Dean Street December 2025 round-up. Slightly fewer reviews but more participants and more different authors read - so a triumph, in my opinion. librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/01/05/d... @deanstpress.bsky.social #booksky 📚💙

Possibly just one for other Iris Murdoch obsessives - I've started reading through her again and doing some Thinking librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/01/03/b... #booksky 📚💙

State of the TBR January 2026! librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/01/01/s... Some judicious purchasing of books for Emma means I can shift some books onto the Reading Together pile ... Thanks to @summersdalebooks.bsky.social and @britishlibrary.bsky.social for the new review copies. #booksky 📚💙💡

Finally - my book stats and best books read in 2025! librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/12/31/b... #booksky 📚💙💡

My last review of the year - David Olusoga, Yinka Olusoga and Kemi Olusoga - "Black History for Every Day of the Year", which @heavenalibooks.bsky.social and I have been reading together all year librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/12/31/b... #booksky 📚💙💡

One last #DoorstoppersInDecember25 read (well, my second of two) - Josie Dew's excellent travel memoir about cycling around Japan, "A Ride in the Neon Sun" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/12/30/b... #booksky 📚💙💡 @lauratisdall.bsky.social

A quick read to hopefully make my books come out with a whole one finished on New Year's Eve (only me who does that?) Robert Ankorn and Ruby Compton-Davies – “Birmingham Hidden Walks" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/12/29/b... #booksky 📚💙💡

My final two reads for #DeanStreetDecember2025 - Winifred Peck - "Arrest the Bishop?" and Patricia Wentworth - "The Red Lacquer Case" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/12/28/t... #booksky @deanstpress.bsky.social 📚💙

Three lovely Christmas Day reads (two novellas and a slim volume of verse) - Sally Page – “New Beginnings for Christmas”, Brian Bilston – “And So This is Christmas” and Rev Richard Coles – “Murder Under the Mistletoe” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/12/26/t... #booksky 📚💙

Two more Furrowed Middlebrow books for #DeanStreetDecember2025 Susan Scarlett – “Love in a Mist” and D. E. Stevenson – “Green Money” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/12/24/t... #bookstagram #booksofinstagram #amreading @deanstpress.bsky.social #booksky 📚💙

A book for #DoorstoppersInDecember, Neil Price's excellent "Children of Ash and Elm", a definitive history of the Vikings. librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/12/23/b... #booksky 📚💙💡

My Book 4 and the Month's Book 27 - Dorothy Lambert's highly entertaining "Much Dithering" #DeanStreetDecember2025 librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/12/18/r... @deanstpress.bsky.social #booksky 📚💙

Two good reads that have in common a strong sense of place - and, as a commenter has pointed out, a strong sense of struggle. Louise Erdrich - "Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country" and Thea Holme - "The Carlyles at Home" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/12/16/t... #booksky 📚💙💡

And finally for now, a second Doris Langley Moore - "A Game of Snakes and Ladders" #DeanStreetDecember2025 librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/12/13/r... @deanstpress.bsky.social #booksky 📚💙

Second #DeanStreetDecember2025 read - Romilly Cavan's "Beneath the Visiting Moon", a charming coming-of-age novel about the clash between faded gentility and real life librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/12/09/r... @deanstpress.bsky.social #booksky 📚💙

My first review for #DeanStreetDecember2025 "All Done by Kindness" by Doris Langley Moore, which was a real page-turner! librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/12/07/m... @deanstpress.bsky.social #booksky

Review catch-up starts again. Dennis Gray - "Essays from the Edge" from the lovely people at @vertebratepub.bsky.social librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/12/05/b... #booksky 📚💙💡

And finally, the fiction books I read when I was poorly Christie Barlow – “The Cafe on the Coast”, P. J. Ellis – “Love and Other Scams”, Talia Hibbert – “Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute” and Alice Peterson – “The Saturday Place” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/12/03/c... #booksky 📚💙

Nearly there: State of the TBR December 2025 librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/12/01/s... including setting intentions for #DeanStreetDecember25 and #DoorstoppersinDecember #booksky 📚💙

#NonfictionNovember2025 Week 5 post: "New to My TBR". What's the betting on whether I'll acquire and read any of these before next year's post? However, there are some super books to explore on the post! librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/11/30/n... #booksky 📚💙💡

Joe Walters' "The Truth About Book Reviews" is a great resource for indie authors and a source of hope for book bloggers! librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/11/29/b... #booksky 📚💙💡

Some more nonfiction - James Fox's "Craft Land" and Michael Paramo's - "Ending the Pursuit" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/11/27/b... #booksky 📚💙💡

I've been really behind with sharing my book reviews and reading challenge updates so a little flurry now, starting with the amazing novella by Brigitte Reimann (trans. Lucy Jones) - "Woman in the Pillory" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/11/28/b... #NovNov25 #booksky 📚💙

It's on! Dean Street December Main Post is up, hope lots of people read some books and share their reviews! librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/11/30/d... @deanstpress.bsky.social #booksky 📚💙 #deanstreetdecember25

Why indulgent? They weren't on the list! Sarah Miller Walters – “Woods Ware China at the Serving Hatch”, Stephen Pihlaja – “Narrative and Religion in the Superdiverse City” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/11/26/t... #NovNov25 #NonfictionNovember2025 #booksky 📚💙💡 @stephenpihlaja.bsky.social

Two great music reads – Chris Dalla Riva – “Uncharted Territory” and Rob Miller – “The Hours are Long but the Pay is Low” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/t... #NonfictionNovember2025 #booksky 📚💙💡

Two interesting short nonfiction works – Adéwálé Májà-Pearce – “This Fiction Called Nigeria” and Adèle Oliver – “Deeping It” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/t... #NovNov2025 #NonfictionNovember2025 #booksky 📚💙💡

The excellent "The View from Down Here" by Lucy Webster, an honest and funny memoir and primer on the intersection of ableism/sexism. I urge people to read this one and/or subscribe to Webster's Substack librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/11/23/b... #booksky 📚💙💡

... and now two more nonfiction reads, Jessica Hernandez, PhD's "Growing Papaya Trees" and Natalie Cassidy's "Happy Days" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/b... #booksky 📚💙💡

I managed to forget to share my host post for my week of #NonfictionNovember2025 librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/11/10/n... What fiction/nonfiction pairings can you come up with? #booksky 📚💙💡

A fun read about saving a community centre "Saving Starlight Hall" by Debbie Viggiano, with some excellent robust scenes and a bit of wish fulfilment librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/11/09/b... @debbieviggiano.bsky.social @rachelsrandom17.bsky.social #booksky 📚💙

Catching up on sharing reading ... I enjoyed reading these two memoirs by interesting women - Amanda Barrie – “I’m Still Here” and Mary Portas – “I Shop, Therefore I Am” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/11/07/t... #booksky 📚💙💡

My first two reads for @NonFictionNov25 and @NovNov25 Book reviews – E. R. Braithwaite – “‘Honorary White'” and Louisa Yousfi, trans. Andy Bliss – “In Defence of Barbarism” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/11/06/b... @versobooks.bsky.social #booksky📚💙💡

... and the state of my TBR this month librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/11/01/s... #booksky 📚💙💡

Yesterday's launch post for Dean Street December, coming soon! librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/c... #booksky @deanstpress.bsky.social 📚💙 #deanstreetdecember25

One last fiction read and review for October - Buchi Emecheta's "Double Yoke", an excellent read librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/o... 📚💙

Reading and especially reviewing fiction somewhat frantically to make space for Nonfiction in November! Jeevani Charika – “How Can I Resist You?”, Sudha Bhuchar and Shaheen Khan – “Balti Kings” and Taj McCoy – “Zora Books her Happy Ever After” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/t... #booksky 📚💙

Stephen Moss' "The Accidental Countryside" was a lovely "Emma and Liz Read Together" book librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/b... #booksky 📚💙💡

And finally, another fiction/nonfiction pairing, centred on the 1984 Miners' Strike, Tim Tate with LGSM - "Pride" and Rachel Dawson - "Neon Roses" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/a... #booksky 📚💙💡

Nonfiction November Week 1 - My Year in Nonfiction #NonficNov25 Where I share what I've been reading and the highlights in the last year librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/n... #booksky 📚💙💡

Getting ready for Nonfiction November #NonficNov25 and Novellas in November #NovNov25 with a selection of short nonfiction to choose from librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/10/25/g... #booksky 📚💙💡

Catching up on sharing my blog posts from the last few days. First off, a Fiction/Nonfiction Pairing of two London boys: Kenny Imafidon's memoir, "That Peckham Boy" and Derek Owusu's powerful new novel, "Borderline Fiction" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/10/24/r... #booksky 📚💙💡

Two lovely "community" novels: there's romance but the book is about everyone, not just the two (four) central people. Angela Britnell - "The Cornish Christmas Book Club" and Kiley Dunbar - "Mending Lost Dreams at the Highland Repair Shop" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/10/22/b... #booksky 💙📚

Read for @kaggsy59.bsky.social and @stuckinabook.bsky.social 's #1925Week, P. G. Wodehouse's "Carry on, Jeeves" had me howling! librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/b... #booksky 📚💙

I forgot to share my review of the lovely "Soyangri Book Kitchen" by Kim Jee Hye - classic Korean Healing Fiction, with lovely slow descriptions of food and a comforting place. librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/10/17/b... #booksky 📚💙 #womenintranslation

On the blog this morning while I was out at parkrun - a really good resource for fiction writers - Elizabeth M. Hurst's "The Wordsmith's Guide to Planning the Perfect Plot" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/10/18/b... #booksky 📚💙💡

My and Kaggsy's final Moomin read - Tove Jansson's "Moominvalley in November" - and it wasn't as devastating as I'd feared librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/10/15/b... #booksky @kaggsy59.bsky.social 📚💙

I've finished the excellent "Denim and Leather" by Michael Hann, a history of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal genre. A genuinely excellent work of oral history I recommend to anyone interested (however tangentially) in the subject librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/b... #booksky 📚💙💡

I really enjoyed Helga Jensen's novel "A New Life in Amsterdam", a gentle and positive read with a super setting and lots of fun detail about living on a houseboat librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/b... #booksky 📚💙 @rararesources.bsky.social @helgajensen.bsky.social

It's great when the next book in a series comes up to your (high) expectations, as Travis Baldree's "Brigands and Breadknives" certainly did librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/10/07/b... #booksky 📚💙