tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23725116229780859552024-03-18T19:58:08.219+00:00Pen and PaperFelicity Grace Terryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17852843882007267665noreply@blogger.comBlogger2572125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2372511622978085955.post-75615034424047369942024-03-14T12:45:00.003+00:002024-03-14T13:38:46.861+00:00THE {ANTI} WEDDING PARTY.<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiFOJe2I8KS-g-4FNHGnU4yWOjeFUnv3TTV1xWFnU0oDcThjJv3-IdeM0eJJlC4TK4Pyi_EdqR61p7ykhS2kEuC5m-2Py5c42wEfC0cNN5RlnO4--PoxOQdhg_HOI3_nNcN6P2Vgytg20sq5sbbKi2K1Y7KGik3jytlYwcrBcsnLTdBVj3mPmg-mmsQTEBr" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="258" data-original-width="657" height="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiFOJe2I8KS-g-4FNHGnU4yWOjeFUnv3TTV1xWFnU0oDcThjJv3-IdeM0eJJlC4TK4Pyi_EdqR61p7ykhS2kEuC5m-2Py5c42wEfC0cNN5RlnO4--PoxOQdhg_HOI3_nNcN6P2Vgytg20sq5sbbKi2K1Y7KGik3jytlYwcrBcsnLTdBVj3mPmg-mmsQTEBr=w640-h252" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>THE {ANTI} WEDDING PARTY BY LUCY KNOTT.</b></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Genre ...</span> Romance</span></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></p><div style="text-align: right;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" color="rgb(var(--color_25))" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Publication Date ...</span></span><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" color="rgb(var(--color_25))" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span color="rgb(var(--color_25))" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">14th March 2024</span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" color="rgb(var(--color_25))" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Publisher ...</span><span color="rgb(var(--color_25))" style="font-family: verdana;"> Aria (Head of Zeus)</span></span></div><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; 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float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><img alt="" data-original-height="356" data-original-width="232" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh5-Xvz_oNKGU3L9F1oHO5dnwity1BEh7s23lnx553vDiyhUhIm8LT5nPUrO0HksbTClF8gF24ksWAhzDLfMecgUbsEZ9bttio9ADVSeSmV6u28qOppy0TzyTNKzXBDYdReFU3Fd2KuAcbphd0gB6cQil_nhFAp3fF5oNci6D52L1GQh8qdpqrlkrLLIMxv=w208-h320" width="208" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>It's the biggest day of their best friends' lives... and they might just ruin it.</b></span><p></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">Andi hates weddings. So when her best friend Alex tells her she’s getting married in Italy, and asks her to be her maid of honour, she knows she’s the wrong woman for the job. But Alex won’t take no for an answer, and so begins a week-long trip to a beautiful villa in Italy, full of potential disasters that it’s Andi’s job to avoid. But what if she’s the one causing them?</span></b></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>Enter Owen, fellow wedding-hater, Best Man and also the worst person for the job. Tall, sexy and warm, Andi can’t help but feel the ice around her heart begin to melt when he’s around. But as Andi and Owen grow closer, the disasters begin to multiply, try as they might to keep them at bay. Together, can they put their feelings aside and pull off a successful wedding for those they love most?</b></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Narrated by Andi who, OK we get it, perpetually sweating and with a nervous, grumbling tummy really isn't into the whole wedding scene ... and who can blame her after what happened minutes before her own wedding. </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">But then this is the wedding of her best friend and I'd have expected some degree of support and yet Andi makes it all about her and her feelings. Feelings which the author spends a lot of time convincing us, the reader, of to the point that, any empathy I might have had gone, I found myself irritated by Andi's 'poor me' attitude.</span></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">That's not to say I didn't enjoy the book though. A 'rom-com' for all of those readers who don't do weddings which I guess is kind of refreshing; </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I liked the other characters; its just a shame that other than the one incident that is very briefly mentioned we get to know little of Owen and what had happened in his past relationships that turned him so cynical about marriage; and, oh my goodness,</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"> the Italian setting and all of that talk of Italian food, it was this that truly made the book for me.</span></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiOnVP-ujVqZtJDfbOb9sMmzBuWyyeULBjmLVQGFmBx0w0hHKqQNvFbuena2EPMKe6ziWtxU3bmgAxosZ8NUAZ37BcB-NcGThX71T_zvy2LAo9KT-DuZR-qjpF3gBT3chQgBf9D57X0LwhnUgbmN3WAZYSkSrbGqsTBEUiHrUaYiUrqLbAFCtrPIU-IUkuc" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiOnVP-ujVqZtJDfbOb9sMmzBuWyyeULBjmLVQGFmBx0w0hHKqQNvFbuena2EPMKe6ziWtxU3bmgAxosZ8NUAZ37BcB-NcGThX71T_zvy2LAo9KT-DuZR-qjpF3gBT3chQgBf9D57X0LwhnUgbmN3WAZYSkSrbGqsTBEUiHrUaYiUrqLbAFCtrPIU-IUkuc=w200-h200" width="200" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Lucy Knott loves nothing more than curling up in a cozy writing spot, with coffee and biscuits on hand, and writing the day away.</span><p></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">She loves love in all its forms and adores writing warm, happy stories full of romance, sibling bonds and best friends who know each other inside and out. You’re also guaranteed to find the most delicious food in her books, with Lucy being a lover of Italian food and anything and everything sweet.</span></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">When not writing Lucy enjoys spending time with her partner and her family, cooking her Nanna and Grandad’s Italian dishes (that you can find in her and her twin sister, Kelly’s cookbook, Fame Da Lupo), baking all kinds of cake and cookies, and getting lost in a good book.</span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Social Media ... <a href="https://twitter.com/LucyCKnott" target="_blank">X</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/LucyCKnott/" target="_blank">Instagram</a> <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@lucycknott" target="_blank">TikTok</a></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; 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text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>HAZARD NIGHT BY LAURA VAUGHAN.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div></div><p></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Genre ...</span> Thriller</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Publication Date ... </span>1st February 2024</span></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Publisher ...</span> Atlantic Books</span></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Standalone Novel</span></span></span></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgThkW3-op6rBsm2G3taVfUAdNR5gbcenhlZCPCQbOVZk4eUMIsMpVh3KEgBWXAzzB2__056BqZ0yYhbEcO4A8PiMRcx5OipaZ9ZVFvQW3BrGuy-2Mlg_kbUPwwRhHYI47rB5AwiMqyVuAyNC8mNBIHaYTHCG6iGrdaYo5spBcPObMCHNlaOORWXQhF1DQ1/s330/a.webp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="330" data-original-width="217" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgThkW3-op6rBsm2G3taVfUAdNR5gbcenhlZCPCQbOVZk4eUMIsMpVh3KEgBWXAzzB2__056BqZ0yYhbEcO4A8PiMRcx5OipaZ9ZVFvQW3BrGuy-2Mlg_kbUPwwRhHYI47rB5AwiMqyVuAyNC8mNBIHaYTHCG6iGrdaYo5spBcPObMCHNlaOORWXQhF1DQ1/w210-h320/a.webp" width="210" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: right;"><b>Cleeve College is not for everyone...</b></div></span><p></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>When Eve's husband is appointed housemaster at his old boarding school, Cleeve College, she gives up her life in London to join him. But the isolation and loss of autonomy threaten both her happiness and her marriage.</b></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><div style="text-align: right;"><b><br /></b></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: right;"><b>The arrival of Fen, an enigmatic artist and wife of the new Classics teacher, is a welcome distraction. Fen doesn't play by the rules, and she and Eve enter into a game of escalating dares, disrupting the delicate balance of school life.</b></div></span><p></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></b></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>Then, the morning after Hazard Night, a tradition that allows the students to run wild and play pranks for one day, a body is found. Someone has been murdered. And it seems everyone has something to hide...</b></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">A slow burner {and yet for all of that, oddly enough, </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">it was</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">the first, what, three quarters of the book that I found most engrossing} which held little in the way of surprises. The characters, the characters, meh, readable but hardly what I'd call memorable.</span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Set within a world of academia. For me personally, with its unexpected seriously dark underbelly {a genre that I'm reliably informed is known as Dark Academia} I thought Hazard Night an enjoyable enough thriller that sadly lacked that bit something that would have made it a remarkable one.</span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Still, not without things to recommend it. I did enjoy the differing perspectives. Not something that every author can pull off but, narrated from the point of view of two of the characters, the author did so here with a certain degree of confidence.</span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> </span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYxQSF6HMwnfEATfhsUteIakqp2xQaADNjSlCAmmW-gZU3cHPjU_3xODLyyVILTD95S9HA7E2sgZRiyiEYhmXEQQ2HYpN2DBjJIMEUQ0zFawqz6aPI4aAkDU43JpVw2ffoQKM4QUlP2-Eggjd6bd_DntSjXAYCGK_AlZUklPjq5Xe1MhdWdv4S2NyX1l2o/s200/1.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYxQSF6HMwnfEATfhsUteIakqp2xQaADNjSlCAmmW-gZU3cHPjU_3xODLyyVILTD95S9HA7E2sgZRiyiEYhmXEQQ2HYpN2DBjJIMEUQ0zFawqz6aPI4aAkDU43JpVw2ffoQKM4QUlP2-Eggjd6bd_DntSjXAYCGK_AlZUklPjq5Xe1MhdWdv4S2NyX1l2o/w200-h200/1.png" width="200" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Laura Vaughan grew up in rural Wales. She got her first book deal aged twenty-two and spent several years working in publishing, followed by a behind-the-scenes role at English National Ballet. She lives in South London with her husband and two children. Hazard Night is her third novel for adults.</span><p></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6DxRhWL4q0SuDktxwPhRtCHfGAJabC8iW5o1JX5FWrZ7K3QEvpwseLY-69D4WX5tMKQL8zhSaMuCoVApxFJ7cg-3IQW-Ypf8IceYUkATVjtjCMUK98OJsjE_diVnsiq9wTb7BT6sMhw1wT2O22MjSijUuk3V9eFbYCmz3D5hJuKxu7QQKdr_59RVgTGOW/s233/1.webp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="175" data-original-width="233" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6DxRhWL4q0SuDktxwPhRtCHfGAJabC8iW5o1JX5FWrZ7K3QEvpwseLY-69D4WX5tMKQL8zhSaMuCoVApxFJ7cg-3IQW-Ypf8IceYUkATVjtjCMUK98OJsjE_diVnsiq9wTb7BT6sMhw1wT2O22MjSijUuk3V9eFbYCmz3D5hJuKxu7QQKdr_59RVgTGOW/w200-h150/1.webp" width="200" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Social Media ... <a href="https://twitter.com/LVaughanwrites" target="_blank">X {Formerly Twitter}: Laura Vaughan</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/i/flow/login?redirect_after_login=%2FCorvusBooks" target="_blank">X {Formerly Twitter}: Corvus Books</a></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">With thanks to Rachel of Rachel's Random Resources for organising a paper copy. 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Reproduction or re-publication of this content is prohibited without permission.</div>Felicity Grace Terryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17852843882007267665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2372511622978085955.post-20529536371982293942024-03-01T15:54:00.001+00:002024-03-01T15:54:47.220+00:00{SHIRES MYSTERIES 4} DEATH ON THE HIGH SEAS.<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> Due to a catalogue of events beyond my control, it is with profound apologies to Blog Tour organiser, Rachel @ Rachel's Random Resources and author, Anna Legat that I am only now sharing my thoughts on this, the fourth book in the Shires Mysteries series. FGT </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiSWOJd3it3uTPYS9hGVWhnWb3xvw-BA68zzpPRtZg24ey6n-7DWxdgn3OJSTmhFK-AP2lTnKjIMkSdlgiHVfUAkLazxrl3g7zw4wHOnCKkJ5kaVOLBNvrQB6RqmgD8kiJ1eeXf7iCe435B1K310hynE9SmulV2AdsrdzSHyiP9osuVB-lQvs1mJ5jQ6EPJ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="275" data-original-width="700" height="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiSWOJd3it3uTPYS9hGVWhnWb3xvw-BA68zzpPRtZg24ey6n-7DWxdgn3OJSTmhFK-AP2lTnKjIMkSdlgiHVfUAkLazxrl3g7zw4wHOnCKkJ5kaVOLBNvrQB6RqmgD8kiJ1eeXf7iCe435B1K310hynE9SmulV2AdsrdzSHyiP9osuVB-lQvs1mJ5jQ6EPJ=w640-h252" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh2G3W-YSMWRmGNsmDoP6uMAXArcnX_4PFvbkxW-XLRL4ZdV8LbirUWYAkU-R4oDbGPz95xdErCSzPaKdyEv1tUH65Gct4MG-LK3aCGiwwvCE8e69bCObfqy2ticso3ZSM-2OGQAP1lY2sv3z7XncnFgAWLfrB7GvPCAZubNiHkECRrgLYh2XUvG2hfBkJ-" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="333" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh2G3W-YSMWRmGNsmDoP6uMAXArcnX_4PFvbkxW-XLRL4ZdV8LbirUWYAkU-R4oDbGPz95xdErCSzPaKdyEv1tUH65Gct4MG-LK3aCGiwwvCE8e69bCObfqy2ticso3ZSM-2OGQAP1lY2sv3z7XncnFgAWLfrB7GvPCAZubNiHkECRrgLYh2XUvG2hfBkJ-=w213-h320" width="213" /></a></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>DEATH ON THE HIGH SEAS BY ANNA LEGAT.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>Genre ... Crime Fiction/Cozy Mystery</b></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>Publication Date ... 8th February 2024</b></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>Publisher ... </b></span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>Headspace Books</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 700; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Standalone Second Book in The Shires Mysteries series</span></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 700; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 700; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Estimated number Of Pages ... 267</span></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 700; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 700; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Purchase Link ... <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0CR9CWKS2/ref=x_gr_bb_amazon?ie=UTF8&tag=x_gr_bb_amazon-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0CR9CWKS2</a> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">Maggie and Sam take a break from the murder and mayhem of Bishops Well and embark on a relaxing mid-winter cruise across the northern seas. The brochure promises smooth sailing, good food and dazzling entertainment. Sam is hoping to sprinkle the mix with romance.</span></b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large; text-align: left;"> </span></div></div><div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: right;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>But nothing goes to plan.</b></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: right;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>Maggie runs into an old lover, the mesmerising Benedict Rawbotham, who goes out of his way to sweep her off her feet. Sam is left seething with jealousy.</b></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: right;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>A mayday signal sent by a fishing boat forces the cruise liner off course. But there is something fishy about the rescued crew and Maggie insists that two young women have died on that boat. Alas, no one believes her.</b></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: right;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>Soon one of the alleged fishermen is also dead and so is one of the cruise passengers. Cordelia Conti Lang, nicknamed the Bitcoin Queen, with links to London’s criminal underworld, is found in her cabin, stabbed to death.</b></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: right;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>In pursuit of the killer, Maggie hurtles from one disaster to another and Sam begins to fear for her life. Has he taken her on a cruise to hell?</b></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: right;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Not the first time I have come across Maggie and Sam who I first met in book two in the Shires Mysteries series, <a href="https://pettywitter.blogspot.com/2022/01/at-deaths-door.html" target="_blank">At Death's Door</a>. I have to say it was a pleasure re-acquainting myself with these two characters as they take a break from the village of Bishops Well and embark on a mid-winter cruise. Will it prove to be a relaxing one though? </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Well, it is until the bodies start piling up.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Okay so there was the fact that I struggled placing the book as, whilst set in the modern era, it has an oddly old fashioned feel to it AND that when it came down to it, whilst sweet, personally I wasn't sure about the blossoming romance between Maggie and Sam. However ...</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">With a whodunit that held my interest right up until the end {something of a rarity I have to say as I often find myself either having worked it out early on or, more likely, have found myself bored to the point that come the big revelation I don't actually care who has done it ... or why}</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> I thought this a fun, engaging read.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: left;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></span></p><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: left;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"></span></div><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi4hFCZWK3GVhNaU7U5qZMN9p0941qZlHr6QJ3oDiswnJOqyW_SFEka5ZmpxWUK6odxDqZ7r7byu6_LglOv8SCeKNKoUxLRBawPIMHRUXPnxkpkAY9KMEQx0eg-fhN3xnZlh5f5eSVXHYQU09ez0pWNjZHICu3D5X_-Z-Bw3Ts98EF9PQNRMTshpP8K-N1F" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi4hFCZWK3GVhNaU7U5qZMN9p0941qZlHr6QJ3oDiswnJOqyW_SFEka5ZmpxWUK6odxDqZ7r7byu6_LglOv8SCeKNKoUxLRBawPIMHRUXPnxkpkAY9KMEQx0eg-fhN3xnZlh5f5eSVXHYQU09ez0pWNjZHICu3D5X_-Z-Bw3Ts98EF9PQNRMTshpP8K-N1F=w200-h200" width="200" /></a></div><div><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Anna Legat is a Wiltshire-based author, best known for her DI Gillian Marsh murder mystery series. Murder isn't the only thing on her mind. She dabbles in a wide variety of genres, ranging from dark humorous comedy, through magic realism to dystopian.</span></span></div><div><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>A globe-trotter and Jack-of-all-trades, Anna has been an attorney, legal adviser, a silver-service waitress, a school teacher and a librarian. She has lived in far-flung places all over the world where she delighted in people-watching and collecting precious life experiences for her stories. Anna writes, reads, lives and breathes books and can no longer tell the difference between fact and fiction.<span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjMyR6hSYP3OTL2WnqC0S0_Utakrox174hThwNZJu8wCzT34t-ahCiRGrrJXwUe3V969euiAVjIxo_GqLas6XxMnMnbsv7J45AScYPfIcwC13Dewd7ymcjrd0qhC8tlQCEpj7wEEJe_cg7HAuJB371ZxqgzvUK7il064Nbmfvou4IG95IIl_scTpCXbhiMg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="217" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjMyR6hSYP3OTL2WnqC0S0_Utakrox174hThwNZJu8wCzT34t-ahCiRGrrJXwUe3V969euiAVjIxo_GqLas6XxMnMnbsv7J45AScYPfIcwC13Dewd7ymcjrd0qhC8tlQCEpj7wEEJe_cg7HAuJB371ZxqgzvUK7il064Nbmfvou4IG95IIl_scTpCXbhiMg=w232-h320" width="232" /></a></span></span></span></div><div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: left;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Social Media ... <a href="https://annalegatblog.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Website</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/LegatWriter" target="_blank">Twitter {aka X}</a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/AnnaLegatAuthor/" target="_blank">FaceBook</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/legatauthor/" target="_blank">Instagram</a> </span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: left;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: center;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>With thanks to Rachel of Rachel's Random Resources for organising a paper copy. 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Reproduction or re-publication of this content is prohibited without permission.</div>Felicity Grace Terryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17852843882007267665noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2372511622978085955.post-691004669525371372024-02-08T12:59:00.000+00:002024-02-08T12:59:35.685+00:00{ROY & ROSCOE # 5} HEIR TO MURDER.<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgT2PaaGCIOD1scVBEUWNqyVpSI-sSeESONFZWBN3DvKrkII152pwoVjkOhUD7qtQLYIxzvTmc6CO5qLvqcgUBzGYejNJMY-ptdpYjvfI2cvgQQj9i5fYTnxX_fo_XpDeDlAuJg5XnPIiUxcUJuBbwF2eHh41UeLncdTLW5EIhLxQjXGwhE4nI6K0od1ap6" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="258" data-original-width="657" height="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgT2PaaGCIOD1scVBEUWNqyVpSI-sSeESONFZWBN3DvKrkII152pwoVjkOhUD7qtQLYIxzvTmc6CO5qLvqcgUBzGYejNJMY-ptdpYjvfI2cvgQQj9i5fYTnxX_fo_XpDeDlAuJg5XnPIiUxcUJuBbwF2eHh41UeLncdTLW5EIhLxQjXGwhE4nI6K0od1ap6=w640-h252" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">HEIR TO MURDER BY TONY BASSETT. </span></b></div><p></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Genre ...</b></span><span style="color: rgb(var(--color_25)); font-weight: bold;"> Crime fiction</span></span></p><p></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Publication Date ... </span>4th December 2023</span></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Standalone fifth book in the Detectives Roy and Roscoe crime fiction series</span></span></span></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); line-height: normal; 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The other residents of his apartment block are not so keen.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>One day, after hearing a commotion, Miles’ next-door neighbour discovers his body lying in a pool of blood.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>Standing next to the corpse is Jake, the man who lives upstairs.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>It should be an open and shut case for DS Sunita Roy. But with Jake vehemently protesting his innocence, she decides to dig deeper.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>Most of the residents wanted Miles shut up for good. But was it really Jake who flipped, or was he just in the wrong place at the wrong time?</b></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Whilst this is the fifth book in the Roy & Roscoe series, it is not the first time I have encountered the detectives who I first came across way back in March 2022 when I read and reviewed the author's <a href="https://pettywitter.blogspot.com/2022/03/murder-on-oxford-lane.html" target="_blank">Murder On Oxford Lane</a> {the first book in the series} on A Blog Tour here on Pen and Paper.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">A character I really enjoyed in the previous book, again DS Sunita Roy did not disappoint with her skill set really came to the fore when, many suspects on, the case saw the detectives travel to Spain in what was probably my favourite aspect of the story.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">What I'd describe as more of a traditional whodunit with its fair share of red herrings than your typical police procedural ... though don't get me wrong there are aspects of this to the story just as, though I don't particularly see this myself, some readers argue there are also the aspects of a cozy novel. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Despite what to my mind was the occasional unrealistic dialogue letting the book down, again this was a well paced read in which, despite my many theories as to just who 'did it', I was kept guessing as to who the murderer was. </span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></span><p></p><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiJpBXjyQ09Ne4liO7hZxFIF2hADglc41B8476ujOOq0FiRHtjLEj1ByXi8w2q5_q9be1ptXNZoc_NHQoVGjXCid4pAXCQWvH5e-lLP_7fxX0ec4iHGjHSQYMZ33f0AEALu4SFjutRBa_vtnxfR1mNqQoD6Mj4KVwurvqyp7Vgbub2y9pxJxnxcJTSv5RxT" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiJpBXjyQ09Ne4liO7hZxFIF2hADglc41B8476ujOOq0FiRHtjLEj1ByXi8w2q5_q9be1ptXNZoc_NHQoVGjXCid4pAXCQWvH5e-lLP_7fxX0ec4iHGjHSQYMZ33f0AEALu4SFjutRBa_vtnxfR1mNqQoD6Mj4KVwurvqyp7Vgbub2y9pxJxnxcJTSv5RxT=w200-h200" width="200" /></a></div>I am a semi-retired journalist who was born in West Kent. While growing up, I spent hours reading and writing, and, from an early age, nursed an ambition to become first a journalist and then novelist. My theory was that, in order to write novels, one had to have life experiences to colour one’s writing and one could obtain those experiences through journalism.</span></div><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjg9FwQaDBw4jKCxSOs_9HCrfmZJuQ1W0mE2yCxqIG5xc-TbrDiMsATOqePpv-IwNqYaCuLc15VJ0whM04xB5heO8u-lO0nOyRjlyapPUiLV_qBqDfXBHCzL38-olBBMblSD6yTVbDI8rYMosFBpUwnnk7oSmESYCeZbOKbYT81yEzf6PLHA8cRlRlHYKVz" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="269" data-original-width="179" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjg9FwQaDBw4jKCxSOs_9HCrfmZJuQ1W0mE2yCxqIG5xc-TbrDiMsATOqePpv-IwNqYaCuLc15VJ0whM04xB5heO8u-lO0nOyRjlyapPUiLV_qBqDfXBHCzL38-olBBMblSD6yTVbDI8rYMosFBpUwnnk7oSmESYCeZbOKbYT81yEzf6PLHA8cRlRlHYKVz=w213-h320" width="213" /></a></div>I was fortunate enough to be named Time-Life Magazine Student Journalist of the Year in 1971 in a competition organised by the National Union of Students. At the time, I was editing the student newspaper at Hull University, where I gained a BA Honours degree in History and Political Studies.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">After six years working on provincial newspapers in Sidcup, Worcester and Cardiff, I became a freelance journalist in London. For 24 years, I was a reporter on the staff of the Sunday People (now part of Reach plc, formerly Trinity Mirror). Over the years, I sold tens of thousands of stories to the national newspapers, including the Daily Mirror, Daily Mail, The Sun, Daily Star, Daily Telegraph and London Evening Standard. I helped cover the Jeremy Thorpe trial at the Old Bailey for the Evening Standard. I broke the news in a Sun newspaper exclusive in April 1989 that Bill Wyman, the Rolling Stones guitarist aged 52, was to marry 18-year-old Mandy Smith. I bought 200 blank MOT forms to expose a trade in fake certificates.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">My speciality was tracking people down. For instance, I found evidence about Rod Stewart’s secret love child Sarah Streeter by tracing a retired adoption agent through a library ticket. On one occasion, I took an escaped gangster back to prison. Some of my stories can be read on my website (see below); others are generally available online. For thirty years, I was also employed as a birth and marriage researcher mainly for the Mail on Sunday, Sunday Mirror, Sunday People and The Sun.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I have a grown-up son and four grown-up daughters who all live in South Wales.</span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Social Media ... <a href="http://www.tonybassettauthor.com/" target="_blank">Website</a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/tonybassettauthor/" target="_blank">FaceBook</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/tonybassett1" target="_blank">X/Twitter</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">With thanks to Rachel of Rachel's Random Resources for organising a paper copy. 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text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU BY ELAINE ROBERTSON NORTH. </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><p></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Genre ...</span> Thriller</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tour Dates ... </span>27th January - 5th February 2024</span></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Publication Date ... </span>25th January 2024</span></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Standalone Novel</span></span></span></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Estimated Page Count ...</span> 315</span></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" color="rgb(var(--color_25))" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Potential Trigger Warning ... </span><span color="rgb(var(--color_25))">There are references to domestic violence and someone does get shot</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span color="rgb(var(--color_25))"><br /></span></span></div><p></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3xRxh70mNP3mwz1e5uotARjjWUGm4C4s9cPycWZUNXY9wAs646Oag0rj-efl7GM8EreiUZ3IwgRoMHVodevvpdv8pOyQp4dD8tl9eB_OD0uhyphenhyphenSLlOa1LeCX0KXM-xnmNgt_QL-73VKo8dJS4SirqvXlMr_t5s8OAyRpKZ2aH2WqGGwUjj-DekpMv-1gnL/s334/1a.webp" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><img border="0" data-original-height="334" data-original-width="220" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3xRxh70mNP3mwz1e5uotARjjWUGm4C4s9cPycWZUNXY9wAs646Oag0rj-efl7GM8EreiUZ3IwgRoMHVodevvpdv8pOyQp4dD8tl9eB_OD0uhyphenhyphenSLlOa1LeCX0KXM-xnmNgt_QL-73VKo8dJS4SirqvXlMr_t5s8OAyRpKZ2aH2WqGGwUjj-DekpMv-1gnL/w211-h320/1a.webp" width="211" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span color="rgb(var(--color_25))"><b>Esther grew up with a violent criminal father and suffered the loss of her mother at just fourteen.</b></span></span></div><p></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">When her brother, Matt, turns up after another long unexplained absence he falls for Esther’s friend, Abi. Two months into their relationship, Abi is dead and Matt is missing.</span></b></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>Now Esther must do everything she can to find Matt but doing so means opening herself up to a past she has worked hard to escape.</b></span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Esther knows she has no choice and must act quickly.</span></b></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>Matt’s life could depend on it.</b></span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Phew! Thank goodness I'm not one of those readers who, if not gripped by whatever number of pages it might be, gives up on a book.</span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span><span>Yes, I found I've been Waiting For You a</span></span><span><span> bit of a slow burner ... in its defence this is largely due to the intricacy of characters like Esther whose </span></span>struggles {both past and present} added a delicious complexity to not just her but the plot as a whole even if this did mean the formative chapters in particular took some getting my head around.<span> </span></span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">M</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">ake it past the first 75/100 pages though and, </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">oh my giddy aunt!. </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">T</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">alk about twists and turns, you are in for quite a roller-coaster ride of a read as slowly but surely the author reels you into a thriller that ultimately did not disappoint. </span></span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; 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font-size: large;">Elaine spent twenty-five years working in marketing and communications in the media and entertainment industries. This included seven years marketing national newspapers, running the publicity campaign for three Red Nose Days and a number of years working in entertainment PR. She held senior communications roles at Capital Radio and UKTV, and latterly, she was the MD of a small marketing agency. It was all fast and furious and a fantastically rich source of material.</span><p></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="305" data-original-width="203" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4VnLYZ1CV7FE0Beznf4eUy4arhWsJdDiGrkXAM0j3Q4QRdBg8Um-EPWbgtBlZdowFHW7MDCaNOaYB1k6Mhxh5Gq55D6ThzINY1kxo4f4xRgbJIjNyA976tSIUzlZS29yN9YaFIH1KYARN1c0esXMoG8PN8MiDPFta0jWgZY0YSK7sOyqXucgqpPtzzSfj/w213-h320/1c.webp" width="213" /></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Having harboured a desire to write for many years, Elaine finally made this her focus once she’d hung up her corporate hat, publishing her first book, I Can’t Tell You Why in 2019. Her second book, Bring Me To Life, followed in 2022.</span><p></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Today Elaine lives in North London with her husband and their two sons. When she’s not writing, she can be found looking harassed on the school run, on the side lines of her sons’ football matches, or singing her heart out with her local branch of Popchoir.</span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Social Media ... <a href="https://twitter.com/RobbieNorth" target="_blank">X/Twitter</a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/elainerobertsonnorth/" target="_blank">FaceBook </a><a href="https://www.instagram.com/elaine_robertson_north/?hl=en" target="_blank">Instagram</a></span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">With thanks to Rachel of Rachel's Random Resources for organising a paper copy. One of several bloggers participating in the Blog Tour of this book, agree or disagree with me, all opinions are my own; no financial compensation was asked for nor given; threats of violence towards my favourite teddy bear went unheeded as did promises of chocolate.</span></b></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; 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Reproduction or re-publication of this content is prohibited without permission.</div>Felicity Grace Terryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17852843882007267665noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2372511622978085955.post-46730811085954634242024-01-27T11:44:00.000+00:002024-01-27T11:44:50.091+00:00EYE SPY. <p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhcuc8J1TPpFU9T9ECIprBwcmPbdC85wU5G5CvgTqHRdEl5rr8-fdyaZ-tkcXOI5opotwts5n2c_4wvnP3n8cmPUCPLP5tZ5vD0J2SnWdG2YJ-CTzEWztf3XbwuhFy8oLMVhTPd8pK-AgHlqANZPJT89hw8UxVH5VRW6QfWeBNf-7J8J2HQ3QzeN9bILDjV" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="258" data-original-width="657" height="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhcuc8J1TPpFU9T9ECIprBwcmPbdC85wU5G5CvgTqHRdEl5rr8-fdyaZ-tkcXOI5opotwts5n2c_4wvnP3n8cmPUCPLP5tZ5vD0J2SnWdG2YJ-CTzEWztf3XbwuhFy8oLMVhTPd8pK-AgHlqANZPJT89hw8UxVH5VRW6QfWeBNf-7J8J2HQ3QzeN9bILDjV=w640-h252" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>EYE SPY BY TESSA BUCKLEY. </b></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Genre ...</span> MG Children’s detective story (ages 9-12 years)</span></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Publication Date ... </span>2014</span></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Standalone First book in the Eye Spy series</span></span></span></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Estimated Page Count ...</span> 160</span></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; 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text-align: right;"><img alt="" data-original-height="356" data-original-width="232" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjjbpAoKrz2uTqvmRshvRI8WaE8vMQkHSlQrDZ_wXuqziyMTls0dtkQfQ9RgDy_B8Di5QbOZDETEBNoWBNMZ4i1bbLPmOnIwrYtlFxfxEFrI3ecDFxT21KGLJ5Gellr7-qUAqxv3ZkZwqwzH12a97afrZMtrBs-JMI1ss7yan5_I3QUK5mRxsur6QLHtAed=w208-h320" width="208" /></a></div>Over the course of ten days, the lives of thirteen-year-old Alex Macintyre and his twin sister Donna will change forever.</b></span></span></div><p></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span color="rgb(var(--color_25))"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>When Alex and Donna set up Eye Spy Investigations and start looking for a valuable missing dog, they soon have an interesting assortment of suspects. There is the mysterious man in the fur hat; a gang of bikers who hang out at the Starship Café; and Crazy Kath, the bag lady, who may know more than she’s letting on.</b></span></span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixGuard wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b></b></span></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></b></span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>But as they struggle to make sense of the evidence, the twins begin to uncover an even bigger mystery in their own family. As events spiral out of control, can Alex resolve a family crisis, save Donna from imminent danger, and return the missing dog to its rightful owner?</b></span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">A 'middle grade' novel, read with two of my little bookworms aged ten and twelve.</span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">After a lukewarm reception to the cover and the fact that it took a while to get into the story all three of us agreed that this was a good read with interesting characters.</span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">For myself, taken back to the child detective novels of my childhood and in particular <a href="https://www.enidblytonsociety.co.uk/famous-five.php" target="_blank">Enid Blyton's Famous Five</a>, I really enjoyed main characters, twins Alex and Donna as did my two fellow readers who, not dissimilar in age, were excited at the thought of starting their own detective agency - one of the sure signs of a good book in my eyes is when readers are thus inspired, thankfully there was no mention of them wanting to learn how to play Poker or turn the school boiler room into a gambling den.</span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The father however, well, a reclusive would be inventor who locked himself away in a disused railway carriage at the bottom of the garden, my two young readers instantly thought of the father in <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062803/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt" target="_blank">Chitty Chitty Bang Bang </a>and were disappointed and, yes, shocked {the youngest one actually cried} when he turned out not to be quite the loving father they had expected and hit one of the twins. For myself, whilst not convinced by the need of 'trigger' warnings on books, I admit to being a little surprised that there was no warning of this. I'm just as pleased I was reading the book with the bookworms and was able to discuss this aspect of the story with them.</span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">A detective mystery combined with a family drama, there are several threads to Eye Spy {some of them featuring some fairly deep social issues}. The twelve year old and I followed the book without difficulty, the ten year old, hmm, not so easily; both boys agreeing that they'd have been equally happy if the book had only comprised the mystery of the missing dog and not 'all the other stuff'. </span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">A good read though perhaps better suited to the older end of the recommended age range of nine to thirteen years/the more emotionally mature reader. With two out of three of us eager to see what case next awaits the teenage detectives, its largely a 👍 from us.</span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj2d-cfP42kdPhv_jYnw34oAXirF3d7OxqpAJ0kUSJBA36grabqf__UVTrWLZEMgt72587IDtQtWLignZUyBvM1JhwNLPWeRlJBPuJy_5s7X_OY_yo3GtGQDj2Y-5PaZrvLk0PVpOeOTZkF2uYkRkGzM5f6zoN4zMLoNJsF2Iz--gjBWxgFw00yYRZ6btyy" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj2d-cfP42kdPhv_jYnw34oAXirF3d7OxqpAJ0kUSJBA36grabqf__UVTrWLZEMgt72587IDtQtWLignZUyBvM1JhwNLPWeRlJBPuJy_5s7X_OY_yo3GtGQDj2Y-5PaZrvLk0PVpOeOTZkF2uYkRkGzM5f6zoN4zMLoNJsF2Iz--gjBWxgFw00yYRZ6btyy=w200-h200" width="200" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Tessa Buckley was an inveterate scribbler as a child, and spent much of her time writing and illustrating stories. After spending fifteen years working for architects and interior designers. She took up writing again when her young daughter complained that she couldn’t find enough adventure stories to read.</span><p></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjLebNiQWFDnuz5NcVcbJqZkALJM7L6RKFfRJY-zVTdYPhKcm0J5n3vIiSNmDRS68fy2Iq_IE_6gvWfv1oB8sp0iFSEh8hmTfntdlKgeGRirdoPqeiHAZPidSJ4j9Yrx_hnWi3VdqUZL_eapkHgdPs2dNR2I7TZRm1KQZRRolTmEK-A6mFBkd80UCats2Dw" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="173" data-original-width="270" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjLebNiQWFDnuz5NcVcbJqZkALJM7L6RKFfRJY-zVTdYPhKcm0J5n3vIiSNmDRS68fy2Iq_IE_6gvWfv1oB8sp0iFSEh8hmTfntdlKgeGRirdoPqeiHAZPidSJ4j9Yrx_hnWi3VdqUZL_eapkHgdPs2dNR2I7TZRm1KQZRRolTmEK-A6mFBkd80UCats2Dw" width="320" /></a></div><span color="rgb(var(--color_25))"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">This led, in 2014, to the publication of Eye Spy, the first in a series of detective stories for 9-12 year olds, designed to encourage reluctant readers. The second book in the series, Haunted, was a finalist in the Wishing Shelf Book Awards 2017. She lives with her husband and a large white cat called Pippa in a town on the Thames estuary, which inspired the seaside setting for the novels. She also writes about family history, which has been her passion for many years.</span></span><p></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span color="rgb(var(--color_25))"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Social Media Links ... <a href="https://tessabuckleyauthor.com/" target="_blank">Website</a> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4157057.Tessa_Buckley" target="_blank">GoodReads</a></span></span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span color="rgb(var(--color_25))"><br /></span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">With thanks to Rachel of Rachel's Random Resources for organising a paper copy. 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font-size: large;">LOVE LETERS ON HAZEL LANE BY JENIFER PAGE</span>.</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; 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background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgxyb4xzwS_v29gtw17QRN856YOYsxOQrJrLQMFlePsWdvYTXVGsD1_bmWx7F7H-h3COATrL_a4nUhpWuQ7S4rSfpdBVNR-TrBpac9V_PmGwWgnttGYE3x7fX_OcsVpcs6T42j-Arbv9awWwW4-cCUGvKW1j2IXDIT0b0ApB3iZQxcg97kOPDSa1kEopi2g" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="356" data-original-width="232" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgxyb4xzwS_v29gtw17QRN856YOYsxOQrJrLQMFlePsWdvYTXVGsD1_bmWx7F7H-h3COATrL_a4nUhpWuQ7S4rSfpdBVNR-TrBpac9V_PmGwWgnttGYE3x7fX_OcsVpcs6T42j-Arbv9awWwW4-cCUGvKW1j2IXDIT0b0ApB3iZQxcg97kOPDSa1kEopi2g=w208-h320" width="208" /></a></div><b>Genre ...</b></span><b><span style="color: rgb(var(--color_25));"> </span><span style="color: rgb(var(--color_25));">Cosy romance</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; 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font-size: large;"><span style="color: rgb(var(--color_25));"><b>Standalone Novel</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Estimated Page Count ...</span><span style="color: rgb(var(--color_25));"> 416</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); 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background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: rgb(var(--color_25));"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>Scrabble fan Jo always seems to pick the wrong guys. Now she’s moved to the Yorkshire village of Hebbleswick, and decided to give dating one last chance. This time, there’s a catch: she will only date men whose names would score highly in her beloved word game.</b></span></span></span></span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixGuard wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b></b></span></span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>After Tarquin (16 points) proves just as disappointing as the rest, she meets low-scoring local doctor Ras (3 points). Her rules mean she can’t date him – but when he asks her to organise a Scrabble festival with him, she can’t say no.</b></span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixGuard wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b></b></span></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></b></span></span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">As the event draws near</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">er and Jo and Ras grow closer, will Jo ignore her rule and let true love blossom over the triple letter scores?</span></b></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Love Letters On Hazel Lane. OOH! A novel with a board game twist ... and not just any old board game at that, we are talking <a href="https://www.britannica.com/sports/Scrabble" target="_blank">Scrabble</a>.</span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Thrilled to have found a read that's that bit different. For those who aren't fans of Scrabble {or word games in general} I say give Love Letters On Hazel Lane a try; chances are you'll be more than pleasantly surprised. And as for those who are fans, well, if anything like me, your tied to be equally delighted to have found a book set in the world of the iconic word game and will love the little snippets throughout the book ... to say nothing of the fact that you may well come away having gained some new words to use the next time you play.</span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Kudos to the author for not only writing a cozy-romance that I actually enjoyed but one that had characters that I could resonate with </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">and, even more surprisingly, had plot twists that I didn't see coming; something that for whatever reason rarely happens in novels of this genre. </span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Then there's the fact that, whilst, yes, overall a 'nice' cozy-romance, this isn't a 'fluffy' read. Main character Jo's story is somewhat difficult; her relationship with her ex toxic and, on top of which, she is being bullied by a work colleague. In my experience this is darker than your typical novel of this type which gave it an edge that I really rather liked.</span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Reliably informed that this isn't the only book by the author to be set in Hebbleswick {or the world of board games for that matter}. That, though to all intents and purposes, a standalone novel, the Yorkshire village and some of its residents feature in the first book in the 'series', <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/65094001-the-little-board-game-cafe" target="_blank">The Little Board Game Cafe</a> which I'm hoping to read real soon.</span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEilxquHszRCPBpTdh__JAzVxhNvZ3HWjyi6L1jusDei2EIy7DHruSWeCiX-Zw9aAVjb5z2rB9sOGUnzEd0lh7nxoCYneXEaoRAPHGeqpT9tZN8XqHD_J1FB37HQ_xdDJLBbj2oCI3IL_sCqVJNK95gxJ_dVMPtOe1ZaL6zJ2gVVChOPY8QFXQM9TBOUet6R" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEilxquHszRCPBpTdh__JAzVxhNvZ3HWjyi6L1jusDei2EIy7DHruSWeCiX-Zw9aAVjb5z2rB9sOGUnzEd0lh7nxoCYneXEaoRAPHGeqpT9tZN8XqHD_J1FB37HQ_xdDJLBbj2oCI3IL_sCqVJNK95gxJ_dVMPtOe1ZaL6zJ2gVVChOPY8QFXQM9TBOUet6R=w200-h200" width="200" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Jennifer Page wrote her first novel – a book about ponies – when she was eight. These days she prefers to write romance. When she isn't writing, Jennifer can usually be found playing board games which are the inspiration for her first novel. She has worked as a television producer, a music teacher and has even run a children's opera company. She now lives near Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire with her husband and his large collection of games.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjtJRq4MCadgb6C9x6azjHavVgvXlSud5ZQVdprVJMaJDvaTrg6rZh2qOwR4i9NZB3-r0tV8htkN_AhQMGSD6qs-cvXBK6H4NyaFwth7jOKSXvuGuIuOJVLR9bQln6l5Aa-Tfsi-S9bWLF54xVv-QPet8GQNkzjbKqoQFYGM9kmmpb4NduRZAlCsGykxK8e" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="295" data-original-width="196" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjtJRq4MCadgb6C9x6azjHavVgvXlSud5ZQVdprVJMaJDvaTrg6rZh2qOwR4i9NZB3-r0tV8htkN_AhQMGSD6qs-cvXBK6H4NyaFwth7jOKSXvuGuIuOJVLR9bQln6l5Aa-Tfsi-S9bWLF54xVv-QPet8GQNkzjbKqoQFYGM9kmmpb4NduRZAlCsGykxK8e" width="159" /></a></div></span><p></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Social Media Links ... </span><a href="https://jenniferpage.co.uk/" style="font-family: verdana;" target="_blank">Website</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/JenniferPagewrites/" style="font-family: verdana;" target="_blank">FaceBook</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/jenpagewrites" style="font-family: verdana;" target="_blank">X/Twitter</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/jenniferpagewrites/" style="font-family: verdana;" target="_blank">Instagram</a></span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>With thanks to Rachel of Rachel's Random Resources for organising a paper copy. One of several bloggers participating in the Blog Tour of this book, agree or disagree with me, all opinions are my own; no financial compensation was asked for nor given; threats of violence towards my favourite teddy bear went unheeded as did promises of chocolate.</b></span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi85BlXXGP9WxiBB9QbJ4YK24VJwgemeotLDDbta8rvhvV8kpMyoNXuKYpE7cqcYwNquVTbhg_jOQfxoKhdpJfPlY2n4mhqCYBg7Ym9zq5zlOipfWmfDGLnKHATA8fo67m-BJ-Po9fUQ2Yh1Ia_NcGQqXdn_ujrqjRBim3ra9FKX6-Et_Cfv2B0W1HPcaS1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="79" data-original-width="400" height="79" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi85BlXXGP9WxiBB9QbJ4YK24VJwgemeotLDDbta8rvhvV8kpMyoNXuKYpE7cqcYwNquVTbhg_jOQfxoKhdpJfPlY2n4mhqCYBg7Ym9zq5zlOipfWmfDGLnKHATA8fo67m-BJ-Po9fUQ2Yh1Ia_NcGQqXdn_ujrqjRBim3ra9FKX6-Et_Cfv2B0W1HPcaS1=w400-h79" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Share the love by following their blog.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">By taking a few minutes to check out their newest post and leaving a comment, you’ll instantly put a smile on the blogger's face.</span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Sharing on FaceBook, Pinterest, and other social media sites shows that you care about their work and want others to enjoy it too!</span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The next time you see their post pop up on your feed, hit the like button, leave a comment, or even share it with your followers. 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All original content is created by the website owner, including but not limited to text, design, code, images, photographs and videos are considered to be the Intellectual Property of the website owner, whether copyrighted or not, and are protected by DMCA Protection Services using the Digital Millennium Copyright Act Title 17 Chapter 512 (c)(3). Reproduction or re-publication of this content is prohibited without permission.</div>Felicity Grace Terryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17852843882007267665noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2372511622978085955.post-2374125929846069692023-11-28T16:22:00.006+00:002023-11-28T16:22:56.273+00:00THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER & THE GOOD DOCTOR OF WARSAW.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj7n_fqpnXFJGo9p5HPHQetuTWt6ukA3BWR9vUII-263NQEBKekG4eGxiBf1kkmUsEZKLkUchFo_W05WKDduDyN74pIHmLuHZivA6n28WogYS4MLkMxLtxpLKl1D6CTpAfATfYeC3MdP54Swu3ds4eZkPhEwbqOjUOkham8CMU_UOzpuNwLyuweX6vVBGtr" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="503" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj7n_fqpnXFJGo9p5HPHQetuTWt6ukA3BWR9vUII-263NQEBKekG4eGxiBf1kkmUsEZKLkUchFo_W05WKDduDyN74pIHmLuHZivA6n28WogYS4MLkMxLtxpLKl1D6CTpAfATfYeC3MdP54Swu3ds4eZkPhEwbqOjUOkham8CMU_UOzpuNwLyuweX6vVBGtr=w209-h320" width="209" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: right;"> <b>THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER BY STEPHEN CHBOSKY</b>. </div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they're here. Not in a mean way. In a curious way. It's like looking at all the students and wondering who's had their heart broken that day...or wondering who did the heart breaking and wondering why."</b></span></p><p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>Charlie is a freshman. And while he's not the biggest geek in the school, he is by no means popular. Shy, introspective, intelligent beyond his years yet socially awkward, he is a wallflower, caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it. Charlie is attempting to navigate his way through uncharted territory: the world of first dates and mixed tapes, family dramas and new friends; the world of sex, drugs, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, when all one requires is that perfect song on that perfect drive to feel infinite. But Charlie can't stay on the sideline forever. Standing on the fringes of life offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see what it looks like from the dance floor.</b></span></p><p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a deeply affecting coming-of-age story that will spirit you back to those wild and poignant roller-coaster days known as growing up.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">👍 Not normally a fan of the diary entry format, even less so books written in the 'stream of consciousness' style so as you might imagine I approached this book </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">{one of several received from my mam}</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> with some degree of doubt. Imagine then if will my surprise that I actually enjoyed The Perks Of Being A Wallflower. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">👍 A character driven reader who particularly enjoys well written female characters ... and is even more impressed when they are penned by a man;</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> Chbosky's female characters are every bit as well developed as their male counterparts. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">👎 Sexual abuse and suicide feature quite heavily as do drugs, sex and swearing. In a book of just over 200 pages there are also themes of rape, relationship violence, abortion, drugs, child molestation, incest ... the list goes on; that's an awful lot of heavy issues to be dealing with, so many in fact that I felt the author could not do justice to them all and it felt as if some were pointed out and then seemingly forgotten.</span></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgw9LRHDQ9Hu3ySe9235uaM7IwfBZ1nkroDtqZeT_QECELAqNUcyDOc1k2FE4UVI1HkO69BJ97uMUJSukBODdqxQAZRWbcGtFMfwAkciSTY50hTEBmw_cuZekp-m0hozrAxTdg3Pt2HRtAP-L7ckWkS4HNLcJcFK0y2ENOJYweQLhvSlYlCxvAtGnoX_knO" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="542" data-original-width="345" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgw9LRHDQ9Hu3ySe9235uaM7IwfBZ1nkroDtqZeT_QECELAqNUcyDOc1k2FE4UVI1HkO69BJ97uMUJSukBODdqxQAZRWbcGtFMfwAkciSTY50hTEBmw_cuZekp-m0hozrAxTdg3Pt2HRtAP-L7ckWkS4HNLcJcFK0y2ENOJYweQLhvSlYlCxvAtGnoX_knO=w204-h320" width="204" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: right;"><b>THE GOOD DOCTOR OF WARSAW BY ELISABETH GIFFORD.</b></div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>'You do not leave a sick child alone to face the dark and you do not leave a child at a time like this.'</b></span></p><p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>Warsaw 1940. The Jewish ghetto is under the Nazis' brutal control. Hundreds of thousands of men, women and children slowly starve within the walls. </b></span></p><p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>But while all around is darkness, one man brings hope, caring for the ever-increasing number of destitute orphans in the face of unimaginable conditions.</b></span></p><p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>And, torn apart as the noose tightens around the ghetto, how will one young couple's survive the terrible tests of wartime?</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">A book that though fiction features actual individuals, something that could not fail but to bring home the horror of their fates. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Whilst I did enjoy {if that's the right word to use} The Good Doctor Of Warsaw, I'm afraid I felt it was the author's depiction of these individuals that let the book down somewhat; that sad to say I found main characters {<span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">Misha and Sophia}</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;"> </span>lacking in substance and rather, well, flat which was rather disappointing given that their story goes on for so much longer than that of Dr. Korczak, the good doctor of the title, whose story seems very much secondary.</span></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjYMvdfoMxKxdvYAlPngDXJAZISAvwZGDYrDJfhk4LF4eGuMi8CPcB0fAIc05xT-wL0XauSQxkI-H8TdjM2rBbFMCpxiod0-X3ekby5v9MtJed_LSugyO7XsiYP9VwU-ZCNSuhywrFTye34WIh7RF5-X21zUbTJd3SWKTMxjbwYbr6k6589S3IbUSxjPvkf" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="79" data-original-width="400" height="79" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjYMvdfoMxKxdvYAlPngDXJAZISAvwZGDYrDJfhk4LF4eGuMi8CPcB0fAIc05xT-wL0XauSQxkI-H8TdjM2rBbFMCpxiod0-X3ekby5v9MtJed_LSugyO7XsiYP9VwU-ZCNSuhywrFTye34WIh7RF5-X21zUbTJd3SWKTMxjbwYbr6k6589S3IbUSxjPvkf=w400-h79" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Share the love by following their blog.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">By taking a few minutes to check out their newest post and leaving a comment, you’ll instantly put a smile on the blogger's face.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Sharing on FaceBook, Pinterest, and other social media sites shows that you care about their work and want others to enjoy it too!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The next time you see their post pop up on your feed, hit the like button, leave a comment, or even share it with your followers. 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text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>A CHRISTMAS CAROL WITH GRANDFATHER TIME</b> <b>BY</b> <b>ROSE ENGLISH WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY PABLO RODRIGUEZ.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div></div><p></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Target Age ... </span>Children age 4 to 8 + years</span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" color="rgb(var(--color_25))" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Genre ...</span><span color="rgb(var(--color_25))"> </span><span color="rgb(var(--color_25))">Christmas Picture Book</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; 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text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBMaseX7GPEA5mC_7fOkLOAswSUjzScBxZvrsJZ8XUVtdzrtrE8WFhMIKU5KxFlwaPIFKm_V17T7fSVsCuWOgR399_VnyMzGfwjLO6CitFtXuJeDUKU0kFUrd9p8eUF4KrIBCV5w6UB9lALRM8rsZgxBBe0NpLGx5JkP_AYyk6EG9w_AMZJdnGy2WwyvYP/s268/a1.webp" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><img border="0" data-original-height="268" data-original-width="268" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBMaseX7GPEA5mC_7fOkLOAswSUjzScBxZvrsJZ8XUVtdzrtrE8WFhMIKU5KxFlwaPIFKm_V17T7fSVsCuWOgR399_VnyMzGfwjLO6CitFtXuJeDUKU0kFUrd9p8eUF4KrIBCV5w6UB9lALRM8rsZgxBBe0NpLGx5JkP_AYyk6EG9w_AMZJdnGy2WwyvYP/s1600/a1.webp" width="268" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>A modern lyrical re-telling of the Charles Dickens classic for children of all ages. Young Ebenezer hates sharing and is not very caring. Can a magical clock and a ghost puppy help him mend his ways?</b></span></div><p></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">**At least £1 from every book purchased will go towards donating a book to each child in Hereford County Hospital over the Christmas Season 2023**</span></b></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">A Christmas Carol with Grandfather Time {a grandfather clock} tells the story of the young Eb who, well, not the most nice or thoughtful of children has some lessons to learn in this re-imagining of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.</span></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Though obviously not nearly as dark as Dicken's version {English's version is after all aimed at children as young as four} we have the child friendly 'ghosts' of Past, Present and, my favourite, </span><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Future, 'The Dream Catcher' who come 8 o'clock Christmas morn hope to see a changed Eb '<i>sharing his games, happy and caring</i>'. </span></span></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Written in rhyme, something that I personally believe always adds a certain something to books for young children; the poetic meter is pretty much consistent throughout, making it easy for young readers to pick up the words and thus the story as it is read out loud.</span></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">All in all the book worms and I enjoyed this fun rendition of a classic story. That the children were able to talk about why it was that Eb was not a good friend prior to the visit by the 'ghosts' a bonus. However, rather pettily of me perhaps, I was slightly disappointed in the depiction of Eb's parents; that having been told by his mum that it was time for bed, Eb's dad took over parenting when he </span></span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: center;">'</span><i style="font-family: verdana; text-align: center;">Jumped from his chair and said with a roar! "NOW EBENEZER! You heard what Mum said. Put down your game and get ready for bed</i><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: center;">."' after Eb declared he wasn't finished playing his game.</span></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The illustrations however, Hmm! I'm still not sure about the illustrations and the little bookworms certainly weren't particularly enthusiastic about them in so much as, once seen, they were happy enough to lose themselves in the story whereas normally there are complaints from at least one of them that they cannot see the pictures.</span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Having been called upon to re-read the story 'just one more time pleasseee' over several consecutive nights now, it would seem this has become something of a favourite with the bookworms. As for myself, happy to re-read it, I do think it a festive read and it has a good message at its heart.</span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></span></span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSt1n0Er5tubIf5ulI8oSYSVyhNOoaR6BP5R0Bp6GrUSBu_x1sH7yFm-AT9e9cALZnrXUf1XBIlKcTgAxaJM_hisjNKFu1CYAaA7jKZXz3l_xohJHm1BcC9Y3uO1_2VYa0O0xOfUilJ5AiKKW9v1viwwaD5zQQdLA5nVDO2Jhg1O_HZZHwUw5jZh2dcbt9/s200/a1.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSt1n0Er5tubIf5ulI8oSYSVyhNOoaR6BP5R0Bp6GrUSBu_x1sH7yFm-AT9e9cALZnrXUf1XBIlKcTgAxaJM_hisjNKFu1CYAaA7jKZXz3l_xohJHm1BcC9Y3uO1_2VYa0O0xOfUilJ5AiKKW9v1viwwaD5zQQdLA5nVDO2Jhg1O_HZZHwUw5jZh2dcbt9/s1600/a1.png" width="200" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Living on 'England's Green & Pleasant Land', among the gentle rolling hills of the Herefordshire Countryside, Rose's house is wall to wall books. She's a Read-a-holic, whose hobby is to write stories for the young and young at heart.</span><p></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7BIvbHc-qlihL6jO1DUksKbauhpdSj_gUAbuzb-b8ThObIDvtRVwjiFhMtgaVYYWMyUF4s2ZrTjLRADwQvk5ELUrB8Gw_Piq5c2kzXWR_dcrBlVvHQxjYpFwkVgMqq3Nbc3A-WyXX2M1f9XkGj-q__4FF7SfspbmbqiAIEPz3VKMKPvfOOMOR4S8iEIVZ/s269/a1.webp" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="269" data-original-width="269" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7BIvbHc-qlihL6jO1DUksKbauhpdSj_gUAbuzb-b8ThObIDvtRVwjiFhMtgaVYYWMyUF4s2ZrTjLRADwQvk5ELUrB8Gw_Piq5c2kzXWR_dcrBlVvHQxjYpFwkVgMqq3Nbc3A-WyXX2M1f9XkGj-q__4FF7SfspbmbqiAIEPz3VKMKPvfOOMOR4S8iEIVZ/s1600/a1.webp" width="269" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span color="rgb(var(--color_25))" style="text-align: start;">Working as a school librarian, and sharing her love of books with children, was the best job she ever had. However, life moves on and another chapter was only a page turn away. Working in a very different library now, she is a key worker for the NHS helping to run the Medical Equipment Library in Wye Valley NHS Trust.</span></span></div><p></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixGuard wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">After winning FIRST PRIZE in a short story competition with 'The Magic of Grandfather Christmas' she is inspired to transform the tale into a collection of stories for all ages. ‘Young Ebenezer' is inspired by the Dickens classic 'A Christmas Carol' and brought into modern times with a strong theme of sharing and caring.</span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixGuard wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Rose has a little sidekick called Miss Ruby Heart, a ruby King Charles spaniel from the Grandfather Time Series. The puppy is the Ghost of Christmas Past and features on the 'Young Ebenezer’ covers. 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Reproduction or re-publication of this content is prohibited without permission.</div>Felicity Grace Terryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17852843882007267665noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2372511622978085955.post-78768865036647483142023-11-20T17:07:00.002+00:002023-11-20T17:19:21.277+00:00ASHLEY BELL. <p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> <b>ASHLEY BELL BY DEAN KOONTZ</b>.<b> </b></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiJ-FGO4m4yhUaKMf3DembUmx9xq_6UEotRkcsQcLNiwGFyuQW4RRJBt1fRgkcGVwAIvGENUwj7Dlq1B0VYKsjVk6orp-U3v83MGLyPhEPTnsvOsZf36CwS0_gY1ppEXh0kih631jMl1AFR84yLCeRRcbUuOXjlkCOnia2Eeu3i-Y6EcMBH6HnfGjapmRF_" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2307" data-original-width="1500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiJ-FGO4m4yhUaKMf3DembUmx9xq_6UEotRkcsQcLNiwGFyuQW4RRJBt1fRgkcGVwAIvGENUwj7Dlq1B0VYKsjVk6orp-U3v83MGLyPhEPTnsvOsZf36CwS0_gY1ppEXh0kih631jMl1AFR84yLCeRRcbUuOXjlkCOnia2Eeu3i-Y6EcMBH6HnfGjapmRF_=w208-h320" width="208" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: right;"><b>The only girl who can save her has no idea who she is ...</b></div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>Bibi Blair is a fierce, funny, dauntless young woman-whose doctor says she has one year to live.</b></span></p><p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>She replies, "We'll see."</b></span></p><p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>Her sudden recovery is a medical miracle.</b></span></p><p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>An enigmatic woman convinces Bibi that she escaped death so that she can save someone else. Someone named Ashley Bell. But who is Ashley Bell? And what exactly does she need saving from?</b></span></p><p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>Bibi's obsession with finding Ashley sends her on the run from threats both mystical and worldly, including a rich and charismatic cult leader with terrifying ambitions.</b></span></p><p><br /></p><div><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">In a nutshell the story of Bibi Bella, a young woman who, told she has an incurable brain tumour one day, awakes the next day after a strange experience in her hospital bed to find she is cured; her life saved in order that she can save the life of someone else, the someone else being the Ashley Bell of the title. The only thing is bad people {and possibly something even more sinister} are after Bibi, their mission to stop her from finding Ashley no matter what the cost.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">An author who I am of course aware of but up until now whose books I had never read. </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">At 646 pages or if you prefer 130 chapters long, some of them only two or three pages long, this is one of the longest books I've read this year. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Left scratching my head at times, wondering just what was going on. Whilst, for the main part, entranced by the plot I didn't think it</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> flowed particularly well; something that certainly wasn't helped by the super short chapters that bounced between different characters perspectives OR the fact</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> that the author kept wondering off on these odd diatribes {their personal politics/philosophies creeping in a bit?} that, unless I was missing something, seemed to have nothing to do with the story. </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Not that these odd </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">diatribes were the only 'distractions', there were countless others that seemed to serve little or no purpose let alone advance the story ... but more of that later. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Told from multiple points of view, </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">the main action shared between the heroine of the story and her fiance, I thought the characters a bit meh!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Struggling to get Bibi, it was until the latter part of the book that I began to understand her motivation and I thought her fiance, Navy SEAL Paxton, a bit of a non entity really. As for the myriad of other characters, some I'd liked to have seen put to better use; others I thought of as surplus to the story; the baddie, well, I don't think he'd have been out of place in a Scooby Doo cartoon.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Why then did I rate the book as highly as I did?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Whilst the star system is something I choose not to use on Pen and Paper, it is a necessary evil on certain sites such as GoodReads on which I rated the book </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">⭐⭐⭐⭐.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Having finished the book I actually sat for several hours, mulling over what I'd read, trying to figure out whether or not I'd actually enjoyed it. The conclusion being ...</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Thinking about all of those bits that seemed to have no bearing on the plot, I came to appreciate just how cleverly Ashley Bell was in fact written; that all of the aspects that at the time seemed unimportant, irrelevant even, were in fact anything but. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">A mythical journey of two worlds; '<span style="color: #2a2a2a;">the known world and the supernatural world that shadowed it' </span>in which we get to see to see two Bibis, one in a coma, the other in pursuit of evildoers, definitely weird; <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0796117/" target="_blank">M. Night Shyamalan</a> weird. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Despite any misgivings I may have had I actually enjoyed this story at the heart of which there is an exploration of the question 'how much are we actually able to write our own stories'.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiPay4-FXL7BzEAKrOSVOq5-zmT-wCuNB-GOPhcXuAcKpMWyh6h-1BTeA78-AwUcYVOYvs34I7U297b5kcb_nSqmS9yOAWSt-NcdLr9BA7n679EHwPRls31GCG20_ZawNFIVirXX7dIShqVBI4DsMjGNPGNu8jkmYomBVgsPEFA-SVA680lnNVA_8McdHXB" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="79" data-original-width="400" height="79" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiPay4-FXL7BzEAKrOSVOq5-zmT-wCuNB-GOPhcXuAcKpMWyh6h-1BTeA78-AwUcYVOYvs34I7U297b5kcb_nSqmS9yOAWSt-NcdLr9BA7n679EHwPRls31GCG20_ZawNFIVirXX7dIShqVBI4DsMjGNPGNu8jkmYomBVgsPEFA-SVA680lnNVA_8McdHXB=w400-h79" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; font-family: Chewy; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">Share the love by following their blog.</span></span></div><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Chewy;"></p><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; font-family: Chewy; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">By taking a few minutes to check out their newest post and leaving a comment, you’ll instantly put a smile on the blogger's face.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sharing on FaceBook, Pinterest, and other social media sites shows that you care about their work and want others to enjoy it too!</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">The next time you see their post pop up on your feed, hit the like button, leave a comment, or even share it with your followers. 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Reproduction or re-publication of this content is prohibited without permission.</div>Felicity Grace Terryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17852843882007267665noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2372511622978085955.post-38865411055032532152023-11-16T14:02:00.001+00:002023-11-16T15:06:52.406+00:00HARRY POTTER {BOOKS 1 -5}.<p> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Having read the Harry Potter books by JK Rowling when they were first released {or, near enough anyway, the first time I read them was when Mr T bought me a box set of the first four books after which I always pre-ordered them} I decided to make my way through the series some sixteen years after the release of the last book*</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">, </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in 2007. Here are my collective thoughts on the first five books in the series which include ...</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: right;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgETyhx8vdTWRl-4cmr57qmIPb9YqVNQNSXzb9C6_n46ykD8ttL5b8ADGzZ6NSH7PkoEs4cgOG3KIS-Jz0UQ3fwZvotpJYBlK3G-075ENLudFEsEGfD8Q36OyDXWDbW6qrzfOwb67mycYH45ICBdjAs3GEeaec9Lm0LPTkrinbTObJmlBCJ0D5sO42gCdpk" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><img alt="" data-original-height="220" data-original-width="247" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgETyhx8vdTWRl-4cmr57qmIPb9YqVNQNSXzb9C6_n46ykD8ttL5b8ADGzZ6NSH7PkoEs4cgOG3KIS-Jz0UQ3fwZvotpJYBlK3G-075ENLudFEsEGfD8Q36OyDXWDbW6qrzfOwb67mycYH45ICBdjAs3GEeaec9Lm0LPTkrinbTObJmlBCJ0D5sO42gCdpk=w320-h286" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Lora, serif;">1.</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> <i><span style="cursor: pointer;">Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone</span> (1997)</i></span></span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><i><span style="cursor: pointer;">2. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets</span><span style="cursor: pointer;"> </span>(1998)</i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><i>3. <span style="cursor: pointer;">Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban</span><span style="cursor: pointer;"> </span>(1999)</i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"></p><div style="text-align: right;"><i style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">4. <span style="cursor: pointer;">Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire</span><span style="cursor: pointer;"> </span>(2000)</span></i></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><i>5. <span style="cursor: pointer;">Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix</span><span style="cursor: pointer;"> </span>(2003)</i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><i>6. <span style="cursor: pointer;">Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince</span><span style="cursor: pointer;"> </span>(2005)</i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><i>7. <span style="cursor: pointer;">Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows</span> (2007)</i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">It was whilst on placement in a Catholic primary school as part of my Teaching Assistant training that I first came across Harry Potter as almost without exception all of the Stage 3 children aged 7 -8 were reading/had read </span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, book one in a series that, good or bad, the </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">literary world seemed to be talking about.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.cbr.com/harry-potter-book-ban-explained/" target="_blank">Banned in several US states</a>, though I wasn't aware of any outright bans here in the UK I can remember there being talk in the staff room about the suitability of the children reading a book that featured 'witchcraft'. Thankfully the outcome of these conversations being that, the first book in a long while to have captured the imagination of a classroom of 32 pupils, anything that got the children so excited about reading should surely be encouraged.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Having last read the book sixteen years ago {the first four books some twenty three plus years ago}, </span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I did enjoy re-reading them {some more than others} but, looking back at my hand written journal, it doesn't seem to be with quite the same excitement as it was all those years ago ... though of course there wasn't all the hype that there was then and there certainly weren't all of the films all of which I've seen countless times now.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Of the five book re-read, </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">whilst, still admiring the first {</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone}</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">as something different from anything I had ever read before; as something that had the power to get children talking so animatedly</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">, </span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>I did enjoy re-reading the books {some more than others} but, looking back at my hand written journal, it doesn't seem to be with quite the same excitement as it was all those years ago ... though of course there wasn't all the hype that there was then and there certainly weren't all of the films all of which I've seen countless times now.</span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">Of the five book re-read, whilst by no means the strongest book in the series, a great introduction to Harry Potter and Hogworts, I did enjoy the first book, </span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">the next two books not quite so much. 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All original content is created by the website owner, including but not limited to text, design, code, images, photographs and videos are considered to be the Intellectual Property of the website owner, whether copyrighted or not, and are protected by DMCA Protection Services using the Digital Millennium Copyright Act Title 17 Chapter 512 (c)(3). Reproduction or re-publication of this content is prohibited without permission.</div>Felicity Grace Terryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17852843882007267665noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2372511622978085955.post-67275433492838409762023-11-12T12:51:00.001+00:002023-11-12T13:08:16.484+00:00THE DOOR-TO-DOOR BOOKSTORE.<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Alas unforeseen circumstances meant I was unable to post my thoughts on my allocated day, my apologies to Rachel of Rachel's Random Resources. FGT</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiMnPTxYYb58o-iqUyzvuCKxZNLn1d5JJ8ZFhrhsKqqtvJUUCMgI-8wcyzYy30NZFXZ9PRrzsxItbdeLKsJq01LjtInWgZRY9zKSiAueAcXIDfX9OJNEjI2DbGwFlotRDlUNHSO8VFKYnHxItHM-G9BlHbk79DpPNqKq6Ifeqk6E8fKPRnRjueibvvuVMhN" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="258" data-original-width="657" height="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiMnPTxYYb58o-iqUyzvuCKxZNLn1d5JJ8ZFhrhsKqqtvJUUCMgI-8wcyzYy30NZFXZ9PRrzsxItbdeLKsJq01LjtInWgZRY9zKSiAueAcXIDfX9OJNEjI2DbGwFlotRDlUNHSO8VFKYnHxItHM-G9BlHbk79DpPNqKq6Ifeqk6E8fKPRnRjueibvvuVMhN=w640-h252" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>THE DOOR-TO-DOOR BOOKSTORE BY CARSTEN HENN</b> <b>{TRANSLATED BY</b></span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b> MELODY SHAW}.</b></span></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Genre ...</span> Translated fiction, General Fiction/Book Club</span></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Publication Date ... </span>9th November 2023</span></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Publisher ... </span>Manilla Press, Bonnier Books UK</span></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; 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font-size: large;"><b>There's a book written for every one of us...</b></span></div><p></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>Carl may be 72 years old, but he's young at heart. Every night he goes door-to-door delivering books by hand to his loyal customers. He knows their every desire and preference, carefully selecting the perfect story for each person.</b></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>One evening as he makes his rounds, nine-year-old Schascha appears. Loud and precocious, she insists on accompanying him - and even tries to teach him a thing or two about books.</b></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>When Carl's job at the bookstore is threatened, will the old man and the girl in the yellow raincoat be able to restore Carl's way of life, and return the joy of reading to his little European town?</b></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>THE DOOR-TO-DOOR BOOKSTORE is a heart-warming tale of the value of friendship, the magic of reading, and the power of books to unite us all.</b></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></b></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>Translated by Melody Shaw</b></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Like so many other readers, give me a book that features a bookworm, a librarian etc and/or is set in a library or bookstore etc and I'm happy. Combine this with the fact that woven into this nice, gentle read </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large; text-align: center;">about the power of books to forge friendships there are lots of literary references and, needless to say, I'm as happy </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">as the proverbial </span><a href="https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/happy+as+a+pig+in+muck" style="font-family: verdana;" target="_blank">pig in muck</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">A sweet read {that it touches on issues such as Domestic Violence and abuses of power and features an assault on one of the characters preventing it from perhaps being overly saccharine} at the heart of which are</span></span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> an elderly gentleman in his seventies and a schoolgirl</span><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> who has yet to reach double figures. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">For the main I thought Carl and Schascha a lovely pairing but I'm afraid for some reason I didn't really take to </span></span><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Schascha. Something that at first I couldn't quite fathom but the more I thought about it the more I came to realise that whilst I greatly admired how </span></span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">unselfconscious she was </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I actually found her quite pretentious. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">As for Carl ...</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">A character I could easily relate to, his giving literary nick-names to those he delivered his books to something I'd do; his naming the cat that befriends him 'Dog' something that on the other hand Mr T would do. However, Hmm! How to put this without including any spoilers? Y</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">es,</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> of a different generation <i>but</i> for all of that I found Carl's naivety</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> totally unbelievable to such a degree that whilst I can't say it exactly spoilt the book for me it did leave me disappointed in this one aspect of the story.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">All in all though, those wanting a quaint read about the power of books to unite people could do a lot worse than pick up a copy of The Door-To-Door Bookstore.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj-Jv9oHdy-8NMP-wGFiqyPnL_LX66NpwjOn5zURVav1HO7tBCvAwXtQg6UteC8DnAi5lDqeABB0HmBqomDryzXGXkXokvgimN_C4R0L46cZXpMkNrJ1E-mhAN5tXe5VaghYeh8zijVhg3u1291xBe1K8zsQtU9dctJ1xFUx8FtlsuHThkhbhX-ILY4ui8P" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj-Jv9oHdy-8NMP-wGFiqyPnL_LX66NpwjOn5zURVav1HO7tBCvAwXtQg6UteC8DnAi5lDqeABB0HmBqomDryzXGXkXokvgimN_C4R0L46cZXpMkNrJ1E-mhAN5tXe5VaghYeh8zijVhg3u1291xBe1K8zsQtU9dctJ1xFUx8FtlsuHThkhbhX-ILY4ui8P=w200-h200" width="200" /></a></div>Carsten Henn has worked as a radio presenter, wine and restaurant critic, and has published a number of successful novels. He lives in Germany.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Social Media Links ... <a href="http://carstensebastianhenn.de/" target="_blank">Website</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/carsten.henn/" target="_blank">Instagram </a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>With thanks to Rachel of Rachel's Random Resources</b> for organising a paper copy. 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Reproduction or re-publication of this content is prohibited without permission.</div>Felicity Grace Terryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17852843882007267665noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2372511622978085955.post-21760817867350486422023-11-05T12:08:00.000+00:002023-11-05T12:08:42.542+00:00SANTA'S EARLY CHRISTMAS.<p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi2CXdoQaXHgwr6HMVVY2QtPtPRzUijrTKT_IWmbTKqraz-rgwy5ERWBxU7MRW0eA39WXdykN0josKz4Ng4EIhH2CfhaxlP3te3g8IMTjWlK4J0QrJeC97zQrdVreT-2JYSvgYcUPB4p8I0AyMG1DkDnAC557BTT6BeDJCLFP1NKiIeud98ELdmEIunMrrc" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="258" data-original-width="657" height="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi2CXdoQaXHgwr6HMVVY2QtPtPRzUijrTKT_IWmbTKqraz-rgwy5ERWBxU7MRW0eA39WXdykN0josKz4Ng4EIhH2CfhaxlP3te3g8IMTjWlK4J0QrJeC97zQrdVreT-2JYSvgYcUPB4p8I0AyMG1DkDnAC557BTT6BeDJCLFP1NKiIeud98ELdmEIunMrrc=w640-h252" width="640" /></a></div><b>SANTA'S EARLY CHRISTMAS </b>by <b>LILY LAWSON</b>.</span></div><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Target Age ... </span>Children {ages 3-8 years}</span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Genre ...</span> Poetry/Rhyming Picture Book</span></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Publication Date ... </span>5th November 2022</span></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Standalone Book</span></span></span></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; 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text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>Last year Santa was hungry and thirsty by the time he delivered all the presents. But when he came home there was no food and drink left! This year Santa decides things are going to be different.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Every year I'm hoping to find that Christmas read that I know will become a tradition to be brought out and read every year ... in Santa's Early Christmas I have found just such a read.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">A short story of what happens when, Santa having over indulged in Christmas fayre until '<i>there was nothing left scoff</i>', will the presents be on time? followed by two bonus festive poems, one telling of what happens when Rudolph learning to fly,<i> 'jumps off the rooftops and into the sky';</i> the second, an ode to when the '<i>lights and toys and tinsels are hung upon the tree</i>' and '<i>the cards have all been written, the presents wrapped with care</i>'. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">A rhyming book to be enjoyed by the whole family, beautifully written with fun, bright illustrations which combined are sure to have you chuckling. I only wish the book was longer.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><p></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgZkKRdbpJ4yQEqd6CIR8VxWTqI5y8ao1oy_Hf27eQMUtvctbx5_3EKILqz4fwpqHGPfz3f2_CHRryBo5y2FKESEh24i3c_rXW4J_xZD5eFXb8hYNRFpjDLFcR1M-WKH-Bq4zal1WgI8ygcAOtNBL3Ah5OVVB2MwJz-UpB9ZssRBn0io1yLQ5UHzS5YkhQj" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgZkKRdbpJ4yQEqd6CIR8VxWTqI5y8ao1oy_Hf27eQMUtvctbx5_3EKILqz4fwpqHGPfz3f2_CHRryBo5y2FKESEh24i3c_rXW4J_xZD5eFXb8hYNRFpjDLFcR1M-WKH-Bq4zal1WgI8ygcAOtNBL3Ah5OVVB2MwJz-UpB9ZssRBn0io1yLQ5UHzS5YkhQj=w200-h200" width="200" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Lily Lawson is a poet and fiction writer living in the UK.</span><p></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">She has poetry, short stories, and creative non-fiction</span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">published in anthologies and online</span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">in addition to her poetry books</span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhe2yUmu96ILNEDW-88ZzuYSN0PBtYTeRZMfpyqvAJio97oDWentzwvPXAoKIvfnCgqoCslMvAvzFStn5fQDCO94ViKJjkQBvZ0wanJV-2_uEX7r_w7FaXNkq0hEQkW4xDpG9rl82fmDDlN0dUVav7JAogD--gZPwFqtIAVs4eBUlrfe7YjjqgfaXnsWmCc" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="246" data-original-width="205" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhe2yUmu96ILNEDW-88ZzuYSN0PBtYTeRZMfpyqvAJio97oDWentzwvPXAoKIvfnCgqoCslMvAvzFStn5fQDCO94ViKJjkQBvZ0wanJV-2_uEX7r_w7FaXNkq0hEQkW4xDpG9rl82fmDDlN0dUVav7JAogD--gZPwFqtIAVs4eBUlrfe7YjjqgfaXnsWmCc" width="200" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="wixui-rich-text__text" href="http://mybook.to/MyFathersDaughter" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">My Fathers Daughter</a></span>,</span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; 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background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="wixui-rich-text__text" href="http://mybook.to/RainbowsRedPoetryBook" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Rainbow’s Red Book of Poetry</a></span></span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> </span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">and her kids’ books</span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="wixui-rich-text__text" href="https://mybook.to/SantasEarlyChristmas" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Santa’s Early Christmas</a></span>,</span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; 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Well-fed and cared for, she is happily waiting for someone to pick her up.</b></span></p><p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>In the kitchen lie three decomposing corpses. Close to them is a hastily scrawled note.</b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>They’ve been dead for several days.</b></span></p><p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Who has been looking after the baby?</b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>And where did they go?</b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Narrated by three of the book's characters both in the past <i>and</i> present, Libby who aged 25 inherits a large house, a mansion, </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">with a gruesome history in London's fashionable Chelsea and past inhabitants, </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Lucy who has received a letter saying the baby found in the said house all those years ago has turned 25 and Henry who, also having grown up in the house, shares the riches to rag story of its former residents. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">A complex, at times, chaotic read {the author, in trying to cover too much ground, perhaps having bitten off more than they could chew}, the protagonists, hmm, whilst I found the majority of them disturbing; Henry and cult like leader David delightfully creepy, </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I can't say I found any of them particularly riveting </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">and as for the ending, well, the ending was a bit meh. And yet by no means was this a bad read, in fact far from it, there was something, something that I can't quite put my finger on, that was oddly compelling.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">He angles his camera towards the door of the first room on the left. 'Look,' he says.</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">She and Dido both look. There is a lock attached to the outside of the room. They follow him to the next door. Another lock. And another and another.</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">'All four rooms, lockable from the outside. This is where the police think children slept. This is where they found some traces of blood and the marks on the walls. Look,' he says, 'even the toilet had a lock on the outside. Shall we?</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">He has his hand on the handle of one of the rooms.</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Libby nods.</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">- Pg 153</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Maybe in part due to the menacing undercurrents, maybe in part due to the constantly unfolding revelations, maybe in part due to how understatedly creepy I found the house and its adult residents, as I said there was just something about the book that I found oddly compelling.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Part one in what is currently a two book series, I'm definitely wanting to read the second instalment, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58855185-the-family-remains" target="_blank">The Family Remains</a>.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiK1KQhgcp_l_GgWMP_oZyLvp1UJw5bzY0NqB0cqpWgcWTpnY3QHmKv7AvXcsc-p23JrnyHUuI3csUzJklOvkDRgEhb2tDPvWksDmWEIg6tDrSQhA_ZSwth30GvP1ZADZB4l7gofEX3pE8zRu1yVKdsellNJi8OKsLzy6lQceAtUmEz0_ILdtdksffb4yGV" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="191" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiK1KQhgcp_l_GgWMP_oZyLvp1UJw5bzY0NqB0cqpWgcWTpnY3QHmKv7AvXcsc-p23JrnyHUuI3csUzJklOvkDRgEhb2tDPvWksDmWEIg6tDrSQhA_ZSwth30GvP1ZADZB4l7gofEX3pE8zRu1yVKdsellNJi8OKsLzy6lQceAtUmEz0_ILdtdksffb4yGV=w191-h200" width="191" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Like my reviews and/or are an author, publisher etc who has a book you'd like me to review? 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font-size: large;"><b>THE WINTER'S SLEEP</b> by <b>MONICA CAFFERKY</b>.</span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Genre ...</span> Supernatural Thriller / Dark Romance</span></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Publication Date ... </span> 20th October 2019</span></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; 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padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Estimated Page Count ...</span> 412</span></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; 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float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="356" data-original-width="232" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjdIQ2uMV4P5cNBUeGI81EuvAgwuso1c4sVTL-wS9aI1HobBsvI_GnX9uX5jtj_TcSaeC8eLx9PPn_onLF-1e2hNdRRhsU7UfjpskAKJC35t38ua67jRtMuEcrbPE527xKz1COok-EIjmoBq-9P7v9_EudvsynfeNPdtD13_1-SZnLyPCrPIkhe4vt6-ZNA=w208-h320" width="208" /></a></div><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">A fast-paced thriller with a supernatural twist, The Winter’s Sleep takes the reader on a breathtaking ride from Leeds to the Yorkshire coast in a tale of ghosts, betrayal and fraud.</span></span></div><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #3e4f00; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: right;">A handsome husband. A beautiful home. A job she loves.</div><div style="text-align: right;">Yet Brigid Raven is drowning in debts and there’s only one way out.</div><div style="text-align: right;">Fake her death and walk away from everything she’s struggled so hard to build.</div><div style="text-align: right;">Can she pull off her new identity? How will she survive on the run?</div><div style="text-align: right;">But Brigid has another secret. She can see the dead and now they won’t leave her alone.</div></span></span></b></span><p></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Part thriller, part domestic drama which, combined together with its supernatural element, made for an enthralling roller-coaster of a read. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">My only gripe being that for me personally, I'd like to have seen more of the supernatural.</span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">A very impressive debut, cleverly plotted. The characters; main characters, Brigid and Josh ... wow! </span></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">You can positively feel Brigid's desperation as she struggles to keep it all together ... and that's before a private investigator starts snooping around convinced there is more to Brigid's 'death' than meets the eye. </span></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>And as for Josh; my</span><span> favourite character, ooh! The way he manipulates</span><span> Brigid.</span><span> Oh and his </span><span>descent</span><span> into paranoia as he becomes increasingly reliant on drugs and alcohol ... </span></span></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Most definitely an author to look out for. If The Winter's Sleep is anything to go by Monica Cafferky has a promising future ahead of her.</span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgSFKqgAZn0_APzZ5DjDdRsWY4ive0HGN4MI3RBBKt3z8V6SX2VyA2Q69IPofxSXItbM78TyoE4BCOqeej7Q2n7uaLjYrAWh40VXLFreYtI-ah78rsMfFYSF_bwa1ZW6070Panj6WjfblkB0IDRkBu9mLqbr7LjKD2EK-GdRw0RNRx3Gm4B_GYpqVMszx2J" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgSFKqgAZn0_APzZ5DjDdRsWY4ive0HGN4MI3RBBKt3z8V6SX2VyA2Q69IPofxSXItbM78TyoE4BCOqeej7Q2n7uaLjYrAWh40VXLFreYtI-ah78rsMfFYSF_bwa1ZW6070Panj6WjfblkB0IDRkBu9mLqbr7LjKD2EK-GdRw0RNRx3Gm4B_GYpqVMszx2J=w200-h200" width="200" /></a></div><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Monica Cafferky worked as a journalist for national newspapers and magazines for over 20 years before turning her hand to fiction with the supernatural thriller The Winter’s Sleep. The inspiration for her debut novel, set in Yorkshire and the North East coast, came from growing up in a haunted house in Harrogate, North Yorkshire. Previously, Monica co-authored three self-help books (published by Little Brown), which have been translated into several languages including: Japanese, Norwegian and Czech. Monica is a Fellow of the Thomson Reuters Foundation and for five years was a visiting lecturer in journalism. 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Reproduction or re-publication of this content is prohibited without permission.</div>Felicity Grace Terryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17852843882007267665noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2372511622978085955.post-70538800657294157502023-10-30T03:28:00.000+00:002023-10-30T03:28:42.538+00:00YOU CHOOSE YOUR ADVENTURE.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgl6tKZLI9MV8JBd6w3dNH2GTYIjL-O4nW3uFla41y6opDu9heRDd1aMpTeCeHZLdCY7pxlAI78uAMtECY1yRLjVC_oZYq2BYzgpV8-kog8jGlolHCiJHnpD2zVHVAFDLnCcaKV8vJNoXJqDXw6AVO43V2Ui8pa3WvwmQ7SBwH6KhYYVF_p6pduIuynndvj" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="232" data-original-width="232" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgl6tKZLI9MV8JBd6w3dNH2GTYIjL-O4nW3uFla41y6opDu9heRDd1aMpTeCeHZLdCY7pxlAI78uAMtECY1yRLjVC_oZYq2BYzgpV8-kog8jGlolHCiJHnpD2zVHVAFDLnCcaKV8vJNoXJqDXw6AVO43V2Ui8pa3WvwmQ7SBwH6KhYYVF_p6pduIuynndvj=w320-h320" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b> YOU CHOOSE YOUR ADVENTURE</b> by <b>PIPPA GOODHART </b>{with illustrations by<b> </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">NICK SHARRATT</b><span style="font-family: verdana;">}.</span></span><p></p><p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>Welcome to your adventure! </b></span></p><p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>What will you wear? </b></span></p><p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>Where will you go? </b></span></p><p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>Who would you like to meet on the way?</b></span></p><p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>Discover a different story every time with this magical storytelling toolkit </b></span></p><p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>- let your imagination run wild</b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">A <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/64821552" target="_blank">World Book Day</a> 2023 mini book that retails at a very affordable £1.00 for a paper copy/99p for a digital copy.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">At only 13.5 x 15.5cm an ideal size to put in your bag ready to entertain the wee ones on a car/train/aeroplane journey or as a distraction whilst waiting their meal when dining out ... the list of possibilities is endless.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">A great way to encourage use of imagination and storytelling skills. </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Beginning with '<i>Your adventure starts here! What will you choose to wear?</i>', via </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">a series of questions, suggestions by the characters and picture prompts this wonderful little book </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">allows children to create all kinds of stories, </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">the magic being that not only will each child's story be different but that there will be a different story every time. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh3DOk9UrDd40vcHrDsVDEwSWiXJL97odi0zFY22VG4yrlyu-AipQChMcHoCXLJX_tUrZnXEvs1mFY75RCf4uoLswImCjH94-B5zSaAKRJvY_dKz7TPljIezuxh2izilQXXZwArmqvKun86LhC8ug3eqcElrGeIXwKPzvKt0uztHgg7w0rxr5uTBZV62zCB" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="191" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh3DOk9UrDd40vcHrDsVDEwSWiXJL97odi0zFY22VG4yrlyu-AipQChMcHoCXLJX_tUrZnXEvs1mFY75RCf4uoLswImCjH94-B5zSaAKRJvY_dKz7TPljIezuxh2izilQXXZwArmqvKun86LhC8ug3eqcElrGeIXwKPzvKt0uztHgg7w0rxr5uTBZV62zCB=w191-h200" width="191" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">Like my reviews and/or are an author, publisher etc who has a book you'd like me to review? 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All original content is created by the website owner, including but not limited to text, design, code, images, photographs and videos are considered to be the Intellectual Property of the website owner, whether copyrighted or not, and are protected by DMCA Protection Services using the Digital Millennium Copyright Act Title 17 Chapter 512 (c)(3). Reproduction or re-publication of this content is prohibited without permission.</div>Felicity Grace Terryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17852843882007267665noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2372511622978085955.post-67378298717611815762023-10-26T13:48:00.001+01:002023-10-26T14:07:34.727+01:00 MISS YOU, A VINTAGE WEDDING & PERSONALY, I BLAME MY FAIRY GODMOTHER.<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Today on Pen and Paper, three feel good novels.</span></p><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>MISS YOU</b> by <b>KATE EBERLEN</b>.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><p></p><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjTSEWK7iEIpTwPV2qvjlyKVl_oMxMQAeNcYnVjvIzMk9AWV4i4jmUciVeTy0dfnckfVIUl-db6YxiMSHh7wvI0kJYdKJaieEkCCQ4Qluqb9pON2Btq8dZvdj_unJu0Mk3PiEXtVZ0Msltwy1-4AKNgyPYs2BiJSMuUWas3bsvTzdRpv4VlGiA1U2YchMLv" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2622" data-original-width="1630" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjTSEWK7iEIpTwPV2qvjlyKVl_oMxMQAeNcYnVjvIzMk9AWV4i4jmUciVeTy0dfnckfVIUl-db6YxiMSHh7wvI0kJYdKJaieEkCCQ4Qluqb9pON2Btq8dZvdj_unJu0Mk3PiEXtVZ0Msltwy1-4AKNgyPYs2BiJSMuUWas3bsvTzdRpv4VlGiA1U2YchMLv=w199-h320" width="199" /></a></div><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: right;"><b>Tess and Gus are meant to be. They just haven't met properly yet. And perhaps they never will . . .</b></div></span></div><div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>Today is the first day of the rest of your life is the motto on a plate in the kitchen at home, and Tess can't get it out of her head, even though she's in Florence for a final, idyllic holiday before university. Her life is about to change forever - but not in the way she expects.</b></span></div></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Given that the paper back edition I had {a 2017 Pan Books} had no synopsis but rather endorsement after endorsement after endorsement both on the back cover, the front inner cover and the first four pages experience told me that Miss You was probably going to be all hype and very little else. How wrong I was. </span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">Told over a period of 16 years, the story of two people who share the briefest moment in time in Italy before going back home to England alone. What follows next is a series of should of beens and could of beens, of fleeting encounters and near misses until ... </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">A beautiful emotional, roller-coaster of a read that is quite different from your typical romance. The chapters</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> alternate between Tess' and Gus'; Tess and Gus being characters who whilst unlikeable at times have such redeeming qualities that you can't help but relate to them if nothing else.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>A VINTAGE WEDDING</b> by <b>KATIE FFORDE</b>.</span></div><div><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhtYlDHrM6BETo_kapMNB_fdacHlJ3oFXM5QFM281ay3MdbyhLLvHLf2qWuCUjEXJWsNKu2c1LYWSXDSeXtCCo1OegqbpQxm9M-eqAIjfaEMZx7hOlRuxwBst2MeiZUkiWg1Zt6SKjrCNjlwL45cm2xkCjuwcOHEf3JKmfWtDr7cnzmW977Ui0IXUNtCkyC" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="296" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhtYlDHrM6BETo_kapMNB_fdacHlJ3oFXM5QFM281ay3MdbyhLLvHLf2qWuCUjEXJWsNKu2c1LYWSXDSeXtCCo1OegqbpQxm9M-eqAIjfaEMZx7hOlRuxwBst2MeiZUkiWg1Zt6SKjrCNjlwL45cm2xkCjuwcOHEf3JKmfWtDr7cnzmW977Ui0IXUNtCkyC=w200-h320" width="200" /></a></div><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: right;"><b>In a small Cotswold country town, Beth, Rachel and Lindy are looking for new beginnings.</b></div></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>So they set up in business, organising stylish and perfectly affordable vintage weddings.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>Soon they are busy arranging other people's Big Days.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>What none of them know is that their own romances lie waiting, just around the corner ...</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">A nice enough read, the setting charming, the female characters likeable enough, the male characters, not so much but then I did feel that, </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: verdana;">with not as much time devoted to their development, </span><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: verdana;">they were very obviously secondary to the women.</span></span><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"> </span></div><div><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">That the chapters alternated between the three main protagonists, Beth, Rachel and Lindy</span><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">... Hmm! Whilst it worked well enough I couldn't help but wonder if it might have worked better if their stories had been broken up into three books within the one book.</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Overall, an enjoyable piece of escapism. My main gripe being that there were many threads that were seemly allowed to just peter out and just as many that were left unfinished that I did think there must have been a sequel {there's not} or if not whether there was one in the pipeline {there doesn't seem to be}.</span></div><div><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>PERSONALLY, I BLAME MY FAIRY GODMOTHER</b> by <b>CLAUDIA CARROLL</b>.</span></div><div><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi-hCMDfobmD5I63VRVg5G2mUxXCf5yrd7d3c4KHi0vYpOENMZRZKTKDMKZUd8MBa_ffkV5Ioef0WNgczAQQ1X2lkR1j8P-EfmiKOhyTdZvSrPiMZTdYOZAswYApRNocidXPWC-dTRBBsHtSrEjpKkAlnWYtpsGdLCDmJ3MqP-zYeLGOwJMlasEkh-mG_if" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="313" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi-hCMDfobmD5I63VRVg5G2mUxXCf5yrd7d3c4KHi0vYpOENMZRZKTKDMKZUd8MBa_ffkV5Ioef0WNgczAQQ1X2lkR1j8P-EfmiKOhyTdZvSrPiMZTdYOZAswYApRNocidXPWC-dTRBBsHtSrEjpKkAlnWYtpsGdLCDmJ3MqP-zYeLGOwJMlasEkh-mG_if=w211-h320" width="211" /></a></div><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: right;"><b>Where's a magic wand when you need one ...</b></div></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>Jessie Woods absolutely believes in fairytale endings. So would you if you had a recession-proof career as a daredevil TV host, a palatial pink mansion, and the dream boyfriend</b></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>But, quicker than you can say Cinderella, her life falls to pieces and suddenly her prince isn't quite so charming, her party-loving friends disappear and even her faithful friend Visa no longer loves her?</b></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>Utterly heartbroken and jobless, Jessie is forced back home, to live with her stepmum and two evil stepsisters.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>Is it time for her to give up on the dream - or will Jessie learn that happy endings can come in the strangest of places?</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">With a cover and title that hinted at a fun read but a synopsis that didn't exactly shout 'read me' ... what's that saying, two out of three ain't bad?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The latter half better than the first; the step-mum and 'evil' stepsisters more entertaining and certainly a lot less </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">irritating</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> than the heroine of the story. D</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">espite the fat jokes {yawn}, an OK if largely forgettable modern twist on a well known tale .</span></span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgxPe8nDHNnUqfsBXGfwZzGodCUq4fezeADQLDsXsW3PupiHY7CIedW3ESIYuq8GBaCjE-Mg3m5UXfyHI2Ms908ZFRvSxcxAC6wLT_P4-rpdThzDEzJ1VGTJsceI-XAGXeVL2LFSFetc53Vnzgz5rFXb4JyHV2hN3FHS98SutRI9MqhSXpNZgMwGy71Zfsl" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="191" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgxPe8nDHNnUqfsBXGfwZzGodCUq4fezeADQLDsXsW3PupiHY7CIedW3ESIYuq8GBaCjE-Mg3m5UXfyHI2Ms908ZFRvSxcxAC6wLT_P4-rpdThzDEzJ1VGTJsceI-XAGXeVL2LFSFetc53Vnzgz5rFXb4JyHV2hN3FHS98SutRI9MqhSXpNZgMwGy71Zfsl=w191-h200" width="191" /></a></div><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Like my reviews and/or are an author, publisher etc who has a book you'd like me to review? 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All original content is created by the website owner, including but not limited to text, design, code, images, photographs and videos are considered to be the Intellectual Property of the website owner, whether copyrighted or not, and are protected by DMCA Protection Services using the Digital Millennium Copyright Act Title 17 Chapter 512 (c)(3). Reproduction or re-publication of this content is prohibited without permission.</div>Felicity Grace Terryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17852843882007267665noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2372511622978085955.post-90122070359969386722023-10-23T13:28:00.001+01:002023-10-23T13:34:19.503+01:00WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING, TRULY MADLY GUILTY & FLOWERS FOR THE DEAD.<p> <span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Today on Pen and Paper what have to be three of my least favourite reads of 2023.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING</b> by <b>DELIA OWENS</b>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjWk-bXSguhH1Ttscaq52Ag5xcsuf0oTfw0VGpj1MKUDiA8jcTeaE2MkPytsqe7pgxZ1W90-0DJb1IO-QwCkaxi0F4UqCc93l0yKsKFl2CfRwhJdYoZ8T00gOfcPsnD3TnSk-6h1Cr7dfEDhoBL3Vzq50dGmtCvUP4UmPB5Ou_WDEZ1qm5QgnELc7UQpGre" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="465" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjWk-bXSguhH1Ttscaq52Ag5xcsuf0oTfw0VGpj1MKUDiA8jcTeaE2MkPytsqe7pgxZ1W90-0DJb1IO-QwCkaxi0F4UqCc93l0yKsKFl2CfRwhJdYoZ8T00gOfcPsnD3TnSk-6h1Cr7dfEDhoBL3Vzq50dGmtCvUP4UmPB5Ou_WDEZ1qm5QgnELc7UQpGre=w212-h320" width="212" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet fishing village. Kya Clark is barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when the popular Chase Andrews is found dead, locals immediately suspect her.</b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>But Kya is not what they say. A born naturalist with just one day of school, she takes life's lessons from the land, learning the real ways of the world from the dishonest signals of fireflies. But while she has the skills to live in solitude forever, the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. Drawn to two young men from town, who are each intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new and startling world—until the unthinkable happens.</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">I can remember my thinking when this book first came out in 2018 that I'd wait until all the hype had died down before I read it. I'm so glad I did as, totally underwhelmed by it, its bad enough some five years on admitting that I didn't enjoy it, back then I think I'd have been lynched.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">Seriously though, </span></span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">it was disappointing that that the author seemingly couldn't quite decide what the book was, a fairy tale for Young Adults?; a murder mystery?; a coming of age story?; a courtroom drama? {Heck, there's even some poetry thrown in for good measure}. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Whatever its genre{s}, full of cliches, the characters flat and stereotypical, the dialogue, painful, the sex scenes, laughable and awkward, the mystery, not much of a mystery.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Even more disappointing was that as a character driven reader I </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">didn't buy into Kya. Supposedly a person who has been totally isolated, I saw her as merely a loner who was somewhat lacking in socialisation skills, no doubt due to her not having been privy to them in her formative years. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">OK so that's what I didn't like about the book, now for what I did like ...</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I enjoyed the vivid descriptions of the biology of the US marshlands</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">; </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">presumably something that the author felt comfortable with given that, </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">whilst this is their first work of fiction, they </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">have been published in several nature journals. </span></span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">At a loss to think of anything else, I was obviously in a good mood when I rated it as I did.</span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>TRULY MADLY GUILTY</b> by <b>LIANE MORIARTY</b>. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEidFILRpgTt0AMhUmF1XInEsmeeQkoxMoUueCWuXWvkUVvxN75wCmIgJznS7D8iwb_A-Vut6cj8_7Sl6rhVrdgbcpF42Qqo30TwKYAy7t2e_gwTlroYdhWF9Z-BoY-NPeqXLXvpkbEhZPBXdp2dSO3d5iLd8FQ77-vRXx5CIoL2K1g0ow_V-jgO11_Fz7CQ" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="261" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEidFILRpgTt0AMhUmF1XInEsmeeQkoxMoUueCWuXWvkUVvxN75wCmIgJznS7D8iwb_A-Vut6cj8_7Sl6rhVrdgbcpF42Qqo30TwKYAy7t2e_gwTlroYdhWF9Z-BoY-NPeqXLXvpkbEhZPBXdp2dSO3d5iLd8FQ77-vRXx5CIoL2K1g0ow_V-jgO11_Fz7CQ=w209-h320" width="209" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">This is a story which begins with a barbecue ...</span></b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>By the end of it a lifelong friendship will be in tatters, a marriage on the rocks and an innocent bystander dead.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>In just one evening six lives will change forever ...</b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">{Sigh} It isn't very often that I struggle to find <i>anything</i> positive to say about a book so I'm going to go with</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> at the time of typing, 51,229 readers posting on GoodReads rated Truly Madly Guilty </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: center;">⭐</span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: center;">⭐</span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: center;">⭐</span><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">⭐</span></span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: center;">⭐ ... proof that there are those who enjoyed it.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Anyway! </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large; text-align: center;">OK, I get it, something awful happened at this barbecue ... but what? If nothing else I'd like to be able to say that it was the desire to find out that kept me reading but the truth of the matter is, any curiosity as to what had happened that fateful day long since gone, it was only the stubborn streak that sees me having started a book having to finish it that actually kept me reading until the bitter end.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large; text-align: center;">What of the characters though?</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: center;">That</span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: center;"> between all of the infertility, the alcohol abuse, the hoarding etc, etc, the characters got kind of lost. That we were privy to their inner voices; thoughts that they wouldn't dream of voicing, was an interesting ploy but alas I just didn't connect with any of them.</span></span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"> </span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span> </span><b>FLOWERS FOR THE DEAD</b><span> by </span><b>C.K. WILLIAMS</b><span>.</span></span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjETS63ofJOvP9gijBqf8Ad0DqJ63fvdMqWNSNpR_EAo16zkd06CXTyVr5GPsV0Mzn2O1S0-Ysp7ihtZPuheWXkqBdtmnAS4uqP8DFw4n6BFZ0JGCixhqTEqpmiDeKnSN6QQ_kHfYj0ajTXk_LaGVIFEYM9Q6XdFkqSZY5xDpr-jLeq9q3Q-23fNNd2XtZO" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="326" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjETS63ofJOvP9gijBqf8Ad0DqJ63fvdMqWNSNpR_EAo16zkd06CXTyVr5GPsV0Mzn2O1S0-Ysp7ihtZPuheWXkqBdtmnAS4uqP8DFw4n6BFZ0JGCixhqTEqpmiDeKnSN6QQ_kHfYj0ajTXk_LaGVIFEYM9Q6XdFkqSZY5xDpr-jLeq9q3Q-23fNNd2XtZO=w208-h320" width="208" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: right;"><b>I am the reason girls are told not to trust strangers. I am their cautionary tale.</b></div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>Nineteen years ago Linn Wilson was attacked. Seventeen-years-old and home alone, she’d been waiting for her friends to arrive when she heard the doorbell ring. But when she opened the door, Linn let in her worst nightmare. The culprit was never found.</b></span></p><p style="text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>It was someone I knew.</b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>I am going to find out who did this to me.</b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">'A totally gripping crime thriller that will keep you in suspense!' according to the book's header on Amazon.co.uk.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">Sounds promising, yes? </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">Its just a shame that in reality I found the book to be too long, the chapters, mind numbingly so.</span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> As for the characters, to say that I found them all pretty much 'meh' about sums it up.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">That there's a good chance you'll have worked out pretty early on who the perpetrator is, disappointing. However for all of that, the author manages to bring the novel to a unpredictable, rather shocking conclusion. </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">On the plus side though, </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">there's the bell. Put to good use throughout the book, </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">I loved how the ringing of that bell created such a sense of foreboding, upping the tension in such a unique and unexpected way.</span></span></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg4PA6ZbtIQ1tY93fzLbSQ4WufPse1wEu8j3V0ixI-PxYdmInir2TUNNTGbwM_fioTcu0nudfi0721U79H1AY43MwwtYRw_duzdmWVxj4Q1NvDpTl53girv3E-LhErkHYjxkOtUETYqGLyEfivDjnKGsvXO4LCLVXw9-Cb22MvrMe7RzFC9kWefByQyYNwv" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="191" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg4PA6ZbtIQ1tY93fzLbSQ4WufPse1wEu8j3V0ixI-PxYdmInir2TUNNTGbwM_fioTcu0nudfi0721U79H1AY43MwwtYRw_duzdmWVxj4Q1NvDpTl53girv3E-LhErkHYjxkOtUETYqGLyEfivDjnKGsvXO4LCLVXw9-Cb22MvrMe7RzFC9kWefByQyYNwv=w191-h200" width="191" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915;"><span style="color: black; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Like my reviews and/or are an author, publisher etc who has a book you'd like me to review? 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Reproduction or re-publication of this content is prohibited without permission.</div>Felicity Grace Terryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17852843882007267665noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2372511622978085955.post-89435900381272295072023-10-20T13:30:00.002+01:002023-10-20T13:35:18.195+01:00THE RAGGED TROUSERED PHILANTHROPISTS & LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER.<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> Today on Pen and Paper, two 'classics' that, having first read them more years than I care to think of {the first when Mr T was first at university in the 1990's}, I </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">recently re-read. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>THE RAGGED TROUSERED PHILANTHROPISTS</b> by <b>ROBERT TRESSELL</b>. </span><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiHwX5kZlv5YklPemCfMcaCr0PFdxGAP_JGBBlwUFD_k5KSTqCLPSHrmYo6F3WIjQVerwoMA43TzE-7JG9wH3cSSAkHrSDHNyWP_95LIRvbRdHimvvk5nlzfizFYQpKt85Cue8HFHPtEvgGt_nVpxzvw5I3qIVkIQDTfZCaQ6kUkYrLc8CSKiFFK_y6CGaw" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="315" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiHwX5kZlv5YklPemCfMcaCr0PFdxGAP_JGBBlwUFD_k5KSTqCLPSHrmYo6F3WIjQVerwoMA43TzE-7JG9wH3cSSAkHrSDHNyWP_95LIRvbRdHimvvk5nlzfizFYQpKt85Cue8HFHPtEvgGt_nVpxzvw5I3qIVkIQDTfZCaQ6kUkYrLc8CSKiFFK_y6CGaw=w212-h320" width="212" /></a></div>The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists tells the story of a group of working men who are joined one day by Owen, a journeyman-prophet with a vision of a just society. Owen's spirited attacks on the greed and dishonesty of the capitalist system rouse his fellow men from their political quietism.</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Given my lack of interest in politics this was a strange choice of read for me when, no doubt encouraged by Mr T who at that time was at university, I first read it way back in the 1990's; that I enjoyed it so much that I requested a copy for that Christmas stranger still. That I am only now re-reading, well, not so strange given that its something of a mammoth read of almost 600 pages, its themes of British</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> life both </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">social, political, economic and cultural at a time when socialism was beginning to gain ground rather deep. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Featuring</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> a group of working men fighting to avoid a life of poverty, I felt myself quickly immersed {often uncomfortably so} in the unfolding drama and having to remind myself that this was a work of fiction albeit drawn from the author's own life experiences. That its relevance still speaks to me 110 years on; that all of the lies and explanations used to justify poverty and hardship then are still being used today, </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">something that both angers and saddens me in equal amounts.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Despite its black humour, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is de</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">finitely not the easiest of readers and yet its the most important, thought provoking reads that I possess.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER</b> by <b>D.H. LAWRENCE</b>.<br /><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhUmBSlU2V5rCzbH5psoKvea34wIq1ZHWH_9fzrPcRU-qCwN8jgMD3kE7xkPtDjOrdxJwueQyj_2Di7Ytwu0UrhgMt0ak3-mjTvHxJ1LUNOUq73bzv2uKee94doPXHBSxnmYEzkDyl40tucvEVRO6ZSu8bArJpNR1AbGege3kNi09MNRtsqJZotK4n-ZSM8" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="288" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhUmBSlU2V5rCzbH5psoKvea34wIq1ZHWH_9fzrPcRU-qCwN8jgMD3kE7xkPtDjOrdxJwueQyj_2Di7Ytwu0UrhgMt0ak3-mjTvHxJ1LUNOUq73bzv2uKee94doPXHBSxnmYEzkDyl40tucvEVRO6ZSu8bArJpNR1AbGege3kNi09MNRtsqJZotK4n-ZSM8=w195-h320" width="195" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: right;"><b>Compassion, reverence and desire are interwoven in this revolutionary novel.</b></div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: right;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The story of the relationship between Constance Chatterley and Mellors, her crippled husband's gamekeeper, is Lawrence's most controversial novel - and perhaps his most complete and beautiful study of mutual love.</span></b></p><p style="text-align: right;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Writing to liberate the generations who, he felt, had regarded sex merely as an embarrassment or a mechanical act, he said about the book: I always labour at the same thing, to make the sex relation valid and precious, instead of shameful. And this novel is the furthest I've gone. To me is is beautiful and tender and frail as the naked self is.</span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">First published in the late 1920's, I can't quite remember when this novel first came to my attention let alone when I first read it though a friend reassures me it was probably in the mid 1980's when, lets call him Philip, got hold of a copy which did the rounds </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">amongst the boys in the fifth form. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Anyway, re-read on a handful of </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">occasions</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> since whenever it was I first read it, whilst I no longer blush at the sex scenes, I admit I still don't like the words '</span><span style="background-color: black; font-family: verdana;">cunt</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">' and '</span><span style="background-color: black; font-family: verdana;">fuck</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">' which lets face it Lawrence uses in abundance and find myself positively recoiling at the use of the word '<span style="background-color: black;">nigger</span>'</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">What remains an unashamed look at sex that is t</span></span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">ame by todays standards {I'm pretty sure you'll not find it being passed around the school yard, adolescent boys giggling over it}; a</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> study of marriage, class and disability, </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">of two very different worlds co-existing in 1890's, </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Lady </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Chatterley's Lover is so much more than mere titillation</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgdlW6whJxz_PyUOrvl2nPhmrf4A7wNgMO8lduLzRP9rjVaNHbrLTNmZ4XKpaArx54iEDbbocVoDtA6XDW2dzESGG2zHEnce5TKaNU5C_SXK9FpBTePLZYbMAMR2-651_uiH1nQ2EtDrfRElJfkV5_3cFLgjq7Xgw7KxeQv-M7TmNLOxqgdfu_thoArUA5Y" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="191" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgdlW6whJxz_PyUOrvl2nPhmrf4A7wNgMO8lduLzRP9rjVaNHbrLTNmZ4XKpaArx54iEDbbocVoDtA6XDW2dzESGG2zHEnce5TKaNU5C_SXK9FpBTePLZYbMAMR2-651_uiH1nQ2EtDrfRElJfkV5_3cFLgjq7Xgw7KxeQv-M7TmNLOxqgdfu_thoArUA5Y=w191-h200" width="191" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Like my reviews and/or are an author, publisher etc who has a book you'd like me to review? Please get in touch, details can be found via my Review Policy. 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Reproduction or re-publication of this content is prohibited without permission.</div>Felicity Grace Terryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17852843882007267665noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2372511622978085955.post-55867049668287179752023-10-17T14:15:00.002+01:002023-10-18T14:40:02.677+01:00A SIMPLE WISH & THE SIXPENNY ORPHAN.<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> Today on Pen and Paper, two historical quickies set in the late 1800's and early 1900's respectively.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>A</b></span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b> SIMPLE WISH</b> by <b>ROSIE GOODWIN</b>.</span></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjyNu13vKcvdc0vumWJQZ9rs8-nhs75gvgKm2FiCyKWpWOeW0N8KLZQbHS1cpt6Vk7O2Sjf_AonIHmQLLDMR5z0SZrZhLiT6ZN0DtbB6XJSK-O3p7w8uutSmtfVtWifqlcixfKsWjmBUzbnCz7d7zD6SfGy1XpVFe7kumF6Jykx9_9rqucupuyFyrsb3vLo" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="326" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjyNu13vKcvdc0vumWJQZ9rs8-nhs75gvgKm2FiCyKWpWOeW0N8KLZQbHS1cpt6Vk7O2Sjf_AonIHmQLLDMR5z0SZrZhLiT6ZN0DtbB6XJSK-O3p7w8uutSmtfVtWifqlcixfKsWjmBUzbnCz7d7zD6SfGy1XpVFe7kumF6Jykx9_9rqucupuyFyrsb3vLo=w209-h320" width="209" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>1885.</b></span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>Ruby Carter has always been protected from her cruel father by her beloved mother. That is until she is stricken with a fatal illness and from her deathbed, reveals that Ruby was adopted. Overcome by grief and alone with the violent man she once called her father, young Ruby has no choice but to flee. Homeless and frightened she is relieved when a kindly stranger named Mrs Bamber takes pity on her and welcomes the poor girl into her home.</b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>But soon, Ruby learns Mrs Bamber is not as generous as she first seemed - she forces Ruby into a life of crime as a thief in Birmingham's jewellery quarter. But Ruby is determined that she will atone for what she's done, and be reunited with her birth parents.</b></span></p><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>Ruby's only wish is to find her family.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">An adoring mother with a secret that is revealed on her death bed, a drunken, abusive father {whilst not particularly graphic there is a rape}, a daughter who finding herself all alone in the world is taken in by a woman who, not as she at first seems, soon puts her 'house guest' to work.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Drawn into the dark under-belly of Victorian Birmingham, Ruby, the heroine of the story, rather oddly put me in mind of a female Oliver Twist in the way she is recruited to a life of crime.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I thought this an enjoyable enough read but, typical of its type, one that I felt I had read many times before. However, I do like a good, heart warming, rags to riches story and in this respect A Simple Wish did not disappoint. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>THE SIXPENNY ORPHAN</b> by <b>GLENDA YOUNG</b>.</span></p><p></p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: right;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEirL_YfnEKDUQBfxcaYoIcbvaFb7rpc1xqlxvmJR2PYavrVwMKmO2_DHGXVbVHEbIPrAFJNNGOqItw3PwUHJVwBnqzS_HNPIPkVK1RrqAnN-TePPZAErgCfhX_Fk_QmnnGe8Pf5KWX5l63tUKPHlkGFNY_0V3j0iG5NX0RIpBLwfnun_TRoY6xkyzL5zGJJ" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="231" data-original-width="150" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEirL_YfnEKDUQBfxcaYoIcbvaFb7rpc1xqlxvmJR2PYavrVwMKmO2_DHGXVbVHEbIPrAFJNNGOqItw3PwUHJVwBnqzS_HNPIPkVK1RrqAnN-TePPZAErgCfhX_Fk_QmnnGe8Pf5KWX5l63tUKPHlkGFNY_0V3j0iG5NX0RIpBLwfnun_TRoY6xkyzL5zGJJ=w208-h320" width="208" /></a></div>After the death of their parents, sisters Poppy and Rose are taken in by widow Nellie Harper. But whilst they have a roof over their heads, the young orphans are unloved, unwanted, and always hungry, with only one pair of boots between them. Keen to make money, Nellie hatches a plan to sell the girls to the mysterious Mr Scurrfield. But when the day comes for them to leave, Scurrfield reveals he will take only one of the sisters - and he will decide which it will be on the turn of a sixpence.</b></div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>Ten years later, Poppy is married with three children. Not a day goes by when she doesn't think about Rose, but after many years of searching, Poppy has accepted that her sister is lost to her. That is until a letter suddenly arrives, revealing Rose's fate and breaking Poppy's heart. Determined to be reunited with her beloved sister, Poppy sets out to bring Rose home.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Whilst I did enjoy the author's A Mother's Christmas Wish the writing did put me in mind of the late Catherine Cookson, not so The Sixpenny Orphan in which Glenda Young came into their own. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">From the salt of the earth type to the downright unlikable; from those you'll find yourself rooting for to, well, those, you most definitely won't, the characters are certainly memorable and then there's the poverty and inequality of early 1900's Ryhope which is positively palpable. That the author is passionate about the history of this small part of North East England and its people shows in her writing of this gripping historical saga.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><img alt="" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="191" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhEch-OGAi0R18o8CxWE5z4DX_oTyHyXDIqhSsgeH9-QhhPkkC2Rd37uVDj-z9AK7RnD--HwgPNzOa4vOp45Zh0DPzgmLyJImR88tn4xWcxtLn0GyKDmXqpclygaq0gVLqsGvcC3IXrOJRLrL_AuvnsOAAvGir82pPzRsLXgd3WUqAnrl18ZKnwrxfnBbbc=w191-h200" width="191" /></span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;">Like my review and/or are an author, publisher etc who has a book you'd like me to review? Please get in touch, details can be found via my Review Policy. Likewise, lets share the bookish love; if you are a fellow bookworm/blogger please leave a comment and/or follow Pen and Paper on Google Friend Connect via the box on the right, I'll be more than happy to return your visit/follow your blog.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgldf1h7gjWpoJSpf0epknkse5Rdcj3tvw2G3CB5owmOaUZhrZ2lJqV3c_EsdbjlOrJ1MWDKLNXQXr2V8xQhR2cjmsGtJjT3Jcu0tgEJGGAWqOpuaj3s_K9G5jcU7Qgj_DFLtv3-0o-BKlBI3B79_j5iAUG0llfZt5cxXd4FPWLPaNCTbJNvqWD2jk0VI4i" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="150" data-original-width="199" height="151" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgldf1h7gjWpoJSpf0epknkse5Rdcj3tvw2G3CB5owmOaUZhrZ2lJqV3c_EsdbjlOrJ1MWDKLNXQXr2V8xQhR2cjmsGtJjT3Jcu0tgEJGGAWqOpuaj3s_K9G5jcU7Qgj_DFLtv3-0o-BKlBI3B79_j5iAUG0llfZt5cxXd4FPWLPaNCTbJNvqWD2jk0VI4i=w200-h151" width="200" /></a></span></div><p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright: Tracy Terry @ Pen and Paper. 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font-size: large;"><b>CHARLOTTE'S SNOWMAN</b> by <b>LAINEY DEE</b> with illustrations by <b>SARAH LEIGH WILLS</b>.</span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Target Age ... </span>Children aged 5-7 years</span></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Genre ...</span> Picture Book</span></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Publication Date: ... </span>October 2020</span></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Estimated Page Count ...</span><span style="color: rgb(var(--color_25)); font-family: verdana;"> 32</span></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; 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background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgh8vHeUYFPFTZiSAegRKieNh2VloN3KwOdhWXZdaJkpJ6Acqp9i8iMrDCbA7bDtv2cjVIdwpLY1P1N0Rhd8_Ku78EM3WiqMU8lA6Iq8cT5qltR4KK-_rPYoZD22ZfzsJf8DffJT1V7aaP9qGKeJC2LoYqoHUCpaDhZ4A4qek9dbJ4xdYK557ZnoVpzCzZF" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="351" data-original-width="250" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgh8vHeUYFPFTZiSAegRKieNh2VloN3KwOdhWXZdaJkpJ6Acqp9i8iMrDCbA7bDtv2cjVIdwpLY1P1N0Rhd8_Ku78EM3WiqMU8lA6Iq8cT5qltR4KK-_rPYoZD22ZfzsJf8DffJT1V7aaP9qGKeJC2LoYqoHUCpaDhZ4A4qek9dbJ4xdYK557ZnoVpzCzZF=w228-h320" width="228" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: right;"><b>Children love building snowmen. When they add a nose, eyes, and mouth to their snowman, they get a magical feeling that their snowman has his own personality.</b></div></span><p></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>And… sometimes snowmen do come alive!</b></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>Charlotte wakes up and sees that it’s snowing… it’s snowing and it’s snowing. She runs outside to build a snowman. She fixes a carrot for the snowman’s nose, a stick for his mouth, and two stones for his eyes.</b></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>But the snowman has many demands, so Charlotte has to part with her gloves, scarf and hat; so her snowman wouldn’t feel cold. But the sun comes up all of a sudden, and Charlotte cannot find her snowman anymore. She is sad. Then, she learns that her snowman hasn’t disappeared completely, but is hiding in the ground, waiting to emerge next winter.</b></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></b></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>A great book for those children who miss their much loved snowman when winter is over.</b></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">A charming winter's tale. Perfect for reading whilst cuddled up in a favourite blanket, Charlotte's Snowman will leave you feeling all warm and fuzzy inside. </span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Put in mind of the time of the time when our niece {now in her 30's} cried when her Uncle {aka Mr T}, having maintained that indoors was no place for the snowman he had just built her, left him outside to face the elements; that she awoke the following morning to find her new friend gone, nothing but a carrot left, well, you can imagine.</span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Charlotte understood that her snowman had melted under the hot sun.</span></b></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">She missed him very much. He was such a wonderful snowman, the best she'd ever made!</span></b></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The truly magical read of a truly magical snowman who like all snowmen before him was destined to 'disappear' {if you get my meaning} once the sun showed its face and the snow began to melt. </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">I cannot begin to</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> tell you how much I adored this delightful read with its big, bold, colour illustrations that helped bring the story to life.</span></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Such a wonderful way to celebrate winter, I can see this becoming a firm seasonal favourite to be brought out every year. </span></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; 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font-size: large;">Lainey Dee was born in Birmingham and grew up in Kidderminster, Worcestershire.</span></div><p></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">The author of Charlotte's Snowman, Let's Celebrate Being Different and Rodasauri the Dinosaur's Trip to London.</span></span><span style="font-family: verdana; 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Lainey currently looks after twins aged five years. A huge art deco fan, she lives in an art deco house which is decorated in that period style. In her free time, she enjoys baking and cooking for friends and visiting national trust properties.</span></span></div><p></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">Her favourite ice cream is strawberry and the strangest place she has slept in was a tepee Texas.</span></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">She enjoys using her imagination to invent new stories and characters. Lainey hopes her books will help readers see themselves and the world differently and understand how special they are.</span></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Website ... <span style="color: #3e4f00;"> </span><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #3e4f00; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="wixui-rich-text__text" href="https://www.shieldcrest.co.uk/about/featured-authors/lainey-dee/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">https://www.shieldcrest.co.uk/about/featured-authors/lainey-dee/</a></span></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: white;">With thanks to Rachel of Rachel's Random Resources for organising a paper copy</b><span style="background-color: white;">. 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All original content is created by the website owner, including but not limited to text, design, code, images, photographs and videos are considered to be the Intellectual Property of the website owner, whether copyrighted or not, and are protected by DMCA Protection Services using the Digital Millennium Copyright Act Title 17 Chapter 512 (c)(3). Reproduction or re-publication of this content is prohibited without permission.</div>Felicity Grace Terryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17852843882007267665noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2372511622978085955.post-30438681109519929972023-10-10T13:33:00.001+01:002023-10-10T13:40:52.676+01:00A COLOURFUL COUNTRY ESCAPE.<p> <span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Today on Pen and Paper another book I won, this one courtesy of The Friendly Book Community, a lovely, welcoming group which if you are on FaceBook you must look up ... you can find them <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/447781689644575" target="_blank">here</a>. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>A COLOURFUL COUNTRY ESCAPE </b>by <b>ANITA FAULKNER</b>.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEje_7PLt1l_3mAFlW1AinhCXRJ-1Nbj_pOV0ESXTTVatQhJHdnHEA85rSpjEszwNSOcEYNvMpc6YO75Hk9Wn6hd9uAK7G_C0XrVK98XyxGlfvhx7e8yo5UAN8yOtgAWmGeou6Knz1RmbS_l4HqRVE0ULrQrWk2jZR5hiXNKuwREOtzqYX0xaqvoJl4GDc2V" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img alt="" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="256" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEje_7PLt1l_3mAFlW1AinhCXRJ-1Nbj_pOV0ESXTTVatQhJHdnHEA85rSpjEszwNSOcEYNvMpc6YO75Hk9Wn6hd9uAK7G_C0XrVK98XyxGlfvhx7e8yo5UAN8yOtgAWmGeou6Knz1RmbS_l4HqRVE0ULrQrWk2jZR5hiXNKuwREOtzqYX0xaqvoJl4GDc2V=w205-h320" width="205" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: right;"><b>When vibrant but penniless Lexie is dumped by her posh boyfriend who is looking for a more financially suitable match, she decides to pack up her beloved orange campervan Penny in search of a new path. Stumbling upon a vacancy at a family-run paint company in the Cotswolds, Lexie believes she's found her perfect match ...</b></div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>Lexie arrives at Nutgrass Hall, home of Carrington Paints, but it seems that owner Benedict Carrington is less than impressed with her arrival, and Lexie realises she'll have her work cut out for her if she's to convince stuffy "Beige Ben" to trust her with rescuing his out-of-touch business. But Ben has more on his mind than just the company - his mother is determined to find him a suitable wife worthy of carrying the Carrington family name.</b></span></p><p style="text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>As Lexie sets to work on injecting some life colour into Carrington Paints, Ben allows himself to be set up with Tewkesbury's finest ladies. But the more time the pair spend together, the more they realise their feelings for each other aren't so black and white. Will Lexie be able to brighten into Ben's colourless world before it's too late?</b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">With a cover that hinted of a good summer read, I was not to be disappointed by this feel good, fun debut novel which rather refreshingly was set in the world of paint. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">Whilst I don't particularly think of myself as a big fan of the romantic comedy {mainly because I have found that the author rarely gets the blend of 'rom' and 'com' to my liking} I have to admit that I did enjoy this one in that I thought it a good mix of the two;not too heavy on the 'rom' and just right on the 'com'.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The characters however ... </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Hmm! The characters I found to be hit and miss. Sadly main character Lexi being the latter; I mean I get it, she's stubborn but there's stubborn and then there's inexplicably insisting on staying in an unheated, damp, clapped out old camper van when you could be staying in a room inside a hall ... with a heated bathroom.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Then there were the creeping in of Americanisms {the usage of thrift store instead of charity/second hand shop being one that comes to mind} </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">which giving the setting of an ancestral home set in a quintessential country hamlet seemed out of place.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Still, a fun, easily read novel. Hoping there will be future outings for the folk {and of course the peacocks} of Nutgrass Hall, Anita Faulkner is an author whose name I shall certainly be keeping a look out for. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiLG5Gi39Xd4eiJkUe1acP7i1t-DrK10faldGFH-ZQHwomVwezDb7CeuLobPtixlozBQAMYiicceKUOSsxtkHID83i5ogJabv7Nq87SWv4pR0I_BjCCQDeUOJxUWiXaJYmjJCPhTza9oNXTbsbyBQalbhXEPzhZHcKcqdMGvGmGOGCBBsXD2ZwYlrk9az2O" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiLG5Gi39Xd4eiJkUe1acP7i1t-DrK10faldGFH-ZQHwomVwezDb7CeuLobPtixlozBQAMYiicceKUOSsxtkHID83i5ogJabv7Nq87SWv4pR0I_BjCCQDeUOJxUWiXaJYmjJCPhTza9oNXTbsbyBQalbhXEPzhZHcKcqdMGvGmGOGCBBsXD2ZwYlrk9az2O=w200-h200" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: right;">Anita Faulkner writes warm ad fuzzy romcoms from her upcycled bureau in the south-west of England. She grew up sniffing books and devouring stories. And she insists it was perfectly normal to squirrel boxes of pretty stationary that felt far too magical to actually use. She's also accumulated a brave and patient husband and a strong-willed little boy who brighten up her world.</div><div style="text-align: right;">Social Media Links ... ~ <a href="https://anitafaulkner.co.uk/" target="_blank">Webpage</a> ~ <a href="https://www.facebook.com/anita.faulkner.73" target="_blank">FaceBook</a> ~ </div><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhbPjv_m4mfPBrFQLoflHPYdkOteIPehVoPj-P_R5LqT_3N6lzPyhtUZZwSQptUmWtfHSRIFtH5-3m9BTjet-6jcBJSLi8f_M8FVWp0U3KGzmghXr0xV9KVIWbs7oYcdletUxLLmaftEsUl87LyHr2OjnaEcFN2iQsBDGBemVcrTRkL06A9rFN5w1g8xTo2" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="180" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhbPjv_m4mfPBrFQLoflHPYdkOteIPehVoPj-P_R5LqT_3N6lzPyhtUZZwSQptUmWtfHSRIFtH5-3m9BTjet-6jcBJSLi8f_M8FVWp0U3KGzmghXr0xV9KVIWbs7oYcdletUxLLmaftEsUl87LyHr2OjnaEcFN2iQsBDGBemVcrTRkL06A9rFN5w1g8xTo2=w200-h200" width="200" /></a></div>Like my reviews and/or are an author, publisher etc who has a book you'd like me to review? 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Reproduction or re-publication of this content is prohibited without permission.</div>Felicity Grace Terryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17852843882007267665noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2372511622978085955.post-33273703584366183892023-10-07T16:39:00.000+01:002023-10-07T16:39:09.192+01:00CLARITY JONES AND THE MAGICAL DETECTIVE AGENCY & SAFIYYAH'S WAR.<span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Having come across a wonderful book page on FaceBook called <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ToppstaKids" target="_blank">Toppsta</a> who delight in children's books, I was lucky enough to win not one but two of the books they featured recently.</span><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgpQHqmmRtDGpwZYTzuFb-bgICh35ekbhU9hhoZpXdEekN9u37IcyhZEYMilTxlYS53c8YFcwp4TOKsqWhKvoblcaMhZjPF9Durol5fdVpB52qtAlVTEjQqaw594dHXMLY2wDLyvuJc_sg722FwkXGYBMY-UFX25O1p_RYDaXXgwrNapS-QhyxEbRrcrfIW" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="326" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgpQHqmmRtDGpwZYTzuFb-bgICh35ekbhU9hhoZpXdEekN9u37IcyhZEYMilTxlYS53c8YFcwp4TOKsqWhKvoblcaMhZjPF9Durol5fdVpB52qtAlVTEjQqaw594dHXMLY2wDLyvuJc_sg722FwkXGYBMY-UFX25O1p_RYDaXXgwrNapS-QhyxEbRrcrfIW=w208-h320" width="208" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: right;"><b>CLARITY JONES AND THE MAGICAL DETECTIVE AGENCY </b>written by <b>CHRIS SMITH </b>with illustrations by <b>KENNETH ANDERSON</b>.</div></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>'Never, ever eliminate the impossible.'</b></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><div style="font-family: verdana; text-align: right;"><b>When Mutt gets a job as an apprentice at the leading detective agency in the realm of Rillia, he's not expecting to work with ex-princesses, snow gnoblins and the most notorious assassin of the White Hand Clan.</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana; text-align: right;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana; text-align: right;"><b>And he's definitely not expecting to be thrown in the deep end on the agency's toughest and most dangerous job yet - the mysterious case of the vanishing jester ...</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana; text-align: left;">A 'mid-grade' read! I hear you say</div><div style="font-family: verdana; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana; text-align: left;">Yes, a mid-grade read but then I've said it before and I'll say it again, a great story is a great story no matter what age it is targeted at and, my goodness, Clarity Jones And The Magical Detective Agency is a great story no matter your age.</div><div style="font-family: verdana; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana; text-align: left;"><b>Great characters √</b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: verdana; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana; text-align: left;">I'm super, super excited by this, well, magical array of character.</div><div style="font-family: verdana; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana; text-align: left;">Characters like Clarity Jones the one time princess turned M.I. {that's a Magical Investigator to you and me}, a detective {not that anyone in Rillia has the foggiest notion as to what a detective is}<span style="font-family: verdana;"> Mutt, an eight year old orphan who accidently find's himself a detective's apprentice and Nissassa, a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: verdana;">one-time assassin from the infamous Assassins Guild who, much as I loved them failed to steal my heart like</span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> Mirko, the snow goblin who is, well, lets just say is somewhat {OK then, really} fastidious when it comes to cleanliness in general and the cleaning of his shaggy white fur in particular {and standing at 8 feet tall that is an awful lot of fur}. </span></div><div style="font-family: verdana; text-align: left;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">... </span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">and that's only the main characters, there are plenty of others, amongst which are the character types that the author so cleverly puts his own spin on.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Superb storytelling </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">√ </span></b></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana; text-align: left;">My word can Chris Smith spin a yarn! I have no doubt that young readers will be thrilled by this magical, funny, adventure packed read ... heck! I'm thrilled by it. </div><div style="font-family: verdana; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana; text-align: left;">That the author cleverly uses asides to the main story, mini chapters within a chapter that read almost like a guide book that brings to life not only Rillia but also the characters and their habitats is so impressive. </div><div style="font-family: verdana; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana; text-align: left;">And then of course there's that the narrative is sprinkled with asides in which the author speaks directly to the reader ... brilliant!</div><div style="font-family: verdana; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Second to none world building </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">√ </span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I loved that the novel was set in a medieval like, magical realm. The people, the buildings, the back streets, the sights, all of which were all so beautifully brought to life that I felt myself transported there.</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana; text-align: left;"><b></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b style="font-family: verdana;">Wonderful</b><b style="font-family: verdana;"> illustrations </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">√ </span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I loved the fun, black and white, cartoon like illustrations that will doubtlessly help younger, less confident readers not only better mentally picture the world and inhabitants but will also help them engage with the text.</span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiocj8Wo9mP_Q17nP5aooa5xeHVgT3lHzcbH1qBGIodYpDziqOPufiAz0mv8xp9s_YKR-LHoJpRwRoMlTVCE-GcEq7TRmcoQJS3HHhHka_S3Y9DtQOqZwmKoeojp-wbtEiwgglAkOy4-FNBVJ1nD8hCit9kQCuVzJYmyKtxlc2BWK83HNI4mk4Ry39Wf_T/s1747/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1747" data-original-width="1209" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiocj8Wo9mP_Q17nP5aooa5xeHVgT3lHzcbH1qBGIodYpDziqOPufiAz0mv8xp9s_YKR-LHoJpRwRoMlTVCE-GcEq7TRmcoQJS3HHhHka_S3Y9DtQOqZwmKoeojp-wbtEiwgglAkOy4-FNBVJ1nD8hCit9kQCuVzJYmyKtxlc2BWK83HNI4mk4Ry39Wf_T/w221-h320/1.jpg" width="221" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;"><b>SAFIYYAH'S WAR</b></span><b> </b>by <b style="font-weight: bold;">HIBA NOOR KHAN</b><b>.</b></div></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.48px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>War comes to the streets of Paris and Safiyyah's life changes for ever.</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.48px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.48px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Her best friend's family have fled, and the bombing makes her afraid to leave the mosque where she lives. But when her father is arrested by the Nazis for his secret Resistance work, it falls to Safiyyah to run the dangerous errands around the city.</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.48px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.48px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>It's not long before hundreds of persecuted Jews seek sanctuary at the mosque. Can Safiyyah find the courage to enter the treacherous catacombs under Paris and lead the Jews to safety?</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.48px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.48px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Broadly based on actual events, the author has brought to life a part of recent history that, not largely known,</span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.48px;"> saw a community of heroic and compassionate Muslims of North African-heritage risk their lives to hide Jews (and the occasional British soldiers) from the Nazis during WW2.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.48px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.48px;">The story explores Paris as the Nazis invade the city Safiyyah once freely and safely roamed changing it almost beyond recognition as the liberty and livelihoods if not the very lives of her friends are threatened. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.48px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.48px;">I thought Safiyyah a wonderful character, seeing something of myself in her love of the library and her friendship with the librarian, Madame Odette ... unlike Safiyyah however I don't think I could ever have been that brave.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.48px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.48px;">Whilst there are some pretty 'grown-up' themes for young readers to get their heads around; themes such as the occupation of a city, acts of aggression, religious bias, seeing family members go off to war, </span></span><span style="font-family: verdana; letter-spacing: 0.48px;">there are also the themes of compassion, friendship and what it means to do the right thing, that together make this such a moving and, based on actual events as it is, important book to read no matter what your age. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; letter-spacing: 0.48px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJHK4pWqZCuV2H4GqA-Dt72zPC1NBJbfiIgohwsWNyRZxxRVA1jzNGXfT1sW2IAbedit_8CsDfhA7Z_d0Bjj1gHitFaEaIYpELs82kpqhgbiaMx2WBkERc4LDeGOryzPHgTQjmh-YGr8qM1HV4O9Me9N3VNsWlH2hEiNCIdJgaobCv287X6bb1Jc3O8bWG/s180/1.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="180" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJHK4pWqZCuV2H4GqA-Dt72zPC1NBJbfiIgohwsWNyRZxxRVA1jzNGXfT1sW2IAbedit_8CsDfhA7Z_d0Bjj1gHitFaEaIYpELs82kpqhgbiaMx2WBkERc4LDeGOryzPHgTQjmh-YGr8qM1HV4O9Me9N3VNsWlH2hEiNCIdJgaobCv287X6bb1Jc3O8bWG/s1600/1.png" width="180" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.48px;">Like my reviews and/or are an author, publisher etc who has a book you'd like me to review? 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Reproduction or re-publication of this content is prohibited without permission.</div>Felicity Grace Terryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17852843882007267665noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2372511622978085955.post-24575229790894859492023-10-04T11:08:00.001+01:002023-10-04T11:09:02.596+01:00ONLY FOR CHRISTMAS. <p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhXaN6b8rf2D8qSAU2UER2-Pi-83wBXBXHP2P_ylPHSHhYRkZgbr8NWC1qywVGtIMFZPuS28hwP85_35kOLkf9ChBu4ZI4cZeRm-4sCMKgjR7gOad5yu14zBBSFPz4pk28fqrLIMPUoP434T1EbohKx3kXsOGBLqgwS80J13ZgJMOhl9Ppo-CHf06BSgVPf" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="258" data-original-width="657" height="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhXaN6b8rf2D8qSAU2UER2-Pi-83wBXBXHP2P_ylPHSHhYRkZgbr8NWC1qywVGtIMFZPuS28hwP85_35kOLkf9ChBu4ZI4cZeRm-4sCMKgjR7gOad5yu14zBBSFPz4pk28fqrLIMPUoP434T1EbohKx3kXsOGBLqgwS80J13ZgJMOhl9Ppo-CHf06BSgVPf=w640-h252" width="640" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgeBvcczHnKNEXQw3Fj7c5RbrbZGN9yP0BvMtmFnwSoOAGpyS8FfFg3JntEemqeCS0MKmj4lfkQWVFEnXAFCNd6RZk_KmZinPJUugeYvp44tGdjEtTFGyh1C0MKeEKhRgAHfnNjKLtQRY2woKzn5RpYzBogFIfMD2NBnulsCrLTBB9ojiWHCTpvomgC8QGc" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="374" data-original-width="243" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgeBvcczHnKNEXQw3Fj7c5RbrbZGN9yP0BvMtmFnwSoOAGpyS8FfFg3JntEemqeCS0MKmj4lfkQWVFEnXAFCNd6RZk_KmZinPJUugeYvp44tGdjEtTFGyh1C0MKeEKhRgAHfnNjKLtQRY2woKzn5RpYzBogFIfMD2NBnulsCrLTBB9ojiWHCTpvomgC8QGc=w208-h320" width="208" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><div style="text-align: right;"><b>ONLY FOR CHRISTMAS</b> by <b>TRACY CORBET</b>.</div></b></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" color="rgb(var(--color_25))" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" color="rgb(var(--color_25))" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Genre ...</span><span color="rgb(var(--color_25))"> Women’s Commercial Fiction/Contemporary Romance</span></span></div><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Publication Date ... </span>28th September 2023</span></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; 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margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>One month to pretend... or one month to fall in love?</b></span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">How do I turn down an overly keen colleague I have zero interest in dating? Should I:</span></b></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">1. Stammer and bluster my way through every excuse in the book</span></b></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>2. Accept and then immediately turn in my resignation letter, change my number and leave the country</b></span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>3. Allow my hot, new, doctor neighbour to step in and pretend to be my boyfriend</b></span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The answer: there are no right answers.</span></b></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">But option 3 is happening and I’m fake dating Lucas just to survive my work Christmas party without any further unwanted advances.</span></b></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">That I didn't necessarily connect with either of the main characters {and especially not with the 'fake date', dishy American doctor, Lucas whose Americanisms, well, to my mind just didn't come off as American}, in</span></span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: center;"> the tradition of pantomime I hurrahed the characters there to be liked and booed those there not to be liked ... with the exception of my favourite character, the </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: center;">interfering, nosy</span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: center;"> neighbour Mrs Kelsey who, {in a nod to the novel's 4 legged character, Fred} seemingly with a bark worse than the dog's, is one of those characters who 'grows on you' as you get to know her.</span></span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: center;">All in all, pretty much what I have come to expect of this genre; Only For Christmas proved to be a</span><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> light hearted, one might say fluffy, festive rom com that is just what the doctor {American or otherwise} ordered for those cold, wintry months.</span></span></span></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; 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Tracy describes her writing style as modern tales of romance, with engaging quirky characters, who overcome adversity, grow as people and conclude in satisfying optimistic endings. When she’s not writing, she enjoys amateur dramatics, gardening and sewing. She works part-time for a local charity.</span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjK3EzXvEVr28OosglsLwGu0s8WuwcQg3rB226TwOL0zs_SN_CCvjKFjTdR-D-hR4OWVSUFFKOOyLtd868LI2UC_aK_dR5oqRrS_Qu7T1Ir--EAgfeKJtIjFahBUhkHWja6ka893T9sE5f8R2U9An1GFhUnLP-xdf3E5B16zexigg7-gHmVlMiUjF8EG6bS" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="289" data-original-width="193" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjK3EzXvEVr28OosglsLwGu0s8WuwcQg3rB226TwOL0zs_SN_CCvjKFjTdR-D-hR4OWVSUFFKOOyLtd868LI2UC_aK_dR5oqRrS_Qu7T1Ir--EAgfeKJtIjFahBUhkHWja6ka893T9sE5f8R2U9An1GFhUnLP-xdf3E5B16zexigg7-gHmVlMiUjF8EG6bS=w133-h200" width="133" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Social Media Links ... ~ <a href="https://www.facebook.com/@tracyacorbettauthor " target="_blank">FaceBook</a> ~ <a href="https://twitter.com/tracyacorbett" target="_blank">X </a>{Formerly Twitter} ~ <a href="https://www.instagram.com/tracyacorbett/" target="_blank">Instagram</a> ~ </span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: white;">With thanks to Rachel of Rachel's Random Resources for organising a paper copy</b><span style="background-color: white;">. 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Reproduction or re-publication of this content is prohibited without permission.</div>Felicity Grace Terryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17852843882007267665noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2372511622978085955.post-15077749721421743972023-10-01T12:15:00.000+01:002023-10-01T12:15:17.406+01:00{NELL MONTAGUE 2} : A LONG TIME BURNING.<div class="separator"></div><p> <span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">And now for something that little bit different, today its the turn of the Blog Tour for this paranormal mystery thriller to stop by Pen and Paper.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEixwQBNXL_JLlG3S5cXjny8413ZAxjXBo7phHGbkQJD4IGHjjU4yNSHGUQ5RrHd6O4Fzh2Vhvt2JP4VrDZgm0MNB5DiDuBRveuxOTOfeDLkBWJJ8uLBjGpbXRmZYZslIRVnBUWohGarrHVhz6Py9d9hsoIRf5Pw_F3rwxsJot_0K_Bgic8vueLo-EppDD_N" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="258" data-original-width="657" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEixwQBNXL_JLlG3S5cXjny8413ZAxjXBo7phHGbkQJD4IGHjjU4yNSHGUQ5RrHd6O4Fzh2Vhvt2JP4VrDZgm0MNB5DiDuBRveuxOTOfeDLkBWJJ8uLBjGpbXRmZYZslIRVnBUWohGarrHVhz6Py9d9hsoIRf5Pw_F3rwxsJot_0K_Bgic8vueLo-EppDD_N=w640-h253" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>A LONG TIME BURNING</b> by <b>J.A.HIGGINS</b>.</span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: center; 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margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span><span color="rgb(var(--color_25))" style="font-weight: bold;">Standalone Second Book in the Nell Montague Mystery series</span></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_25)); line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; 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font-size: large;"><b>Nell has had a terrible year, so she travels to North Chase to find some true Christmas magic. But the town has its own problems; its solstice festival is tainted by the disappearance of two teenage boys and a witch’s curse is blamed.</b></span><p></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Then, nine-month-old Ava is threatened. Has a medieval killer been awoken or does something else haunt the woods?</span></b></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Nell must battle through horrific nightmares and face her own demons to expose the truth before another child is spirited away. There is magic in the air this Christmas, but behind the tinsel and baubles glitters a terrifying secret that one family has hidden for centuries, and only Nell can uncover it.</span></b></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">In my opinion there are those series in which to have read from the beginning is imperative and than there are those that read perfectly well as a standalone novel no matter when/where you begin reading the series; the second book in the Nell Montague series, to my mind, the reading of A Long Time Burning would doubtlessly have been enhanced had I read the first book in the series, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/73673542-finding-ruby">Finding Ruby</a>. </span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Covering the period from the 5th of November through to Christmas Day itself I thought this a very passable festive ghost story that whilst set in the present day does take you back in time to discover just how the curse came about.</span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>Icy fear rippled over her skin which rose in response. Horror movies tried their hand at the cackle of an asylum, but this was something else. It was quieter now, almost a giggle, and this was somehow worse. The giggle of an evil child with blood on its small hands. Like the small child who had stood by the door. Suddenly, a cold breath hit her as if someone was stood right beside her, giggling an inch away from her ear. The image from the television screen hit her again, of the tiny children shivering, and the figure creeping up on them. The dreams she had endured all spoke of children and dolls.</b> </span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I have to admit I did find this something of a slow burner and certainly during the earlier chapters I found myself lost off at times by all the differing threads to the story; by the change of focus from one character to another; from one happening to another <b>but</b>, oh my goodness, delightfully creepy, the atmosphere as chilling as North Chase in December, I found myself engrossed as to the goings on at the centre of which is Nell Montague who finds herself pulled into the spooky and mysterious goings on that plague the village and its inhabitants. </span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Whether past or present, real or imagined, satisfyingly spooky, this is definitely a read to curl up with on a cold winter's eve.</span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi1j75ClirsFBwKpzOXYsImRubbNJFZLs1mgEINUgO12VUFKwTer1CM8PSbsmNG0bRnOwNDRE2irgzl_B-zMtmzU8ave-D-ZyKrc3_CtPXfyH18duWl_ejfYqifD7Ij0xmucTtIv_n7t0bBmlqWfKM3Nq-19RlVnOPeSuzIgWato6toR1grYcrddAplTHkP" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi1j75ClirsFBwKpzOXYsImRubbNJFZLs1mgEINUgO12VUFKwTer1CM8PSbsmNG0bRnOwNDRE2irgzl_B-zMtmzU8ave-D-ZyKrc3_CtPXfyH18duWl_ejfYqifD7Ij0xmucTtIv_n7t0bBmlqWfKM3Nq-19RlVnOPeSuzIgWato6toR1grYcrddAplTHkP=w200-h200" width="200" /></a></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">J A Higgins was born and raised at Porton Down in Wiltshire, and currently works for the NHS in Salisbury. She has always been fascinated by history, crime and the unexplained.</span></div><p></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEisTmAsAnaDlykx4XdnvNdmbIie1GhLEaaQ8-Lz1dJL9wEFP-sff7g-9ea7ZqXU8aZED4Rddl-G05dKstfxcP5LMciPytT_q4BH_rvdqk_a15iWXlJJFKGjK_Qs1GXM_ZHK_GvQKKk2qCq-M0nZk3haNFRQI2_y4BPQBiMAM9CrBYfLLzBioFEbRiuj9aEy" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="217" data-original-width="216" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEisTmAsAnaDlykx4XdnvNdmbIie1GhLEaaQ8-Lz1dJL9wEFP-sff7g-9ea7ZqXU8aZED4Rddl-G05dKstfxcP5LMciPytT_q4BH_rvdqk_a15iWXlJJFKGjK_Qs1GXM_ZHK_GvQKKk2qCq-M0nZk3haNFRQI2_y4BPQBiMAM9CrBYfLLzBioFEbRiuj9aEy=w199-h200" width="199" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">A Long Time Burning is the second book in the Nell Montague Mystery series which explores how horrors from the past are still very relevant today. The first book, Finding Ruby, was a Page Turner Book Award winner in 2021.</span><p></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="font-family: verdana;">With thanks to Rachel of Rachel's Random Resources for organising a paper copy</b><span style="font-family: verdana;">. Agree or disagree with me, all opinions are my own. No financial compensation was asked for nor given. Threats of violence towards my favourite teddy bear went unheeded as did promises of chocolate.</span></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="font_7 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhsFqwnff2MKoeVxa-gWW5QSBCp-LKbjastOET7RJVSKN0hXZqWYX_SS7ZE9Zm436d4qAHUVXglT6LHF3h1N_i_g-oU13VfcU72itnhkgyUr6j_h4b2LhcJy0ldQgsQcqwr6lOcoCDV4z_E0cdU8oNpfyzGKjV6LyW4XAP8bRnu3eTexxmY-ITOqWLvKut8" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="180" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhsFqwnff2MKoeVxa-gWW5QSBCp-LKbjastOET7RJVSKN0hXZqWYX_SS7ZE9Zm436d4qAHUVXglT6LHF3h1N_i_g-oU13VfcU72itnhkgyUr6j_h4b2LhcJy0ldQgsQcqwr6lOcoCDV4z_E0cdU8oNpfyzGKjV6LyW4XAP8bRnu3eTexxmY-ITOqWLvKut8=w200-h200" width="200" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Like my reviews and/or are an author, publisher etc who has a book you'd like me to review? 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