pickWell, this was just delightful! I think I am entering into my cozy British mystery era! 🧐🔍
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pickWell, this was just delightful! I think I am entering into my cozy British mystery era! 🧐🔍
pickThe Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, Vol 7, by Beth Brower (2023)
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Premise: The still continued journals of a bright young woman navigating her uncommon life amidst the mores of Victorian London.
Review: It‘s a testament to his good these are that I‘m still excited to spend every moment I can with these characters. Here we have quite a bit of plot development in addition to the delightful sensibility and voice of the series.
pickI‘m a little sorry to say that I didn‘t love this story as much as I wanted to! I did enjoy it, I just found it a little hard to follow the narration of this one and keep all the dangling connections straight. I did like the main character, however, and liked how some of the twists were laid out in the form of a book submission she‘s reading. All in all not bad but not a favorite either. 🌟🌟🌟
so-soWomen's Prize long list book that I am just getting to. This was fine. I want to be a True Crime Girlie but I just don't think I am. I need more focus on the victims. This I think fails in marketing, the book is much more focused (IMO) on journalism. What information is given, how it is relayed. I think there are a lot of interesting tid bits in here but overall I didn't find the book itself interesting, it seemed a bit direction less.
pickA quiet yet engrossing tale of female friendships. Three Mexican girls have in common their love of embroidery. As Mila plans a memorial service for one of them, she looks back on their lives, especially how they began to grow apart during a trip to Europe in their late teens. #Translation by Christina MacSweeney #LGBTQ
“Citlali was a very selective and slow reader, managing only one chapter at a time—she hated books without chapters.”
[Note: this novel isn‘t divided into chapters. Instead, long and short sections are separated with images of a threaded needle.]
Echinoderms—starfish—can regenerate lost arms, an ability not shared by mammals. To some extent, but by no means totally, we have compensated for this lack with needles and thread.
#10BeforeTheEnd Week 5
How is everyone doing??
I am glad I put enough nonfiction on here to get me through Nonfiction November! All the NF is ticked off (finishing Peepshow today) I now have some chunksters while I also look at #ToB
Anyone else feel like they are running out of steam??
#WeeklyForecast
#10BeforeTheEnd this week is Peepshow
#Bookspin The Frozen River
And a couple of small nonfictions one very local about the Oregon cheese industry and one about the amazing Nina Simone
