#BeginsWith #Blue
I think this is my favourite book in the series. 🤔 Might have to read all four again just to make sure. 😆
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Awesome cover 💙📚 5h
Eggs Pretty 💙🖤💙 now
#BeginsWith #Blue
I think this is my favourite book in the series. 🤔 Might have to read all four again just to make sure. 😆
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#BeginsWith #Spice
This looks like the ultimate book on the spice trade and how it shaped history. Sadly it is out of print, but I am sorely tempted to throw money at a used copy.
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#BeginsWith #Glass
For a moment I regretted using The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters for the Dream prompt at the beginning of the month, but then I remembered this pseudo-scifi chunkster.
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#BeginsWith #Home
This is one I've read, for a change, instead of a half forgotten part of my endless TBR. 😅
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Jeremy Beaumont-Jones had been lucky enough to be born rich. He wasn't in the mad oligarch class but once you're past a certain point, the sheer weight of your money sucks in wealth like a financial singularity. If you're sensible enough not to blow it on race horses, cocaine or musical theatre, then it becomes a perpetual-motion money making machine.
Admitting defeat on #BeginsWith #Salt
I've got nothing.
But when scrolling through Goodreads I did find this, which looks good but also horrific.
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I've got nothing that #BeginsWith #Sugar except the odd recipe like these Swedish biscuits/cookies where sugar is both the first and last ingredient.
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Early birthday present for myself from the Folio Society new year's sale. So pretty! So shiny! Can't wait for it to get dark so I can check out the Oryx and Crake glow in the dark effect. 😍
#BeginsWith
I had a few options here, but when in doubt go with Douglas Adams. I have this as both ragged old paperback and as Kindle edition, but neither of them has this particular cover. I just went with this one because of the way it makes the word #Long stand out. 😄
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#BeginsWith #One
Let's hear it for the #IndieAuthors of #LGBTQ+ Urban Fantasy/Paranormal Romance.
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Another tricky one.
#BeginsWith #State
I think I'm all caught up now. Also, there is no prompt for the 15th?
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#BeginsWith #Voice
This one was tricky, but I was massively into Mercedes Lackey books in my teens, including her Bardic Voices series.
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Of #TheThingsThatLurkOnMyKindle that I have forgotten about, this one at least I get why I have. Time travel and Edgar Allan Poe? Right up my alley. Must remember to read!
#BeginsWith #Door
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Oops, I've fallen behind a bit. But #TheThingsThatLurkOnMyKindle include #BeginsWith #Hope
Although this one seems to also be the end of hope.
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Another book I have no recollection of acquiring. #TheThingsThatLurkOnMyKindle
#BeginsWith #First
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#BeginsWith #Final
and is another entry into #TheThingsThatLurkOnMyKindle 🤷♀️
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#BeginsWith #True
"Absolutely True" even! ?
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#BeginsWith #You
Although it also begins with the end.
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#BeginsWith #Red
(and ends with blue)
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#BeginsWith #Secret
Sort of? I guess strictly speaking it begins with Empire.
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#BeginsWith #Garden
(I think I need to start the hashtag #TheThingsThatLurkOnMyKindle
I didn't know I had this! Where did it come from? 😅)
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#BoutOfBooks is starting, and while they're mainly on Twitter and Instagram I am only marginally there, but as their motto says, I was going to read anyway - so I signed up. I'll probably post here and ignore all the Twitter sprints and what nots. No better way to start the year than with a week long #readathon amirite? 😄 📚
Making a new year's resolution to post more on Litsy again. This interesting challenge should help me out! (I never make it through the whole month with these things, but I'll give it a shot.)
#BeginsWith
'He was a middle-aged child that had never shed its baby fat, though some gifted tailor had almost succeeded in camouflaging his plump and spankable bottom.'
Which do I read first?
I can't decide! 😩
#BooknerdProblems #TheStruggleisReal 😆
My prettiest book gifts this year. 🤩😍
Looking forward to reading the TJ Klune.
Persuasion is due a re-read, and I now have 4/6 of the Jane Austen Penguin Clothbound editions.
pickExcellent in every way. An unusual coming of age story. Just the right mix of troubling and funny. Need to track down the BBC adaptation next.
Everyone else has gone to bed. In the Gladstone Library lounge it's just me, a dying fire, and the wind howling against the walls. And the books. 📚🤓
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pickAbsolutely the best thing that could have come out of Lovecraft's messy xenophobic Red Hook story. And finally a story where the reader can see why trying to wake Cuthulhu from his slumber might appeal.
pickThe final volume! For a while I was worried that the series would never get a real ending, but as it turns out 20 volumes was exactly long enough. What a journey. All the feels in this one.
Thank you @LibrarianRyan for sending the first vol. to my (strictly speaking too young at the time!) Firstborn years ago. 3/4 of the fam have been following the children of Grace Field House and their battle for survival & freedom ever since.
"The wages of sin is death but so is the salary of virtue, and at least the evil get to go home early on Fridays."
No dear, that would be Athena.
This character is such a super annoying judgey know-it-all, I'm surprised at that mistake.
Also, bored. I don't think cozy mysteries are my genre, but I need one for a reading challenge and I'm halfway through, so I will persevere in a skim read fashion. 🙄
I'm about to read a novel with a female protagonist, and the entire introduction is all about what a manly man the author is. From a long line of manly men even. Robust, masculine, sober style and virile impartiality, vigorous language. He was a soldier too. I don't know... Was Gosse trying to reassure male readers that their masculinity would not be harmed by reading a French book about a woman? 😆
Oh no...
This book is netting me so many squares in the @DeweysReadathon #Bingo!
I should just change into PJs and do a 60min sprint in a different location while I'm at it!
#readathon #goingforblackout
I have my #tbr #stack ready for the weekend‘s #24hourreadathon 😁 Although I might have to expand it as I need a one word title for #Bingo 🧐
#readathon #deweys #allthehashtags
The game board is really conspiring against my return to the Hebrides and the Lewis trilogy. 😆 First book in 3rd person, then graphic novel, then book to movie, and now book with diversity. But at least it's giving me the nudge I needed to finally read The Hate U Give, which has been languishing on my shelf for two or three years. 🙄
"To the person who has anything to conceal - to the person who wants to lose his identity as one leaf among the leaves of a forest - to the person who asks no more than to pass by and be forgotten, there is one name above others which promises a haven of safety and oblivion. London.
(...)
London, whose rather untidy and grubby bosom is the repository of so many odd secrets. Discreet, incurious and all-enfolding London."
"'Was it Voltaire who said that the English had three hundred and sixty-five religions and only one sauce?'
'Judging from the War Tribunals,' said Parker, 'I should say that was an understatement. And then there's America - a country, I understand, remarkably well supplied with religions.'"
Continuing my påskekrim reading after a quick detour to read some Sandman. We're playing the @DeweysReadathon board game, and I landed on graphic novel. Now I'm on book to movie/TV and mysteriously the Lewis trilogy has not been adapted for the screen. I don't get it, it's so visual it's like reading a TV show. But no worries, I have a Lord Peter mystery I don't think I've read yet (or if I did it was years ago).
panMeh. Way more romance than murder investigation. Which doesn't have to be a bad a thing, but the writing was all over the place; plot points thrown in left and right and a style that was either purposefully disjointed or accidentally full of tiny continuity errors.
