I’m listening to Jane Casey’s The Stranger You Know on BorrowBox. The DC Maeve Kerrigan books were recommended to me in a book group and I’ve throughly enjoyed them all so far. Gripping, gritty, dark but with humour and real human moments. Would definitely recommend to others.
Just finished A Fate Inked in Blood, it was ok, and I'm just a couple pages into When the Moon Hatched but idk if I'm in the mood for it yet. Kinda feel like I need something different. Maybe some absolute trash.
“Narrow Dog to Indian River”, by Terry Darlington. It’s very dry (and so, to me, mostly very funny), but the author comes across vaguely as a entitled white straight man, and I don’t think I’d like the him much if we met. 3.5-stars so far.
The second book in the ongoing saga of Veronica and the penguins by @hazelprior.bsky.social - and looking forward to the third! I get the titles mixed up.
Clever! I've been looking at pictures of penguins in Birds of the World, a book I was given when I was seven. I was disappointed that it wasn't a toy for a full two minutes. Then I opened it on the floor and saw all the pictures of birds you would never see in a back garden!
I just finished the Once Upon A Broken Heart trilogy. Now dithering over whether to jump into Song of the Huntress by Lucy Holland or wait for The Lotus Empire by Tasha Suri to arrive!
Got the flu, so Michael Connelly and Georgette Heyer (Cotillion).
Just finished Standard Deviation by Katherine Heany and Bloody January by Alan Parker. Both excellent.
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I read from C.J. Cherryh's Foreigner series every night to my spouse. We're currently on book 15 for the third time. Familiar books are nice to wind down with, and her worldbuilding is outstanding.
If you are neurospicy or living with someone who is, especially if it's an adult who has just been diagnosed or even suspects they are I can't recommend this and their other book 'Small Talk' highly enough.
Good girl's guide to murder, it's not you (healing from narcissistic abuse), and beyond your bubble (cause my library is offering helpful suggestions in this time of chaos by subtly leaving books out for patrons to grab).
I finished Conclave by Robert Harris and I’m now reading The Murders in Great Diddling by Katarina Bivald, it’s very funny. I totally loved reading one of her previous books The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend📚
Have you read Bookshops and Bone Dust by Travis Baldree? It's a fantasy, but it has the same cozy feel. The first book in the series is Legends and Lattes. Fun reads.
A charity shop find from this afternoon. Not much of a story to it, to be fair, but there's quite a few cakes in there that need adding to my baking repertoire.
The splendid chaos of this book, number 7 in the series, that just came out this week. There's so much on this cover, it'd take hours to explain it all, but I especially like Donut the cat on top of the tower.
Development of a Cumulative Resilience Screening Index (CRSI) for Natural Hazards: An Assessment of Resilience to Acute Meteorological Events and Selected Natural Hazards
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To be honest I prefer Jane Austen to the Bronte's but of all their novels I think Shirley would be the one I like best. Have you read any George Eliot?
Elizabeth Gaskell is one of those authors on my list of people I will read one day, promise....
George Eliot can be a bit like hard work but definitely worth it if you can, I particualrly enjoyed The Mill on the Floss and Silas Marner. Well, enjoyed might not be the exact,right word
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While since I read any of his.
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The 4th book in a great crime/detective series! 📚
Just finished Standard Deviation by Katherine Heany and Bloody January by Alan Parker. Both excellent.
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Spoiler: Christopher Robin did it.
1️⃣ The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
2️⃣ The Aurora's Pale Light by E.W. Doc Parris (sequel to the fantastic The Dent in the Universe).
Looking forward to both!
(U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, August 2020)
Five minutes in the future, surveillance culture is endemic and AI represents a clear and present danger to democracy - a terrific thriller.
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I've read Middlemarch which I struggled to get into but once I did I loved it.
I really love Elizabeth Gaskell too.
George Eliot can be a bit like hard work but definitely worth it if you can, I particualrly enjoyed The Mill on the Floss and Silas Marner. Well, enjoyed might not be the exact,right word