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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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Delighted to hear you are still walking and being quite stylish while doing so! I love your laps you and…
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Tag Archives: books
Reading roundup 18/01/23
Well, I have a confession to make this week: I haven’t finished a book! Not one. Even a short one… Oh dear! I started three different books. Three. But the first two simply didn’t work for me, even though I … Continue reading
Reading roundup 11/01/23
Welcome to the first books of the new year! I have set my Reading Challenge goal for 2024 on Goodreads and have finished two books this week… I decided to stick with 60 books, even though I exceeded this number … Continue reading
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Tagged book reviews, books, crime, ebooks, Goodreads, mystery, thrillers
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Reading roundup 04/01/23
Welcome to the first Reading Roundup post of the new year! Regular visitors to the blog will know that I record all of my books on Goodreads and use links from there to show you my reviews and progress throughout … Continue reading
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Tagged book reviews, books, crime, ebooks, Goodreads, science fiction
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Reading roundup 14/12/22
This might turn out to be the final Reading Roundup post of the year. I haven’t decided yet when I will start my break from the blog for the Christmas holidays, so I may fit another one in. Or not… … Continue reading
Reading roundup 07/12/22
So… we have arrived in December already! Time is really speeding up for me these days. Perhaps that is because I read so much Fantasy and Science Fiction!!! Yet again, I have only managed one book this week. I think … Continue reading
Reading roundup 30/11/22
Well, we are already at the final Reading Roundup post of November. Time really has flown! This week I have just one completed book for you… I decided to read N K Jemisin’s The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, #01 The Inheritance … Continue reading
Reading roundup 24/11/22
Hello and welcome to this week’s Reading Roundup post. This has been a rather mixed week for my reading as you will find out… I chose Dark Pines by Will Dean from the library’s ebook service purely at random. The … Continue reading
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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Tagged book reviews, books, ebooks, Goodreads, Greek mythology, mystery, thrillers
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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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Tagged book reviews, books, ebooks, Goodreads, humour, science fiction
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Dear Lauren, thank you again for commenting! I enjoyed my walks last week, but we are struggling with a heatwave…