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Reader extraordinaire 😁. French, European, Anglophile. Loves reading books, talking about books and buying books. Can also be found baking and walking my dogs when not working for the NHS.
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Book 23 of 2025: Dear Edward by Anne Napolitano. This is a real gem of a novel: beautifully crafted with a main character that will steal your heart. A book about grief and finding yourself when your whole life is upended: surprisingly hopeful and positive. Highly recommended. 💙📚

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Post a female character that you love

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Reader, I married him … and then the dragons arrived. 📚📚💙

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I have just finished what could be the worst book I have read in years for my book club. Badly written, ridiculous story and just no redeeming features at all. Felt bad until my friend texted me ‘how stupid was that?’ So this could be an interesting evening 😁 💙📚

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Book 19 of 2025: Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar. I am an absolute sucker for a book about grief and this did not disappoint. A young man fighting to stay sober, tries to channel his grief into art. A chance encounter with a dying artist will change his view of the world and of his own life. Brilliant 💙📚

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Book 18 of 2025: I love magic realism and have a penchant for fables but I must admit I did not understand this one very well. The writing is beautiful and lyrical but the story did not resonate with me. 💙📚

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Book 15 of 2025: a strange clever novel about a man fighting demons he does not fully understand while trying to catch the man who murdered his wife. Told from the point of view of animals, including fish and insects, the book explores human-animal relationships. A word of warning: it is gruesome 💙📚

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Book 13 of 2025: this was an unexpectedly beautiful and lyrical novel about a dead man found on a beach in Ireland and the repercussions for the inhabitants of the village which has already seen its fair share of drama. 💙📚

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Had a dinner and cinema night with my husband of 23 years and it was lovely … we are very annoying 😁

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Book 11 of 2025: Shirley Jackson is really the queen of the darkly scary and the unexpected. This is a dark suburban nightmare where children are mean as only children can be and their parents obsess over a need to conform and be seen to be the right kind of people. Amazing. 💙📚

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Book 9 of 2025: A general theory of oblivion by Jose Eduardo Agualusa. Ticking Angola off my list and what a beautiful novel. Based on a true story and diaries, this is a funny and yet tender novel. 📚💙

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Book 8 of 2025: Loved this quirky and dark novel about a woman who pretends to be pregnant in order to avoid doing the tasks expected of her in the office, simply because she is a woman. Over the next 40 weeks, can she keep up the deception and how is this going to affect her? 💙📚

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Book 7 of 2025: what is a girl to do on a cold rainy day but read a book in one sitting? I could not have put that one down if I tried: it absolutely gripped me from the start and anyway I would read Ali Smith's shopping list if she let me. That woman is an absolute genius. 💙📚

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Book 6 of 2025: Cloudstreet by Tim Winton. Australian Tim Winton is a magician with words and this is a beautiful novel about family and the love-hate relationship most of us have with our relatives. This is also a novel about friendship, sibling love and the importance of home. Beautiful💙📚

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Book 5 of 2024: if you have not yet discovered Warsan Shire, I beg you to go out and buy this collection of poetry: urgent, necessary and beautiful 💙📚

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Book 4 of 2024: My Favourite Mistake by Marian Keyes. This is just a bit of fun but oh my god what fun ... the Walsh family are fabulous and Anna was a great main character. 💙📚

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