Every morning as Rose Mackie leant over the bars of the wooden cot and picked up her three-year-old daughter, she gave thanks for the cottage.
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Every morning as Rose Mackie leant over the bars of the wooden cot and picked up her three-year-old daughter, she gave thanks for the cottage.
#firstlinefridays
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1. It‘s the same as my insta handle
2. Gardening, or tidying and declutterring
3. Audio - A Room Made of Leaves -tagged
#wondrouswednesday
@Eggs
#CoverLove
#hat
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@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
I think it's my 2nd MS for this challenge!
#tbr
A murder of crows swore at each other in the trees that lined the banks of the River Kelvin.
#FirstLineFridays
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'A black comedy of manners' from the back cover blurb. This was a slow burn but well worth it.
#24countriesin2024
#newZealand
I have to confess I have never read the original 😅 it's on my list! However this was a gorgeous adaptation, a graphic novel on ebook!
#coverlove
#green
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#CoverLove #hearts
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Shortcut I saw this one at the big charity booksale at the weekend and snapped it in anticipation !
The parcel from James arrived three days before Christmas when the white roses in the front garden had finished flowering. 🌹 🥀
#firstlinefridays
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This was a great ‘listen‘. Australian historical fiction.
#CoverLove #day4
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A register of mining leases in St Helens area, I found my great and great great grandfathers leases
#day 3 dots
#coverlove
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It is universally admitted that the family from which the subject of this memoir claims descent is one of the greatest antiquity.
I am loving this book even though I‘m not a ‘dog‘ person!
#FirstLineFridays
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'And if its a boy,' said Phyllida cheerfully, "we'll call him Prospero.'
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Detective Constable Hartley slowed his motor car to a shivering idle.
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1. Trent Dalton‘s Boy Swallows Universe and All Our Shimmering Skies
2. The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed out the Window
3. As a pre-teen Little Women and To Kill A Mockingbird
# wondrousWednesday
Only 34 I was sure I had seen. There is so much hype around some big ones, that‘s it‘s impossible to be sure…
Only watched Matrix recently, mind ending.
My favourites
Toy Story 1 and 2
Notting Hill
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Also Forrest Gump and
Saving Private Ryan
#TLT #ThreeListThursday
@dabbe
Death wore a dinner suit.
#firstlinefridays
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#freelittlelibrary
On the weekend i chanced across a local
Food Van selling tteokbokki. Delicious with a 🌶 hit
From my local LFL fresh Rhubarb and a mystery book
Amongst the free immigrants arriving in Van Diemen‘s Land by the ship ‘Halycon‘ in 1824, was a man from Kent, by name Cripps.
I haven‘t read this yet, but it was written by my partner‘s great grandfather.
#firstlineFridays
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Life is as messy as a bag whose owner never cleans it out.
An unusual book, insights into Baeks mental health journey.
#memoir
#24countriesin2024
Bushwalk to Duckhole Lake before my daughter leaves for her volunteering assignment in Fiji
Four years have passed since I published I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki.
#firstlinefridays
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1. We did not have a library in the town where I grew up but I loved the monthly visits from the from the bookmobile (a converted passenger bus)
2. Library, book shops and street libraries
3. Doreen by Barbara Noble
@Eggs
#WondrousWednesday
In the kitchen, he poured another drink and looked at the bedroom suite in his front yard.
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If Lucas is doing something, I have to be doing it too, but better.
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