels a bit like a psychic knowing what is to come, wanting to warn the characters. This was a good pick for a @thearomaofbooks #bookspin #chunkster and #bookedintime @Cuilin 1w

Cuilin I agree with the psychic vibes and wanting to influence the path characters are on, especially book 3 in this series. 1w

ChaoticMissAdventures @Cuilin I can imagine!! The nooooo not her thoughts and watching him stumble to his doom! 1w

Cuilin @ChaoticMissAdventures maybe the genre we should be reading is the speculative fiction “alternate history“ 😆 1w

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 1w

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Karisimo

BookSpinBingo | Untitled

Maybe my best month ever? 22 books! A few minor holidays and less schoolwork really make a difference! #bookspinbingo @thearomaofbooks

6 Bingos!
12 Audiobooks
4 Nonfiction (2 memoirs)
4 Graphic Novels (YA and MG)
7 Middle Grade
2 #bitsychunkster #chunksterchallenge @amiable
✅ #shardlakebr @dabbe
✅ #litsyscifibookclub @thespineview
✅ #bookedintime @cuilin

Cuilin Great reading month! 🎉🎉🎉 1w

dabbe #woohooyou! 🤩🤩🤩 1w

TheAromaofBooks Yay!!! Fabulous month!!! 1w

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Itchyfeetreader

Henry VIII: The Heart and the Crown: Tudor Rose Novel 2 | Alison Weir

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I really like Alison Weir but this for me fell a bit flat. Perhaps it‘s because the story adds nothing new to my knowledge of the time and compared to some of the other novels I have read it felt a little fast and at time perfunctory. Henry is a complex character and I feel like we never really see that complexity #bookedintime @Cuilin

Cuilin Great review, 🎉 2w

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ChaoticMissAdventures

Real Americans | Rachel Khong

#weeklyforecast
Finishing the tagged today
ARC - One Day Everyone Will Have Been Against This
Overdue at the library -need to start I Cheerfully Refuse
#BookedInTime & #25in25 starting Wolf Hall

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Amiable

Dissolution: A Shardlake Novel | C. J. Sansom

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Completed this book for #BookedinTime (Tudor England). I enjoyed the writing style and the story. Although I‘m not sure if I‘m invested enough in the character of Shardlake to continue on with the series. Maybe I‘m a bit curious to see how he fares now that his rose-colored glasses about Cromwell and the Reformation have been removed.

@Cuilin @dabbe

TiredLibrarian I'd try the next one, but I'm biased because I loved this series! 3w

Andrew65 I feel this series only gets better after the first one. Like you I wasn‘t sure about continuing, in fact was a few years before I did. It became a favourite series. 3w

Cuilin I‘ll try the next one if you do. 😆 3w

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Butterfinger I really enjoyed the adaptation. 3w

Ruthiella I am with @TiredLibrarian and @Andrew65 . The series is well worth continuing. 3w

dabbe Like everyone said the books only get better. Shardlake's character grows in such complexity, and Henry VIII actually comes into the books as well as other royals. 🩶🖤🩶 3w

Amiable @TiredLibrarian @andrew65 @ruthiella @dabbe If you say the series gets better, then I‘ll give the next one a go! I thought Louise Penny‘s 1st book was an okay read, and I‘m very glad I continued on with that series. 3w

Amiable @Butterfinger What was that on? I‘m not aware of the adaptation. 3w

Amiable @Cuilin I think they all convinced me to proceed! The peer pressure of fellow Litsy readers is too much to resist. 😀 #blameitonLitsy 3w

Daisey I‘ll add to the list of people saying the series gets better! I think the second book is actually my favorite. 3w

dabbe @Amiable There's also a tv series!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shardlake_(TV_series) 3w

dabbe @Amiable @Cuilin #woohoo! 🙌🏻 3w

Cuilin @Amiable Let‘s go. (I blame most of my reading habits on Litsy, Lol). 3w

Cuilin @dabbe 💜 3w

Andrew65 @dabbe Not seen that but no doubt good if Sean Bean is in it. 3w

Andrew65 @Amiable Sometimes it takes series 2 or 3 books to really get going then you are totally hooked. 3w

Amiable @Cuilin I need to get through “Anna Karenina” before I embark on a series. I just reached Part 6. I‘m getting there! Slowly. 3w

Amiable @dabbe Interesting! I will put it on my list of shows-to-watch. My husband and I are making our way through “The Sopranos” —we never watched it when it originally aired. Now we‘re halfway through season 5. 3w

dabbe @Amiable 🤩🤩🤩 3w

Cuilin @Amiable oh no worries. I know you‘ve been busy lately. Just let me know when you‘re good to start and we can do it together. 3w

Amiable @Cuilin ❤️ 3w

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sblbooks

The Life of Elizabeth I | Alison Weir

so-so

#BookedInTime Tudor England January 2025
@cuilin @dabbe

I have mixed feelings about this month's selection. It's an extremely well researched novel, with some interesting details of Queen Elizabeth's rein. However, I felt it was too long and repetitive. They talked about how Elizabeth did not want to get married, and how she held off all her suitors, over and over again.

dabbe Your score is on the spreadsheet! 🤩 3w

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