Reading this Litsy find. And what a find 👍🏻❤️... the writing is clear & insightful & brilliant ...( & it‘s a thriller !!! , although my sense is , I‘d read anything by this writer) I love reading her

Off to the PO with these this morning ! I hope I get to you in time Emily 🤞🏻... I should be grand for you timewise Caroline #JBUK

#MOvember #Revolver James Bond , book 13 , by Ian Fleming 👍🏻❤️

#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView

1. .. I only ever read one book at a time .. so if I‘m procrastinating, ( unless it‘s for Bookclub ) .. it‘s most likely over ..

2. .. I know intuitively what I like & I follow that ... I can‘t always describe what I like , I just know ... if I‘m not feeling it , it‘s quits. I need to lock into the book , I‘ve got to feel it .. It‘s an unconscious process..

Great questions 👍🏻❤️❤️❤️📚📚@TheSpineView

#MOvember #Masterpiece this one comes to mind .. I did not read , but loved the movie. I then read At The Edge of The Orchard & did not like it. I like this painting

#MOvember #LuckyStar I havnt read .. but the cover of this Starling Days book is lovely 👍🏻💙

I finished this by my fireside today. And I loved it .... at times I thought :
.”...Oh c‘mon Ann Patchett , I‘m not so sure about all this....... “
But then , with the next sentence , she had me again.
Such a good story ❤️👍🏻

#WeeklyForecast
1. Finish The Dutch House
2. Begin Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil
3. Listen to On Earth We Are Briefly
Gorgeous
4. Maybe ( I doubt I‘ll get this far ) start Bluebird

#MOvember my #TrueBlue Bluetooth headphones 💙 with which I hope to listen to tagged book with this week. And bottom left, picture my granddaughter made for me #trueblue 💙💙💙

#BookReport #Week3 OK so ... I finished The Overstory 5⭐️.
I Read Ghost Wall - I didn‘t really like it. So-So.
I DNF Black Diamond Fall ... after a great start , I lost interest.
I tried a couple of samples on my kindle ... 🤷🏼‍♀️meh
I am now reading The Dutch House ... so far so good 🤞🏻🤞🏻I really couldn‘t decide if I would listen to the lovely Tom Hanks on audio .. but I prefer to read myself , so that‘s what I‘m doing 👍🏻❤️

#MOvember #Frozen lots of freezing weather in Swedish crime writer, Henning Mankells books. I think I‘ll revisit one for #readingeurope @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB looking forward to seeing the info on this challenge👍🏻. I‘m thinking of doing 2 book challenges this year Cindy 🥳📚( definitely going to need that Litsy diary ...

#MOvember #HumanNature I read this recently, so good ! This is my favorite cover of the book. Humans & trees 🌲 Humans & Nature ❤️💔

#MOvember #LikeAPrayer I can‘t remember what this book is about even ... need to reread. But our girl on the cover is dressed for ceremony & prayer ✨

Hi Kay !! It‘s here , The Dressmaker ! Thankyou so much , I did love the movie & really want to read the book. I love fashion , and in another lifetime would love to design & make clothes👍🏻❤️ I really appreciate your kindness X X Cathy.

#MOvember I havnt read yet , but I believe the character Noah is about to embark on his first trip back to Nice sinse he was a child ... but, the #future has other plans for him. Such is life .... I‘m looking forward to reading Akin. It will be my first by this author

#MOvember I am so ready for a change of genre, & mystery/ thriller ( with snow 💙) is just what I‘m looking for ... so I‘m hoping this new to me author-Joseph Olshan- will be my #beautifulstranger whose book , Black Diamond Fall, I will love ! It‘s off to a great start 🤞🏻! Thanks @ReadingEnvy for this recommendation

I thought the story was excellent... but something about the writing of it left me feeling cold. #unpopularopinion. Maybe I need to try another by Sarah Moss...

“ Something in the air‘s scent commands the woman: Close your eyes & think of willow. The weeping you see will be wrong. Picture an acacia thorn. Nothing in your thought will be sharp enough. What hovers right above you? What floats over your head right now- now? Trees even farther away join in
The pine she leans against says : Listen. There‘s something you need to hear. “
5⭐️

I love walking with my dogs in the woods even more now 👍🏻❤️

#WeeklyForecast I need to finish Overstory... and I‘m leaning towards AKIN next , but I‘m interested to read Girl, Woman, Other too. Also Ghost Wall is way overdue at the library 📚📚📚📚📚🤔

#MOvember #GhostTown That‘s my copy of Ghost Wall on the right from the library ... still not read .... way overdue 😬😳... I may not make a good library member

#BookReport Still reading & still in love with The Overstory.... hopefully finish this week. A pure pleasure to read 👍🏻❤️

#MOvember #LaIslaBonita this is as close as I can get ... every beautiful island is surrounded by the sea 💙

Our scores went from 8 to 4.5 .... a great discussion... It is Margaret Atwood after all .. she raises up the most important issues 👍🏻❤️

The Testaments Bookclub! My favorites are of @Wineandbooks adjusting her bonnet. Under the eye ... a great night ! Great discussion & fun. 👍🏻❤️

#MOvember #ExpressYourself I can‘t remember if I read Murder on the Orient #Express 🤔 ( such a great title ) But I saw the most recent movie with Kenneth Branagh & really enjoyed it. This book was also referred to in Tana Frenchs Wych Elm ... which was fun ...

OVERSTORY ❤️ She takes his shaking hand in the dark. It feels good, like a root must feel, when it finds, after centuries, another root to pleach to underground. There are a hundred thousand species of love, separately invented, each more ingenious than the last, and every one of them keeps making things.

This book is blowing me away. ❤️💔
( Pic of a tree on our dog walk)

#MOvember #Iconic lots of Icons here. Shakespeare & Hamlet & Kenneth & Kate & Dramatic Theatre & & &

#MOvember #Crave Craving crayfish anyone 🙃( is this a crayfish🤔) ... I saw his new book The Ditch in the bookshop. I wonder if it‘s any good ..
We read The Dinner for Bookclub a few years back 👍. I never did finish The Swimming Pool book , must go back to it.

Set in Hollywood 1923. 🤔hmmmm a possibility for #booked2020. Just listening to the author being interviewed about this crime book on our Arts Show .. Arena.
Definitely will investigate this one for the #setinHollywood prompt ..... and the research has begun 🤸‍♀️... not on Litsy list yet , will be published next month !

#MOvember #sorry All My Puny Sorrows ! The story of two sisters Elf & Yoli. At a critical time in their lives .. deep & humorous. I read this for #booked2019 last winter & it was a Litsy gift. It‘s a book that has stayed with me , rich with beautiful images , the glass piano. I will read more by this author ❤️

#MOvember #GirlGoneWild from the collection Madame Zero! Mrs Fox, my favorite short story❤️ 🦊

“At his feet she sits with her tail rearing. Exceptional, winged ears. Eyes like the spectrum of her blended fur..... he lifts her..... “

Home from hols & fire lighting ... and two lovely cards in the postbox ...both great gifts , both a little bit illegible 🤔 ( women after my own heart ) but after a few tries I got your writing groove ..... Thankyou XX really appreciate ye sending these

#WeeklyForecast
Plan A : The Overstory, I‘ve started & it‘s very good & it‘s long .. it will take me at least the week ... if I get into it.
Also , look over The Testaments for Friday night Bookclub - when we will be dressing up as Handmaids ( or whichever character we want ) 👍❤️excited !

Plan B : I‘m not sure 🤔

#MOvember #RescueMe I read this one during the year & really liked it. Marian Engtstom is working scientifically in the wild , learning to train #rescue dogs. This is a thriller with a serial killer & it is set in nature - forests, mountains, ( snow ❄️ ) & there are dogs ... everything I love. A great read.

I really liked the character of Sandoz, the priest. And the story , the haunting music from space ... some brilliant details & ideas. I was interested in the part set in 2059 after the the mission. I liked the story , but I wasn‘t as taken with the writing #unpopularopinion
I‘ve read almost half & it‘s not holding me.

#BookReport I‘m happy to say I finished Wych Elm ! 5⭐️.! Tana Frenchs best book yet ! Crime / psychological thriller &fine literary fiction. John Boyne calls it ‘A Masterpiece‘ - I agree.
I did start The Sparrow last night , only barely begun , I really want to love it 🤞🏻
The poor Overstory didn‘t even get a glance - yet.
I‘m happy with my weeks reading. ❤️

#MOvember #music Husband has lots of music books ... this one was gifted to him at the recent storytelling festival in The Glens of Antrim .. he‘s very excited as it‘s edited &
with critical notes by Robert Graves ❤️

#MOvember I reread this for #booked2019 after many many years & I‘m so glad I did as I #cherish this little man so much ✨

#wondrouswednesday @Eggs

Halloween Pic at our hotel in Killarney - we are away for a few days , real old fashioned hotel ❤️
Passionate about Family, & Walks in nature & this time of year autumn/ winter
Lots of gratitude for Litsy friends ❤️❤️❤️

Happy Wednesday Sherri &
All you lovely book people ❤️📚

#WeeklyForecast @Cinfhen What a great idea. I‘m a day late as I‘ve only seen this ... I hope to finish Wych Elm this week 🤞🏻& begin The Sparrow ( maybe have a look at OverStory) .... #BookReport on Saturday. We are going on a small break , so I hope to read at my leisure♥️
Nice one Cindy 👏🏻👏🏻💕

He seemed like a decent man, underneath the drink. Well-read — occasionally he would ask if we had a book to spare, and I‘d find something to give him - he liked non-fiction, World War I stuff. He always seemed to me like someone who , if just one or two rolls of the dice had gone differently...

Loving this book 👍🏻♥️
“The Greeks believed there was a Wych Elm at the gates to the underworld “

We had loads of birthday surprises for my granddaughter ( the big 6 ) . And there were 2 new toothbrushes on the table.
She said excitedly - let‘s play toothbrushes ??!
The toothbrushes ended up married 🤷🏻‍♀️she‘s a scream
Not book related .... but , here‘s to imagination ... the stuff of all books 📚💕💕💕💕💕

So if I want to get a present for a new reader , a friend of my daughter .. who likes a bit of horror . What would you SK fans recommend ..... I love SK , but have not read the real horror ones ... I‘m thinking horror ... not tooooo bad. For an adult ... ?? Thanks x And I‘d love to get them into reading ....
Tall Order ?! !!!

#Booked2019 Thankyou #publicdomain My last book in my first book challenge. A reread , a brilliant story. I remember now what I loved , it is the study of contradictions - of what it means to be human - that I learned so much from. Based on Gauguin & how art “ heightens the poignancy that all beauty has“ sensual & spiritual.I‘m blown away by this one. This challenge had me revisiting 2 books I might never have read again 💔 challenge done ✅ 💃🏾

Thankyou @Balibee146 for the tag 👍🏻♥️ #FriYaYintro
1. Tagged book ... page turner that got me back into reading. Also Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell... got me back into reading another time
2. I do ! If I‘m last one out of it ( which isn‘t very often ... but I go back & make it anyway 🙄
3. Hot is definitely better .... but I can do cold in a push
4. Size 6 in my country 🇮🇪
5. I tag all who havnt played yet & will comment 👍🏻👍🏻

I really enjoyed this! I had seen the first Handmaids Tale series on tv , but didn‘t watch the second series as I found I couldn‘t go there again - too upsetting. So , I was reluctant to read this one - but it‘s for Bookclub. The content upsetting , and told with simplicity. I listened 🎧 👍🏻. Aunt Lydia was read by the same actress who was in the show ! Really good. Would recommend the audio.

#wondrouswednesday

Not too sure ..around Springtime 2017 🤔
A Bookclub member
More times a million ... I was searching everywhere for books .... Litsy had/has the answers
Crime / literary fiction / ( reading The Wych Elm - Tana French - now ... a perfect combination )
@Cinfhen ♥️ always liked my posts , encouraged me & brought me in , showed me the ropes @TrishB @batsy & my first Litsy book gift & friend ♥️ @erzascarletbookgasm

#Two4Tuesday
A few bits and pieces but I love other languages... I love the sound of them
2. Yes ,again , I would get the few essentials.I think people appreciate that you make the effort

Lovely questions Thankyou I see that Irish writers are translating famous works into Irish now ... it‘s an enigma to me & I really love it ... Bob Dylan has been translated & sung in Irish , Also Nick Drake ♥️ and Lorca sounds haunting @TheSpineView

I started this one today .... so far , really good 👍🏻♥️

I gave it 150 pages ... and I‘m bailing. Story line is ok , characters & writing .... not for me. Some of the images are cringe-worthy ... my mind was ‘spinning like a washing machine‘... 🤦🏻‍♀️
Definitely potential in the plot .. I almost kept going to see what happened next , but I couldn‘t.... 🤷🏻‍♀️