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Welcome to It’s Monday! What are you Reading? It’s hosted by Kathryn from Book Date, this is a weekly event to share what we’ve read in the past week and what we hope to read, plus whatever else comes to mind.

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week a new theme is suggested for bloggers to participate in. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want. Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to The Artsy Reader Girl in your own Top Ten Tuesday post.

I enjoy reading about underdogs and how they rise above, and The Boys of Riverside was a great book to listen to. A Most Extraordinary Ride was a bit too political for my taste, but I enjoyed learning about Marc Garneau's journey to becoming the first Canadian in space. Unfortunately, he passed away shortly before I listened to this book.

Can’t-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we’re excited about that we have yet to read. Generally they’re books that have…

WWW WEDNESDAYS is a weekly meme hosted by Sam @ Taking On A World Of Words and is all about answering the three questions below. WHAT ARE YOU CURRENTLY READING? I’m currently reading the firs…

Last weekend was the 17th Portobello Book Festival which takes place each year in our wonderful local library, Portobello Library. As part of the organising team for about ten years it’s alwa…

What am I currently reading? I’ve just started The Monday Night Heartbreak Club by Jane Lovering for my blogtour stop next Sunday. I always enjoy Jane’s books and this one is great so f…

Hosted by Lipsy Lost and Found, my Wednesday post gives you a taste of what I’m reading this week. A similar meme is run by Taking on a World of Words.  As the bones start to fall, t…

The Rainfall Market is an enchanting Korean Fantasy Fiction with a fresh, imaginative premise and heartfelt execution.

This Week in Books is a feature hosted by Lipsy at Lipsyy Lost and Found that allows bloggers to share: What they’ve recently finished reading What they are currently reading What they ar…

Source: Review copyPublication: 28 August 2025 from PicadorPP: 432ISBN-13: 978-1035046683 My thanks to Picador for a review copy It is one of the biggest trials of the year. Three seventeen-year-ol…

My huge thanks to Ayo Okojie at Quercus who sent me a copy of The Christmas Eve Murders by Noelle Albright way back in 2024. I’m delighted finally to have got round to reading it and to share my re…

The movie “Stand By Me” was brought to mind whilst reading this novel. Only instead of four boys, it was three eleven year old girls. It is a hot and sultry summer in the year 1960. A d…

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. The rules are simple: Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want.

Welcome to WWW Wednesdays! hosted by Sam @ Taking on a World of Words. Just answer the three questions below and leave a link to your post in the comments for others to look at. No blog? No problem! Just leave a comment with your responses. Please, take some time to visit the other participants and see what others are reading.