Plans: fire on, big chicken in the oven, books.

My daughter has iced our gingerbread cookies. If you look really carefully you can see the exact moment she lost interest

Completed my annual joke of getting halfway to the supermarket and telling him I've forgotten the list ✅

Time for the Christmas big shop

Tonight at 7pm! Come and join me and @bookouture.bsky.social authors for a festive romance chat ❤️🎄 #BookSky 💙📚 us06web.zoom.us/j/8370818768...

The motherly struggle of trying to keep this reading NOEL instead of LEON, ELON etc

I'll be taking part in this festive Bookouture authors chat next Monday, hope you can join! #BookSky 💙 📚 us06web.zoom.us/j/8370818768...

#NetGalleyReviews2024 Earlier this year I reviewed The Near Miss by Lily Joseph, an enjoyable rom-com with mild "Final Destination" vibes. (But thankfully with an HEA!) Great premise that was well-executed! @lilyjosephwriter.bsky.social #BookSky 💙📚https://www.netgalley.com/book/346967/review/1346617

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 Day 20 - please forgive me for the self indulgent post! These two books stay with me because they changed my life completely ❤️📚✒️

Got my highlighter at the ready 🖍️

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 Day 19 - the 3rd(?) epistolary book in my list - a strong theme emerging 😂 The cleverness of this book just blew me away

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 Day 18 - the best 'self help' book I've ever read - simple advice for an over-thinker!

Some favourite tropes to add to your Christmas list! #Booksky📚💙 ‘Had me laughing out loud… perfect for a cold winter’s evening, snuggled on the sofa.’ Goodreads reviewer, ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Stuck Together: A totally addictive and perfect enemies-to-lovers, forced-proximity romantic comedy amzn.eu/d/2Mg3J9O

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 Day 17- a case of separating the art from the artist - I still love these books

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 Day 16 - a really clever structure, beautifully written

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 Day 15 - another diary novel, would love another Bridget book

It's our annual Christmas tree picking day, aka the day when my partner gets increasingly enraged as I reject the seventeenth tree in a row 🎄

Decisions, decisions... Starting my festive reading with something murdery, which one should I read first? #BookSky 💙📚

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 Day 14 - the book every author wishes they'd written

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 Day 13- favourite of many a writer, mine is now very dog-eared

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 Day 12 - I work in healthcare and this rang true about the system preventing clinicians from doing their job properly 😠

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 Day 11 - I read this aged about 10 and thought he was so wise 😂

Last self indulgent Lake District post - an attempt to recreate my author pic in exactly the same seat in exactly the same restaurant. Main differences: Christmassy backdrop and the slightly haunted look of the morning after mucho wine. #BookSky 💙📚

Never mind 'middle-class women of a certain age', what about 'middle-aged men who can't handle the consequences of their own actions'? news.sky.com/story/gregg-...

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 Day 10 - another regular re-read

It's my birthday and my partner has whisked me away on a surprise trip to the Lake District ❤️ Unlucky for him he's been dragged around bookshops, the lovely Verey Books in Pooley Bridge and a wine/second hand book shop in Penrith that suited both my requirements 🍷📚 #BookSky 💙📚

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 Day 9 - the start of my lifelong commitment to Marian Keyes

Might follow back just for the inevitable 'Hi. How are you doing?'

Lord grant me the patience of my partner listening to me trying to master the Cork accent

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 Day 8 - the first book I read to my son when he was a newborn. We still have it in the bookcase even though he's nearly 18!

I knew from the minute I saw this provocative picture that Gregg Wallace was a wrongun

I'm supposed to be writing a book but unfortunately I want a new bathroom and have fallen down an Instagram interiors hole. Also I'm starting to believe I could panel/tile it myself and have been researching power tools well beyond my capabilities. #BookSky 💙📚

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 Day 7 - a predictable favourite, but I loved it 🤷🏻‍♀️

Just another normal day living with teenagers

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 Day 6 - I think this was the first 'women's fiction' series I ever read

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 Day 5 - God tier writing advice from @stephenking.bsky.social

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 Day 4 - a series that makes me wish I could write historical, world-building, epic novels

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 Day 3 - the first book that got me hooked on a particular author

Both author starter packs are now full. I cannot currently imagine any circumstances in which there will be a third. Off to lie down. Maybe with wine. Do follow and share - there are so many lovely authors in these packs. go.bsky.app/YB4F8q - Authors Part 1 go.bsky.app/JjSBXRK - Authors Part 2

It's definitely a day for sitting under a blanket and reading murder mysteries 🕵🏼 📚 #BookSky

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 Day 2 - I tried to read this when I was 21 but DNF. One of many books that made more sense after I became a mum

80s/90s telly wasn't always kind to women. Watching old episodes of London's Burning and every female character is a grumpy shrew making her heroic husband's life a misery.

📢 Bargain alert! 📢 In an unprecedented #BlackFriday deal, Amazon are selling #TheAlpertonAngels PAPERBACK for the 😇 heavenly price of just £2.50 😱 That's right! A whopping 75% off! But hurry! This deal is strictly limited! #ChristmasGifts #GiftIdeas #booksky 💙📚 www.amazon.co.uk/Mysterious-C....

It is COLD. It's a sitting at the desk wrapped in a blanket covered with dachshunds kind of day

The only thing that comes close to the joy of finding a book has a map in it is finding a book with a floor plan of a building in it. 💙📚

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 Day 1 - not a book but the story collection that taught me to read

We're feeling festive today! Who wants to win this tote bag of goodies? Like this post! Give us a follow. You don't have to, but resharing is appreciated 💕 Enter by 7pm Sunday 24th November 2024. We'll pick a winner on Monday. UK only. #kidlituk

I'm totally OK with being called woke. It just means that I'm showing off my green flags. Happy to follow others with green flags. #woke

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