I wasn't blown away by this. But The Bonesetter's Daughter (also by Amy Tan) is one of my favourite books of all time.
29.07.2025 05:43 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0@kwthomasbooks.bsky.social
Very niche combination of steamy contemporary romance author and plain language health editor. North East England till I die. She/her. mybook.to/TheScoop
I wasn't blown away by this. But The Bonesetter's Daughter (also by Amy Tan) is one of my favourite books of all time.
29.07.2025 05:43 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Similar in NE England. Often they are ยฃ15 but on a constant happy hour which means you get two.
28.07.2025 16:38 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Oh my god, we had bin strikes last year and I feel you! The sweetest sound!
25.07.2025 15:51 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I make this all the time and it's delicious and so simple:
www.tamingtwins.com/slow-cooker-...
Our travel agent booked us into the Manchester Britannia the night before we went honeymoon. We started our married life wandering around the Trafford Centre just to be somewhere else.
25.07.2025 08:22 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0One like, one imaginary stomach crunch
24.07.2025 19:30 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Very much so
24.07.2025 18:12 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0It's like Dominic Raab, which sort of sounds like "rob" in a verrrrrry drawn out American accent
24.07.2025 17:20 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0It was because there was a trend of putting your hair up in a half ponytail on the top of your head, using many scrunchies. Our head of year decided that she wasn't having everyone going round 'looking like pineapples' and banned them ๐
24.07.2025 17:13 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0๐ถClowns to the left of me
Nazis to the right
Here I am
Stuck in a dying democracy where it won't stop raining and everything costs a fortune with you๐ถ
Wearing more than one scrunchie in your hair
24.07.2025 12:21 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0I haven't read this one! *downloads immediately*
24.07.2025 06:18 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I am bad at remembering titles, but Kate Canterbary, Alexis Hall, Jess K Hardy, Steve McHugh.
23.07.2025 20:41 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0At this point, I do not know how anyone denies what is happening in Gaza unless they have no sense of morals. People are starving to death. They are being shot at when they come to get food. What else can you possibly call this but genocide?
23.07.2025 12:27 โ ๐ 911 ๐ 192 ๐ฌ 10 ๐ 8Nine-Inch Hair Extensions ๐
23.07.2025 14:34 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Imagine thinking that the biggest problem facing the UK right now is asylum seekers delivering kebabs
23.07.2025 11:01 โ ๐ 10 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Ok, if this guy wasn't Lestat the vampire, what would his band's name be? Because I swear this is exactly how I picture a minor character in my WIP and his band is currently called *THE SOMETHINGS TBC*
23.07.2025 10:16 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0Presumably not from standing?!?
22.07.2025 16:17 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0"We say this thing like this, so this other thing should follow that pattern and you're wrong if you disagree" is a terrible argument, because English is a messy, messy bitch
22.07.2025 15:31 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0My kids used to call them "bloobers" so that is what they will forever be in this house
22.07.2025 09:50 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0My favourite review of one of my books contains the words "formulaic" and "pornographic". Five stars.
22.07.2025 08:50 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0We're done? Like, we're going to cease to exist? Can we wait a few weeks so I can go on holiday first?
22.07.2025 08:46 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Oh my god have I finally, FINALLY, figured out the MCs' dynamic for this god damn bloody book?
21.07.2025 21:30 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I was too tired to drag myself into the office this morning so decided to WFH, but I forgot my neighbour was having his patio pressure washed and now I have regrets
21.07.2025 09:03 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I have definitely read more than one of them, but I cannot for the life of me remember what they were called. Probably because they were extremely dull and generic in other ways too.
21.07.2025 06:24 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Every time you look at this, there's something new to wonder about
19.07.2025 11:46 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Despite living through 14/16 English summers, my kids refuse to believe that it can be both rainy and warm, so when I suggested they wear shorts today to go help their dad at an outdoor gig, they looked at me as if I'd lost my mind.
19.07.2025 11:40 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Thank you ๐
19.07.2025 08:10 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 03 years ago today, I became an indie romance author! Happy birthday, Cleo and Devon ๐
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It's a fucking ridiculous one today
18.07.2025 15:03 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0