Ali Hope 📚📚

Interesting, I'm about 40% in (Kindle edition) and enjoying it so far. Though it may work out that I preferred her others especially A Spring of Love and A Helping Hand.

Ooh, did you enjoy it?

Thanks for this, I was wondering what to read. 😁

Not forgetting our four mystery titles from 1925! 😊✨
The Blue Diamond by Annie Haynes
Witness on the Roof by Annie Haynes
The Black Cabinet by Patricia Wentworth
The Dower House Mystery by Patricia Wentworth
#1925Club

One week to go! @kaggsy59.bsky.social

Oh I do love Katherine Mansfield.

The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield (1922) What to say about this collection of fifteen of Mansfield’s short stories, other than to highlight its brilliance? I loved working my way through this short volume, reading one or two pieces on a d…

From the archive for Katherine Mansfield, #BornOnThisDay in 1888, thoughts on THE GARDEN PARTY.

There's a beautiful fluidity of emotion in these stories as they move from happiness and gaiety to sadness and loneliness in the blink of an eye #BookSky 💙📚

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Other people by Celia Dale, book cover. Black and white photograph of people in sixties dress drinking at a table in a bar. Title text in orange against white background, author name in black.

I'm currently reading Other People by Celia Dale. It's very good! I have loved everything I have read by her to date.

Thank you Jacqui. I will just be so happy when it's all over.

Oh yes, I've read The Optomist's Daughter too. Thanks for reminding me. It had such brilliant characters, can't believe I momentarily forgot I'd read that too. 😁🙈

Thank you, very tired. I just need this move to be over. Hopefully two weeks!
I started Losing Battles by her years ago, but didn't get on with it and set it aside. A few years after that I read Delta Wedding which I absolutely loved.

Oh I loved The Good Life! My TV childhood.

I don't find it difficult, but it's non linear and not a quick/light read. It's beautifully atmospheric, so probably worth spending time with I think.

I think I have only read one book by her previously, Faces in the Water. It was good, but I seem to have forgotten a lot of it now.

Absolutely loving this book, but utter exhaustion brought on by moving stress has meant this week has become a bit of a slow reading week. I do love getting back to a book when I know the writing is so good. 💙📚

Ooh, going to see this play on Saturday. A rare trip out with my sister and a friend. I admit to finding manoeuvring my chair into the theatre row a palaver, just not much space to turn etc. Thankfully, I shall have two back street drivers with me to prevent disasters. 👩‍🦽

Publicity photograph of the cast of Celebrity Traitors UK.

The #celebritytraitors first episode absolutely over delivered.
Delighted that Celia Imrie is as sharp, fierce and twinkly eyed as I hoped and Nick Mohammed the utterly delightful human I knew he would be (big fan!) Alan Carr as a traitor will never not be hysterical. Even if he messes it up.

I'll bet you were you little minx #CelebrityTraitors

Alan Carr in a celebrity traitors cloak holding up a lantern, looking tense.

Me answering the door after 6pm in winter. #celebritytraitors

Yes, true. I know the Guiness family were British and very posh, at a later date of course Diana Mitford married into the Guiness family, and I had thought they were then very English/establishment at that point. Accents do change over time too, good point.

Ooh, I've been wondering about watching this. (Nothing to do with James Norton 🤭😉) Where do you stand on the accents? Have seen mixed reports.

Oopsie - #awkward. 😬

A brilliant novel. Though I can't see modern publishers risking it. I whooped pretty loudly when I finally got a second hand copy (reasonably priced) and wouldn't part with it or any of my Comyns books.

I have a moving date.

*collapses in a heap!*

Yes, I may watch in the daytime. 😁

Ebook cover of The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny displayed on a tablet on a red tablecloth with white polkadots

Kiran Desai's "The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny" - weird title, good book, slightly long. For more: librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/10/04/b... #bookershortlist #booksky 📚💙

Very much looking forward to this when it lands on Netflix.

Book cover. A penguin modern classic. The Golden Apples by Eudora Welty. A dark-haired woman stands casually in the doorway of a white wooden house wearing a pink apron looking off to the side.

Started reading: The Golden Apples by Eudora Welty. It's strongly atmospheric, with some gorgeous prose. 💙📚

I read that book! 😀

Just make sure the door is locked! 😉

Lol I haven't seen Dirty Dancing either!
Nor Top Gun,
Nor Ghostbusters,
Nor Titanic. 🤷🏽