Ohhhh …. This looks goooood! Thank you @Chrissyreadit ♥️🙏🙏♥️🙏♥️
Chrissyreadit 😘😘😘😘 6d
Soubhiville What a pretty cover. And it looks perfectly seasonal. 6d
AmyG Merry Christmas! 6d
Mitch @AmyG hope you‘re having a lovely festive winter xxx 3d
Ohhhh …. This looks goooood! Thank you @Chrissyreadit ♥️🙏🙏♥️🙏♥️
I‘ve really really enjoyed this short subscription to the British Library Crime Classics. Every month you get the newest released book in the series and I love the little extras they pop in. 👍🏼
When you can‘t be near when you really want to be…. What do bookish people do? They read a gifted book that connects you ♥️♥️
I LOVE it! To say I‘m obsessed at the moment with Xmas stories is an understatement and these are two new to me authors! Can‘t wait to start reading! And the bag is gorgeous. ( Did I tell you that the illustrator of my bag launched her new book at our little indie a few weeks ago and I got to meet her!). Biggest of thanks and hugs to you @DGRachel
Thank you so much @Soubhiville I loved the letter, catching up with you is such a wonderful afternoon of friendship. Thank you for the present. I‘ve wanted to read this book for ages! Hope you have a wonderful holiday season xxx
Hi @TheBookHippie - this will be my second book from your fabulous #auldlangspine2025 list. I couldn‘t get hold of the exact Dorothy Parker that you had read - but I‘ve not read anything by her so I opted for this collected works. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
This arrived this afternoon @Chrissyreadit - cannot wait to dive in. A new to me author who I‘ve heard lots of good things about 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼. Thank you ♥️
And inside is just as beautiful. The weight of the paper is lovely. So pretty. I promise you a hand written letter at the start of 2025! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼. Thank you @iread2much
This arrived today @iread2much …. It‘s wrapped so beautifully! It‘s a feast for the eyes. Thanks you ♥️
First book I‘m adding to my January #auldlandspine2025 pile. Thanks for this very very cool recommendation @TheBookHippie Something I would not have discovered myself and it looks very interesting ! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Thank you sooo much @catiewithac - the tree goes up today and this will be safely tucked underneath ♥️♥️♥️
December this year is going to be about Christmas mysteries! I usually do this for the week before the holiday - but I‘m desperate for the holiday feeling to be longer this year!
#wonderouswednesdays
Definitely make it, with ghosts and owls and mummy‘s at a book lovers party hosted by Hocus Pocus in a haunted house, with potions, brew & carved pumpkins!!!
You‘ve been in my thoughts a lot @BookNAround … hope you‘re all doing ok ♥️
And a huge thank you for thinking of me on my birthday. I‘ve seen lots of press around this book and excited to try a new to me author. Thank you honey xx
One of my favourite bits of last weekends Jane Austen Festival in Bath was the Regency fair! The opportunity to pick up ribbons and notions and bonnets and corsets!
Dancing lessons at the Assembly Rooms ahead of the ball!
Had a fab weekend at the Jane Austen Festival….. thinking this would make a great Reading Retreat!
I spent last weekend in Bath for the Jane Austen Festival - taking notes for next year when a group of friends and I are going to the ball!
A friend booked my a surprise massage as a special gift! Got time to squeeze in a chapter or two first! 👏🏼
Thanks for the tag @Meshell1313
🎃Loved the tagged book - non fiction book about the influence,political importance and down right feistiness of the Tudor Ladies in Waiting.
🎃Paper always!
🎃At the moment I think it‘s crime fiction and non fiction essays.
How about you @squirrelbrain
This arrived today @iread2much - isn‘t it gorgeous! It was packaged so beautifully and the quality of the paper is lovely. Thank you xxxxx
Oh I‘m going to have so much fun reading this - I think it‘s going to send me straight into the kitchen at every page turn! It‘s wonderful. Thank you so much @Soubhiville ♥️♥️♥️
@TheLudicReader this is wonderful ( Mr K is sending me on a Letterpress printing course for my birthday!) Love the tea towel - it‘s beautiful and will look wonderful artfully draped over the range! Thank you for sharing your hometown with me. And the sea bookmark ♥️ ( you must have liaised with Mr K because there‘s where we‘re spending today! )
Beautiful beautiful beautiful! Thank you @Chrissyreadit - poems about hands that tend gardens … how gorgeous is that! And I‘ve wanted to read McBride for ages. Thank you so much ☺️ 🥰
Had a very enjoyable reading month - some great stories , with drama and characters as well as some really inspiring and quirky non fiction. 👍🏼
#LLSS
Thank you So much @Cupcake12 for such a thoughtful and exciting package. Can‘t wait to dive into the books! The key fob is gorgeous as is the smell of the hand cream- the smell of summer! Thank you 🙏
Next up…… to bridge the void left by the Olympics!
Love it when the sequel is even better than the first - happens rarely for me but this one is fab!
pickSet in 1414, this is a really interesting short novel about the imagined intersection of the medieval lives of Margery Kempe ( who published the first ever autobiography) and Julian of Norwich - who wrote the earliest surviving book in English written by a woman.
I love the Wainwright Prize - I think it‘s the one prize that I try to read most of the longlist and end up loving most of them! Got 6 of these so far and working my way through!
I‘m about halfway through so far and loving this one - learning lots about how previous generations and civilisations have shaped how we access land, what paths we take and how the countryside is shaped.
What are you reading now?
Listened to a podcast last week that led me to discovering Ethel Haythornthwaite, a major environmental campaigner in the U.K. on the 40‘s & 50‘s. Cant wait now to read more about this remarkable woman.
#wonderouswednesday
1- 52 books and 20,000 pages! I try not to make it too much of a stretch so I don‘t shy away from slow reads.
2- By the last 50 pages of my current book I like to be planning my next read. I hate finishing a book and not knowing what comes next.
3- I‘ve learnt so much, walking in other people‘s shoes, helping me connect with a wider world. And of course - bookish friends!
pickWow - how is this a debut! Fantastic story telling, amazing working and characters that will live with me for a long time. The best I‘ve ever read on intimacy, complexity of character and what it means to be a woman. Add to that trauma, historical legacies and the power of memory and place and you‘ve got a cracking novel.
pickLoved this biblio mystery. It took me into a world I knew little about, and reimagined that world so brilliantly I could smell the leather bindings, feel the creaks of the wooden floors amongst the shelves and imagine the thrill of the ‘chase‘. It was a great delve into obsession, greed and the ugliness of arrogance. I feel it should have had a content warning though for desecration of books - my heart didn‘t like it!!
I‘m never usually lucky at the Goodwill - but today was my day! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Just discovered this website - it has a huge collection of replica books jackets heaps of golden age crime ones…. Might be tempted the get one and frame it for my little reading space.
pickLoved having this read to me by Nigella whilst following along in print. Her enthusiasm for food is infectious & her passion for pleasure, adaptation & full flavour. Each chapter begins with rumination on a theme, then chat recipes, and then the recipes themselves. She swops things in and out with availability and seasons and sent me back into the kitchen excited to see what was in the fridge! Also appreciated her contentions to ‘solo supper‘.
