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Sunday Post

Welcome to my Sunday post hosted by Caffeinated Reviewer. A fairly quiet week this week, but ended with my son’s first school friend’s birthday party, which was exciting!

Sunday Salon (last week)

WWW Wednesday – Currently Reading, Finished Reading, Reading Next

What I have been reading this month – January 2023 Reading List

Happy Publication Day! Death and the Conjuror by Tom Mead

Book of the Month – My Favourite Book Of January 2023

Places My Books Have Taken Me This Month – January 2023 – plus a one word review for each!

January Monthly Wrap-Up

New Month New Goal! Reading Goal for February

Book Blogger Hop – What was your favourite genre to read as a child?

I hope that you have all had a good week!

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Book Blogger Hop – What was your favourite genre to read as a child?

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Welcome to the Book Blogger Hop! Hosted by Ramblings of a Coffee Addicted Writer this week the prompt is:

What was your favourite genre to read as a child? Do you still read that genre, or do you read something else now? (submitted by Mark @ Carstairs Considers)

Fantasy was my go to genre when I was younger. I didn’t realise it at the time, I just liked books with magic in them! Later it was Murder Mystery/Thriller.

These days I try to mix my reading up and have actually read a fair amount of Romance with the odd Historical Fiction thrown in. So for the second part of the question I would have to say that I mainly read other things, but I am a fan of ACOTAR.

What about you?

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New Month New Goal! Reading Goal for February

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Goal For February:

Obviously this month needs to be romance in honour of Valentine’s Day! Hopefully I will be able to find some good ones!

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Places My Books Have Taken Me This Month – January 2023 – plus a one word review for each!

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We all know that books can transport us to other places, worlds and times. So where have I been to this January? Click the titles for my book review:

Book Review – Fallen Butterfly by Anna Nicholas

Place: Mallorca

One Word Review: Focused

Book Review – Promise Me by Jill Mansell

Place: Cotswolds

One Word Review: Optimistic

Death and the Conjuror by Tom Mead

Place: London

One Word Review: Misdirection

Mainly based in the UK this month, with a bit of Mallorca thrown in!

Where have your books taken you this month? Would you read these books based on their place and one word review?

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Book of the Month – My Favourite Book Of January 2023

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Random Things Tours – Book Review – Promise Me by Jill Mansell

Book Description fom Goodreads:

“One minute Lou is happily employed, with a perfect flat. The next, her home and job have gone. Suddenly she has to start over.

The last thing Lou wants is to move to a tiny Cotswolds village. She certainly doesn’t intend to work for curmudgeonly eighty-year-old Edgar Allsopp. But Edgar is about to make her the kind of promise nobody could ignore. In return, she secretly vows to help him fall in love with life again.

Foxwell is also home to Remy, whose charm and charisma are proving hard to ignore. But Lou hasn’t recovered from the last time she fell for a charmer. She needs a distraction – and luckily one’s about to turn up.

Secrets never stay hidden for long in Foxwell, nor are promises always kept. And no one could guess what lies ahead…”

I loved this book – what more can I say?!

What has been your favourite book this month?

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Happy Publication Day! Death and the Conjuror by Tom Mead

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Book Description From Goodreads:

“A magician-turned-sleuth in pre-war London solves three impossible crimes.

In 1930s London, celebrity psychiatrist Anselm Rees is discovered dead in his locked study, and there seems to be no way that a killer could have escaped unseen. There are no clues, no witnesses, and no evidence of the murder weapon. Stumped by the confounding scene, the Scotland Yard detective on the case calls on retired stage-magician-turned-part-time-sleuth Joseph Spector. Who better to make sense of the impossible than one who traffics in illusions?

Spector has a knack for explaining the inexplicable, but even he finds that there is more to this mystery than meets the eye. As he and the Inspector interview the colorful cast of suspects among the psychiatrist’s patients and household, they uncover no shortage of dark secrets—or motives for murder. When the investigation dovetails into that of an apparently impossible theft, the detectives consider the possibility that the two transgressions are related. And when a second murder occurs, this time in an impenetrable elevator, they realize that the crime wave will become even deadlier unless they can catch the culprit soon.”

I am on the Blog Tour for this book on 8 February 2023 so keep your eyes peeled for my review on here, Goodreads, Amazon, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter!

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What I have been reading this month – January 2023 Reading List

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Fallen Butterfly by Anna Nicholas ⭐Rated 4/5⭐ CRIME FICTION

Promise Me by Jill Mansell⭐Rated 5/5⭐ ROMANCE/CONTEMPORARY FICTION

Death and the Conjuror by Tom Mead – Review due on 8 February

Genre Goal Checklist:

Mystery = 2 books read

Despite my obvious lack of reading, I did manage to achieve my goal, so I am pleased by that!

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WWW Wednesday – Currently Reading, Finished Reading, Reading Next

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It’s W W W Wednesday! Hosted by Sam @ Taking on a World of Words, here are my 3 Ws (Currently Reading, Just Finished Reading and Future Reading):

What I am currently reading:

The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman (click for link to Goodreads)

What I have finished reading:

Death and the Conjuror by Tom Mead (click for link to Goodreads)

I am on the Blog Tour for this book on 8 February so keep an eye out for my review!

What I am reading next:

Baking and Entering by Janet Butler Male (click for link to Goodreads)

I found this a while back for free on Kindle. It is only a short story, but I thought that it looked good!

What are your 3 Ws for this week?

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Sunday Salon

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Welcome to my Sunday Salon post! Hosted by Readerbuzz this post is a chance to have a weekly bookish and non-bookish catch up with other bloggers.

What I have been reading this week:

Death and the Conjuror by Tom Mead (click for link to Goodreads)

Memes that I have participated in this week:

Top Ten Tuesday – Hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl

Sunday Post – Hosted by Caffeinated Reviewer

What else has been happening this week:

It was my son’s first Staff Development Day on Friday which meant that as a student he had a day off. To keep him entertained my parents and I took him to the beach! Yes, it was very cold, and everything except the fish and chip shop and amusement arcade was closed because it was off season, but it was a great day out! We wrapped up warm and wore wellies so that we could paddle in the sea! Saturday my son and I had our hair cut (I also had mine coloured!) as it hadn’t been done since July (?) so needed doing. Today we will be going bird watching at a local winery near us that allows you to walk around the vineyard, orchard and woodland, for our son’s homework.

I hope that you have had a lovely week!

(Pictures to follow!)

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Sunday Post

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Welcome to my Sunday post hosted by Caffeinated Reviewer. A quiet week this week, but I was on two Blog Tours.

Sunday Salon (last week)

Random Things Tours – Book Review – Fallen Butterfly by Anna Nicholas

Random Things Tours – Book Review – Promise Me by Jill Mansell

Top Ten Tuesday – New-to-Me Authors I Discovered in 2022

Stacking The Shelves

I hope that you have all had a good week!

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