Despite the low ranking reviews I‘m really enjoying this , but then I love ❤️ most ww1 & ww2 stories & it‘s giving me Elizabeth Jane Howard and Mary Wesley vibes who I also love so a recommended read if you like those 😊

#bookspin bingo Julys very messy board 😆managed 9 books but sadly all over the place so no exact bingo for me, better luck 🍀 in August and more careful plotting 🤣📕❤️

This is a great 👍 little feature on fable / 2 5star reads for me in July and both joint books of the month Persuasion (of course !) #janeaustenjuly & bury our bones in the midnight soil - biggest disappointment Sylvia‘s lovers & a month in the country but hey ho it‘s all about your mood isn‘t it 📕🥰

Here‘s my August TBR #bookspin bingo , Iv had to re write it twice 😆so ready Teddy read 💨🤓📕😆 thanks 🙏 again dear Sarah @TheAromaofBooks love ❤️ our monthly bingo, happy reading folks

A lovely read started out as a strong 5 star ⭐ plus and a contender for my book of the year , however mid-ish way in the story Louisa and Ted end up on a train journey and a story from both sides is told with flash backs , I found myself becoming bored 🥱 and tempted to skim read , I stuck with it and there is light at the end of the tunnel as the journey ends & not the way expected, still a good read and a hit of the year

I love Ofarrells works but this one ! So depressing and slow I have to a larger TBR now to stick with a no win ☹️

Bookclub UK 🇬🇧 holiday read 😎holkham beach our fav 🥰

Just started whilst on my uk 🇬🇧 mini break my friends had to pop into work so im in a beautiful farm deli cafe having breakfast 🍳 with these guys 😆 loving 🥰 it already 🫶🏻

Back in Beautiful Bath again for a little mini break with my gorgeous best friend , she‘s moved here & I miss her terribly 🥲but the bonus is I get lovely 🥰breaks down here, so perfect time to re read my favourite Austen, who incidentally hated bath! Finished it in her beautiful garden 🪴 UK 🇬🇧 in summer is to me the most beautiful place on the planet 🌍 we are so so lucky to be blessed to live here in a free fair democracy

Great riveting read with three Strong female narratives pulling the story together , clever plotting and characterisation , I love anything to do with the “wild west “ and the murder thrown in , a gold rush “whodunnit “ make it even more engaging - however not a 5 star for me purely due to the ending and the last 20 odd pages which felt v weak compared to rest of the story - however the historical notes from the author at the end are gripping

Iv had to chop&change my bingo board it‘s not cheating honest 😆🙏due to all my library holds coming in at once 😥😱 so far this month Iv read : the last letter Rebecca yarross for my bookclub so so for me , bury our bones 🦴 the new ve Schwab which is so far my fav 🤩atmosphere by tjr not her best but good, a month in the country slow & disappointing for me ,

Forgot 🤦🏼‍♀️to post this along with my #bookspinbingo anyways a slower June for me but 3 stand outs : Jane Austen‘s book shelves the women who inspired her was amazing 🤩 and was the names by Florence knapp & of course Emma - previously I‘d found Emma annoying but now (much older 😆) I realise it is Austen‘s masterpiece of human nature and characterisation- the woman is a genius 🥰😍 happy #janeaustensummer

Love love loving the rush !!! Believe it or not it‘s a crime in gold rush land with twists and turns and 3 great female leads , 3 intertwining stories - it‘s a page turner - yes in the beginning horses and people die in the ruthless rush to get to Dawson city but so far on page 205 nothing has happened to Yukon the dog 🐶 so im bemused by the other only post on here and please 🙏 polite reminder if there‘s a spoiler hide 🫣 it !!!

Wow 🤩 for once the hype is correct on this one Schwab‘s best yet in my opinion, I really enjoyed Addie LaRue but this is even better , clever plotting fantastic characters , totally absorbing , loved the historical blend with modern day and three protagonists all very different . This will be in my top ten maybe even top five books 📚 of the year - loved it ,

Waiting for my car to be serviced and making myself at home 😆writing my #julyjitters #bookspinbingo list 😆 @TheAromaofBooks thank you ☺️ 😘

When all your library 📚 holds come in at once and you have to re write your #julybookspinbingolist 😆 @TheAromaofBooks

#summerreads a vampire book in summer ! But my goodness it‘s fantastic

No everyone‘s cup of tea a short novel about an abusive relationship with a husband who has BPD & a narcissistic unloving mother who then becomes elderly and needy , sad topics and your left wondering whether she walks away from them all or not ?? But the writing was exceptional

Current reads & my fur baby girl 🐶❤️📚❤️ a romance ❤️‍🔥 the last letter , a rage 😡 inducing non fiction about discrimination in all things against women 😭 & a very well written but hard topic of narcissistic abusive what a mix ! Happy reading 📖 folks

First half of the book a definite 4.5 star 🌟 read ; second half a 3 and abit blah 🫤 personally compared to other reads I didn‘t find the love interest between Heath and kat that passionate, the spark just wasn‘t really there & the ending how the hell did that happen . It did reignite my love of ice skating and ice dance , overall an easy cosy ish enjoyable read that won‘t blow your socks off but is enjoyable

Had to re watch torvil & deans 1984 gold medal 🥇 winning Bolero on YouTube oh my goodness forgot how truly brilliant 🤩 they were - the most famous and the best ice dance EVER ! If you haven‘t watched it YOU MUST I choked up 🥺I was 13 yrs old when they won and we watched it live on tv 📺 the days when we had only 3 channels !!! 😮remember those days 😆 #thefavourites #torvilanddean #iceskating #icedance

Oh my goodness I‘m loving this ⛸️ 🥰😍

Every debut these days seems to be labelled with “debut of the year “ & rarely does it live up to the hype , but then one little gem crops up and blows your socks off ! Wow ! What a book, I pre ordered this upon publication because I‘d read a lot of great reviews pre release , podcasters and YouTubers / book tubers all raving about it & they were right. Very hard to find an “original “
Idea now for a story & plot line

When your trying to read in the garden 🪴 engrossed & your puppy 🐶 is staring at you to go walkies 😆

Adored this book ! Rebecca Romneys research was painstakingly brilliant 🤩 so many gifted female authors who perhaps help set up Austen to be the great novelist we all know and love(well most of us)Iv had to order a lot of the books mentioned from world of books, 2nd hand onlinestore, Burneys Evelina, Ann radcliffes mysteries of udolpho, the female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox, Marie edgeworths Belinda & many more.1 of my fav books of-the year

I thoroughly enjoyed Emma much more after reading Rebecca romneys Jane Austen‘s bookshelf‘s , previously I started it a few times and put it to one side finding Emma annoying , a meangirl match making busy body - Austen herself said she‘d created aheroine “whom no one but myself will much like “ oh but this book is packed with sharp observations of human nature and character, I have aneighbouris Miss bates not financially butwith verbal diarrhoea

Hey Lynn remember last year I promised to send you this book ? 📕 well I did & look what Iv only just got back !!!!! It was April 2024 🤬🤬🤬🤬 rejected 🙅🏼‍♀️ at customs 🛂 🤯 I did try 😩 xxx #litsylove snail 🐌 mail ✉️ gone wrong 😑!

So many wonderful quotes , this made me laugh 🤭 I‘d have liked this lady 😂 “when any man likes me Im never surprised for I think how should he help it ? When any man doesn‘t like me he must be a block head & there‘s an end of the matter “ Brilliant 🤩 🤣🤣🤣

This book 📕 is mind blowing 🤯 so so good 😊 I urge all Austen lovers to read it ; such a beautiful cover too ! These female authors who have almost disappeared, how come ? Modern tastes and sensibilities , it‘s opened my eyes which all great books do, it‘s also cost me a fortune as Iv pretty much ordered all books mentioned & spent ages googling these authors. Will be one of my fav books of the year 👏🏻and so many wonderful quotes …

Back in toppings bookshop in Bath and had to pick this gorgeous book up started it straight away but it‘ll be a slow long leisurely read . (d5 for a hardback did you ever think you‘d see the prices of books go so high ????paperbacks now £.99 I‘m sure they‘re even more in the USA ???

Everytime I‘m here I have to buy at least 3 I‘m planning to collect the whole catalogue 🥰🥰 I adore Dorothy whipple can‘t wait to read this one and if you‘ve never read her you really must ! 😍😍

Back in beautiful Bath Uk 🇬🇧 and yes 😆purchased a bagful of persephones from their wonderful bookshop one of which is this one newly re printed , Persephone do an amazing job of reprinting lost authors / works I have never read a bad one #Persephonebookclub #persephonebooks

Back in beautiful 🤩 bath uk 🇬🇧 for an entertaining evening with the wonderful Lucy Worsley 🥰🥰

delightfulread,Persephone, ever in a reading slump ?Pick up one of their classics in essence a story of unhappy relationships, a one sided community & the cruelty of gossip. Sometimes marriages and relationships just don‘t work out, “ I went away with you because I was as I was, I am going my way now alone because I am as I am. And what you don‘t see is this , the thing that made me go with you then is the thing that makes me go my way alone now ‘

Sunny ☀️ but windy 🌬️ cooler afternoon, chores done , husband out , time to cosy on down with this little gem a pot of coffee and fur babies 🐶🐶Iv had a spate of ummmm 😑😐reads so I find turning to a Persephone you can‘t go wrong , I‘m there again next week in Bath 🛁 uk 🇬🇧 and can‘t wait 😝 happy 😊 reading you lovely 🥰 people x x

I‘ve become a great aunt to Isabella Andrea Hamilton 🥰im lucky 🍀 to be very close to my niece (and nephew ) could never have children myself due to medical issues sometimes it‘s just not meant to be , however I do find it strange when people (this happened a lot to us on holiday recently in Croatia 🇭🇷 for some strange reason) when people ask you if you have children, you say no and then they want an explanation why 🫨I never do that, some of

Oh dear oh dear maybe it‘s just me because Iv been so so tired but wow this book is confusing 🫤 I had to keep turning back and re reading and I still didn‘t get it or engage with any characters. Should have known because I dnf‘ed the authors award winning novel white tiger, I love a good Wild West book but not this one

What a disappointment! Such an interesting historical figure but sadly this part of her life left me deflated , boring in parts And as other reviewers have said the book should have been titled ceasar and cleopatra, mark Anthony is mentioned once towards the end almost as if there could be a part 2 book 2 but very much doubt it , what a shame, sadly a let down for me

Started this with Teddy in the May sunshine ☀️ and promptly feel asleep 😴 😆

Absolutely loved it and a fitting end to a truly brilliant series , elements are 4 of the best books Iv ever read ! Not my fav but ties everything up perfectly & not as shocking as the other 3 and dare I say a “happier” ending. A whole series which brilliantly captures the trauma inflicted on people by a handful of others , I urge everyone to read them

I‘m not sure what iv just read and 🤔 how to rate this, as other reviewers have said it is a story on a constant loop of repetition if your looking for a story about a complete arsehole then you‘ve found it in this , I can‘t even call Ernt a villain as he‘s not worthy , Cora no comment 😶 leni she‘s great . Maybe more fool me for sticking with it, I did find it oddly compelling

Starting honour on the sail into Dubrovnik 😍😍

First holiday read finished in beautiful 🤩 Croatia 🇭🇷 overlooking the 20 minutes of water to stunning 🤩 Dubrovnik where GOTs was filmed , loved those books 📚 back in the day. I enjoyed deep cuts wouldn‘t say I loved it but enjoyed the angst and frustration and misunderstandings of love , more of a love story to music 🎶 than daisy jones & six to which it‘s compared,a short read & a good one, looking forward to the film with Austin butler

Iv given this amazing authors book 5 stars even though I found some of the content extremely difficult to read being a huge animal lover , poaching is evil ,cruel, disastrously damaging to these wonderful creatures, who with a normal heart soul and mind could do such a thing ! The daily fight against these evil people and the removal of snares ! The chapters about the orphaned baby animals and the trauma they‘ve endured at the hands of humans

And nothing much changes ……

#persephoneclub well you were right gang I blinking loved it 🥰 what a ride, no spoilers but loved 🥰 the ending wouldn‘t it make a great film 🎥 would loved to have read more on Betty and mount Dunstan one of the best Persephones in my opinion😀 @LeahBergen @CarolynM @willaful @andrew61 @Gissy @rubyslippersreads @Cathythoughts @quietjenn plus found a wonderful bookmark of my mollie moonbeam in her fav place / my bed 😆🥰

Reading in the hairdressers, I‘m much better reading this in the day rather than in bed ? at night and getting angry ? at the horrid Nigel (does anyone know a nice Nigel ? Just wondering ? ?) and poor Rosy ?but hooray ?? here comes Betty - and perfect accompaniment is listening to Beyoncé‘s cowboy ? carter album ? thank you ? fellow #persephoneClub buddies for the encouragement ?happy Easter ?

I maybe the odd one out here #persephoneClub . But I am so cross with this book 📕 I have had to put it down , perhaps reading it in bed isn‘t such a good idea .,.. oh poor Rosy leave him for godsake !!! I shall stick with it as I‘m sure once Betty gets going it‘ll be a rip roaring read - the photo is Blenheim palace , I was there last week with a friend & my pups 🐶 famously rescued by Consuelo Vanderbilts dowry also sadly a loveless marriage

If I was 18-25I‘d have loved this book,it is a spicer version of Judy blumes wonderful forever , it is a lot lot better than the bombardment now of poorly written boring 🥱 romance but and here‘s the BUT maybe it‘s
An age thing (I‘m 53) with a huge TBR and time is precious , this book is 800 odd pages and…..

My nominees please for this years #camplitsy25

.My Friends by Fredrick Backman
.The Names by Florence Knapp
.Atmosphere by TJ Reid
.Story of a murder By Hallie Rubenhold

All published in 2025 all out in stores by June

Thank you to @BarbaraBB @squirrelbrain @Megabooks