This was a mixed bag for me- thou I seem to be one of few who didn't unconditionally love it. I loved almost everything about the 1920s part of the story: I felt like I was in Brooklyn, watching Augusta and her family live life(& death) & I loved everything about about teenage Augusta, Irving, & Aunt Ester. My difficulties come in the 80s timeline: I love that the characters we meet at the retirement village are happy, active, and still open to ⬇️

#WhereAreYouMonday
I'm still in Florida with Augusta, as I didn't get very far on TLEOAS last week. I'm also all over the southern U.S. with Evie/Lucca in FLW.
@Cupcake12

"Older neighborhood" ouch ??

I don't know that I've ever been so glad to finish a book! The end was satisfying and I loved Elinor throughout (and Maxine! And Mory!) but this was super stressful reading! 😵‍💫 Langley Moore has created an absolutely diabolical character in Mrs Bankes. Despite the tension, this was really good.
#FurrowedMiddlebrowClub

Starting this morning #TeaAndABook

I just stumbled across @wonderwitchboutique on Instagram and discovered literary "band" T-shirts. ?

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No matter how many times I read this proposal it still has the same impact on me. 😬

Y'all! Mrs Bankes hasn't even moved in yet (although a bunch of her stuff has been sent) and I. Am. Stressing. Out!

(Picture is of the only botanical print in my house 😉🌼)
#FurrowedMiddlebrowClub

The ghosts of three women murdered by the same man begin to stalk him. The author did a good job establishing what ghosts can do in her world. The answer is "very little" which leads to a lot of the tension in this story. During the last third of the book I couldn't turn the pages fast enough.

This is on sale at B&N and I'm intrigued! 👑

#WhereAreYouMonday
Hazel and I are in London and I'm also visiting with Augusta in Florida.

Another fun romp as the ladies get drawn into an off-book job for The Museum that takes them across much of Europe. The locations were fabulous and I enjoyed revisiting Billie, Helen, Mary Alice, and Natalie. Their friendship contains some strife and snark but they are always solidly there for each other. They work smoothly together and trust fully in each other. Also, I have a new #litcrush - Taverner is a prince among men.

Caught the last half of the Greer Garson P&P (at a weird angle from across the room), which I had never seen before. Was utterly distracted by the women's dresses. They were HUGE & not remotely appropriate to the time period. From what I saw of it, it seems more "based on the book" rather than a faithful representation- & Austen's claws had been sheathed- but it made me curious to watch again & try to catch the whole thing. #JaneAustenThenAndNow

Quiet time with tea and a book 😊

Hotness = truthfulness, obvs (Although Darcy is also said to be hot so how does one decide which hot man to trust?? 🤔)
#JaneAustenThenAndNow

These tea-drinking, book-reading, cake-eating beauties popped up on pinterest and have me eager for the weekend!

Ok, this ventured into the absurd (the meteor! 😆) but it was adventurous and I was able to suspend my disbelief enough to have fun with it. It certainly doesn't stand up to much scrutiny though! And Nancy was pretty pushy again. I never picked up on that in my childhood reading but I certainly see it now. 🤔 Soft pick. #NancyDrewBR
I'm going to read the earlier version with the link @DebinHawaii provided, hopefully by Saturday. 🤞🏻

I received your package today, Sarah! I am eager to see what you both thought of TNOD and to get started on FLW. 😊 @TheAromaofBooks @Jerdencon #TravelingThrills

💛 Good morning and ✨️Happy Saturday✨️everyone 💛
#CurrentRead

#BOTM says there's something wrong with my address, despite living here 20+ years and getting my delivery from them perfectly fine (almost) every month since 2020. 😫
I emailed them. Hopefully they'll try again.
Also, I am soooo ready for spring 🌱🪻🌿

A day off and a book I'm looking forward to 😊

#BookGifts from my dad. He has started this series, loves them, and is passing them on to me. 💙

Absolutely 💛

I cannot sleep so I'm up waaay too early. 😫 At least I get to read before work.

I loved the first 2/3 and the very end but the last third dragged and I kept wondering how it was going to end. It's a cool idea, though, to get a look at all the lives you could have had, had you made different choices along the way.

Nina is too annoying. #Next

I enjoyed this. I got it at random from the library and didn't realize it was 3rd in a series but it worked well for me as a stand alone. I liked both Annie and Nick and the way they balanced their relationship with him also being her boss at work. The multiple cases interested me and I felt like I got a good sense of their small town and it's inhabitants. I kinda wished I'd listened to this one as I'd have loved the Cajun accents.

#WhereAreYouMonday
I'm in Alaska and the French Riviera today
@Cupcake12

My #BookSpin and #DoubleSpin reads for March 2025 😄
@TheAromaofBooks

A short story to start the day ☺️

It's well established in the book that Mrs Bennett was a beauty "in her youth" so this illustration made me laugh. At the time of the novel she'd likely be 45 at most (probably closer to 40) yet this artist chose to make her look a great deal older. ?
#JaneAustenThenAndNow @Crinoline_Laphroaig

February was a pretty good reading month. My favorite is tagged.

A book and a cuppa and a headache 🤕💊
I'm so glad it's the weekend!

1- pinterest knows me well 😂
2- I quite agree with this list 💜

Book... rentals?? Ugh!

#WhereAreYouMonday
I'm in Waikiki, where Maya is struggling with her move back home and is caught up in a murder investigation.
And in London, where single Lauren came home to a husband she doesn't remember and has proceeded to have the weirdest couple of weeks.
Really enjoying both of these.
@Cupcake12

All over the place but leaning towards Anne. I'll take that.
🌿🪻🌷 Also, I'm dreaming of spring. 🌷🪻🌿

A book, a cuppa, and a quiet house (for a while). Ahhh Sunday, you're the best. 💜

This was bleak. I struggled a little because horror is not one of my favorite genres but this was interesting & well-written. Plus the frigid temps we've had this week added to the experience! It's 3 locked room mysteries in 1, tied together from the beginning by talk of the world wide virus and the Retreat. But slowly another thread takes shape that kept me quickly turning pages. It was good but I need to read something completely different now!

It took me forever to finish this because I was DREADING all of Iris' secrets coming to light and I just didn't get her decision making. Sure, it would have been embarrassing to admit to her lie about her ex but most people would have gotten over that quickly. The thing I least understood was the whole thing about the recipe. And I actually really liked Iris! I loved Gio and the entire Belotti family and that Iris

The various mysteries- and there were a lot of them!- were good yet disturbing. I liked the way everything was resolved. But I found myself repeatedly getting annoyed with Rachel. Her refusal to fly back home once a soon- to- be- released prison inmate appeared to fixate on her didn't come off as "tough as nails" it came of as stupid. Her attempts to avoid staying in a fancy hotel and to distance herself from the social media influencer con she

I mostly loved this: Bethan's conscious positivity, Lachie's determination to be a good friend (to his own detriment) & his sense of humor (as evidenced by the thoughts he credits to his pets 😆), to the signs they used to get to know each other. I loved Bethan's coworkers at the garden center (except one 😠) I that the well- intentioned lies Lachlan told in his professional life had consequences. Loved how they resolved their miscommunication. ⬇️

Reading/working at my messy little desk 🤫

This afternoon I introduced my grandson to the dot game 🥰 & read Willoughby's Crossroads by Joana Starnes from this anthology for #JaneAustenThenAndNow
Ending just after he meets the Dashwood ladies it offers some possibilities about his experiences & state of mind in the months prior to S&S. It was good. I'm eager to read the other stories but I'll wait to read each story until I reread the original each one goes with. @Crinoline_Laphroaig

#WhereAreYouMonday
I'm in Yorkshire where Bethan (who works at a garden center) and Lachlan are getting to know each other in an unusual way. And NYC where Iris is trying to help Gio save his family's gelateria while keeping some very big secrets from him. I'm bracing myself for the fallout.
@Cupcake12

I saw this trend going around and decided to join in! Looks like pinterest knows me pretty well! 😏

#literallymycharacter @TheBookHippie

Cooper and his daughter Finch live an isolated life in an Appalachian cabin. We slowly discover the reasons behind Cooper's determination to stay in hiding. His secrets- and Finch's curiosity- begin to threaten their safety. When Finch is 8, 2 new people enter their orbit and the dominoes begin to fall. The outside world can no longer be kept away.

This was beautiful and I loved it.

That's a little outside my price range.

I started this but I'm not loving it. Nora is a bit hot-tempered & impulsive, so far not much like Elinor. In fact I was wondering if we were getting this from the perspective of the Marianne character but Nora is the elder & Yanne's actual name is Maryanne so apparently Nora is Elinor. So far Yanne seems a bit bland. I expect a retelling to need to change things to make sense for modern times but I demand the sisters embody sense & sensibility.

I finished just in time for the #NancyDrewBR 😄
There was a LOT going on in this one, in a fun way. I took tap lessons as a child and remember being delighted that Nancy could also tap. But I did find the entire storyline about the cats a bit much.