This book by #AuthorAMonth author for June is currently 99p in the U.K. for Kindle and Apple Books.
Seen great reviews for this book and looking forward to getting to it in June.
@Soubhiville
This book by #AuthorAMonth author for June is currently 99p in the U.K. for Kindle and Apple Books.
Seen great reviews for this book and looking forward to getting to it in June.
@Soubhiville
Thoroughly enjoyed this twin timeline historical fiction book by Nicola Cornick. It tells the story of Nell Gwyn‘s older sister & involves the book opening with Rose in Marshalsea Prison connected to a famous theft. She & Jess (current timeline) undergo quite a journey!
Always enjoyed the books of Nicola Cornick. This is no exception. I definitely recommend it, my only complaint was I didn‘t want it to end & wanted more of Rose‘s colourful life.
This one was a soft pick for me. Usual psychological Fayre from BA Paris.
Her books are always worth a read. Sureprising;y given the title a therapist wasn‘t referenced until the last quarter of the book. It was enjoyable as the story was laid out.
#ReadAway2024 @DieAReader @Ghabi4Roses
This was a good read, set in a Liverpool, England.
First book in the DS Nathan Cody Series, where he is investigating the murders of fellow police officers. Nathan himself is struggling to cope with events from a previous case. I look forward to continuing this series.
#ReadAway2024 @DieAReader @Ghabi4Roses
Started the latest book by Nicola Cornick, a dual time line historical fiction book telling the story of Nell Gwyn‘s lesser known sister, Rose Gwyn.
#ReadAway2024 @DieAReader @Ghabi4Roses
Robin Hobb creates a magical world, this has to be different to any book I‘ve read before with Liveships, Pirates, sea serpents, etc. These take a while to get into and despite being fantasy has great linkages to the real world and the down trodden way women have been treated throughout history.
A BIG read but some interesting plot lines and interested to see where this is taken in book 2.
#SeriesLove2024 @TheSpineView #ChunkstersOfLitsy
1. I‘m in Bingtown and on a Liveship travelling the Cursed Shores in Robin Hobb‘s world with the tagged book.
2. I always love books set in Scotland, and especially in the remote parts of Scotland, and we regularly visit these areas on holiday so the books remind me of our holidays. So much great crime fiction set in these areas.
#WondrousWednesday @Eggs
I tag @CarolynM @LizPixie @Cinfhen @AlwaysBeenALoverOfBooks @TheBookHippie @LeahBergen
Good to see this series by Denzil Meyrick keeps up the very high standard. Another excellent book, & in this one we find out a lot more about D.S. Brian Scott‘s past, but he is also on dicey ground. The community is still reeling from events in bk 9. Strongly recommend the series.
#SeriesLove2024 @TheSpineView
#ReadAway2024 @DieAReader @Ghabi4Roses
#BacklistRedathon @TheAromaofBooks @clwojick
Started March by a mixture of reading and listening to the first book in The Liveship Traders Series by RobinHobb. At 896 pages this Chunkster may take a while.
#SeriesLove2024 @TheSpineView
#Chunkster
A difficult month for many reasons, but did manage to somehow finish 20 books. A much higher proportion than normal of audiobooks, 11 of the 20.
My favourite book was The Women by Kristin Hannah. What was your favourite read in February?
#ReadAway2024 @DieAReader @Ghabi4Roses
Finished off The Women and Tell it to the Skies on Day 2 of #FabulousFebruary #20in4 Readthon. I also started listening to Normal People by Sally Rooney.
Read 401 pages (so 101 pages ahead of my target for the day ) and 7 hrs 41 mins.
Altogether finished 2/4 books :
Tell it to the Skies
The Women
Read 11 hrs 33 mins, and 607 / 1400 pages.
#ReadAway2024 @DieAReader @Ghabi4Roses
3rd book finished for #FabulousFebruary #20in4
I can see why this book has good reviews. Overall an enjoyable book, covering the relationship between 2 people over a period of time. Both are normal people with issues of own to deal with along with the relationship. You end up caring for both of them, but also question some of their actions, even become frustrated by them. I‘d like a follow-up book 5 years on to find out what happens to them.
First book finished this week! 🤷♂️ First book finished fir #FabulousFebruary #20in4
Quite a big book at 544 pages, but really enjoyed this story and it galloped along. Retells the story of Lydia‘s childhood and key events that happened to her. A big surprise at the end of the book when Lydia finds out what really happened all those years ago. I do enjoy this authors books.
#ReadAway2024 @DieaReader @Ghabi4Roses
Read some more from both The Women and Tell it to the Skies on Day 1 of #FabulousFebruary #20in4 Readthon.
Read 206 pages (so 6 pages ahead of my target of 1400 pages, and 3 hrs 52 mins. No books finished.
#ReadAway2024 @DieAReader @Ghabi4Roses
These are the books I hope to read from during #FabulousFebruary #20in4.
Still trying to get my reading momentum going again. Two books , The Women and Tell It To The Skies, I am already on the second half of.
Hard to set targets but would like to finish off at least 4 of these, and possibly read to 1400 pages. Quite conservative goals for me.
#ReadAway2024 @DieAReader @Ghabi4Roses
#AuthorAMonth @Soubhiville
Been a tough month illness wise for me so missed setting the readathons. So this month merging a six day Choose Your Own Goals Readathon #FabulousFebruary with an extended 6 day #20in4
Feel free to join and use this six day readathon however you want to whether you choose to do 20 hours or chapters over the 6 days, or want to choose your own goals. A good way to boost your February reading, I know I need to! Well off course.
Started reading this book, and I suddenly find myself in a terrifying field hospital in Vietnam. Got me hooked already.
#ReadAway2024 @DieAReader @Ghabi4Roses
Finally got the first book finished for #ReadingOceania2024 @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB This one has been on my shelf for years and covers #Australia, following a family who are transported to Australia for theft and covers their early years there. Overall enjoyable but at times found it a chore to read.
#ReadAway2024 @DieaReader @Ghabi4Roses
Trying to get back into reading by starting this book in one of my favourite series. Been a busy and difficult few weeks, with at times pains making it difficult to concentrate on the reading. Hope this pacy read will help me build up focus again.
#SeriesLove2024 @TheSpineView
A great red coat so should be good. @Tove_Reads
Apologies for being missing in action, & not having responded to posts. Had to take a few weeks away whilst I had a big flare up of my Crohn‘s Disease & the associated pains that made it difficult to focus on sitting & responding to things. Also been dealing with one or two other things. Hopefully back now. Thanks for your understanding and going missing in the middle of a Readathon.
Thanks to those that have sent messages 😍 Litsy is the best
Usually I am not a lover of novellas but as I know this series well (in fact it is one of my favourite series) I really enjoyed the novella and it is interesting to see MIT in its early days and at a time when Matilda‘s husband is still alive.
Caitlin has just reported a rape, which happened some months before, when she is suddenly murdered in her house.
1st book finished for #JoyousJanuary.
This book had everything you want, a great avenging hero, a group of baddies, emotional angst, a historical backdrop (Twins in the tower) and a revenge mission. This is one of my favourite series and this didn‘t disappoint, even at book 28 in the series. I thoroughly recommend the series.
This is a strange one however, as it takes Ben back to earlier in his life and doesn‘t follow the chronological timeline.
It‘s gone midnight so kicking off the #JoyousJanuary Readathon by getting stuck into this book. Book 28 in the excellent Ben Hope Series. This will get me back up to date I‘m the series. #SeriesLove2024 @TheSpineView
Recommend this series to anyone who enjoys this hero series such as Gabriel Allon, Jack Reacher, Mitch Rapp etc.
#JumpStart2024 @LizPixie
#ReadAway2024 @DieAReader @Ghabi4Roses
Started my second book for #ChunksterChallenge2024. This one is only in the almost a chunkster category at 515 pages. That said it‘s quite small print and a lot of words on each page so feels much bigger than a 500+ page book. @Amiable
This is the first Jack McEvoy book, and the fifth book in the #BoschUniverseSeries. #SeriesLove2024 @TheSpineView
It‘s also off my bookshelves.
#JumpStart2024 @LizPixie
#ReadAway2024 @DieAReader @Ghabi4Roses
Believe it or not we are already rapidly approaching the mid month 9 day Pick Your Own Goals Readathon, #JoyousJanuary
Any one can join, just choose your own goals whatever they may be, and post your goals and / or the books you hope to read. All very flexible and very informal.
Please use the tag #JoyousJanuary and tag me in any posts.
Have fun with it, this is really the only rule.
This is a relatively short book, but despite that it does pack quite the punch! I had to read late into the night to finish this book as I needed to know what happened, & there was one or two shocks along the way that I just did not see coming. In fact I lay awake for the next couple of hours thinking over the book and was left with an overwhelming feeling of sadness for the main character. Not always that a book has quite as much an effect on me.
Finished my first #AuthorAMonth book for 2024 @Soubhiville
Not having read Jane Austen before I wasn‘t sure what to expect from this book. Overall I quite enjoyed it but definitely a very different style of book about a very different time and culture. Based on this I would be happy to read other books by her.
#JumpStart2024 @LizPixie
#ReadAway2024 @DieAReader @Ghabi4Roses
The first book in a new series by Melinda Woodhall, using a character from her other series. Following a marriage breakdown Frankie Dawson is a Private Investigator who goes home for the first time in 15 years after finding his close school friend, who he fell out with 15 years ago, is dying from cancer and has asked to see him.
#ReadAway2024 @DieAReader @Ghabi4Roses
#JumpStart2024 @LizPixie
#SeriesLove2024 @TheSpineView
This novella is a prequel to the excellent Matilda Darke Series, and takes place shortly after the MIT Team has been formed and shortly after Matilda‘s promotion to the DCI. It also takes place before Matilda‘s husband‘s death, which occurs before the first book, and it is interesting to see that relationship prior to his death.
#SeriesLove2024 @TheSpineView
#JumpStart2024 @LizPixie
#ReadAway2024 @DieAReader @Ghabi4Roses
Ken Follett does it again with this book! It‘s great to return to Kingsbridge in this book set in the late 18th and early 19th Century. As always with Ken Follett he creates great characters, both good and bad, and he does an excellent job of making you have to read on to find out what is going to happen next.
#ReadAway2024 @DieAReader @Ghabi4Roses
#JumpStart2024 @LizPixie
#SeriesLove2024 @TheSpneView Series up to date.
This was an excellent introduction to a new series, and straightaway you buy into Beth and what she is doing, even if it isn‘t by the book! This book moves along at pace and you just do not want to put it down. I can‘t wait for the opportunity to continue with this series. This was my first book by this author but based on the excellent plotting, characters and the storyline it certainly won‘t be my last.
Points in the second half of #WinterGames 115,630 points, giving a total tally of 180,250 points
Most of these points came from the word searches, where read virtually all Winter / Christmas themed books, and read 38 books over the games.
@Deblovestoread @Blerdgal_fenix @mcipher @candc320 @Peanutnine @TheAromaofbooks @Andrew65 @5280reader @Kay.the.bibliophile
#SantasBookshELVES
Thanks for being a great Team Leader @peanutnine 👏👏👏🙌🎊
In case anyone hasn‘t seen it I am tagging some of the usual readathoners in to the year long #ReadAway2024 Readathon that I‘m cohosting with @DieAReader and @Ghabi4Roses.
Use this Readathon in any way you want to during 2024 to boost your reading and feel free to set your own goals or not. We are flexible and easy going about how people use this Readathon.
Most important thing is to have fun with your reading with others. 🥰
This was my favourite book read in #November for #12Booksof2023. This was an excellent read set initially during the Spanish Civil War, but most of the book takes in the lives of two people following their lives in Chile as a refugee. This book really will stay with me for a long time and is a strong candidate for my favourite book of the year.
Notable mentions also for Family for Beginners by Sarah Morgan (always love her books) and 👇
Difficult to choose just one book for #October for #12Booksof2023 but eventually went for The Book of Cold Cases, but took me 24 hours to decide on one! This is another excellent story from Simone St James which has a bit of a ghost element to it. This really was an excellent read, and possibly my favourite by her.
Notable almost mentions for Past Lying by Val McDermid, the new book in the excellent Karen Pirie series set during the Lockdown 👇
Having discovered Jessica Redland last Christmas and enjoyed her books since, I was keen to jump into this book about Tabby setting up a Cat Cafe, which seems a novel concept. Unfortunately just before opening her partner deserts her and if that isn‘t enough she also is suffering from the debilitating condition of fibromyalgia. There also seem to be people around her that want to stop the cafe opening.
I‘m going in… I may be some time 😂
Starting off the #ChunksterChallenge2024 with this super Chunkster at 1024 pages. No pressure but the book will be recalled by the library at 11.10pm on 7th January 🤣 But it is part of a great Chunkster Series @Amiable
#JumpStart2024 @LizPixie
This will also be the first of my targeted books for #SeriesLove2024 @TheSpineView
It‘s a while since I read a B A Paris book, but this book shows she still has the talent to write a good psychological thriller.
At first this book was hard to get a handle on, especially in audiobook form, as there were three different couples introduced in quick time and it took a while to get them all right in my head.
In August I had difficulty choosing a stand out book as I had a lot of five star reads. In September I had a different issue, not the five star books and no book overall that stood out above the others. In the end I‘ve gone with the tagged book which was a very good read and came in at 4 1/2 Stars. However could have chosen one of many. #12Booksof2023
This was the first book I have read in this series, but it held up well given this.
A couple of brothers take over the local pub in a small community approaching Christmas, which causes a few ripples in the local community, especially for the co-owner of the local bakery who had previously had a no-commitments brief holiday relationship.
#20in4 #OutWithTheOldInWithTheNew #JumpStart2024
A great start to the new year, I‘ve been auto-approved to review the ARC of Michael Wood‘s new book and new series that comes out on 28th March. Thanks to #HarperCollins, #NetGalley and #MichaelWood #TheMindOfAMurderer
Can‘t wait to get to this as he is one of the best talents in Crime Fiction! Love his books.
@EadieB @Tove_Reads
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.
These are the 20 series I have targeted for #SeriesLove2024, and the post shows the next book up in the series for me. I‘ve chosen a range of series to hopefully suit every mood.
2 of the series I‘ve only got one book to go, and 7 of the series are new to me but been on my radar a long time.
I‘m sure I‘ll add to the list but these will be my main focus.Some are a carry over from #SeriesLove2023.
Good luck to everyone taking part.
@TheSpineView
Set my reading goal for 2024, this is almost 100 books less than this yet but I want to get to some of my bigger books this year.
Aiming for 20 a month and with it being a leap year we do have an extra day in the year this year. 🤣
First book finished of 2024.
A soft pick for me about a woman who goes to Paris to meet the family of the woman who gave Keeley her kidney following a kidney transplant. Keeley is struggling to cope with life after losing her sister in an accident which led to a kidney transplant saving her life. I just didn‘t feel it with the characters, but that could also have been down to the narrator.
#JumpStart2024 @LizPixie #WinterGames #20in4
A bit late today, but this is my top book for #12BooksOf2023 for #July
A little known book that I have had to add to the database to even post it here. Published in April a moving story set in rural 1970‘s Ireland. Gerry has to take on the family farm following his father‘s death and his brother going to America. I really loved the simplicity but developments for Gerry in this story. Quite emotive.
It needs more publicity.
Finished my last book for the year. Was aiming for 300 books for the year and with four months to go was well behind. In the end with a concerted effort I exceeded my goal by 28 books!
Most books I‘ve read in a year but only 3rd highest page count, must have read shorter books this year.
Monday sees the start of #SeriesLove2024.
@TheSpineView and @Andrew65 love hosting this and seeing everyone‘s progress in the many series you love.
Please let us know if you are taking part. Also let us know what series you are looking at targeting, or are you more freestyle and just read books from different series as the year progresses.
Bring on the series!
I first discovered Josie Silver through the #SundayBuddyRead and loved her ever since. Her latest book, A Winter In New York was my favourite book for #June for #12Booksof2023, absolutely loved the story and the characters in this one. A must read.
Also loved A Dangerous Place by Jacqueline Winspear, which was my other 5 star book during June.
My #May book for #12BooksFor2023 is The Bishop‘s Pawn. An excellent Cotton Malone thriller centred around what happened in Martin Luther King‘s final days. Always love Cotton Malone books but this is one of the very best and learned a lot about Martin Luther King in this book. This reads exceptionally well as a standalone even though it is a book in a series.