Wordy Witterings

Book Review of ‘The Vanishing Bookstore’ by Helen Phifer Genre: Cosy fantasy, Witchy fiction, Mystery Recommended for those who like a dual timeline, sisterhood and all things witchy ‘Every story needs a happy ending. And you can’t have yours until you find the bookstore.’ 1692. On the outskirts of Salem, a bookstore stands covered in overgrown vines. Inside, a young woman hides a linen-wrapped journal under a loose floorboard and runs away, panicked by the sound of hounds barking in the distance.

Book Review of ‘The Vanishing Bookstore’ by Helen Phifer

Genre: Cosy fantasy, Witchy fiction, Mystery Recommended for those who like a dual timeline, sisterhood and all things witchy ‘Every story needs a happy ending. And you can’t have yours until you find the bookstore.’ 1692. On the outskirts…

Book Review of ‘The Secret Lives of Murderers’ Wives’ by Elizabeth Arnott Genre: Crime thriller, Suspense, Women's Lit Recommended for those who like page-turners, an alternative perspective, and strong female protagonists. It’s a baking hot summer in 1960s California and three women have formed an unlikely friendship. From the outside, Beverley, Elsie and Margot lead idyllic lives, but behind the false smiles and glittering pools lies the truth: their husbands are some of the country’s most notorious convicted killers.

Book Review of ‘The Secret Lives of Murderers’ Wives’ by Elizabeth Arnott

Genre: Crime thriller, Suspense, Women's Lit Recommended for those who like page-turners, an alternative perspective, and strong female protagonists. It’s a baking hot summer in 1960s California and three women have formed…

Book Review of ‘Norma and the Blue Hour’ by Chris Delyoni Recommended for those who enjoy fashion, cocktail hour, and a focus on interesting older characters A careening Porsche Boxster. A spray of shattered glass. The next thing 79-year-old fashion designer Norma McKinsey knows, she’s lying helpless in a hospital room. Kevin, her son, sits by her hospital bedside—but only in her imagination. The real Kevin is an addict she hasn’t seen in twenty-five years.

Publishing soon... 'Norma and the Blue Hour'.
Read my review at Wordy Witterings.

Top Ten Tuesday: The Best Amazon Products I’ve Reviewed Recently It's Top Ten Tuesday, but this week we've been challenged to write a non-bookish blog. Something that you may not know about me, is that I review for Amazon. I'm not quite sure how this came about - possibly through leaving book reviews on Amazon and lots of you lovely people saying that the review was useful? Who knows! One afternoon, I received an email, inviting me to join the Amazon Vine review programme.

I review for Amazon... these are my favourite products from the last few months.

#NetGalley #ACaseofMiceandMen

Audiobook review of ‘A Case of Mice and Murder’ by Sally Smith Recommended for fans of Hercule Poirot, 'Rumpole of the Bailey', and cosy murder mysteries. The Inner Temple, 1901: a warren of shaded courtyards and ancient buildings that has formed the heart of legal London for hundreds of years. A place where tradition is everything, the police enter only by consent, and murder is only to be found in the case archives.

Audiobook review of ‘A Case of Mice and Murder’ by Sally Smith

Recommended for fans of Hercule Poirot, 'Rumpole of the Bailey', and cosy murder mysteries. The Inner Temple, 1901: a warren of shaded courtyards and ancient buildings that has formed the heart of legal London for hundreds of years. A…

My Top Ten Historical Fiction Novels 'Top Ten Tuesday' is hosted by Jana at www.thatartsyreadergirl.com. Each week, we're given a topic as a prompt for our bookish blogs. This week's top ten is a genre freebie, and I'm going with my top ten books from the Historical Fiction Genre. 1. 'The Pillars of the Earth' by Ken Follett It's a huge book, but it left me leaving so much more.

It's Top Ten Tuesday, and I'm sharing my top ten Historical Fiction novels.

#Dyslexia #Dyslexia-Friendly @barringtonstoke.bsky.social #books #TeenReads

Engaging Dyslexia-Friendly Reads for Teens There's a big difference between being able to read, and reading for pleasure. As a teacher of English, I don't just want my students to have the ability to read the words in front of them, but to get engrossed in a story, to care about the characters, to be able to see the world from a different perspective... all the things that I want to do myself when I read.

It's the summer break, but I'm adding more dyslexa-friendly titles to our school library. Here are three new titles for teenage readers.

On a summer camper van holiday to the Scottish Highlands. Happy to report that Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid is amazing!

#booksky 📚💙 #Atmosphere #Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #Skye #TaylorJenkinsReid #SummerReads #VeryBritishProblems

Wordy Witterings - TES I specialise in no-prep, high-quality resources for teaching KS3 and KS4 English. I love hearing how resources go in your classrooms! If you’ve used o...

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Which other English teachers sell on tes.com?

I'm hoping to form a group to test out each others resources so that we can generate some feedback and reviews to boost our sales?

#Englishteachers #teaching #edusky #tes #teachingresources #ks3english #ks4english #resourcereviews #teachersupport

Bonny & Read: A Swashbuckling Tale of Female Pirates Recommended for readers who like their history with sabres, sass, and a side of subversion. There’s something deliciously satisfying about a book that lets women be wild, willful, and wonderfully unrepentant. Bonny & Read is a tale of two such women— Rebels. Pirates. Women. —who leap off the page with sabres drawn and secrets simmering. It’s not just a story of high seas and higher stakes; it’s a love letter to freedom, identity, and the glorious mess of being unapologetically yourself.

Bonny & Read: A Swashbuckling Tale of Female Pirates

Recommended for readers who like their history with sabres, sass, and a side of subversion. There’s something deliciously satisfying about a book that lets women be wild, willful, and wonderfully unrepentant. Bonny & Read is a tale of two such…

Sweet. Positive. Teenage queer love. 🌈

I enjoyed this one!

11:22:63... I'm diving in!

So many people have recommended this one to me. I'm looking forward to a long summer listen. 🎧📚

#audiobook #StephenKing #booksky 💙📚

The image us the book cover for A Case of Mice and Murder by Sally Smith. It features a London skyline in the background, a victorian archway with a gas light over the top, a knife and blood.

🎧📚 New Release...

I'm currently listening to 'A Case of Mice and Murder' by Sally Smith, narrated by Matthew Lloyd Davies. 🐁

"A dead judge. A lawyer turned sleuth." 👨‍⚖️🤔

It's delightful! Review to follow soon!

#audiobooks #cosycrime #historicalfiction 💙📚 #booksky #NetGalley #ACaseOfMiceAndMurder

I loved reading this to both my kids. My youngest is 14 and I think I can still recite the whole thing!

It's great if you enjoy literary fiction - within that genre it ticked so many boxes for me. I was surprised at its tiktok popularity though - it's hardly a page-turner!

🌈 🏳️‍🌈 Happy Pride month! 🌈 🏳️‍🌈
What's on your Pride reading list?
I've just started reading 'In Case You Read This' by Edward Underhill.
What else should I be reading? I'd love to find more positive young trans characters.
@edwardunderhill.bsky.social #LGBT+ #LGBTQIA+ #BookSky 🏳️‍🌈💙 📚💙

Update: It was both quicker and lighter than Possession, and I gave it ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Had a spare hour to read this morning.
Spent the first half choosing my next title from the Goodreads challenge list, then the second half trying to figure out how to download it from Amazon to my kindle. Damn you, Bezos!
#ReaderProblems #Booksky 📚💙

Was it part of your studies? I think it'd be a great one to study rather than read for pleasure.

Fancy something quick and lighter than 'Possession'. Hope this fits the bill!
#Kawaguchi #AmReading #novella #BookSky 💙📚

Unravelling the Metafiction of A.S. Byatt’s ‘Possession’ Recommended for: literary scholars, poetry fans, those who enjoy novels with a slower pace. A pair of young scholars investigate the lives of two Victorian poets. Following a trail of letters, journals and poems they uncover a web of passion, deceit and tragedy, and their quest becomes a battle against time. Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story.

Unravelling the Metafiction of A.S. Byatt’s ‘Possession’

Recommended for: literary scholars, poetry fans, those who enjoy novels with a slower pace. A pair of young scholars investigate the lives of two Victorian poets. Following a trail of letters, journals and poems they uncover a web of…

I never assume - most adults struggle with this too.

Audiobook Clubber: Why you should listen to 'James' by Percival Everett <p>On this episode of <a rel="nofollow"href="https://www.audiobookclub.net/blog/hashtags/AudioBookClub">#AudioBookClub</a>: </p> <p>...

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#garden #stonecarving #bees

My dad has made me a bee bath out of stone! 🐝

I'm all geared up to teach 'Boys Don't Cry' by @malorieblackman.bsky.social at GCSE after attending tonight's #LitInColour online session.
We have an exciting two years ahead!

We'll discuss it after we've finished if you like!