📖 In the Shadow of Queens: Tales From the Tudor Court by Alison Weir (2021) ⭐⭐

Good day, my friends and fellow bookworms, today I am bringing you my thoughts on In the Shadow of Queens: Tales From the Tudor Court by Alison Weir: a collection of historical short stories, published in 2021, that brings together all the e-shorts that historian and author, Weir wrote to be companion reads to her ambitious …

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📖 Heidi by Johanna Spyri (1880) ⭐⭐⭐

Good day, my friends and fellow bookworms, today I am bringing you my thoughts on the children's classic, Heidi by Johanna Spyri, which was published in 1880. Hoping to continue my light, fun reading in April, I decided to request a lovely illustrated copy of this novel from the library, a title which has languished …

☀ My 10 Books of Summer 2023

Good day, my friends and fellow bookworms, today I am sharing with you the books I would like to read over the summer months, as part of 20 Books of Summer 2023: a brilliant yearly reading event, hosted by the lovely Cathy at her blog, 746 Books. This year, the event runs from Thursday, 1st …

📖 The Dragonfly Pool by Eva Ibbotson (2008) ⭐⭐

Good day, my friends and fellow bookworms, today I am bringing you my thoughts on the children's historical-fantasy, The Dragonfly Pool by Eva Ibbotson, which was published in 2008. This is a much-loved Austrian born, British author: many of whose young adults novels I have read many years ago. So I dusted down my pretty, …

📚 What I Have Been Reading: April 2023 (#WWWWednesday)

Good day, my friends and fellow bookworms, we are coming to the end of April, so today I am going to be sharing with you what I have been reading with WWW Wednesday: a great weekly reading meme, hosted by Taking on a World of Words, which simply involves answering the following Three Ws: What …

📖 The Vanished Days by Susanna Kearsley (2021) ⭐⭐

Good day, my friends and fellow bookworms, today I am bringing you my thoughts on the historical-fiction, The Vanished Days by Susanna Kearsley, which was published in 2021. Kearsley is one of my favourite authors of dual-narrative tales, such as: The Rose Garden (2011) and The Firebird (2013), so I booted up my Kindle, in …

📖 Locked Rooms by Laurie R. King (2005) & The Language of Bees by Laurie R. King (2009) ⭐⭐

Good day, my friends and fellow bookworms, today, as I continue to try to catch up on my review writing backlog, I am bringing you my shorter thoughts on the last two instalments from Laurie R. King's long-running Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes series that I have read. First up we have the eighth mystery …

📖 The Lady of the Ravens by Joanna Hickson (2020) & The Forgotten Sister by Nicola Cornick (2020) ⭐⭐

Good day, my friends and fellow bookworms, today as I am woefully behind on my review writing, I am bringing you my shorter thoughts on two historical-fiction books; which appropriately are both set in the Tudor period, were both received for review from NetGalley, and were both read in September last year. First up, we …

📚 What I Have Been Reading This Month: January 2023 (#WWWWednesday)

Good day, my friends and fellow bookworms, we are halfway through the week again and also over a week into a new month, so today I am going to be sharing with you what I have reading through the month of January for WWW Wednesday; a great weekly reading meme, hosted by Taking on a …

📖 The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine by A.W. Tozer (1948) ⭐⭐

Good day my friends and fellow bookworms, today I am bringing you my thoughts on the Christian theological modern classic, The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine by A.W. Tozer, which was first published in 1948. Having never read anything by this author before, I put it forward as an option for …