What a strange little story this was but 2 of the most important medieval texts written by women Margery Kempe and Julian an anchoress both receiving “visions” by Christ , in today‘s modern world there are many explanations for this but one would like to believe in a miracle , very well written and incredibly researched

Most of us know the story line and the outcome and the rave reviews of the wonderful Jodie Cromer she also narrates the audiobook Iv switched between the two , great writing a great story and sadly shockingly true 1 in 3 and how bloody brave those women are no means no

On a spa 🧖‍♀️ break at the amazing Ragdale hall with my dearest friend quality time together and a good book 📕 alternating between reading the actual book 📕 and audio narrated by the wonderfully talented Jodie Cromer it‘s fantastic, audio books are a hit and miss for me depending who is narrating them

brilliant historical fiction one of the best Iv read for along time , I love a story centring on a figure almost forgotten in history and must admit I did enjoy googling to find out more about Costanza and Bernini , we all know how a passionate love affair can turn sour it‘s a story of old that we still sadly read of in the news of the vengeance imposed on girls and women by ex lovers boyfriends/ husbands we all pray one day it will stop.

I‘m home from Paris 🇫🇷 ❤️and my first job after cuddling and kissing 😘 the pups 🐶 unpacking & doing laundry was to write my September bookspin bingo list 😆Iv had to re write ✍️ due to those pesky library 📚 reserves which you forget about 🤣 I had a great 👍 reading month in August so fingers crossed 🤞 everyone for some fabulous 4&5 star 🌟 reads 🤓😘 @TheAromaofBooks thank you 🤗

Great 😀Reading month for me with some wonderful reads and managed a line in #bookspinbingo 😆 nearly made 2 lines - would be amazing to get a full house 🏡 but life, work , travel 🧳 etc gets In the way maybe 🤔 January as that‘s a long quiet 🤫 month - thank you ☺️ for our monthly bingo love ♥️ it

When in Paris you‘ve got to go ❤️???❤️ iconic tote bags are (d0 my husband thought I was mad but still got one anyway ??❤️??

And here it is 🥰🥰the most famous bookshop in Paris next to the beautiful notre dame where we were lucky enough to catch the beautiful midday mass yesterday and the ringing of the bells 🔔 it‘s iconic , nazis closed it in 1941 and as all facists do the banning and burning of books 📚 reopened in 1951 and today it‘s run by the daughter of the man he re opened it after ww2 and championed literacy and supporters writers ✍️ in Paris 🇫🇷❤️

On route on Thursday to beautiful Paris via Eurostar and picked my perfect Parisian reads maybe 🤔 il buy the hunchback of notre dame in the famous Shakespeare and co bookshop 🥰

Finished this wonderful book last night when all the guests had left collapsed with my teddy 🐶and used my new reading light - isn‘t it fantastic to sit out on warm evenings (don‘t get many in the uk 🇬🇧 😆) this book is now in my top ten of best books of the year , it is laugh out loud funny, it is 💔 heartbreaking & equally heart warming, sums up weddings perfectly, I adored Phoebe & knew where the story was going but still adored it

Now this is more like it ! Oh I love 🥰 Phoebe I wanna take her out for cocktails 🍸 and talk all night , I sat up way way past my bedtime 🥱 reading this and had to give up when my eyes were closing - loving it 🥰 and highly recommend; Alison espachs writing ✍️ reminds me of the brilliant Katherine heiny

There is nothing wrong with this book or Paige toons writing ; if I‘d have read this in my 20s I would have loved it. I‘m not old or cynical 🤨 but Finn !! Oh Wev all fallen for a floppy haired fin haven‘t we , dark and brooding like Darcy , but come on ! The moods ! the yeah maybe il come back maybe I won‘t but wait for me anyway - SOD OFF - girls and boys let this be a lesson / DO NOT WASTE YOUR LIFE waiting for anyone ,

My village book club pick , wouldn‘t have chosen myself but found this a compelling page turning thriller, confirms to me how truly awful influencers are & confirms they‘d do anything for money . The sad story of social media . All the characters are extremely unpleasant, but if your into thrillers you‘ll be gripped by this one - an easy page turner perfect for the beach

Well that was weird but brilliant 🤩 to describe without any spoilers (I did guess quite early on but not confirmed until towards the end ) this novel is a mix of dystopian, sci fi , horror with a little real historical events thrown in. Right from the start you have a sense of forbidding a lingering unease at what‘s to unfold. I

It‘s not a lake , but reading by the river ( river welland in Stamford uk 🇬🇧) under the willow tree with the pups 🐶 watching the swans on a hot summers day 😊With a cute romance ❤️‍🔥 above average easy read not cheesy, just perfect for summer , so If that‘s your bag your gonna love it

Oh no 😣 I loved miss bensons beetle and Harold fry and Iv met Rachel Joyce the author a few times , lovely lady & a great writer but this was just flat for me , it takes far too long to get going , the sibling rivalry I found boring 😑 got me personally it was a big disappointment and not the gripping summer read I was hoping for

Finished ✔️ in the garden on. Summers evening under a full red moon ☺️ Wow 🤩 and then some ! What a fantastic book I‘m bereft to get the end and it‘s nearly 600 pages I just wanted it to go on and on , the ending the last few chapters my heart was in my mouth ! Who would survive Ypres. My great grandad was a stretcher bearer a suicide job but he survived & what a wonderful man he was. Anyhow gunning for Beatrice right from the beginning she‘s ……

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 🥰🥰