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Boy, the last chapters of this were so intense. Can't wait for the discussion with #Shardlakeians at the end of the month. @dabbe #ReadAway2024 #SeriesLove24 #ChunksterChallenge2024 @DieAReader @Andrew65 @GHABI4ROSES @Amiable @TheSpineView

#WondrousWednesday @Eggs

1. An all-day cold and gentle rain. Matt and I are in the den with the windows open (of course zero rain would come inside). A warm fire would be blazing while we cozily sit on our wrap-around couch with our two GSD's, Kate & Pip on the couch with us. We'd be drinking hot-buttered rum and would be snuggled under fuzzy blankets. #sigh
2. I'm looking forward to finishing SOVEREIGN with the #ShardlakeSeriesBR.
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I‘m ever so slowly making my way through my #10BeforetheEnd stack.

This was a dense and thought provoking read. Translated from the Turkish and set in the 16th century during the Ottoman Empire, this reflects a culture which is largely unknown to me. It does have a murder mystery as its overarching plot, but that‘s just a framework used to delve into larger philosophical questions about art and religion.

Sunday morning #BookAndBreakfast

I‘m not getting to read this as often as I would like, but I am thoroughly enjoying it when I do have time to read. #ShardlakeBR #ShardlakeSeriesBR

📷: Eggnog French toast made with pumpkin cinnamon roll bread

#PoetryMatters @TheSpineView
#Virtue

#WeeklyFavorite

I enjoyed being back in the time of Henry VIII with Matthew and Jack. Matthew has been sent to York to make sure a dissenter of Henry‘s reforms stays in good health to make it to London to be tortured. Along the way other mysteries abound.

@Read4life

Thomas Crown Cromwell,Henry VIII‘s Vicar General, tasks lawyer & reformer Matthew Shardlake to look into a murder at a monastery.It is 1537, the era of dissolution of Catholic monasteries.Both compelling & riveting,it is a world of rivalries & betrayals, Reformers vs.Papists.All is not what it seems.Who can Shardlake trust?

#redhead
#daysdevotedto

The Serpent Queen series. Minnie Driver played Elizabeth 1. She did an excellent job. She was the best character.

#Villain #PoetryMatters

@TheSpineView

#WhereAreYouMonday

This Monday finds me in 16th century Istanbul among the scribes, miniaturists, gilders, and other artists of the empire who have been commissioned to create book which will also be a work of art for the sultan. Only 50 pages in, but definitely getting The Name of the Rose vibes.