First half of the book a definite 4.5 star 🌟 read ; second half a 3 and abit blah 🫤 personally compared to other reads I didn‘t find the love interest between Heath and kat that passionate, the spark just wasn‘t really there & the ending how the hell did that happen . It did reignite my love of ice skating and ice dance , overall an easy cosy ish enjoyable read that won‘t blow your socks off but is enjoyable

Had to re watch torvil & deans 1984 gold medal 🥇 winning Bolero on YouTube oh my goodness forgot how truly brilliant 🤩 they were - the most famous and the best ice dance EVER ! If you haven‘t watched it YOU MUST I choked up 🥺I was 13 yrs old when they won and we watched it live on tv 📺 the days when we had only 3 channels !!! 😮remember those days 😆 #thefavourites #torvilanddean #iceskating #icedance

Oh my goodness I‘m loving this ⛸️ 🥰😍

Every debut these days seems to be labelled with “debut of the year “ & rarely does it live up to the hype , but then one little gem crops up and blows your socks off ! Wow ! What a book, I pre ordered this upon publication because I‘d read a lot of great reviews pre release , podcasters and YouTubers / book tubers all raving about it & they were right. Very hard to find an “original “
Idea now for a story & plot line

When your trying to read in the garden 🪴 engrossed & your puppy 🐶 is staring at you to go walkies 😆

Adored this book ! Rebecca Romneys research was painstakingly brilliant 🤩 so many gifted female authors who perhaps help set up Austen to be the great novelist we all know and love(well most of us)Iv had to order a lot of the books mentioned from world of books, 2nd hand onlinestore, Burneys Evelina, Ann radcliffes mysteries of udolpho, the female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox, Marie edgeworths Belinda & many more.1 of my fav books of-the year

I thoroughly enjoyed Emma much more after reading Rebecca romneys Jane Austen‘s bookshelf‘s , previously I started it a few times and put it to one side finding Emma annoying , a meangirl match making busy body - Austen herself said she‘d created aheroine “whom no one but myself will much like “ oh but this book is packed with sharp observations of human nature and character, I have aneighbouris Miss bates not financially butwith verbal diarrhoea

Hey Lynn remember last year I promised to send you this book ? 📕 well I did & look what Iv only just got back !!!!! It was April 2024 🤬🤬🤬🤬 rejected 🙅🏼‍♀️ at customs 🛂 🤯 I did try 😩 xxx #litsylove snail 🐌 mail ✉️ gone wrong 😑!

So many wonderful quotes , this made me laugh 🤭 I‘d have liked this lady 😂 “when any man likes me Im never surprised for I think how should he help it ? When any man doesn‘t like me he must be a block head & there‘s an end of the matter “ Brilliant 🤩 🤣🤣🤣

This book 📕 is mind blowing 🤯 so so good 😊 I urge all Austen lovers to read it ; such a beautiful cover too ! These female authors who have almost disappeared, how come ? Modern tastes and sensibilities , it‘s opened my eyes which all great books do, it‘s also cost me a fortune as Iv pretty much ordered all books mentioned & spent ages googling these authors. Will be one of my fav books of the year 👏🏻and so many wonderful quotes …

Back in toppings bookshop in Bath and had to pick this gorgeous book up started it straight away but it‘ll be a slow long leisurely read . (d5 for a hardback did you ever think you‘d see the prices of books go so high ????paperbacks now £.99 I‘m sure they‘re even more in the USA ???

Everytime I‘m here I have to buy at least 3 I‘m planning to collect the whole catalogue 🥰🥰 I adore Dorothy whipple can‘t wait to read this one and if you‘ve never read her you really must ! 😍😍

Back in beautiful Bath Uk 🇬🇧 and yes 😆purchased a bagful of persephones from their wonderful bookshop one of which is this one newly re printed , Persephone do an amazing job of reprinting lost authors / works I have never read a bad one #Persephonebookclub #persephonebooks

Back in beautiful 🤩 bath uk 🇬🇧 for an entertaining evening with the wonderful Lucy Worsley 🥰🥰

delightfulread,Persephone, ever in a reading slump ?Pick up one of their classics in essence a story of unhappy relationships, a one sided community & the cruelty of gossip. Sometimes marriages and relationships just don‘t work out, “ I went away with you because I was as I was, I am going my way now alone because I am as I am. And what you don‘t see is this , the thing that made me go with you then is the thing that makes me go my way alone now ‘

Sunny ☀️ but windy 🌬️ cooler afternoon, chores done , husband out , time to cosy on down with this little gem a pot of coffee and fur babies 🐶🐶Iv had a spate of ummmm 😑😐reads so I find turning to a Persephone you can‘t go wrong , I‘m there again next week in Bath 🛁 uk 🇬🇧 and can‘t wait 😝 happy 😊 reading you lovely 🥰 people x x

I‘ve become a great aunt to Isabella Andrea Hamilton 🥰im lucky 🍀 to be very close to my niece (and nephew ) could never have children myself due to medical issues sometimes it‘s just not meant to be , however I do find it strange when people (this happened a lot to us on holiday recently in Croatia 🇭🇷 for some strange reason) when people ask you if you have children, you say no and then they want an explanation why 🫨I never do that, some of

Oh dear oh dear maybe it‘s just me because Iv been so so tired but wow this book is confusing 🫤 I had to keep turning back and re reading and I still didn‘t get it or engage with any characters. Should have known because I dnf‘ed the authors award winning novel white tiger, I love a good Wild West book but not this one

What a disappointment! Such an interesting historical figure but sadly this part of her life left me deflated , boring in parts And as other reviewers have said the book should have been titled ceasar and cleopatra, mark Anthony is mentioned once towards the end almost as if there could be a part 2 book 2 but very much doubt it , what a shame, sadly a let down for me

Started this with Teddy in the May sunshine ☀️ and promptly feel asleep 😴 😆

Absolutely loved it and a fitting end to a truly brilliant series , elements are 4 of the best books Iv ever read ! Not my fav but ties everything up perfectly & not as shocking as the other 3 and dare I say a “happier” ending. A whole series which brilliantly captures the trauma inflicted on people by a handful of others , I urge everyone to read them

I‘m not sure what iv just read and 🤔 how to rate this, as other reviewers have said it is a story on a constant loop of repetition if your looking for a story about a complete arsehole then you‘ve found it in this , I can‘t even call Ernt a villain as he‘s not worthy , Cora no comment 😶 leni she‘s great . Maybe more fool me for sticking with it, I did find it oddly compelling

Starting honour on the sail into Dubrovnik 😍😍

First holiday read finished in beautiful 🤩 Croatia 🇭🇷 overlooking the 20 minutes of water to stunning 🤩 Dubrovnik where GOTs was filmed , loved those books 📚 back in the day. I enjoyed deep cuts wouldn‘t say I loved it but enjoyed the angst and frustration and misunderstandings of love , more of a love story to music 🎶 than daisy jones & six to which it‘s compared,a short read & a good one, looking forward to the film with Austin butler

Iv given this amazing authors book 5 stars even though I found some of the content extremely difficult to read being a huge animal lover , poaching is evil ,cruel, disastrously damaging to these wonderful creatures, who with a normal heart soul and mind could do such a thing ! The daily fight against these evil people and the removal of snares ! The chapters about the orphaned baby animals and the trauma they‘ve endured at the hands of humans

And nothing much changes ……

#persephoneclub well you were right gang I blinking loved it 🥰 what a ride, no spoilers but loved 🥰 the ending wouldn‘t it make a great film 🎥 would loved to have read more on Betty and mount Dunstan one of the best Persephones in my opinion😀 @LeahBergen @CarolynM @willaful @andrew61 @Gissy @rubyslippersreads @Cathythoughts @quietjenn plus found a wonderful bookmark of my mollie moonbeam in her fav place / my bed 😆🥰

Reading in the hairdressers, I‘m much better reading this in the day rather than in bed ? at night and getting angry ? at the horrid Nigel (does anyone know a nice Nigel ? Just wondering ? ?) and poor Rosy ?but hooray ?? here comes Betty - and perfect accompaniment is listening to Beyoncé‘s cowboy ? carter album ? thank you ? fellow #persephoneClub buddies for the encouragement ?happy Easter ?

I maybe the odd one out here #persephoneClub . But I am so cross with this book 📕 I have had to put it down , perhaps reading it in bed isn‘t such a good idea .,.. oh poor Rosy leave him for godsake !!! I shall stick with it as I‘m sure once Betty gets going it‘ll be a rip roaring read - the photo is Blenheim palace , I was there last week with a friend & my pups 🐶 famously rescued by Consuelo Vanderbilts dowry also sadly a loveless marriage

If I was 18-25I‘d have loved this book,it is a spicer version of Judy blumes wonderful forever , it is a lot lot better than the bombardment now of poorly written boring 🥱 romance but and here‘s the BUT maybe it‘s
An age thing (I‘m 53) with a huge TBR and time is precious , this book is 800 odd pages and…..

My nominees please for this years #camplitsy25

.My Friends by Fredrick Backman
.The Names by Florence Knapp
.Atmosphere by TJ Reid
.Story of a murder By Hallie Rubenhold

All published in 2025 all out in stores by June

Thank you to @BarbaraBB @squirrelbrain @Megabooks

This maybe in your fantasy , dystopian sci fi section at your local bookstore but after a slow start it spookily rings true “ because good people can turn desperate when the horrors are upon them,especially people whose culture of plenty had left them with no systems to cope with scarcity or cataclysm “

SouthAfrican lady has moved to my village and joined our bookclub she‘s picked this for our April read , she lived 10 m away from Tulahtulah a mix of heart break 💔 and love &fascinating I didn‘t know baby rhinos 🦏 were so gentle, as with all creatures on gods planet we actvery differently when Wer in danger or abused. I really do admire these wonderful people 🫶🏻 I wantto go ! Sneaking In a Read in the garden after work& before starting dinner

Oh hamitch any of this would be enough to turn anyone to drink ! I personally loved this book I loved the slow paced start the reaping the run up to the games the friendships and comradey. Yes it is shocking and violent in places but I think a great story , loved the old characters appearing mags as mentor and the nod to Katniss at the end , a wonderful wonderful edition to brilliant series. Now don‘t mess the film up !gardens at Blenheim palace

“I pray that girls can make their own choices about what they do with their own bodies “ if only this was true Wer in 2025 ! For godsake and yet we seem to be going backwards! Anyway first half of this book loved it ; not what I expected at all it‘s a story of a pregnant girl falling into a cult ; second half becomes weird, I love time travel yarns but this didn‘t make sense it was slightly confusing however still enjoyed it and want to read more

Reading in the bath 🛀 🥰April sunshine ☀️ and chilly 🥶 evening ; just starting this journey with a collagen hot chocolate ☕️ and an collagen face mask 😷 balm I‘m going down fighting 👵🏻🙅🏼‍♀️🤣

My dear friend sent me this as I‘m a huge yoga 🧘‍♀️ fan it‘s helped me enormously with both menopausal symptoms and my heart ❤️ condition medication 💊 causes terrible aches and pains and yoga really does help I can‘t recommend it enough, and @dabbe dear Denise your lovely 🥰 letter and bits n bobs arrived today 😍🥰slightly naughty reading both with a gin and tonic 🤣I will write back pronto and hope isn‘t snail 🐌 Mail 🥰lots of love penpal 😘

Love these reading 📖 wraps on fable 😀 book 📕 of the month hands down was all the colours of the dark followed by Mary Wesley‘s not that sort of girl and harnessing peacocks 🦚 which apparently you can watch on YouTube it was a tv 📺 series yonks ago. Biggest disappointment yumi and the night painter 😖and Deep End, I just think I‘m the wrong age for Ali hazelwood but i did love her supernatural book Bride #marchreading #bookspinbingo

Any excuse to post a photo of my twins 🐶🐶🤣 here book 📕 shopping with mummy 🤗 another Mary Wesley ticked off the back catalog; I love ❤️ her writing ✍️ it is of a time 🕰️ and certain comments and observations wouldn‘t be made now (hopefully Wev progressed but sometimes I wonder 💭 why we don‘t seem to learn from history ) anyway it took me back to the 80s & uk 🇬🇧 holidays by the coast. I‘d say If you loved rivals you‘ll love ❤️ this

Enjoying a g&t with the wonderful Mary Wesley Iv loved everyone of her books Iv read so far & @iread2much look 👀 what arrived today so lovely to sit and read with a gin whilst dinner cooks and wow so quick ! Dated 19th March - no rhyme or reason to our post ✉️ sometimes it‘s 🐌 🐌 mail and sometimes its super speedy 💨💨 #litsylove happy reading much love fellow littens where ever you are 🇬🇱 🇬🇧 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🇵🇸 🇦🇺 🇵🇷 🫶🏻🫶🏻

Enjoying a g&t with the wonderful Mary Wesley Iv loved everyone of her books Iv read so far & @iread2much look 👀 what arrived today so lovely to sit and read with a gin whilst dinner cooks and wow so quick ! Dated 19th March - no rhyme or reason to our post ✉️ sometimes it‘s 🐌 🐌 mail and sometimes its super speedy 💨💨 #litsylove happy reading much love fellow littens where ever you are 🇬🇱 🇬🇧 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🇵🇸 🇦🇺 🇵🇷 🫶🏻🫶🏻

Re read for my book club & enjoyed it more this time around apart from the political themes of the 30s spookily now being played out ☹️the Mitfords all I‘m sure were neuro divergent , unity especially, annoying , spoilt , privileged & definitely a way of life now long gone , aside from their strange political leanings not sure why everyone was obsessed with these horrible women . Nancy the most famous for the right reasons barely gets a look in ;

Here we go ……😝😍

I tried I really did & maybe 🤔 I‘m missing something but sadly had to dnf it , maybe just bad timing and a huge TBR and limited time left in this planet 🌍 you realise your never gonna be able to read everything, so it‘s my first dnf of the year. My first time with a sanderson book but hadn‘t put me off I will try maybe a series this one just not for me too slow & couldn‘t engage with the characters

I‘m not sure what happened for me ,it started out as a strong 4star read , almost like a murder mystery romantasy a strong protagonist & a broodingdark handsome possibly slightly twisted loveinterest but oh my goodness I got sobored ! By50% (arcon kindle)Sarai was repeating herself & her grudges it was obvious that her so called friend was a complete backstabbing selfabsorbed bitch who you‘d never realistically trust asfar as you could throw her.

10+🌟‘s So glad I packed this to bring away for my holiday read never easy travelling with a hardback !Wow one of the best books Iv ever read, so engrossed had no idea what was going on around me so involved with what patch & saint got up to; the pirate 🏴‍☠️ & the bee 🐝 keeper. Loved 🥰 it my heart was racing at that ending so many twists never saw it coming any of it ! I‘m not a crime fan but this isn‘t just crime it‘s so much more it‘s a gift

Started first holiday 😎read on the flight ✈️ isn‘t it great when you just know in the first few pages your onto a winner #holidayreads Lanzarote Spanish 🇪🇸 sunshine #wintersun

Brilliant ending typical wonderful Wesley il bebereft when Iv caught up and readall of her works , so many authors compared toAusten getting to gripswith human natures the various forms it takes , family drama petty squabbles lovers and marriages but Wesley winsOne thing I have noticed howmuch free and easy everyone was not being tied down with babies and animals just throwing everyone intothecar bus and heading moff takin sandwich‘s andthermos

Brilliantly researched and a fascinating but deeply disturbing read the casual racism and misogyny of the 50s is shocking it left me thankful not to be around in that era, women being held back in poverty turning to prostitution to make ends meet it‘s no different to Victorian times,these victims in any truecrime retelling were people ! Mothers , sisters daughters aunts friends. It is a good read but too dark and depressing to be hit for me

3.5 🌟 a disturbing dystopian read, with parallels to the handmaids tale but much much darker. Playing on the cruelty of teenage girls to each other and for perfection is spookily familiar in todays society , throw in how women have lost the right to their own bodies in the USA and many other countries & the aggressive dominance of men & the eroding of women‘s rights world wide it is eerily reminiscent & scary,