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RedLeaves

RedLeaves

Joined October 2016

"Her soul belongs to words and books. Every time she reads, she is home"
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Precious You by Helen Monks Takhar
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The Guest List | Lucy Foley (Novelist)
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Quite Agatha Christie-esque. I enjoyed the varying perspectives, definitely kept things interesting. The remoteness of the setting and the brooding weather feels eery, almost like another character bringing a sense of foreboding to the story as it unfolds. Enjoyable read.

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The Disappearance | Annabel Kantaria
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Quick and easy read, absorbing and enjoyable 😊

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The Winter People: A Novel | Jennifer McMahon
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Never wanted to sleep again anyway 👀 sooooo creepy!! Loved it 😅

JonathanDunne I like the pic. 4y
JonathanDunne @RedLeaves it's very alluring...oh,wait, I've only seen the book now😁 4y
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RedLeaves Def an alluring book! 4y
JonathanDunne @RedLeaves It's an alluring picture and an alluring book. Keyword: alluring. 4y
RedLeaves @JonathanDunne Word of the day! 4y
JonathanDunne @RedLeaves I aim to drop this word into conversation today, even where its clearly out of context. "Isn't this a beautiful piece of furniture?" "Yes, I find it very alluring." 4y
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"Up until yesterday I knew who I was. Up until yesterday my life wasn't a lie"

This one hooked me in from the get go. Fast paced and super tense! There was just one part I thought was a little far fetched but it didn't take away from the story or the writing at all

JonathanDunne Hmm, alluring. 4y
RedLeaves @JonathanDunne Still enjoying that word I see 4y
JonathanDunne @RedLeaves 😁Ya, apologies, its just that I havent had a chance to use the word to it's full potential, and I felt that by doing it justice I should use it here. Words have feelings too :) 4y
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How to Disappear | Gillian McAllister
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This is gripping! I have no idea how it's going to end. Can't put it down

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Starting this one, I love a good ghost story!

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Seems to be a theme to my reading choices at the moment. Strong female protagonists who refuse to conform to the expectations of society. Another which spans centuries and travels from Australia to Chile and Cornwall. Doesn't need too much analysis I'm sure. Enjoying so far

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I have to admit I didn't enjoy as much as the first book in the series. Predictable in places and a little trite in others, but over all I did enjoy. Like the first, this book time hops back to the ancestors of main character, highlighting feminist issues of the time and retelling periods in history. The arts feature strongly, this one focusing on music.

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My little virtual "book shop" is doing well over on depop! Grab yourself a gem ?☕ uk shipping

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Has everything glorious! art, history, architecture, travel, passion and samba! Spanning centuries and continents from legendary bohemian Montmartre, Paris to modern day sizzling Rio. Recommended by one of my sisters and costing the rest of us a fortune buying all of series 😂 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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Just getting started with this one. Came as a recommendation from one of my own sisters. Good thing about coming from a family of book worms is you're never short of recommendations!!

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She | HC Warner
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Couldn't put this down, I had guessed the twist but still couldn't stop reading. Does cover the subject of domestic abuse so may be triggering for some.

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The Flatshare: A Novel | Beth O'Leary
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Ah this was cute. Super easy, light read that made me laugh. Definitely good for a bit of escapism 😊

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The Flatshare: A Novel | Beth O'Leary
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Absolutely loving this! Recommended by one of my sisters as the protagonist is 'quirky' as I am often described as! It's equal parts laugh out loud funny and cosy...we all need that at the moment, right? Perfect time to enjoy the Lily O'Brien chocolates I received for my birthday last weekend 🥰🥰 hope everyone is doing well 🧡

marleed This was my favorite romcom last summer! I hope it‘s adapted to screen. 4y
RedLeaves @marleed it's just a joy isn't it! I can't put it down. I agree would be great as a movie 4y
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Salley Vickers books feel more like an internal monologue or narrative on life, than a story with a linear plot. A tiny bit like Ali Smith in her intelligence, but not as abstract. Magnificent!

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I Remember You | Elisabeth de Mariaffi
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How I loved this!! I absolutely adore Heiki, the protagonist. She is so beautifully crafted and multifaceted. The story has the kind of slow, descriptive, enveloping narrative I love. Very evocative and emotive. Not the one to choose if you want a fast paced punchy thriller, but if you like creepy and haunting you'll love it ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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I Remember You | Elisabeth de Mariaffi
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Half way through this gem. Set mainly in post WW2 America. Heiki has a charmed life. Stay-at-home mother married to a prominent psychiatrist, a far cry from the damaged child she used to be. But she is shaken when her son befriends a girl at a nearby lake, who vanishes. Caught between controlling husband & intense Leo Dolan, a tv writer exploring the paranormal, Heiki is desperate to find out what happened to the girl. Then her son disappears...

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The Whisper Man | Alex North
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WELL!! This had me sleeping with the lamp on 👀 dark and compelling, and thoroughly addictive! Enjoyed every word ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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The Whisper Man | Alex North
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One chapter in and I am hooked! Utterly compelling

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Cuppa and book in the garden this morning. Good to get some air! Really enjoying this book. Bit battered as came from the book exchange at work. Think I've guessed the twists but that hasn't taken away from the book at all. Very absorbing. Hope everyone is staying home and staying safe! Never a better excuse to hunker down and read 💛

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Not my usual genre choice for audiobooks, or physical books for that matter, however need something soothing, cosseting and with a happy ending 💛

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Wakenhyrst | Michelle Paver
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I don't want this to end!!!
Edwardian Suffolk, a manor house stands alone in a corner of the fens: a glinting wilderness of water whose whispering reeds hold dark secrets. Maud is a lonely child growing up without her mother, ruled by her repressive father. When he finds a painted medieval devil in a graveyard, unhallowed forces are awakened. Maid's battle has begun. She must survive a world haunted by witchcraft....

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So far so amazing!!!

ImperfectCJ This has been on my TBR since I heard the author on NPR several years ago, but maybe I should bump it higher on the list! 4y
RedLeaves @ImperfectCJ Definitely bump! It's so calming and beautiful! 4y
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Killing Kate | Alex Lake
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Ooh I'm somewhere between a 'pick' and a 'so-so' with this one. I guessed the killer and their motives quickly. I was really frustrated with Kate's reliance on seemingly anyone male at times! I thought parts were a tiny bit far fetched and the ending was a little neat for me. Having said all that I didn't consider dumping it, I did enjoy it. It's an easy read and it is definitely very gripping towards the end! So I'm going to say pick.

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A Clockwork Orange | Anthony Burgess
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Vintage books are my favourite. 1973 edition. I'm not really needing to use the dictionary in the back to understand Nadsat, managing on my oddy-knocky 😉 thought provoking distopia, oh my brothers

JonathanDunne "Oh my brothers" ? 4y
RedLeaves @JonathanDunne Viddy well! 4y
JonathanDunne @RedLeaves My little droogie! 4y
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Winter: A Novel | Ali Smith

"There was always a furious intolerance at work in the world no matter when or where in history, she thought, and it always went for the head or the face"

The truth beautifully placed on the page by the artistic hand of Ali Smith ?

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Winter: A Novel | Ali Smith
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Ali Smith is definitely one of my favourite authors. I love the way her brain works, the word play and the way I lose myself in the vast tundras she creates

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Winter: A Novel | Ali Smith
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Ooooof you guys on here are super readers!! Looking at some of your goals for the good reads challenge makes my little bookworm reputation look rather inept! My goal last year was 30 but I read 34. So gone for a target of 31 this year. Anyone else down in the two figure challenges with me? 🤪

britt_brooke 31 is an admiral goal! I 100% #blamelitsy for the insane increase in my reading the last 4 years. It‘s an addiction. 😆 (edited) 4y
sprainedbrain I agree with @britt_brooke 😊 I used to read 30-60 per year, then discovered audiobooks and went in to the 100s, then discovered Litsy and things went crazy. 😂 4y
britt_brooke @sprainedbrain Yep!! That‘s exactly what happened to me. 😆😆 4y
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RedLeaves @britt_brooke @sprainedbrain Haha well I guess we should watch this space then! Never know what my target might be next year! 🤪 4y
Bklover I am! Last year I started with a goal of 100 books, which I very quickly dropped to 75. Of course I didn‘t make it to 75-I did around 50. So this year my goal is 50- that way I won‘t disappoint myself! 4y
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Relishing this absolute gem!! Highly recommended if you love Bowie ? or have an interest in cultural history or bibliophilia. Documents Bowie's restless intelligence, and his pleasure in the fact that books allow readers to slip into someone else's skin and try it on for size
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"A shot in the arm for the unfashionable theory, one I've always liked, that reading books makes you a better person." . ..AGREED!

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Snow Girls The | Chris Mooney
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Really enjoyed this one. Felt invested in the characters and didn't see the ending coming at all. First I've read from this author but will definitely read more! Sneaky little nibble of some chocolate liqueurs while I finished the last few chapters 📖🍫

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The Lost Ones | Anita Frank
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Atmospheric and absorbing. Recommend if you enjoy spooky and a strong back story

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A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens
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"Marley was dead, to begin with"

Time for my annual visit to Dickensian London

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Little Star | John Ajvide Lindqvist
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It's taking me an age to read this but I am really enjoying! Original and absorbing

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Then She Vanishes | Claire Douglas
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Finally completed a @goodreads #goodreads reading challenge! Failed the last three years 😩😂 #goodreads2019challenge

TiredLibrarian Congrats! 👏🏿👏🏻👏🏼 4y
sprainedbrain Hooray!! 🥳🥳🥳 4y
RedLeaves @TiredLibrarian @sprainedbrain *curtsey* why thank you! 😊 haha 🥰 4y
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Safe House | Jo Jakeman
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Enjoying so far. Easy read, quite a quiet thriller but keeps you turning pages nonetheless

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Little Star | John Ajvide Lindqvist
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Wouldn't have chosen this one, partly because the title doesn't appeal and partly because it's a photo cover - which I hate! But was recommended as first class Scandi horror and as i love all things nordic
thought i would add to my Halloween reads. Glad I did! So far is brilliantly, skin creepingly atmospheric

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Sleep | C.L. Taylor
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Really enjoying this atmospheric and absorbing read! Half way through after only two days however that is helped by the fact I have a rubbish cold so have been sitting around when usually I'm on the go alot of the time... probably too much. Think Jerry is enjoying being able to snuggle up too 🥰🐶

Tamra Springers are babies like retrievers. Velcro! 😆 4y
RedLeaves @Tamra He is a working cocker but definitely looks more like a mini Springer! Oh you're so right, like my shadow 😂 4y
Tamra @RedLeaves he does look so much like a springer, adorable! Cockers are in the sporting family correct? Seems like they are very needy - at least all the ones I‘ve known! Definitely not dogs to live outdoors alone. 🤗 (edited) 4y
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Tamra Our labs & goldens have been very much Lap babies. 4y
RedLeaves @Tamra Yes still working dogs very much like Springers. Oh he is SO needy! 😂😂 no way could he live outside he has to be as close to me as possible! Haha 4y
CrowCAH Happy Anniversary on Litsy! 😊 4y
RedLeaves @CrowCAH Why thank you! And to you too! 😊😊 4y
BGam Get well soon .. looks so cozy n ur pet is so beautiful 😍 4y
RedLeaves @BGam Thank you 😊 I have a day off today so got my feet up! He is just adorable, thank you 🥰🥰 4y
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Dracula | Bram Stoker
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Tis October after all 🧛‍♀️

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Miss Garnets Angel | Salley Vickers
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I read The Librarian by Salley Vickers last Christmas and it really was the perfect read for that time. I needed cosy but not twee and that's what I got. A work friend has leant me Vickers' first book and I have to say after two chapters, again I am enthralled. She has a lovely slow and enveloping style which I just love

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Something about autumn approaching makes me want to get cosy with the classics 📚☕🥰

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Just getting started with this but the writing is a delight! I love Augusta already

Tamra I need to check this out! 5y
RedLeaves @Tamra It's glorious! 🥰 5y
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Perfect Prey | Helen Fields
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Three pages in and I was hooked. I believe this is the second in a series! Always good news when a book has brilliantly crafted characters, as this one does. Brought two books with me. The other I will donate to the lending library but this one needs to go home with me!

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Perfect Prey | Helen Fields
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Thought my fellow bookworms would appreciate this! Spotted it as soon as we arrived for our holiday in Cornwall. Naturally I shall be paying a visit! #library #lendinglibrary

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The Binding | Bridget Collins
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Hybrid of historical fiction, fantasy, dystopia and magical reality. All tied up in a ribbon of romance

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Dead at First Sight | Peter James
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Bailed 😟 I REALLY don't like giving up on a book but it just felt horribly self indulgent and somewhat clinical. Just can't force myself to pick it back up

JanuarieTimewalker13 I‘m all for bailing if it‘s just not working for you! 5y
RedLeaves @JanuarieTimewalker13 feels like failing!🤣 5y
JanuarieTimewalker13 No way!! It‘s winning a chance at a book that‘s for you!! 5y
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The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one..... 🛸

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Dead at First Sight | Peter James
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Jumping into another Peter James thriller. A handsome motivational speaker discovers his identity is being used to scam women who are looking for love online. The first he knew of it was a phone call from one of them, out of the blue, saying "you don't know me, but I thought I knew you".

That woman is now dead.

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Twisted | Steve Cavanagh
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Enjoyable read which kept me guessing! Lots of tension and characters I felt invested in.

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The Hoarder | Jess Kidd
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I'm so envious of Jess Kidd's beautiful poetic soul and writing talent

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Twisted | Steve Cavanagh
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Fingers crossed for this one after a couple of reads that have left me cold!