A lovely book from the British Library Women Writers series, Cynthia Asquith's "The Spring House" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/06/17/b... #booksky @britishlibrary.bsky.social 📚💙

Getting my #20BOS26 campaign underway finally with my first two books: librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/06/14/s... #booksky 📚💙💡

Pushing through my NetGalley reads for this month, Two novels set in the 1970s – Krystle Zara Appiah – “Half Lives” and Michelle Huneven – “Bug Hollow” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/06/11/t... #booksky 📚💙

... and Finished at last: Review – Henry Eliot – “The Penguin Modern Classics Book” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/06/09/f... #booksky 📚💙💡

I've got behind sharing my blog posts / reviews. So first of all Nonfiction time – Martin Parr and Wendy Jones – “Utterly Lazy and Inattentive” and Jan-Werner Müller – “Street, Palace, Square” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/06/07/n... #booksky 📚💙💡

Two really important novels treating the Windrush Scandal really well - I'd recommend reading one or both of them! Eden McKenzie-Goddard – “Smallie” and Laura Blake – “Go Home Birdie Brown” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/06/05/t... #booksky #windrushgeneration 📚💙

Two romance novels reviewed, with a reminder that it's OK to read genre and that we all need stories and consume them in different ways. Two romances, but wait ... Katie Holt - "The Last Page" and Hannah Bonam-Young - "Out on a Limb" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/06/04/t... #booksky📚💙

(Not so bad!) state of the TBR, June 2026 librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/06/01/s... (search for Adventures in Reading, Running and Working from Home or link in bio) #booksky 📚💙💡 #20BOS26

Two music books from the same publisher – Kate Mossman – “Men of a Certain Age” and Anna Doble – “Connection is a Song” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/05/31/t... #booksky 📚💙💡 @nineeightbooks.bsky.social

Two important campaigning books on disability matters: Bethany Handley – “My Body is a Meadow” and Saba Salman – “Double Discrimination” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/05/28/t... #booksky 📚💙💡

Two crime novels (can you believe?) – Philippa Perry – “Shrink Solves Murder” and Mel Pennant – “A Murder for Miss Hortense” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/05/26/t... #booksky 📚💙

Two signed copies of nonfiction books – Corinne Fowler – “Green Unpleasant Land” and Robin Ince – “Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/05/24/t... #booksky 📚💙💡

Two new instalments in series I’m enjoying – Kiley Dunbar – “Making Sparks Fly at the Highland Repair Shop” and Christie Barlow – “The Clock Maker’s Cottage” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/05/22/t... #booksky 📚💙

Two recommended nonfiction books - – Ebony Reid – “Trapped Life” and Richard Collett – “Along the Borders” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/05/20/t... #booksky 📚💙💡

A really good resource for those of us who run and are in our mid-life years: Damian Hall - "Run Forever" from @vertebratepub.bsky.social librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/05/17/b... #booksky 📚💙💡

My book pile for 20 Books of Summer 2026. Will I read them all?? librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/05/12/2... #20BOS26 #booksky 📚💙💡

I won the second book on NetGalley so I had to buy the first one, right? Book reviews - Sonoko Machida (trans. Bruno Navasky) - "The Convenience Store by the Sea" and "Meet me at the Convenience Store by the Sea" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/05/09/b... #booksky 📚💙

I enjoyed reading Josie Dew's "Slow Coast Home" alongside my friend Cari librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/05/07/b... #booksky 📚💙💡

In which I manage to make a review of a book of poetry all about me and my own poetry ... Book review - Wendy Cope - "Collected Poems" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/05/04/b... #booksky 📚💙

Absolutely woeful state of the TBR and my Reading Piles May 2026 librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/05/01/s... #booksky 📚💙💡

Happy #FurrowedMiddlebrowFriday! 🥂 We’ve hit our Centenary! 📚July 1st marks 103 rediscovered titles in print. 🌟 D.E. Stevenson: Bel Lamington & Fletchers End 🌟 4 Dorothy Lambert gems Huge thanks to Liz Dexter @lyzzybee.bsky.social for hand-typing two rare Lambert titles! ⌨️💖Links in bio! ✨

A super read from @jeevanicharika.bsky.social, set in Yorkshire around a heritage steam railway! Book review – Rhoda Baxter – “The Valentine’s Express on the Brambleberry Steam Railway” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/04/30/b... #booksky 📚💙

Three novels about friendship and sisterhood – Asako Yuzuki (trans. Polly Barton) – “Hooked”, Angela Flournoy – “The Wilderness” and Eleanor Anstruther – “Fallout” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/04/27/t... #booksky

Nonfiction book reviews – Paul Lamb – “Of Thorn and Briar” and Amir Levine – “Secure” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/04/25/n... The former is definitely a classic in the making. #booksky 📚💙💡

Another Iris Murdoch re-read, I managed to fit in "A Severed Head" for #1961Week - hooray! librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/04/18/b... #booksky 💙📚

I've re-read another Iris Murdoch - "The Bell" - librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/04/16/b... #booksky 📚💙

I've re-read another Iris Murdoch - "The Bell" - librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/04/16/b... #booksky 📚💙

My first (maybe only) read for #1961Club - D. E. Stevenson's "Bel Lamington", an excellent one librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/04/13/a... @deanstpress.bsky.social #booksky📚💙

Three new reads from authors I already knew – Emily Kerr – “Blind Date with a Book”, Debbie Macomber – “Chasing the Clouds Away” and Jane Linfoot – “The Cornish Beach Hut Wedding” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/04/11/t... #booksky

Loved this book and can't wait to read more by this author!

Double book review! Alice Amelia's "How Korean Corn Dogs Changed my Life" and Margaret Drabble's "The Great Good Places" - two quite different approaches to memoir librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/04/03/t... #booksky 📚💙💡

And State of the TBR April 2026, published (yesterday) on the right day this month! librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/04/01/s... #booksky 📚💙💡

Another Emma and Liz Reading Together book finished - Guy Shrubsole's excellent "The Lost Rainforests of Britain" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/03/31/b... #booksky 📚💙💡

A bit of a catch-up with what's been going on on the blog ... One for #ReadingWales2026 "Cymru & I" by various writers from different marginalised communities librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/03/30/b... #booksky 📚💙💡

More slowly than I had hoped, working my way through Iris Murdoch's novels again - up to The Sandcastle now. librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/03/28/b... #booksky @irismurdoch.bsky.social 📚💙

Another candidate for a book of the year this year: Dominic Gregory's wonderful "Lifeboat at the End of the World" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/03/24/b... @wmcollinsbooks.bsky.social #booksky 📚💙💡

An excellent book which I am sure will be one of my Books of the Year: Zakia Sewell's "Finding Albion" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/03/22/b... #booksky 📚💙💡

Two LGBTQIA sports novels – Kim Stephenson – “Stride for Stride” and Adiba Jaigirdar – “The Perfect Match”, the latter of which comes under #ReadingIreland26 librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/03/16/t... #booksky 📚💙

Book review catch-up (2) Two fun light reads – Fay Keenan – “Home Sweet Home in Brambleton” and Melody Carlson – “All Booked Up” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/03/13/t... #booksky 📚💙

Book review catchup (1) Looking at two different cultures – Eliana Ramage – “To the Moon and Back” and Ela Lee – “Minbak” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/03/11/l... #booksky 📚💙

State of the TBR - March 2026, chock-full of wonderful independent publishers #ReadIndies librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/03/07/s... #booksky 💙📚

And two interesting memoirs from women in entertainment: Helen Lederer – “Not That I’m Bitter” and Nicki Chapman – “So Tell Me What You Want” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/02/22/t... #booksky 📚💙💡

A wonderful book I happened upon in The Heath Bookshop a while ago: Partha Mandal, Zarah Alam, Anne Cockitt, Natasha Uzair, Mohammad Farooque (eds.) – “My City, My Home” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/02/19/b... #ReadIndies2026 @sampadarts.bsky.social #booksky 📚💙💡

For @kaggsy59.bsky.social , the Penguin Modern Poets books in The Book Tower.

I've been having weird stuff going on with my WordPress websites/blogs stats, had an explanation (of sorts) from a WordPress "happiness engineer" and shared our discussion (with permission) on my work blog for the help and edification of others in the same position. libroediting.com/2026/02/19/t...

... and thoughts on "The Flight From the Enchanter" possibly only interesting to other Iris Murdoch obsessives ... librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/02/17/b... #booksky 📚💙

Catching up on book review sharing - Two ensemble casts in Cathy Kelly – “The Island Retreat” and Elissa Soave – “Common Ground” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/02/12/t... #booksky 💙📚

A book that will be really powerful if read properly and applied - Allie Bailey's "31 Days" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/02/10/b... #ReadIndies26 @vertebratepub.bsky.social #booksky 📚💙💡

Getting back into the book reviewing (now to catch up with my blog reading!), two books about books – Jessica George – “Love by the Book” and Annabel French – “The Floating Venice Bookshop” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/02/08/t... #booksky 📚💙

And today I reviewed Susan R. Barry's "Dear Oliver" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/02/06/b... I have been reading, I've just not been good at writing reviews.