Started really well and strong and very reminiscent for those of us growing up in the British countryside anytime in 50s,60s and 70s but half way in my interest waned , read for my village bookclub and most of the group gave up , only a few made it to the end . A ground breaking memoir ? Not really but interesting in parts and well written just extremely sad that such a brilliant lady should die so young

Another lovely gentle persephone read nothing really dramatic happens just the human observations of that period in time, not my favourite but still a lovely gentle cosy read

Finished the most hyped book 📖 of the summer (which seems to be a marmite read )whilst having my shrek like feet pampered before our Greek hols ; I‘m so glad I didn‘t take this one away with me as it‘s a so so kind of read for me . I found June highly irritating 😠 I‘m guessing that‘s the whole point , however it is a great idea for a novel and the poppy wars and babel are on my TBR.

So who‘s coming ? I‘m going hope to see you there 😍 @LeahBergen @Aimeesue @rubyslippersreads @quietjenn @sisilia @CarolynM @Oryx @elkeOriginal @BookNAround @Eyelit @Gissy @Tamra @andrew61 @HeatherBlue @Cathythoughts @rsteve388 @mom_of_4 @willaful @Kristin_Reads

Persephone addiction continues….got to be read in September 😍

On the train 🚂 into London to visit an exhibition at Buckingham Palace on Georgian dress 👗very Bridgerton . However current read is the much hyped yellowface , 3 chapters in and it‘s so far a so so read for me. Sometimes we need fluffiness I like to think the publishing industry is one still unaffected by modern greed but sadly not , I like the version in my own head .

Found this listing some persephones Iv never read ; personally high wages by dorothy whipple is my fav 😍 and to bed with grand music is excellent , miss pettigrew lives for the day is a classic and a must read ! Should be up there with Austen the brontes and dickens
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A village bookclub choice , just starting it but the low pick no‘s aren‘t good 😣

I‘m torn between giving this a pick rating & a so-so. Julia is one of the most annoying characters Iv ever read, she‘s up there with the missionary father in poisonwood bible. I also found it slightly unconvincing in parts (can‘t say why spoilers) but grief & shock do alter some people‘s perceptions, Also found it predictable by the end , and in parts I became alittle bored and frustrated with it. However if you love a family drama you‘ll love it.

The wonderfully restored library 📚 at lamport hall 😍

National open heritage day in Northamptonshire and 3 miles up the road from my home is the beautiful lamport hall and gardens it‘s inspired me after a sunny ☀️ day there with my friend to pick up the wonderful book 📖 by Lucy worsley again - by far my favourite ❤️ historian check out her tv shows and podcasts she‘s a national treasure 🙂

#weekendreading #bookspinbingo

First September bookspin bingo read done ✔️ the premise of this book is a good one I enjoyed the beginning and the end but started to get alittle bored 😑 mid way a so so read for me, sometimes a certain book just doesn‘t fit with your current mood. Funny how our reading moods shift. Happy Friday folks and happy 😃 weekend reading

So here‘s my September TBR bingo list huge thanks to @TheAromaofBooks thank you Sarah for doing. Aiming for a min of 11 reads and more kindle books than usual as I‘m away this month ! Currently reading #14 the bandit queens . Happy reading 📖 folks ! X ❤️X

better reading month in August, still woefully behind some, listened to a great podcast-Reading through life with Sarah & Mia about how to read more,they average 10-15 books a month. fourth wing,Hellbent, miss bensons beetle joint-favourites 🤩 followed by The mission house , foster, from blood & ash, In a summer season. #bookspinbingo does help my reading lists & TBR‘s. I‘m away next week & end of September so my aim is to read 10 in September🤞

Still amending my September list , just too many books 📚 😆#bookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks

it‘s been said before the first 100 or so pages are good the last 150 pages are fantastic but the pages in the middle.What happened Where was the editor? Too long too descriptive not absorbing enough to hold your attention.shame as love the premise & main protagonists. I see a lot of people give up after the 1st & 2ndI think in the series, not available in the library here at (ce each to buy for a paperback !!! I‘m sorry I‘m not that hardcore

What a wonderful little book 📖 I adored Carys Davies novella West , it‘s in my top 20 best books 📚 Iv ever read & I thoroughly enjoyed This too. She‘s a fantastic writer , it is a slow burning page turner of human observations it‘s not a wham bam thriller just beautifully quietly written . A great pick for something short and light

What a fantastic book 📖! Absolutely loved 🥰 this little gem , a wonderful story of friendship , second chances and travel 🧳 a perfect 🤩 summer read , it‘s one of those books which is a genuine page turner. Can‘t recommend it highly enough 😊

This book is an absolute delight only just started it but off to porto in Portugal 🇵🇹 today for own our adventure but beetle 🪲 free , it has me laughing 😂 out loud “ they made a ridiculous pair as they chased the porter , a brown ostrich coupled with a pink hatted canary”.

A gentle summer read , more focused on human nature and behaviour of bygone days & English summer times of years gone . Nothing dramatic overly happens until the end and to me everything was innocent and maybe foolish but no adultery . Anyway first of Elizabeth Taylor‘s won‘t be my last but still at the moment prefer my beloved Elizabeth Jane Howard

Love ❤️ it how the old remark on the young and vice Versa somethings never change .

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“It often happens at the change of life a sudden interest in sex! “ 😂the second half of this wonderful little book - the return of the Thorntons- is full of wonderfully witty human observations, making me chuckle 🤭 out loud. It‘s the first Elizabeth Taylor iv ever read and it won‘t be the last , Ethel and Gertrude 2 old ladies smoking after afternoon tea , their family gossip and demeanours remind me of my Gran & great aunts god bless ‘em .

Reading 📖 with the sleepy 😴 pumis - I was reading 📖 this until 2am 🕑 😳scaring myself half to death 😆 love ❤️ Alex Stern and want Darlington back , can‘t wait for the series to come to tv 📺 Amazon have bought the rights and Leigh bardugo is doing the screen play so it‘ll be pretty close/true to the novels. Apparently she was going to do 13 in the series then 5 but sadly now 3 😪because theme takes soooo long to research 🧐 boo 😒

First two #bookspinbingo reads you couldn‘t get two books 📚 more far apart in genre 😂 happy 😊 august reading 📖 folks #augustbookbingo @TheAromaofBooks 😊

On offer today in the UK 🇬🇧 for kindle at 99p excellent 👌 reviews ready Teddy ….. buy 😆 your welcome 🤗 😆

#bookspinbingo pick #summerreading #augustreads in anticipation of a British summer actually happening it‘s time for a summer themed read , purchase in hatchards in Piccadilly years ago and there its sat on my shelf . So finally my first time of the highly rated Elizabeth Taylor and already I‘m loving the build up of tense within this family. Her writing reminds me alittle of my much loved Elizabeth Jane Howard

#bookspinbingo #augustreads @TheAromaofBooks so here we go my august bingo card hoping it prompts me to get my finger out and at least get a line this month ! 😆who else sometimes puts themselves under a tiny bit of pressure to read more 😆happy reading 📖 month & August already !!

A very poor reading month for me in July but did read 3 excellent 👌 books 📚 out of the 4 and also started fourth wing 🪽 which I was hoping to finish in July but due to travel and work finished this morning . So fingers crossed 🤞 il improve my reading stats for august - ideally I‘d like to finish at least 6! Happy 😃 reading folks and a fabulous august 😍😎

Well here‘s my august list and far to many books 📚 😆so il have to narrow it down when the bingo board comes out tomorrow @TheAromaofBooks thanks again sarah love our monthly bingo reading 📖 challenge

Holidaying in the land of castles 🏰 and dragons 🐉 the perfect place to read this! Absolutely loving 🥰 it

So here we go ….. the much hyped much loved 🥰 book of ‘23 starting ready to take to wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 the land of castles 🏰 and dragons 🐉 so perfect 🤩 and with the lovely 🥰 wing 🪽 bookmark my friends daughter made for me ☺️

Well that‘s 2 hours of my life I‘m never getting back , so far it wins the award of being the worst book Iv read this year , its like a repeat of a thousand others which are better written I became so bored 😑 I had to skim read the ending ready for my village bookclub on Wednesday evening . I‘m very surprised it was a between the covers pick , apologies to the author it‘s not easy writing a novel it just wasn‘t for me .

I read snow flower and secret fan years ago and thoroughly enjoyed it so I‘m not sure why it‘s taken me so long to come back to this wondeful storyteller. The very first book Iv read set in Korea and knowing nothing of the haenyeo divers and culture , combined with the story of friendship , love and betrayal it‘s a fantastic read.

Had to Google where this fascinating 🤨 book is set the beginning reminds me a little of memoirs of a geisha but with diving synop rather than geishas 😆the tiny print is making it a slower read

Absolutely loved it possibly the only book which has made me want to read Homer and Iliad ! Superb , In fact loved it so much I raced out to buy stone blind and have ordered her other books from the library - a new fav author and how talented this lady is when you look at her career makes one feel rather dull !

Narrated by the excellent Vanessa Kirby this is a fantastic listen 🎧 photos don‘t seem to be downloading again on this app ! 🙈

#julybookspinbingo here we go !

#julybookspinbingo #julyreads so here we go.. July already ! My aim this month is to read : a thousand ships,the fourth wing, love theoretically,tell me how this ends, first comes scandal & that will be the rokesbys series complete ✔️ the island of sea women, the affair , the last summer , in a summer season and hellbent . No chance !😆 happy reading 📖 folks 😍

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Hooray 😃 I managed a bingo but then again it was a no brainer wasn‘t it with a month of all those free read squares😆
Reads were-the ninth house 5stars⭐️,divine rivals disappointing 2⭐️started so well! In memoriam solid 4star⭐️wrong place wrong time yuk 1star⭐️The offing -beautiful 4star⭐️& the girl with the make believe husband 5star⭐️escapist perfection. Disappointed didn‘t get more readsin

And back to Julia quinn to end my June book spin bingo picks, as our protagonists are on they‘re way to Portugal 🇵🇹 I probably should have saved this for when I‘m in portugal 🇵🇹 in august ! Oh well #summerreading #bookspinbingo

Is anyone else struggling to get into goodreads ? Iv relaunched the app tried the website and keep getting an error message , it‘s been like it for 2 days now 😕

Perfect summers morning reading with the doggie 🐶 paddling pool ready to go ! 😎

Yes we finished it in bed mollie moo and I 😆 absolutely loved it ! The rokesbys are every much as good as the Bridgerton series I do hope these come to tv 📺 too but with an all new unknown cast , how great would that be . Just perfect escapism ☺️

And now for some light escapist summer reading 📖 and June book 📖 bingo no 4 #bookspinbingo #junereads 😎happy Friday folks

She‘s won 🏆!

I don‘t know 🤷‍♀️ why maybe it‘s my current mood , which happens with our reading , but I found this one abit blah 😑 abit predictable, however an easy read but not as gripping as I would have liked

June Book 📖 bingo no 3, im on a role 😆with the pumi twins 👯‍♀️ 🥰happy reading 📖 happy sunny 😎 Tuesday everyone

Second June board bingo book 📖 🙌 #junebookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks