I started this late last night and ended up reading wayyyy past my bedtime! 😂 I thought this was a riveting and gripping read and it really kept me guessing! Loved it. Thank you for getting this for me @squirrelbrain
I started this late last night and ended up reading wayyyy past my bedtime! 😂 I thought this was a riveting and gripping read and it really kept me guessing! Loved it. Thank you for getting this for me @squirrelbrain
Cor, I‘m kinda addicted to memoir audios at the moment! 😂 (This is my 7th so far this year!!) But this was utterly fascinating. A real fly on the wall look into life in parliament.
48hrs?! Ok Barb, let‘s do this! 😉
There‘s currently a kindle deal on this book (set in Naples during WWII) if anyone is interested? It‘s on the International Booker Prize longlist even though I said I wasn‘t going to look at any more longlists and I certainly wasn‘t going to buy any more. 🤦♀️ 😂 #internationalbooker
A soft pick. Loved the first half then it switched to 2nd person perspective and all the you youing did my head in! 🙄 but a really good ending (for a change!!) and I loved all the Mohawk stories and history. #womensprize
A true crime story of the penultimate woman hanged in Britain in the 1950s. It kept me guessing right up to the end. Fascinating and gripping. Thanks for getting this for me Helen @squirrelbrain
Ohhh 😮 👏 “She gets it from me!” 😉 💃🏻 🍉
It feels awful to say I loved this because it‘s so heartbreaking. Michelle Williams does a hell of a job! I knew it was going to be sad but Britney does not hold back. It is a crime what her family and the paparazzi put her through. I can‘t stop thinking about it. As soon as I finished, I wanted to go right back to beginning and read it all over again!
I really don‘t like it in books when we, the readers, find out information before the characters. We‘re then left reading pages and pages waiting for the characters to catch up!! Plus way too predictable. (The octopus didn‘t add much to the story, even though I loved him, it felt like a trend ticking exercise. He was not in the story nearly enough!!)
I sobbed my heart out finishing this last night. It‘s a fictional story of the Brontë sisters, told from Emily‘s perspective. I knew it was going to be sad but it was so much more than I expected. The writing is so beautiful and their lives were so hard. Thank you for getting this for me Trish. Absolutely loved it! Best book I‘ve read so far this year.
This was just the right side of charming for my frazzled brain. I love this author‘s style (she‘s Ann Patchett‘s mother and it shows in her insightful descriptions). It is fun and easy to read but never so sweet it made me roll my eyes. A dance teacher, looking forward to retirement, has her sister move in and her grown up children getting up to mischief. A comforting, easy read.
Don‘t you just love it when a book lives up to the hype!! I absolutely loved this. The audio was seriously addictive.
I was nervous going into this as I love Little Women but it did not disappoint! It‘s a retelling from Marmee‘s PoV but it‘s also so much more than that. There‘s lots of history and the family‘s backstory (which is largely based on Louisa May Alcott‘s real life family history). It is fascinating and beautifully written. Defo one of my fav books of the year. ❄️ ❤️ 🌲
Don‘t you just love it when you completely forget you preordered a book then it suddenly appears on your doorstep like a gift from the book fairies! 🧚♀️ 🪄 💫
I loved this! If Dickens and Sarah Waters had a child… it would be this book! It had Bleak House/Fingersmith vibes with a twisty, turning plot and fiendish characters galore! I would recommend binge reading tho as there‘s lots to keep track of. (I‘ve had a busy week so I‘ve only been reading a little bit each night and it was hardwork to remember everyone and their connections etc) Defo one of my top reads of the year. 👍
Thank you so much ladies for my birthday books! They sound so good! I can‘t wait to read them all! 😃 📚 @TrishB @squirrelbrain @quietlycuriouskate
Here‘s my #top10summer2023reads. I‘ve had a lot of bails but some really good books too. 👍
I loved this. Set during a heatwave in 1970s rural Italy, a young lad stumbles across a boy trapped in a hole. I don‘t normally like books from kids points of view but this was done so well (like Lord of the Flies or Mockingbird). This will stay with me a long time.
Set in the 1970s, this is a Judy Blumesqe coming of age story. Charming, nostalgic and easy to read this was just the palate cleanser I needed. I loved it! Thank you so much for sending this to me @squirrelbrain
This is dark, gritty and bleak. I absolutely loved it. It ticked all the dystopian boxes for me. I went in with v low expectations so I was pleasantly surprised.
Really enjoying campy litsy. What am I gonna read when it ends?!?! 😟 #camplitsy
I really enjoyed this. It was a book of two halves for me tho and I defo enjoyed the first half more than the fantasy/romance heavy second half. Not as good as American Wife but Curtis is a fav author now and I want to read all her books. 😁 #camplitsy23
I am loving the TV show The Bear. Can anyone recommend a good book about a family run restaurant please?? (I‘m more interested in the family run business drama side of things than the cooking side 😉)
So excited to read this!! Which means I‘ll either read it next week or in the next 2-3 years! 👍
Wow! Has it really been 7 years?! So grateful to have met you lovely bunch of book pals! Such a lovely platform and I‘ve made some truly fantastic friends (GladstoneNerds!) and especially enjoying the Camp Litsy reads and discussions this year. 👍 😉 📚
Disappointing. When I hear the words Dark Academia, it sets my expectations sky high. Which doesn‘t help. I liked the location but there wasn‘t enough atmosphere or interesting plot for me here. I found the tarot cards stuff frankly boring. At one point, she says that the history of tarot cards is often left out by historians… I think there‘s a reason for that!!! I liked the ending tho, good twist. 👍
Disappointing! The writing is very literary (No chapters, really long sentences and paragraphs) it feels ranty and smug. We are given so much background for the characters, pages and pages, yet they‘re still stereotypes (the evil billionaire, the idealist eco youngster, money grabbing baby boomers). The set up and some of the plot is interesting but then there‘s too much tomfoolery. #camplitsy23
I absolutely devoured this book! It was so entertaining, in a Fatal Attraction kinda way. You know it‘s going to end bad but you can‘t look away! Loved it!! Can‘t wait to discuss with #camplitsy23 👍 💛
Cor I devoured this! I got completely immersed in the story and the characters. I now want to read everything Curtis has ever written. Fantastic!
I really enjoyed this. Everything you want from a thriller: interesting murder plot, depressed yet brilliant detective, fast paced but then there‘s a little splash of sci-fi with an AI assistant also on the case. 😯 So much fun! Loved it. 👍
This is such a lovely, lovely book. She‘s an expert but also a Mum so she just gets it. It‘s all about acceptance and making reasonable adjustments. But she also gives examples of how unhelpful CAHMS/schools/docs can be. I found it comforting and validating. Highly recommend. 👍 ❤️
Wow, just wow. I bailed on this book years ago, I thought it was just about a bunch of pretentious, snobby students killing their mate. And it is about that but sooo much more. I‘m so glad I gave it another go when I was in the right mood because I got completely sucked into their world to the point were I now feel listless and I don‘t know quite what to do with myself.
This was hard but here‘s my final six nominations for Camp Litsy! #camplitsy23
I enjoyed this. I don‘t normally like dual timelines (or triple in this case) but all three storylines were interesting and I liked all the characters. It‘s very readable.
This was a mixed bag for me. I loved the premise (I‘m a sucker for a good old fashioned revenge plot) and the writing was refreshing and so funny at times. But other times it was long winded and dragged?! Not sure about the ending either…! Bit disappointing.
I was dead chuffed to find a secondhand bookshop in the basement of Walmer Castle! 😁
I should have bailed! Really disappointing. The modern storyline was too long, boring and by the end quite depressing. The wartime storyline was really good at first, I liked the sections on her training as a spy but her actual mission is really brief with too much attention given to the love story and the end of that plot line… really? It just didn‘t ring true for me. Not what I was hoping for.
This was just the sort of palate cleanse I needed. Easy to read and charming, it was a delight and just what my frazzled brain needed right now. 👍
Totally engrossing! A young couple buy a farm in Cornwall to start a commune with a group of friends and live sustainably but then things take a turn for the worst….!
This is so gripping, I loved living their idyllic life on the farm then it went really dark and sinister! Absolutely loved it.
I loved this book. Frida is a struggling single mother who has a very bad day and the state send her away for a year to teach her how to be a good mother. It‘s like The Handmaid‘s Tale meets One flew over the cuckoos nest. It is so immersive and scary and I still can‘t stop thinking about it. Loved it so much, I read it on my kindle but had to buy the hardback. (God bless Waterstones hardback sale).😉
If any of the ladies doing #nunlit are looking for some soothing music to listen to while reading, this is a lovely little piece written by a medieval nun! 🧘 🎶
Looking forward to doing a chapter a day of this chunkster. I am going to cheat and use the serial reader app tho as this is a monster to hold. 😆 #buddyread #chunksterchallenge #pemberlittens