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Joanne Dalton
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Here to find out what you are reading right now 📚👀!
#Booksky📚💙
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📌Dublin, Ireland 🍉
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From Charles Dickens to Maggie O'Farrell in one night, what a weekend this is shaping up to be! #Booksky📚💙
Cover of a Wordsworth edition of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Cover of The Vanishing of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell
December 5, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Amazing how books can fling us down memory lane, it's been 25 whole years since I did my BA in Galway and had the pleasure of getting my books at #CharlieByrnes
Still have the original bookmark and everything! 📚😅
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Front Cover of a Penguin popular classics edition of Sense and Sensibility, bookmark from Charlie Byrnes bookshop is next to it.
December 4, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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November was a good reading month, I finally feel like my attention span is returning!
Space was my main theme but I also read my 1st Agatha Christie too and loved it (apart from the very last lines🥴). December will be more of a mixed bag I think...
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Summary of books read in November, screenshot from Storygraph app. 1 Saint Maybe by Anne Tyler, 2 Orbital by Samantha Harvey, 3 Apollo by Chris Hadfield, 4 Evil under the Sun by Agatha Christie and 5 Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir.
December 1, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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I have no idea what to expect but I absolutely love when chapters have titles so I'm all in already! #Booksky #Booksky💙📚
Front Cover of Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjwei-Brenyah Photo of chapter titles
November 30, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Out for some air today and this little cutie kept us company! 🌳 #Robin
A robin redbreast sitting on branches of a tree which is in a field. A white house in the background.
November 30, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Now that was a wild science-fiction ride, i really didn't expect it to be so emotional and funny! Thoroughly enjoyed it. 🌠🚀☄️🌌
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Front Cover of Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
November 30, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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I started this last night and I woke up thinking about it, can't wait to jump back in!
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Photo of the book Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
November 27, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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It's definitely the season for extended edition watching! #LOTR #FellowshipOfTheRing 🧝🏻‍♀️
Screenshot of Frodo & Sam, watching the elves pass through the forest at night. The wood elves as they pass through the forest.
November 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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It's great to always have somewhere to go.
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Reading gives us some place to go when we have to stay where we are.
November 25, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Not quite a winter read but who am I to control what decides to leap off the shelf at me at any given time, it's been waiting long enough!
🌞💚🍷#Booksky #Booksky💙📚 #AgathaChristie
Front Cover of a small hardback of Agatha Christie's Evil under the Sun
November 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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One of many sentences I'm thoroughly enjoying...

'Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?'

#HitchhikersGuidetotheGalaxy
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Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
November 22, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Saturday afternoon, North Co. Dublin.
Not what a lot of people expect to see when I say I live in Dublin, we are very grateful to live in this corner of the world 🙏🏼.
The Brummie husband can't believe his luck having the coast so close! 💚 @a-guy-on-here-too.bsky.social
November 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Dublin, you really showed up for us on our wedding day.
Never doubted you x 💚 #Dublin #Speirgorm
We are standing outside Connolly Books, which has a Palestinian flag up above the doorway. We are crossing the road at the lights, over from river to corner of Parliament St, the bus driver is giving us a wave! Posing together outside the Foggy Dew before we headed in for a pint! Walking up the middle of Parliament St, happy out!
November 22, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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My beautiful Eguzkilore, fighting those evil spirits on my behalf for years now! 🌻👏🏼💚 #Basque #Eguzkilore
A wooden carving of an eguzkilore, a Basque sunflower, an ancient protective amulet to guard homes from evil spirits! Its near enough my front door to do the job I hope! 🌻 An Eguzkilore, a Basque sunflower, an ancient protective amulet to guard homes from evil spirits!
November 21, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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I can't believe it's taken me so long to start reading this, really looking forward to it!
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#TheHitchHikersGuidetotheGalaxy
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Photo of the book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, it's on a blue and white checked fluffy blanket (which is covering my legs). My hand is on the left and side , holding a reusable coffee cup that has a cartoony picture of the sun on it.
November 17, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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Currently reading. This is one of the great freebies I got last yr from @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social .
I wouldn't've chosen it myself but it's fun to try new genres + this is actually a bit of a pageturner! I'm also having a space obsession now so, perfect!
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Cover of The Apollo Murders by Chris Hasfield.
November 15, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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An unexpected charity shop visit resulted in morrrrrreeeee books!
📚🤭
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November 6, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Next up, Orbital by Samantha Harvey.
I'm not sure why I feel a bit anxious about this read? It's probably to do with the idea of floating in space but here goes...
🌎🌌🌙🛰️
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Front Cover of the novel Orbital by Samantha Harvey
November 4, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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November 2, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Next up, I already know that I'm going to fly through this. 20 pages in and I'm all in!
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Front Cover of Anne Tyler's book, Saint Maybe. It's a teal coloured background with an image of a 1960s family watching tv, we seem to be looking over their shoulders.
October 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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A beautiful day spent together in Carlingford, exactly what the doctor ordered. ❤️ @a-guy-on-here-too.bsky.social
View of path running along side Lough, with Slieve Fey in the background. Phil is standing by the wall looking at the mountain. Statue of a bull, representing the Brown Bull of Cooley. The water is in the background Selfie of Phil and I, with Mourne Mountains and Lough in background View of the harbour, with one fishing boat in foreground to the left and Mourne Mountains and water to right and background
October 27, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Morning, I've just started Imperium by Robert Harris and am also listening to The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman. One for at home and one for going for walks/housework!
Front Cover of the book Imperium by Robert Harris , it has a white background with the image of what I think is an eagle in the middle.
October 13, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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Yay!
Met my husband (lol, still sounds weird!) on good ol' Twittah ☺️
October 8, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Thoroughly enjoyed this, heartwarming story with interesting, strong Irish female characters. #Booksky #Booksky 💙📚
A picture of a book , The Women of Oceans End, resting on my lap. I'm out on the terrace with the sun setting in the distance.
September 12, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Jen, we were honestly smiling all day long. It was just amazing, Smock Alley was stunning! Churchy vibes but we had a beautiful humanist ceremony. A stroll to the Foggy Dew for de pints and then Fallon & Byrne for the reception. Bliss x ✨️
Bride and Groom standing on the corner of Dame Street, grinning from ear to ear!
September 8, 2025 at 8:35 PM