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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, Delighted to see you are back and smiling ! Congratulations on the sale of your home. Bittersweet isn't it.…
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Reading roundup 16/11/22
Hello, fellow readers and welcome to this week’s Reading Roundup! Today I have three books to tell you about… My first book was 56 Days by Catherine Ryan Howard, chosen at random from the ebook selection at my local library … Continue reading
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Reading roundup 09/11/22
Welcome to this week’s Reading Roundup. As it is two weeks since I last wrote one of these posts, there are quite a lot of books to tell you about. I don’t really want to make a very long post, … Continue reading
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Tagged book reviews, books, dystopia, ebooks, Goodreads, mystery, science fiction
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Reading roundup 26/10/22
Welcome to this week’s Reading Roundup post! After the previous three weeks, where I was working my way through a brilliant, but extremely dark, trilogy, I decided to turn to something more lighthearted. My favourite science fiction with humour author … Continue reading
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Reading roundup 19/10/22
Welcome to this week’s Reading Roundup post! Today, I am bringing you the final book in The Broken Earth trilogy by N K Jemisin… The third book is The Stone Sky. As I was quite seriously ill at the beginning … Continue reading
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Reading roundup 12/10/22
Hello and welcome to this week’s Reading Roundup post! Last week, I wrote about the first book in this amazing trilogy: The Broken Earth. The series is by N K Jemisin and the first book is called The Fifth Season. … Continue reading
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Reading roundup 05/10/22
Welcome to this week’s Reading Roundup post. I have read only one book this week, but what a book! I found it amazing! My chosen book this week was N K Jemisin’s The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth #01). It … Continue reading
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Reading roundup 28/09/22
Welcome to this week’s Reading Roundup post! I have two books to share with you… I haven’t read a book from the famous Scarpetta series for a long time, but Patricia Cornwell’s Autopsy (Kay Scarpetta #25) was on offer so … Continue reading
Reading roundup 21/09/22
Hello! So, I’m back again after my extended break. I had hoped to be able to write an extended post with loads of great books to whet your reading appetite, but the events of the last few days made it … Continue reading
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Tagged book reviews, books, ebooks, Goodreads, historical fiction, romance
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Reading roundup 07/09/22
Hello, fellow reading fans! Welcome to this week’s Reading Roundup. I have enjoyed two books this week and have started a third. Here’s the first one… I have read a couple of books by Alafair Burke before, so I thought … Continue reading
Reading roundup 31/08/22
I have enjoyed one great book during the last week. It was quite long, so I have not had enough time to read another one… Regular readers may remember that I am a huge fan of Stuart MacBride’s books. I … Continue reading
Dear Lauren, thank you so much for your kind comment. I must admit that I feel a bit strange about…