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Janet Emson @janetemson.bsky.social · 23d

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David @bluebookballoon.bsky.social · 28d

Dictionary of Fine Distinctions by Eli Burnstein – review… via @janetemson.bsky.social

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Dictionary of Fine Distinctions by Eli Burnstein – review

Published by Profile Publication date – 4 September 2025 Source – review copy Guilt or shame? Clementine or tangerine? We like to think that we choose our words with care, but are we us…

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Paula Bardell-Hedley @bookjotter.bsky.social · Sep 6

bookjotter.com/2025/09/06/winding-up-the-week-438/ #AmReading #BookReview #WorldKidLitMonth2025 #ReadaBookDay2025 @petergraae.bsky.social @janetemson.bsky.social @cravenwild.bsky.social @bookmunch.bsky.social

Winding Up the Week #438

This week we announce another brief break coming up, look at books read and reviewed, discover some of the best writing about literature on the blogosphere, keep up with literary anniversaries, foc…

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Janet Emson @janetemson.bsky.social · Aug 11

So it actually went up but I’ve narrowed it down to these. Which to say I’ve got about 2,300 to choose from isn’t bad. I’m only away for a week so I need to pick 5. Which ones would you take? #booksky📚

Down Cemetery Road, C’est La Vie, The Ten Teacups, A Novel Murder, I Capture the Castle, In the Weeds, The Baby Dragon Cafe, Hex Appeal, Death at Whitewater Church, Mudlarking, North and South, One, Two, Buckle My Shoe, The Warm Hands of Ghosts, How to Seal Your Own Fate, Snow, The Wishing Game, The Light Years, Throne of Glass, How to be a Heroine, The Little Coffee Shop of Terrors, A Court of Thorns and Roses, The Cinnamon Bun Bookstore, The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands, The Ladies Road Guide to Utter Ruin, The Hotel Where We Met, Bookish, An Almost Perfect Summer, The Passengers on the Hankyu Line, Book Boyfriend, Gunner, Migraine, The Fran Lebowitz Reader, The Retirement Plan.

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Janet Emson @janetemson.bsky.social · Aug 9

It’s an idea! I need to make sure I’m not adding any more. Or that I suddenly don’t want to read any of them.

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Janet Emson @janetemson.bsky.social · Aug 9

Might have to. Or just eeney meeney it!

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Janet Emson @janetemson.bsky.social · Aug 9

Narrowing down which books to take on holiday is going well…

Three stacks of books, pages out so titles can’t be seen. There are 30 books in total. I’m only going away for a week.

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Janet Emson @janetemson.bsky.social · Aug 2

I’ll get there eventually.

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Janet Emson @janetemson.bsky.social · Aug 2

Charity shop! £2. I’ve just checked and can’t see a label.

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Janet Emson @janetemson.bsky.social · Aug 2

Went book shopping. Came home without any books but with this. Which is book adjacent so counts.

A tote bag that looks like the facsimile cover of A Pocket Full of Rye. It’s black and red striped with the title in white font and Agatha Christie in yellow font.

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Janet Emson @janetemson.bsky.social · Aug 2

Thanks again!

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David @bluebookballoon.bsky.social · Jul 26

Attention All Shipping by Kathy Biggs – review fromfirstpagetolast.wordpress.com/2025/07/25/a... via @janetemson.bsky.social

Attention All Shipping by Kathy Biggs – review

Published by Borough Press Publication date – 8 May 2025 Source – review copy When you’re feeling lost at sea, what will it take to guide you home? Grace lives with her father Jac…

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Janet Emson @janetemson.bsky.social · Aug 2

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David @bluebookballoon.bsky.social · Jul 26

Murder in Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie – review fromfirstpagetolast.wordpress.com/2025/07/24/m... via @janetemson.bsky.social

Murder in Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie – review

Published by Fontana Publication date – originally 1936 Source – own copy What secrets lie in the past? Fifteen years ago, during the Great War, Louise Leidner’s first husband was tried…

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David @bluebookballoon.bsky.social · Jul 20

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Death on the Down Beat by Sebastian Farr

Published by The British Library Publication date – 10 September 2022 Source – review copy As a rousing Strauss piece is reaching its crescendo in Maningpool Civic Hall, the talented ye…

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Janet Emson @janetemson.bsky.social · Jul 21

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Janet Emson @janetemson.bsky.social · Jul 6

Good science always needs a peer review…

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Janet Emson @janetemson.bsky.social · Jul 6

It’s often not wise to read between the lines but I got from this that it still affected them even though they got the money back.

Janet Emson @janetemson.bsky.social · Jul 6

“It’s the drama Mick. I just love it” (I do feel for Ros Hemmings and her husband though).

The Observer @theobserveruk.bsky.social · Jul 6

Penniless and homeless, Raynor and Moth Winn found fame with their story of their 630-mile walk to salvation. The Salt Path became a global bestseller and was adapted into a major film.

But we can reveal it wasn’t the whole truth.

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