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Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️

@lyzzybee.bsky.social

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Reader, may be quite fond of books 💙📚 book reviewer, book blogger, runner, volunteer, transcriber, editor, parkrun co-Event Director, Birmingham, UK. Book reviews at https://www.librofulltime.wordpress.com

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Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · 3d

Kiran Desai's "The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny" - weird title, good book, slightly long. For more: librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/10/04/b... #bookershortlist #booksky 📚💙

Ebook cover of The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny displayed on a tablet on a red tablecloth with white polkadots

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Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · 3d

The middle shelf is looking good for December, isn't it! I have more on Kindle, too ...

Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · 7d

State of the TBR October 2025 - not too bad, actually ... librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/s... #booksky 📚💙💡

Three shelves of books with one double-stacked.

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Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · 9d

On the blog: The last of my Three Investigators reads! librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/m... #booksky 📚💙

Two Three Investigators Crimebusters paperbacks

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Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · 10d

Neglected to link to these the other day: librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/09/26/t... Three East Asian themed reads – Juhee Mun – “The Healing Power of Korean Letter Writing”, Satoshi Yagisawa – “Days at the Torunka Cafe” and Souvankham Thammavongsa – “Pick a Colour” #booksky 📚💙💡

ebook covers for Juhee Mun – “The Healing Power of Korean Letter Writing”, Satoshi Yagisawa – “Days at the Torunka Cafe” and Souvankham Thammavongsa – “Pick a Colour”

Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · 11d

I really enjoyed reading "When Things go Missing" by Deborah J. Brasket - there are a few books about a woman in her middle years walking out of her life, not many where we concentrate on the fallout at home rather than whatever she's doing! librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/09/27/b... @booksky 📚💙

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Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · 14d

A powerful read: I've called "The Spring Begins" by Katherine Dunning "brutal" here, and Simon Thomas calls it "amoral" in his Afterword! It's also lyrical, descriptive and a real page-turner! librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/09/24/b... @britishlibrary.bsky.social #booksky #SpinsterSeptember 📚💙

Paperback of The Spring Begins on a yellow patterned background

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Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · 16d

The oldest book comes off my TBR shelf - and it was probably the time to read about the pandemic. Jeremiah Moss - "Feral City" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/09/22/b... #booksky 📚💙💡

Paperback ARC copy of Feral City on a blue background

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Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · 20d

Also look out for my next review, massive trans representation!

Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · 20d

I feel like Gracie Jenkins was the more realistic of the two, and had a bit more depth, though Your Pace addressed some really interesting questions around public perception and #MeToo in the musical theatre world.

Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · 20d

It was a lovely read and a good accompaniment to the TV series.

Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · 20d

Not one but TWO novels about running the London Marathon: "Gracie Jenkins Runs a Marathon" and "Your Pace or Mine" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/09/18/t... #booksky 📚💙

ebook coves of Gracie Jenkins Runs a Marathon and Your Pace or Mine

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Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · 22d

Two interesting nonfiction reads on the blog today: Malik al Nasir's "Searching for my Slave Roots" and Katie da Cunha Lewis' "The Writer's Room" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/09/16/b... #booksky 💙📚💡

Ebook covers of Searching for my Slave Roots and The Writer's Room

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Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · 23d

And today it's #Moomin80 time with Tove Jansson's "Moominpappa At Sea" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/b... #booksky 📚💙

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Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · 23d

I enjoyed reading Ian Herbert's Tinseltown about the Welcome to Wrexham football phenomenon. Second football book of the year for me! librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/09/13/b... #booksky 📚💙💡

Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · 28d

And today's #booktour review - Fay Keenan's "Could it Be Magic?" a lovely (sorry, not sorry) Christmas read librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/09/10/b... @faykeenan.bsky.social #booksky 📚💙

Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · 28d

I've fallen behind in sharing book reviews (sigh). Tommy Jessop's "A Life Worth Living" was a lovely, positive and kind read. librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/09/06/b... find it on the blog there or Adventures in Reading, Running and Working from Home #booksky 📚💙💡

Hardback copy of A Life Worth Living on a dark wood desk top

Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · Sep 6

Catch up - Empireworld by Sathnam Sanghera and Never by Rick Astley were my final #20BooksofSummer2025 reads, state of the TBR 📚💙💡, Monisha Rajesh's Moonlight Express about TRAINS! and a #blogtour for Meet me Under the Northern Lights by Mandy Baggot all on www.librofulltime.wordpress.com #booksky

Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · Aug 29

Two excellent memoirs via NetGalley 📚💙💡of living with disabilities – John Davidson – “I Swear” and Raymond Antrobus – “The Quiet Ear” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/08/28/t... #booksky

Ebook covers of I Swear and The Quiet Ear

Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · Aug 28

On the blog - one for #WITMonth yesterday, Eva Moreda's "Home is Like a Different Time" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/08/27/a... #booksky 📚💙

Paperback of Home is Like a Different Time on a blue background

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Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · Aug 27

Remembering to keep up with sharing my blog reviews - Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o – “Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas” and Howard W. French – “The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/08/24/a... #booksky 📚💙💡

ebook covers of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o – “Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas” and Howard W. French – “The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide”

Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · Aug 22

Book 18 of my #20BooksofSummer2025 and that's the big one out of the way - Nicholas Crane - "The Making of the British Landscape" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/08/22/b... #booksky 📚💙💡

Hardback of The Making of the British Landscape on a flowery background

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Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · Aug 19

Oh, that's a shame! Melon bowls are the absolute best. If you see one, get it and it will make you smile every day.

Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · Aug 19

Ooh lovely! I collect these, although really it would have to be a plate "made" of celery. It's a great thing to collect because there isn't too much of it so you don't get overrun (though I do have three asparagus plates).

Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · Aug 19

Two more ticked off the #20BooksofSummer2025 list - will I make it through all 20 by the end of the month? Susannah Walker's "The Hard Way" and Ted Kessler's "To Ease My Troubled Mind" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/08/19/b... #booksky 📚💙💡

Hardback copies of The Hard Way and To Ease My Troubled Mind on a blue background