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Weekly Wrap Up (August 26)
It’s a couple of weeks since I’ve done a weekly wrap up – last weekend we attended the wedding of some very dear friends which coming on top of what seems like... Read more
Posted on 26 August 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Flying Shoes – Lisa Howorth #20BooksofSummer
Contemporary Fiction3*s Mary Byrd Thornton is minding her own business in Mississippi when a call comes through from a detective that is revisiting the murder o... Read more
Posted on 25 August 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Poisoner – Stephen Bates #20BooksofSummer
Non-Fiction3*s Well every year I like to explore my weird obsession with poisoners a little bit more and Dr William Palmer who was tried for the murder of his... Read more
Posted on 24 August 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE -
When the Lights Go Out – Mary Kubica
Psychological Thriller3*s Jessie Sloane is a young woman whose mother has died and for the first time in her life she is on her own. Read more
Posted on 23 August 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE -
This Week in Books (August 22)
Hosted by Lipsy Lost Found my Wednesday post gives you a taste of what I am reading this week. A similar meme is run by Taking on a World of Words My current... Read more
Posted on 22 August 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE -
First Chapter ~ First Paragraph (August 21)
Welcome to another Tuesday celebrating bookish events, from Tuesday/First Chapter/Intros, hosted by Vicky from I’d Rather Be At The Beach who posts the opening... Read more
Posted on 21 August 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Murder Mile – Lynda La Plante
Crime Fiction4*s Jane Tennison has made it to a Detective Sergeant by the time Murder Mile begins, although being 1979 she is known as WDS just in case anybody... Read more
Posted on 20 August 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Lighthouse – P.D. James #20BooksofSummer
Crime Fiction4*s One of my favourite tropes in mystery novels one where there is a limited number of suspects. This is quite hard to make believable even in... Read more
Posted on 17 August 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Letters from the Dead – Steve Robinson
Crime Fiction5*s For the seventh outing of Jefferson Tayte, a genealogist now based in the UK with his wife Jean, JT as he is more fondly known, is asked to... Read more
Posted on 16 August 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE -
This Week in Books (August 15)
Hosted by Lipsy Lost Found my Wednesday post gives you a taste of what I am reading this week. A similar meme is run by Taking on a World of Words My current... Read more
Posted on 15 August 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE -
First Chapter ~ First Paragraph (August 14)
Welcome to another Tuesday celebrating bookish events, from Tuesday/First Chapter/Intros, hosted by Vicky from I’d Rather Be At The Beach who posts the opening... Read more
Posted on 14 August 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Mrs Woolf and the Servants – Alison Light #20BooksofSummer
Non Fiction4*s I choose to read this book after being so impressed with Alison Light’s book exploring the working lives of her ancestors in Common People that... Read more
Posted on 13 August 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Cleopatra Loves Books is Five!
Five whole years ago (yesterday) Cleopatra Loves Books was born. Initially set up in a vacuum as I had no idea about the community of book bloggers, it was a... Read more
Posted on 12 August 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE -
A Long Goodbye – Anthony Le Moignan
Contemporary Fiction4*s A Long Goodbye is contemporary romance novel set in the somewhat unusual setting of a care home in Cambridge. Simon is an accountant, a... Read more
Posted on 11 August 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE -
American Heiress – Jeffrey Toobin #20BooksofSummer
Non-Fiction4*s Although I vaguely knew the story of Patsy Hearst it turns out I didn’t know very much at all, thanks to Jeffery Toobin I am now appraised not... Read more
Posted on 10 August 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Liar’s Room – Simon Lelic
Psychological Thriller5*s This is one of those books where you have to hang onto your seat and follow the ride wherever it takes you, and oh my goodness what a... Read more
Posted on 09 August 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE -
This Week in Books (August 8)
Hosted by Lipsy Lost Found my Wednesday post gives you a taste of what I am reading this week. A similar meme is run by Taking on a World of Words I am... Read more
Posted on 08 August 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE -
First Chapter ~ First Paragraph (August 7)
Welcome to another Tuesday celebrating bookish events, from Tuesday/First Chapter/Intros, hosted by Vicky from I’d Rather Be At The Beach who posts the opening... Read more
Posted on 07 August 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Dry – Jane Harper #20BooksofSummer
Crime Fiction5*s Ok I know I’m a little late to the party with my reading of this one, which is more or less unforgivable given all the accolades this crime... Read more
Posted on 06 August 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Weekly Wrap Up (August 5)
After my less than sterling reading performance in recent weeks I finally got back into the swing of things again with 4 books read! Yay. Read more
Posted on 05 August 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE