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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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scarf therapy and spring - two joyful things to hopefully lift your spirits Anne. Looking lovely on your beautiful scarves…
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Tag Archives: mystery
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 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 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 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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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 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
Reading roundup 20/07/22
Hello Reading friends! Apologies for the lack of Reading Roundup posts for a couple of weeks. Illness and hot weather meant that I couldn’t cope with writing on the blog. I didn’t even read for a few days! Anyway, I … Continue reading
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Reading roundup 13/04/22
Hi fellow book lovers! I read and enjoyed two books this week. The second one really gripped me and I whizzed through it in two sessions! This is the first one… This is the third book in Peter Robinson’s Inspector … Continue reading
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Dear Lauren, thank you so much for this kind and lovely comment! Love & best wishes, Anne XXX