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Another series I'm rereading this year - absolutely LOVED the Swallows & Amazons books when I first read them, so I'm going through them again. This is the second book in the series, full of exploring, pirates, shipwrecks, mountain climbing, caves, and more! Every page was a delight.

#hyggehourreadathon

Pretending it‘s gardening time 💚

Another intriguing and confusing addition to the series. Confusing, in a good way, as you're never sure what will happen next. Lots of character development for Lynly and Havers as well.

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I'm going on a bit of a review binge this morning. Sorry for the spam! 😂

I read this series back in 2019-2020, and loved every page of every book, so I'm rereading them!! My original review of this book said that it was like being wrapped in a loaf of warm, homemade bread, which is kind of a mixed metaphor, but you get my point. It's cozy, wholesome, and delicious. I think this book is practically perfect. All the stars.

My #bookhaul from the library today.
Do I have 4 books I'm in the middle of? Yes.
Do I have 2 successive books to read afterwards? Also, yes.
Do I regret bringing home another stack? Absolutely not. 😂

Written in the classical gothic style, this is a tale of a man who has been badly injured in WW2. (Written in diary/letters). He ends up staying with his young deaf sister in an old house which no one will go near or talk about. They and the caregiver begin to have experiences. After suffering more tragedy they come to learn of the house‘s dark past. This book kind of reminded me of some of Lovecraft‘s stories.

@AllDebooks THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING IN THIS PACKAGE! The 🍫 won't last long 😂

A yearly Xmas tradition in our house is to watch The Tailor of Gloucester, so I'm really excited for the tagged book to find out the meanings (although when I unwrapped it, I struggled to remember if there were any 💐 in the story! 😂)

The Fair Botanists has been on my radar for a while, so you've finally given me the motivation to read it 😂

Difficult to choose my favourite book in #August for #12Booksof2023 as I read the next books in a lot of my favourite series that all got five stars, but going for The Grave Tattoo (a non-series read). This book has everything mystery, intrigue, compassion and a theory for what happened to Fletcher Christian of Mutiny on the Bounty fame. Loved both the past and modern time line and strongly recommend this, which I couldn‘t put down.

This is becoming a favourite series, and in book 4, poe is dragged from the court case about his house to assist Mi5 in an investigation set around a world leader summit in Cumbria. As poe and Tilly Bradshaw are drawn into a Web of intrigue, the mystery goes into events in Iraq 20 years earlier. This was my weekend reading and a definite page turner.

This was sweet and I wanted to like it but I couldn‘t quite do it. Characters made very big decisions very quickly, decades-old grief and mental health problems had turning points after single conversations, and people who‘ve had two conversations are planning lives together without discussing being in a relationship at all?

Also it‘s petty but the narrator kept mispronouncing Keswick and it grated so much, but the author couldn‘t have foreseen