Litsy

Wolf Den | Elodie Harper

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Pompeii - yes I found my photos from my last trip - il post some more ! Go go go ! And read wolf den what an amazing 🤩 page 📄 turner can‘t believe I had it on my TBR for so long !! Thank goodness 😅 there‘s now 2 more in the series . @TheAromaofBooks it‘s thanks to bookspin bingo I got around to reading this wonderful book 📖 thank you ☺️😘

JenReadsAlot I visited pompeii this year! 2mo

BethM @JenReadsAlot whhhhaaaatttt?! That‘s amazing! 2mo

JenReadsAlot @BethM It was! I went to Italy for 2 weeks in September! 2mo

Bookbuyingaddict Oh my goodness @BethM plan a trip ! Take the kids it is an amazing experience. My advice if you go in summer ;take lots of water 💦 to drink as once you in the ancient city (which is huge) there are no shops ! It‘s stunning how well preserved it is. Warning ⚠️ modern Pompeii isn‘t great , it‘s easy to catch the train 🚆 there from sorrento also wonderful. Trains are abit run down but cheap. You will need the whole day or 2/3 days to see it all ☺️ (edited) 1mo

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 1mo

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Bookbuyingaddict

Wolf Den | Elodie Harper

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Wow! Didn‘t work on audio for me but reading it blew me away. what a wonderful sweeping saga . It also helps that Iv been to Pompeii 4 times and have visited the brothel seen the stone beds and the murals and the house with the faun fountain (still in tact ) an amazing story really doing justice to what our sisters had to endure 😣and to the legend of Pompeii if you‘ve never been you really must put it on your bucket list it is Atlantis.fantastic

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Bookbuyingaddict

Wolf Den | Elodie Harper

On my TBR for yonks and started this evening it has great reviews in the times and im surprised it‘s not more widely read on here. Wish It had been published when I was actually in Pompeii in 2017 ! We did go into the brothel the stone beds were tiny and stone !! Not very comfy and the murals still painted on the walls , so a punter would come in and ask for one of the numbered murals 😖those poor poor women ! Anyway it‘s a slow start,let‘s see

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Martta

Wolf Den | Elodie Harper

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This was good! It is quite a tough read though. The reality of Pompeij brothel is brutal but I was happy that it wasn't toned down or romanticed. Characters were well written and I loved the description of the women's friendships. I think this book handles the topic of slavery and ownership of one's body really well. The story followed the route we walked through Pompeij last year when we visited there. I remember a lot of the locations.

ReadingRachael This sounds really interesting. I‘ve wanted to visit Pompeii ever since my high school/secondary school Latin teacher brought it to life for us. I ended up taking 3yrs of Latin (grade 11, 12, & 13) and our class followed the story of a family up until the eruption of Vesuvius…so so tragic 😭 3mo

Martta @ReadingRachael You should definitely visit there! I've been there twice and it is just amazing! There is so much to see. Last year we walked there like 7 hours and saw many of the places mentioned in this book. We got to visit many of the villas and the theatre, arena, forum and so on. It is quite a unique experience! 😊 3mo

ReadingRachael That sounds fantastic, it would be so interesting 😊 3mo

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Martta

Wolf Den | Elodie Harper

Started reading this. It feels quite brutal. I love the location though. I visited Pompeii a little less than a year ago and saw many of the actual locations mentioned in the book.

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Anna40

Rainbow Stories | William T. Vollmann

so-so

I appreciate the originality of themes and voice, the research that went into writing these stories, but it‘s just not for me.

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julesG

Where Serpents Sleep: A Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery | C. S. Harris

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Continuing the Serpent topic 🤪

#4 in the Sebastian St Cyr series.

Is it a serial killer, or is something more sinister afoot? Sebastian is asked to investigate by none other than Hero, the daughter of his nemesis Sir Charles.

#SeriesLove2023 @TheSpineView @Andrew65
#JoysOfJune #readathon

TheSpineView Well done! 11mo

Andrew65 Love this series. 11mo

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TheBookHippie

The Royal Family | William T Vollmann

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TheBookgeekFrau 😂 12mo

dabbe 🤣🤣🤣 12mo

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Sharpeipup Best photo yet. 12mo

TheSpineView 🤣🤣🤣 12mo

LeahBergen 😆😆 12mo

Tamra Oh so funny! 12mo

marleed Oh, I love a bit of Bernie in my day! 12mo

Aimeesue Bernie! 🤣🤣🤣 12mo

Ruthiella 😂😂😂 12mo

CoverToCoverGirl Long Live Bernie!!! 🤣 12mo

Sargar114 😂😂😂 12mo

Hooked_on_books I‘ve been enjoying some of the coronation humor I‘ve seen out there. This is a good one! 12mo

AnnR Love it. Bernie rocks! 12mo

willaful Ah, nostalgic! 😁 12mo

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jenniferw88

Sugar: A Novel | Bernice L. McFadden

As I can't fit 22 books on a collage, I've screeshotted my #auldlangspine list for @AllDebooks as well as 9 other books for my #top22of22 list @Cinfhen . Bottom 2 books should be read in order shown, as they follow quite nicely on from each other. And the Fraser is also known as The Gunpowder Plot.

I don't think I'm going to get any more 5 🌟 reads this year, and some of these aren't 5, but close enough to warrant a spot on my list.

AllDebooks That's amazing, thank you. I have all of these already 😍 1y

Cinfhen I need to switch to my iPad 😂😂old granny eyes can‘t read the list 🤣Thanks for sharing!! Can‘t wait to check out all your titles!!! 1y

Cinfhen I saw your #ALSpine list 🙌🏻 EXCELLENT choices from the ones I‘ve read‼️‼️‼️ 1y

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jenniferw88 @Cinfhen if you haven't read the Margolyes one yet, I can thoroughly recommend the audio!

This Much is True

Cinfhen I started it a few weeks ago, after you recommended it but I wasn‘t really feeling it. I‘m not super familiar with the actress so I wasn‘t that invested in her story, which was VERY DETAILED oriented 1y

jenniferw88 @Cinfhen fair enough! She's definitely not for everybody. 1y

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