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The Librain
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Former professional school librarian, now retired through chronic illness. Trying to keep cheerful by reading, drinking lots of tea, blogging my new life, and my love of bling!
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Anne,My family and I will be praying for you. 2026 will be a much better year for you, and for…
Thank you so much Lauren. We are looking forward to our other son coming and then we will have a…
Thinking of you Anne during this Holiday Season. I hope you are feeling okay and I hope you are able…
Anne, I also hope that there is relief in sight for you. The winter is long and dark and you…
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Category Archives: Reading
Reading roundup 22/01/25
Welcome to the post! I have to admit that I have not finished my latest book, so I cannot write about it today. The book I am currently reading is The Green Angel Tower by Tad Williams, #03 Memory, Sorrow … Continue reading
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Tagged books, ebooks, fantasy, Goodreads, Guy Gavriel Kay, Written on the Dark
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Reading roundup 15/01/25
Welcome to my first “proper” Reading Roundup” post for 2025! I have set my target for the year on Goodreads and have finished one, rather long, book. To make things attainable and not any kind of pressure, I set the … Continue reading
Reading roundup 08/01/25
Welcome to the first Reading Roundup post for 2025! In this post I am going to look back at 2024’s books. I set a target of 50 on Goodreads and actually logged 60 for the year. Actually, I read quite … Continue reading
Reading roundup 18/12/24
Welcome to this week’s post. It may turn out to be the final one for 2024, as I can’t see me feeling like writing one on Christmas Day! Well, I might manage a “Merry Christmas” type of post. I have … Continue reading
Reading roundup 11/12/24
It’s Wednesday so it must be Reading Roundup time! Last week I finished one book and then got stuck into a second one which is very long indeed. That one might take me a while to reach the end! Anyway, … Continue reading
Reading roundup 04/12/24
Well, we have arrived in the final month of the year, so it’s time to read as much as I can! Sorry, poor joke. I should, of course, be planning for the festive season, but the state of Lovely Husband’s … Continue reading
Reading roundup 27/11/24
Apologies, fellow readers! For once complicated life has got in the way of my reading this week so I haven’t been able to finish my current book. There are over a hundred pages left and if I skipped through them … Continue reading
Reading roundup 20/11/24
Welcome to my weekly post about the books I am reading. Since last Wednesday I have enjoyed one very long ebook… I had already read one of Kate Morton’s books, Homecoming, so I looked on the Library’s ebook catalogue and … Continue reading
Reading roundup 13/11/24
Welcome to this week’s post. So, I have just finished a book that was really not the kind that I usually choose, but then it had… Librarians! …on horseback! One of my friends posted about this book on Facebook and … Continue reading
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Tagged book reviews, books, ebooks, Goodreads, historical fiction, librarians
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Reading roundup 06/11/24
We have reached the first November reading post already! This week I am writing about two books in the Darwath series by Barbara Hambly. Regular visitors might remember that I have been recently rereading the first three books that I … Continue reading
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