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(Audio)book Review: The Benevolent Society of Ill-mannered Ladies
According to Amazon, The Benevolent Society of Ill-mannered Ladies by Alison Goodman is a story about “[a] high society amateur detective at the heart of Regency London uses her wits and invisibility as an ‘old maid’ to protect other women”. This is the first in an anticipated series by Goodman. […]
(Audio)book Review: The Thursday Murder Club
I must say I was a bit relieved that romance was off the table for this book club choice, which was The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman crossed my path. I don’t mind a bit of murder and mayhem so I was looking forward to listening to this one. […]
(Audio)book Review: The Duke and I
I joined my first book club a few months back and the first book chosen was The Duke and I by Julia Quinn. As I’ve stated previously, romance is not really my cup of tea but I enjoyed the last one I read so was not daunted. And being a […]
Thursday Thoughts: Book Review of ‘Levi’ by Edith MacKenzie
Levi is a romance, set on a ranch in America. Forgive me for not remembering the exact location: when I started reading, I didn’t intend to write a review, so I didn’t take notes. And I was also on holiday – so I was just chillin’ with a book. As […]
A need to be minimalist
I’ve never been interested in minimalism. Couldn’t see the point. But I just spent over two hours deleting less than one-third of the emails that I don’t even want to read. That was preceded by quite a significant amount of time checking Facebook notifications from groups that, while I joined […]
Here I go yet again
Yes, I know – here she goes again! Believe me, I am sicker of it than anyone else is. I make so many promises to myself (I realise no one else really worries about it), and I break them every time. I’ve long been contemplating where I need to take […]
Book Review: The Truth About Elves
Book Title: The Truth About Elves Author: Ekta R Garg Publication: 2021 Publication House: Atmosphere Press I finished reading this delightful book a couple of days ago and, given that it has Christmas elves in it, I thought I might review it closer to Christmas. But then I figured ‘why […]
So what is Steampunk?
I had a challenge presented to me during the week. Well, in truth, not just me: it was presented to a rather large group. The publishers of 42 Stories Anthology were after some more steampunk stories for their anthology (if you follow the link, you can have a look yourself […]
Genres I Just Can’t Write
I love a good horror story: not one connected with zombies or chain saws mind, but ghosts, vampires and witches are fair game. I don’t even mind a brush with the Prince of Darkness in fiction. So when an opportunity presented itself to submit a short story to a Halloween […]
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