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Yesterday I read for 5.75 hours bringing my YTD total to 55.75 hours.
I worked on Things We Never Got Over, Lover Avenged and The Naughty List.
I also bought three new books just couldn't resist. #NoShelfControl
#Readaway2025 @DieAReader
Yesterday I read for 5.75 hours bringing my YTD total to 55.75 hours.
I worked on Things We Never Got Over, Lover Avenged and The Naughty List.
I also bought three new books just couldn't resist. #NoShelfControl
Short Review: This was an odd Poirot book for me, he doesn't appear for the first few chapters & when he does he seems to be more of a side character to Katherine Grey. The mystery itself was textbook Christie but it just didn't seem to work as well as some of her other books. I think the problem for me is that I just didn't like Katherine Grey. Don't know why, just didn't. 3.5🌟
TWs: racism/xenophobia, internalised misogyny.
Short review: The storyline alternates between the past & the present so we start to see what happened back in 1988 bit by bit, & the narrative also cycles between several of the characters but the reader mainly hears from Andy. The boys were not particularly nice teens, especially to frogs. As the story progresses you get the feeling that there's something not quite right with what you are being told. No spoilers so I won't say more than that.
Short review: This is the third in the series but the first one I've read & for me it worked just as well as a standalone. I think because each one is set in the court of a different wife of Henry VIII, it didn't feel as if I'd missed huge amounts. If you have a rudimentary knowledge of Tudor history, you should be fine. I also adored the character of Somers' dog, Nosewise.
Full Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6920085535
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On day five I read for for 6.5 hours. That brings my YTD total to 28.0.
I finished another book yesterday, The Pucking Wrong Number. I started Say You Swear by Meghan Brandy. I hope to finish Going Postal today.
Out of Churchill, Hitler, & Stalin, I know the least about Stalin so decided now would be the perfect time to read this first book in the two part series. How did Joseph Dzhugashvili from Georgia become the megalomaniac ruler of Russia & preside over millions of deaths of his own people?