Sometimes you just need an easy smutty read 😂#nosmutshaming #chesnutsprings slow to start but a cute sexy story of friends to lovers trope , the whole series it‘s a pretty fun read and in my opinion much better than the twisted series

So sorry 😢 #camplitsy but just not for me , I have a TBR pile taller than me and I‘m 5ft 7” 😂so my golden rule for 2024 reads is if it doesn‘t grab me by 100pages I‘m out . Iv never read Twain never had an inclination to but I have enjoyed previous Everett‘s works , this one sadly just wasn‘t for me

late night reading with the pup, finished but it was like wadding through marmite (which I think Is thicker than mud ) so disappointed i had high hopes for this but my goodness not a patchon commonwealth which was one of my favourite books of the year.The premise is great but the story just didn‘t grip me & there was no chemistry at all between Lara & Duke, and a cosy almost brotherly relationship with Jo her husband. Not her best and v overrated

#bookspinbingo better luck 🍀 for July 😆added in #camplitsy read James and local bookclub pick you are here by David Nichols . #bookspin is prophet song high hopes for this after great recommendations & 19 #doublespin hotel 🏨 du lac which Iv started . Happy July and happy 😃 reading 📖😎

#bookspinbingo very messy June reading 2 dnfs the only one left & love theoretically (yes I know Ali is great but too similar to other better versions of same ) books 📚finished and enjoyed ; clear for #camplitsy mine till midnight , finished and loved the temple of fortuna and crimson moth . Started and yet to finish 🙃 throne of glass and hotel du lac both so so ish but enjoyable so far & BOOK OF THE MONTH for June is cleopatra & Frankenstein

#summerreading in Seville 🍊💃Spain and the view from our glorious apartment balcony of the cathedral, made a mistake with this series of books 📚 by starting on the second in the series 😣hate it when that happens ! Happy 😃 summer reading 📖 folks 🥰

Wow wow wow for once Iv found book tok to be right , loved this galloping exciting romp of a story based on the scarlet pimpernel - can‘t wait for book 📖 no 2 , one of the best fantasy books 📚 Iv read this year !

What a fantastic ending to a wonderful trilogy absolutely loved every one of these books , started alittle slower than the others but soon quicken pace . Is Elodie harper a time 🕰️ traveller 🧳 anyone who has visited Pompeii knows the mystical pull of the place it is our real Atlantis and Elodie Harper takes us right back there . If you do make sure you visit the wolf 🐺 den

Well I bloody loved this , the best enemies to lovers back to enemies love triangle Iv ever read & the best fantasy since ACOTAR & better than 4th wing , up there with 9th house and hellbent - just my humble opinion. Perfect 👌 easy reading escapism and this lady can write , what a cliff hanger of an ending book 2 out in feb 2025 ! Il be pre ordering that !

Well I bloody loved this , the best enemies to lovers back to enemies love triangle Iv ever read & the best fantasy since ACOTAR & better than 4th wing , up there with 9th house and hellbent - just my humble opinion. Perfect 👌 easy reading escapism and this lady can write , what a cliff hanger of an ending book 2 out in feb 2025 ! Il be pre ordering that !

My local book club pick , thrillers , crime not usually my bag so far I‘m finding it a bit of a slog just personal choice but iv read other thrillers more engrossing it doesn‘t help when one of the main characters - Kit just doesn‘t ring true ! Too little time 🕰️ too many other books 📚

YouTube ambience for reading 📖☺️I really wish I was here. So far 50 odd pages in so far so gripping 🧐 so cosy - June going on December maybe we should just fast forward to Christmas 🎅😆

#persephonebookclub just starting this one ; with a hot chocolate ☕️ under a snuggly blanket and it‘s June !!!! 😱

Without doubt will be one of my favourite books of the year & Eleanor one of my favourite characters . A joy , loved it

Oh my word this book is seriously good 👍 I have a new favourite 🤩 author ! It reminds me of a little life but with more female characters & less depressing 😳”hunger that was beyond food, they ate because it reminded them of their parents feeding them & the times they were taken care of. They ate because their parents did not feed them & it‘s how they learned to take care of themselves. They ate because they felt less alone when eating “

I loved bride and the love hypothesis and love on the brain , but this one i found just too samey & what really ruined it for me was listening on audio , a bad narrator a voice that grates and puts on different voices for characters rather than switching to a new narrator just kills it for me. 😣

Beautiful tender writing ✍️ by Carys Davies - as ever her books never disappoint. Looking forward to the group chat #camplitsy🏕️ im in the uk 🇬🇧 so not sure 🤔 what time 🕰️ Wer chatting @BarbaraBB @squirrelbrain @Megabooks 🤓

#bookspinbingo June 2024 picks
Fingers crossed 🤞 for a few lines won‘t manage a full house 🏡🫤
Definitely have to read ;
Clear
All fours
Greenery street
You are here
Cleopatra and Frankenstein

Anything else is pure bonus 👍happy reading 📖 folks @TheAromaofBooks

#bookspin bingo may reads managed a bingo line hooray 🙌🏻 5 star 🌟 reads of the month : list of suspicious things . One afternoon . A kind of spark. The house with the golden door 🚪
Thanks to @TheAromaofBooks for helping us all with tackling towering Tbrs 😆☺️

The only requirement of any friendship is loyalty once that‘s lost through betrayal lack of sense prejudice jealousy misunderstanding or misguided friendship with another that friendship is doomed and enemies are created , who was it that said you can never trust a friend who is friends with your enemy . Wonderful second instalment to what has become one of my favourite series so far , I can‘t wait to jump into the last of the trilogy .

I adored this gem 💎 of a book 📖 a real trip down memory lane for me growing up in the 70s the nation gripped by the hunt for the serial killer “the Yorkshire ripper” a sad reminder of the prejudices of people and how racism & domestic violence were so prevalent, I highly recommend it , will be one of my favourite books 📚 of the year . However I do think 🤔 perhaps overseas readers may struggle to grasp the social setting

Wow 🤩 what a fantastic read . A middle grade story of 11year Addie, I think this book should be on the school curriculum,reminding us adults can be bullies as well as children & a child who is a bully usually has issues.
Anyway a book to whizz through in one sitting and it‘s now on bbc iPlayer as a mini series so il be diving into that !
#mayreads #bookspinbingo

Bath literary festival my friend and I also went to hear the wonderful Cariad Lloyd like the author my friends father died when she was 15 , 18 months ago I lost my dad to lung cancer and my oldest childhood friend died suddenly after a routine operation, grief is a mental illness & no one really understands it until they‘ve been through it- this book is excellent and I wish I‘d picked it up earlier

Wonderful literature festival in beautiful 🤩 bath

At bath (uk) literature festival last weekend we went to a wonderful interview with the delightful Jennie Godfrey what a lovely 🥰 lady , same age as me and I grew up in this period when the book is set , i remember the nation being gripped with finding the riper. Because of the social history setting (how sadly racist & sexist 70s Britain was) I think this book will appeal more to the uk audience it will be one of my favourite books of the year

Well that was depressing ! If you love dystopian fiction it‘ll be a winner if not you‘ll hate it . Short novella which can be read in a day . It is very well written but still think I‘m being generous giving it a so so

This extraordinary stunning story thoroughly researched mix of fact and historical fiction will be one of my favourite reads of the year. Astutely portrayed characters full of emotional depth & complexities, dripping with inequalities class diversions repugnant social norms expectations & attitudes to women & homosexuals deeply embedded unacceptable racism. But don‘t be put off it‘s a vivid lush portrait of Malaya & a melting pot of characters.

Summer has finally arrived in the uk 🇬🇧 hooray 🙌🏻after all therain ☔️ lucky enough to spend the afternoon in the garden with mollie moonbeam & finish this wonderful book.Persephone do it again what a beautifully written story this is,sad to say I‘d never heard of SianJames Iv since googled &loved the preface by Emma Schofield. Thank goodness forPersephone highlighting these forgotten wonderful authors so their workwill neverever be forgotten

What a beautiful book this is , chapter just made me chuckle as Anna sits with her elderly mother in-law her deceased husband‘s former lover arrives , she describes the back biting snarky comments passing affectionally between them &chapter ends with “we Drank more tea and ate soft biscuits which smelt of dusty cupboards “ Reminds me of eating soft rich tea biscuits with my gran & elderly great aunts . Written in 1975 it‘s so astonishingly modern

Current read, one of the #persephonebooks i picked up in the wonderful shop in Bath . So far it lives up to the hype, the writing is just beautiful it‘s simply a lovely ☺️ book uncomplicated and a joy to turn each page #forgottenauthors #persephone #sianjames #litsylove i think all would enjoy it

Sometimes it‘s not the book it‘s you the reader and where you are , this started well pacey page turner but I just felt like the last 150 pages was like walking through mud , not enough action and not enough tension or chemistry between elspeth and ravyn a decent fantasy but doesn‘t interest me enough to buy the 2nd in the series . Sorry about that , I will pick it up in my local library if they get it

Loved loved loved 🥰 the book 📖 so much in lock down & being a huge Harry styles fan (who is loosely based on ) listened to his playlist whilst reading it . Anyway hubbie and I watched the film 🎥 last night & not disappointed! Ann Hathaway fantastic ! And so beautiful 🤩 and Nicholas Galitzine is a dish 🤤😆 recommend it 👍🥰

Available for free to read now on NetGalley
Its a bank holiday weekend here in the uk 🇬🇧 and the sun is shining at last ! Happy 😃 reading 📖🤓fellow book 📖 friends 😘

@dabbe dear Denise I‘m back from a mini break with husband and doggies for our wedding 💒 anniversary and look 👀 what was in my letterbox 🥰thank you so much
! Mollie moonbeam & I reading in bed with a pot of coffee ☕️ And yes 🙌🏻 I will be writing ✍️ back great 👍 idea 💡 about the “get to know you “ sheet I think I will do one of those ☺️and I wish I could send you some rain ☔️ we have had a lot here 🇬🇧 😕
#litsylove #penpals

love whipple her novels are a real treat and so well written it is a shame she isn‘t widely known but thanks to Persephone we all get to enjoy her wonderful books . Not my favourite but still a fantastic gripping read on the perils of greed poor Celia
#persephonebookclub
@LeahBergen @rubyslippersreads @Cathythoughts @Gissy @willaful @quietjenn @Caryl @sisilia @daena @elkeOriginal @Aimeesue @andrew61 @Tamra @CarolynM agree with you 😀

Enjoyable easy escapist romance ❤️‍🔥 no 2 In the series and not as good as the first , mostly listened on audio which had dual narrators male and female which I enjoy rather than one actor putting on fake voices which can ruin a good book .

Page 📄 55 & hello Ravyn yew giving me games of thrones vibes 😆in a good way

Wasn‘t a planning on adding this to mays TBR but library 📚 haul came in - why do they always come available at once ! So il have to make sure I just make more time to read in the coming month 😆only on page 📑 16 and already it‘s beautifully written, captivating I can almost smell the air and feel the Malaysian 🇲🇾 heat- now that‘s a talented author & powerful writing .”our minds travel when our bodies cannot “

disappointing month of reading 📖 for me #aprilbookspinbingo does anyone else get frustrated when they don‘t get to even start a planned reading list ?Finished heartless on audio this series is excellent on audio , disappointed with the go between ,the women and they knew mr knight wonderful writing from Hartley and whipple but just didn‘t grab me ! Started one dark window and so far so good 😊 so here‘s to mays TBR @TheAromaofBooks happy reading

@Mrs_B on your recommendation picked up it gower street today this beautiful 🤩 copy 😁happy weekend see you soon 😘

Bookshops 📚with ladders 🪜❤️ beautiful 😍 toppings in Bath Uk 🇬🇧 if you ever get the chance to visit you‘ll be in heaven 📚😍

Purchased legends and lattes in beautiful 🤩 toppings bookshop in bath , I‘m wondering if the twins are the most photographed pumi pups 🐶 in bookshops around the UK 🇬🇧😆

#persephonebookclub 4day break in beautiful bath with best friend & the twins they‘re becoming regulars in the Persephone bookshop & the festival was on so it was very busy . Yes we left with bags of books 📚 so many to choose from ! @LeahBergen which is your favourite ❤️?

Toppingsa book 📖 shop in beautiful Bath have a blind date with a book 📖 section ; my lovely 🥰 surprise was uprooted I‘d marked it to read on goodreads in 2015!!😀wish Waterstones would do this too

@staci.reads has already reviewed this book 📖 perfectly . I enjoyed it but didn‘t love it , I felt it lacked real depth & I didn‘t really engage or feel to deeply about the characters. Instead the plot just skipped from one tragic breakdown to another . It almost felt like you never really got to know any of the characters. Shame as it‘s such a worth while topic to write about and bring attention to

@Mrs_B @Deblovestoread @CoffeeNBooks @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
#LitsyLove
How wonderful 🥰🫶🏻to come home from work to 🐌 mail ✉️ and to sit and read with a nice glass of wine 🍷😆thank you ladies lovely 🥰 letters replies and treats on the way back ✍️ 💨🐌✉️🌸❤️

This messy desk is in our study and I have lots of booksto give away toa loving home 🏡😆 so a #freebiefriday on a Tuesday. Il give away abookaweek until they‘ve gone I‘m happy to post anywhere in the world . #LitsyLove this weeks book 📖 is a brand new unread (have 2 copies this one‘s never had the spine cracked )A prayer for Owen meany JohnIrving. Il pick arandom winner to replies end of theweek. @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @TieDyeDude @Read4life

#campLitsy24 @BarbaraBB @squirrelbrain @Megabooks
It‘s late ⏰😣 but if nominations still open …here we go 👆 thanks 🙏 for doing this can‘t wait to see the winners and read along … 🏕️ 📚🤓

Great article in the times about celebrity bookclubs & endorsing books 📚Dakota Johnson &Dua Lipa now on board, Dua Lipa also gave a speech at the booker prize ceremony sharing the stage with Queen Camilla. Anyone who influences children / people anyone to read is a great thing. Whether it be literary fiction or a gossipy beach read who cares!highly recommend the queens Readingroom podcast too for all booklovers ❤️#theloveofreading #theloveofbooks

#specialeditions #saturdaybookshopping 😀😍