Book Thoughts

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

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

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

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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, … Continue reading 📖 The Dragonfly Pool by Eva Ibbotson (2008) ⭐⭐

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

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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 … Continue reading 📖 The Vanished Days by Susanna Kearsley (2021) ⭐⭐

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

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

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

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

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

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

📚 What I Have Been Reading This Week: 11th January 2023 (#WWWWednesday)

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Good day, my friends and fellow bookworms, we are halfway through the week again, so today I am going to be sharing with you what I have been reading over the last week for WWW Wednesday; a great weekly reading meme, hosted by Taking on a World of Words, which simply involves answering the following … Continue reading 📚 What I Have Been Reading This Week: 11th January 2023 (#WWWWednesday)