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Just wondering whether my currently/to read pile is a little unsustainable…? #books???? #amreading ????
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When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes… . I’ve decided that this is the only way to read sonnets… . #sonnets #Shakespeare #books???? #oldbooks #oldbooksmell
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The Land of Green Ginger by Noel Langley, Edward Ardizzone (Ilustrator) It was the Edward Ardizzone illustrations that drew me in compulsively to this book, and they are an absolute delight – full of magic and wonder and joy. From the beginning it’s a…
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I went to a proper second-hand bookshop that smelt of old books like all good booshops should… #books???? #bookshops #bookshopsofinstagram
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Considering my #amediting schedule, buying this might have been a mistake… #books???? #amreading #SkySong @moontrugger
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Just considering whether it is possible or not to go into a second-hand bookshop and not buy an #EdwardArdizzone book? #books???? #bookstagram #bookaholic
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True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean by David Almond I’ve been a huge fan of David Almond ever since I encountered his debut novel Skellig back when it all began in 1998. He is a prolific author and I always discover after the…
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There are countless quotes about books and reading. George R. R. Martin famously said: “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.” Whilst Lemony Snicket took the approach that: “Never trust…
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Trick or Murder? by Debbie Young This is the second of Debbie Young’s Sophie Sayers Village Mystery series, and as the name suggests the mystery in this book is, as the title suggests, is it a Trick or Murder? This is no psychological…
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Dæmon Voices by Philip Pullman I love, love, love Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy, and his latest first book in the new Book of Dust series, but I have sometimes found sometimes when I’ve heard Philip talk in interviews for him to be a bit…
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Just reading my kindle… #amreading #books???? #kindle #catsofinstagram #catsagram #cats #Arthur #donottellhimhewasnamedafteramouse
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A Stranger At Green Knowe by L.M. Boston I was not sure that I was going to like this book, the fourth in the sextet of Green Knowe books, because from the beginning – indeed for the first 50 or so pages…
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Love a good storm scene! #AStrangerAtGreenKnowe #greenknowe #LucyBoston #storms #stormsinfiction #books???? #amreading
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The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper I first read the entire sequence of The Dark Is Rising in the hot sunny conditions of a summer holiday in southern Italy – appropriate maybe for the first in the series, Over Sea, Under Stone but not so much for…
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The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane, Jackie Morris This a spell book of words. It is a book that you have to curl up in the armchair and pour over. It is a book that you can’t just just read, but touch and…
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A little bit about how #stories are born… #books???? #amreading #thenightcircus???? @erinmorgenstern
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The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern From its opening lines, “The circus arrives without warning […] Opens at Nightfall / Closes at Dawn”, this book and the story within it is an enticing prospect. Circuses are magical places in any normal world. Like…
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“Funny. Things are absolutely awful and yet people look much happier than usual. Look at them all. Bubbling.” “They are English,” Merriman said. #TheDarkIsReading #TheDarkIsRising #SusanCooper #books???? #amreading
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I think my #toread pile might be getting a bit out of control… #books???? #bookstagram #bookhouse
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I think my #toread pile might be getting a bit out of control… #books???? #bookstagram #bookhouse
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