Delayed Update? Booking Ahead/Weekly Wrap Up
17 November 2025
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Weekly Update
Well, until the last month I was doing very well with my review books – then everything went to hell in a handcart and you think to yourself that’s hubris for ya because up to that point I was actually on track! Anyway, here we are. I’m back to blogging, slowly catching up with all you peeps out there. Reading my books – and my lord I’m having some good reads. This week, I completed The Everlasting by Alix E Harrow – if any book was going to bring me to tears it would be this. Absolutely brilliant. I loved it.
Next Week’s reads
I’d like to read The Blackfire Blade by James Logan because I feel like I’ve been bursting at the seams to pick this up for so long now. And, maybe I’ll have time to pick up The Austen Christmas Murders by Jessica Bull – I’m really enjoying this series.
Reviews Posted:
King Sorrow by Joe Hill (spoiler alert – this book is phenomenal)
Outstanding Reviews
- The Naked Light by Bridget Collilns
- The Place Where They Buried Your Heart by Christina Henry
- The Everlasting by Alix E Harrow
- Ragwort by Sam K Horton
Booking Ahead/Weekly Wrap Up
27 April 2025
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Books read this week:
So, finally things are starting to calm down a little and I feel like I’m making progress. I’ve read two of my books this week – Paladin’s Grace and The Maid’s Secret and I’ve started a third. I’ve posted three SPFBO reviews and have three more left to post this week and I’ve finally managed to start blog hopping and answering comments so feeling positive.
Next Week’s Reads:
Complete Spellbound by Georgia Leighton. I’ve also made a start on Gifted and Talented by Olivie Blake.
Reviews Posted:
- Wolf of Withervale (Noss Saga #1) by Joaquin Baldwin
- Runelight (The Aenigma Lights Book 1) by JA Andrews
- Gates of Hope by JE Hannaford
Outstanding Reviews
- Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
- The House of Frost and Feathers by Lauren Wiesebron
- SPFBO x 1
- SPFBO x 2
- SPFBO x 3
- Senseless by Ronald Malfi
- Paladin’s Grace by T Kingfisher
- The Maid’s Secret by Nita Prose
That’s it for me this week, what have you been up to, any good books to shout out about. Let me know.
Top Ten Tuesday: Things Characters Have Said
4 March 2025
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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme where every Tuesday we look at a particular topic for discussion and use various (or more to the point ten) bookish examples to demonstrate that particular topic. Top Ten Tuesday (created and hosted by The Broke and Bookish) is now being hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl and future week’s topics can be found here. This week’s prompt is:
Things Characters Have Said
I’ve decided to have a bit of fun with this one. I’ve chosen ten, fairly (I think) well known books/quotes. They’re highlighted below. See if you can guess the book (scroll down for answers):
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“There’s more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!”
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“Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean: like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.”
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“Sir,”she said,”you are no gentleman!”
“An apt observation,” he answered airily. “And, you, Miss, are no lady.”
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“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
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“And so the lion fell in love with the lamb.”
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“Once again…welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.”
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“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.”
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“Always winter but never Christmas.”
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“Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They’ll believe anything they see in print.”
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“My Oberon, what visions have I seen! Methought I was enamored of an ass.”
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Charles Dickens – A Christmas Carol
JRR Tolkien – Lord of the Rings
Margaret Mitchell – Gone With the Wind
Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice
Stephenie Meyer – Twilight
Bram Stoker – Dracula
Daphne Du Maurier – Rebecca
CS Lewis – The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
EB White – Charlotte’s Web
William Shakespeare – A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Friday Face Off: The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst
27 December 2024
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Today I’m returning to the Friday Face Off, originally created by Books by Proxy). I’ve missed these for the past few months and so would like to get back to comparing covers (and hopefully I will be updating this page with a new banner. This is an opportunity to look at a book of your choice and shine the spotlight on the covers. Of course this only works for those books that have alternative covers (although sometimes I use this to look at a series of books to choose a favourite). . So, if you have a book that has alternative covers, highlight them and choose your favourite. If you’re taking part it would be great if you leave a link so I can take a look at what you’ve chosen.
This week I’ve chosen a book that I read this year and loved. Two of the covers are very similar but then there’s an extra cover that is definitely different. Check them out:
My favourite this week:
Have you read this book already? What did you think and which is your favourite?
Join me next week in highlighting one of your reads with different covers.
Monthly Wrap Up/What’s On My Plate November/December
30 November 2024
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I’m trying to post a wrap up for the end of each month, mainly to help me to keep track of my reading and at the same time look at what I’m intending to read during the month ahead (inspired by Books Bones and Buffy’s What’s on My Plate.
In this post I shall be looking at the reading I completed during November and also setting out what I’m hoping to achieve during December. So, I haven’t made great progress during November, or not nearly as good as I would have liked. I have caught up with comments and been blog hopping around (although I have more still to do). My reading has been sporadic at best, I think mainly due to the new time constraints imposed by learning a new language and the extra time out of the day, plus homework. I’m not sure I’ll be able to get fully on track with all my reads by the end of the year but I’m staying positive and hoping for the best.
Here’s what I read during November :
- You All Die Tonight by Simon Kernick
- Ink Ribbon Red by Alex Pavesi
- Blood by Sarah Pinborough
- The Last Hour Between Worlds by Melissa Caruso – to be reviewed
For the month of November I had a lot of carry over books from October and so I shall be hopefully picking up some of these during the forthcoming month. Lets take a look at my review books for December:
None. I have a completely blank slate which is brilliant because I’m hoping to catch up with as many books as possible. Which are:
- The Coven by Harper L. Woods
- The House at Watch Hill by Karen Marie Moning
- Candle & Crow by Kevin Hearne
- The Last One at the Wedding by Jason Rekulak
- Strange Beasts by Susan J. Morris
- The Fury of the Gods by John Gwynne
- Here One Minute by Alex Lake
- The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door by H. G. Parry
- The Queen by Nick Cutter
And two books sent to me by authors:
Land from Bjørn Larssen; and
Drown Deep by Phil Williams
Plus another unexpected review book that I’ve just started – Titanchild by Jen Williams
This month I yet again have read no Backlist Books -I started the year so well!
Bookforager‘s Picture Prompt book bingo
This month I’m ticking off the scroll and the pen using Blood by Sarah Pinborough. This is the fifth book in her fairytale series which I think the scroll and pen fits quite nicely.
PICTURE PROMPT BOOK BINGO 2024 (TEXT VERSION)
| A microscope | |||
| A beehive (with four bees flying around it) |
So far this year I’ve read and reviewed a total of 108 books.
How did you get on during November?
Books and travelling with Lynn 