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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: historical fiction
Reading roundup 20/12/23
Welcome to this week’s post about my reading journey. This might be the final one for 2023, but I am not quite sure. If I am able, I will write another post next week to properly finish off the year. … Continue reading
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Reading roundup 13/12/23
I have finally caught up with my reading this week and I think I might just hit or even exceed my target set on Goodreads! Here are the two books that I enjoyed: A couple of weeks ago, I wrote … Continue reading
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Reading roundup 29/11/23
Welcome to my weekly post about the books I have been reading. I have two very different books to write about today. Here is the first one… Regular readers of these posts may remember that I have enjoyed books by … Continue reading
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Reading roundup 15/11/23
Dear friends and visitors, welcome to this week’s post! I had a strange kind of week in terms of reading, as you will see… The first book that I chose was Gardens of the Moon (#01 Malazan Book of the … Continue reading
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Tagged book reviews, books, ebooks, fantasy, Goodreads, historical fiction
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Reading roundup 18/10/23
Welcome to this week’s post about the books I have been reading. Today, I have two books that were written as part of a series… These two books are part of a larger series about Ancient Greece, but they tell … Continue reading
Reading roundup 21/06/23
Welcome to this week’s Reading Roundup post! I must apologise for missing last week’s. With all that is going on here at the moment, everything became too much for me and I was very ill from Tuesday into Wednesday, so … Continue reading
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Reading roundup 07/06/23
Hello everyone and welcome to this week’s quick catch-up on my reading! Yes, like last week, I am going to write about a couple of books that I have managed to finish during this enforced “imprisonment “ upstairs with Lovely … Continue reading
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Reading roundup 31/05/23
Hello and welcome to the latest Reading Roundup post. I haven’t been able to write one for ages and regular visitors to the blog will have seen the reasons why. Yes, we are still stuck here in bed together and … Continue reading
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Reading roundup 29/03/23
Welcome to this week’s Reading Roundup post! Every Wednesday I check my Goodreads account, where I log all of my books, and post the covers, blurbs and my short reviews on this blog. I like to use Goodreads as it … Continue reading
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Tagged book reviews, books, crime, ebooks, Goodreads, historical fiction, mystery
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Reading roundup 22/03/23
Welcome to this week’s Reading Roundup post! Today, I am going to write about a trilogy that I enjoyed during that horrible bout of shingles. I was really struggling to read anything. Pain made my concentration levels sink to the … Continue reading
Dear Lauren, thank you again for commenting! I enjoyed my walks last week, but we are struggling with a heatwave…