The darkness throbbed with the clamour of church bells.
#FirstlineFridays
@ShyBookOwl
1 like
The darkness throbbed with the clamour of church bells.
#FirstlineFridays
@ShyBookOwl
A Sunday beer with Miss Read.
It should really be a sherry, but … 😆
Recent acquisitions:
📖 Harvest by Jim Crace
📖 Eight Modern Writers (Oxford History of English Literature) by J.I.M. Stewart
📖 Kristin Lavransdatter III: The Cross by Sigrid Undset
#fREADom #UniteAgainstBookBans #LetUtahRead
I‘m posting one book a day from my massive collection. No description, no reason for why I want to read it (some I‘ve had so long I don‘t even remember why!). Feel free to join in!
#ABookADay2024
An uplifting story of group of women coming together to support each other through the dark days of World War II in war-torn Kent, England. Watching these typical, normal village women find their inner strength and grow in independence, while also caring for each other, is so inspiring. Most of the women are flawed, some are not likable, and many of them make mistakes, but they all persevere, doing the best they can in extraordinary times. ⬇️
A couple of my current vintage reads.
The Golden Collar (originally published in 1955 as The Smith‘s Hoard and then as Hidden Gold) is a children‘s holiday story. A brother and sister go to spend some time at their great aunt‘s house and end up finding an Iron Age hoard. I‘m always down for a good hoard!
pickReservoir 13 is a quiet, creeping bummer of a book. It‘s a well written one, masterful in fact, but a quiet, creeping bummer nonetheless. Full review: https://keepingupwiththepenguins.com/reservoir-13-jon-mcgregor/
I‘ve read quite a few (7 or 8?) of Miss Read‘s Fairacre novels but this is my first foray into the Thrush Green series. It‘s quiet and charming and I‘m enjoying it immensely!
pickI discovered Pym last year and absolutely have fallen in love with her novels. Reminiscent of Austen, Pym writes of comings and goings, contented middle-aged spinsters, vicars and curates, rejected proposals—and I‘m here for it. (Alas, this one does have a few sections that haven‘t aged well.) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
