Caught on local TV wearing a bonnet! Need to go into hiding! 🙈

Celebrating Jane Austen in Bath

So I did a thing! Bookclub buddies and I did the whole dress up and parade the streets of Bath to celebrate Jane Austen! This is soooo far outside my comfort zone! But fun!

Oh my goodness. This is at the British Library! They have the most wonderful exhibitions always beautifully presented and usually only on for 3 months. Dame Agatha has a 6 month run! They‘re obviously expecting it to be busy! Can‘t wait 😝

I loved this book. It‘s going to be high up there on my end of year lists - so pleased to see it win this prize.

What a lovely set of snail mail papers ♥️. Thank you @iread2much It‘s a timely reminder that I do owe you a letter! Be in touch very soon. Take care Xxx

Ahhh - what a lovely surprise! Thank you so much for thinking of me this year @Soubhiville - what a wonderful, intriguing book. Can‘t wait to dig in. As a coincidence I‘m staying this weekend with my friend in Bath and our first stop is always Mr B‘s Bookshop ♥️

Dipping in to this today! 🤞🏼
Has anyone watched it?

Loved this slim volume - the author talks about all the different reasons why darkness is important, from sparrow sized songbirds using the constellations to migrate to seals use a guiding star to orientate themselves. Fascinating stuff

Found this beautiful little bookshop today - all cookbooks ! 🥰

Found this new little bookshop just opened near us. It sells just books about food and the counter is laden with cakes and coffee and newspapers to browse. It‘s a food lovers paradise!

Oh @Chrissyreadit - a huge thank you for including me in Independent Bookshop Day. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼.
The words on the magnet ❤️

The beauty of independent bookstores is in the discovery of little gems like this 👍🏼

I like to read in silence - but If you like a little soundtrack whilst you read this list of bookish songs might hit the spot!

I guess that 19% are all here on Litsy 🥳🥳🥳

I was really gladdened by this statistic - I worried it would be much lower. ❤️

Having finished Miss Dior and loved it - I‘m going to move on to book 2 on my #auldlangspine2025 from @TheBookHippie Think I‘m going to dip into a few of the short stories first and then maybe one or two of her book reviews. Never read anything by Dorothy Parker - but she sounds a super interesting woman so excited to get immersed in her brain.

This is interesting……. Guess I‘m more of a summer reader than I thought!

My 2024 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Two days in and loving it @TheBookHippie 🥰
#auldlangspine2025

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. 👍🏼

🎄Happy Christmas @iread2much 🎄

How perfect is this! Thank you for the bottom of my heart @catiewithac ♥️

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!

November was a good month for me - lots of ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

This is my Sunday ♥️♥️♥️♥️

#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!!!

Thank you @DGRachel - you‘re the best. I‘ve only read the first 20 pages and I know this will be on my best of the year pile. It‘s sooooo good 👍🏼

Thank you soooooo much @DGRachel This book is BEAUTIFUL! The illustrations are amazing - can‘t wait to dive in ❤️❤️❤️

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 ☺️ 🥰

What a wonderful birthday package @AmyG Thank you soooo much. I love the sound of this book - and the calendar is perfect. That vintage vibe is soooo up my street. Thank you sweet friend. ❤️

Had a very enjoyable reading month - some great stories , with drama and characters as well as some really inspiring and quirky non fiction. 👍🏼