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lunababymoonchild

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  1. I looked at that one but decided against it. It being YA makes sense from the prose that I read and yes, that theme would be too dark for YA, as for me ……….. well perhaps, I don't know. Only way to find out is that I read it but have chosen a different one so happy with that.
  2. I bought this but don't know if it's the one you read because there are several books called The Winter Garden on Amazon. I chose the one written by Nicola Cornick.
  3. I've finished this, it's only 103 pages long. Excellent stuff.
  4. I have no idea! ETA Yes, it is.
  5. Currently reading The Frozen Deep by Wilkie Collins. It's tremendous!
  6. Without being pedantic, I can look inside a three dimensional box, you just lift the lid. 🤪😜
  7. The Words of Kings and Prophets, Shauna Lawless The second instalment of the Gael Song series. The first is The Children of Gods and Fighting Men, reviewed by Books Do Furnish a Room (December 3 2023). The story continues. Ireland in the first thousand years and onwards. Kings, battles, magic, witches, Descendants of the Tuatha De Danann a supernatural race in Irish mythology, Fomorians also a supernatural race in Irish mythology who are often portrayed as hostile and monstrous beings and enemies of the Tuatha De Danann, and the mortals caught in between. As with us combative Scots, the Irish mortals spend a lot of time at war with each other in order to establish who is at the top of the pecking order. Royal scandal abounds, too. I was totally immersed in this and read great swathes of it at a time. Shauna Lawless is Irish so all of this is familiar to her and she handles the material very well indeed. Some of the people she writes about really existed and so did the battles. The Tuatha De Danann and the Fomorians are real Irish myths and the story Shauna creates around all of this is fascinating. Highly recommended.
  8. I read the Seamus Heaney translation and loved it.
  9. Please be very careful about who you accept as a friend.
  10. I was talking about her forthcoming novel Moonstone. Are you talking about The Whispering Muse, the pb of which has only been released on 18 January this year?
  11. I've been in my currect address for 50 years and only seen deer, across the road, twice in that time. I'm pretty certain that they would be Roe deer, although they disappeared into the undergrowth pretty quickly I'm glad to say - the NED (Non Educated Delinquent) element in the area would have been very bad for them.
  12. You are very welcome. I'm beginning to think that I need a spreadsheet or something to keep me up to date with these 🤣
  13. Currently reading the Words of Kings and Prophets, Shauna Lawless
  14. Oh yeah! And Stuart Turton.
  15. It's been a while but Deborah Harkness has released her fifth book in the five book series A Discovery of Witches called The Black Bird Oracle. Ian Rankin has released his 25th Rebus book, Midnight and Blue. Kerry Lord has issued another Ed's Animals book due to be shipped next week, apparently. Laura Purcell has a new one coming out Moonstone. Stacy Halls The Household released this year, Sarah Pearse will publish her new one this year called The Wilds, The Puzzle Wood by Rosie Andrews, The Last Murder at the End of the World, Stuart Turton, The Warm Hands of Ghosts, Katherine Arden, The Book of Elsewhere, China Mieville and Keanu Reeves, apparently. The Silence Factory, Bridget Collins, The Dark Wives: DCI Vera Stanhope 11 Ann Cleeves. All eagerly anticipated by me (!).
  16. I just want to say that I'm still reading The Secrets of Blythswood Square, Sara Sheridan and it's absolutely phenomonal!
  17. I just wish that it was a longer story too, and ……….. Me too I loved that one too and also wished it was longer but didn't get the Christmas Carol reference.
  18. Very difficult to choose but just by the barest of margins it would be Laura Purcell's Carol of the Bells and Chains. Because Krampus is mentioned. Then again, maybe Jenkin by Catriona Ward. Too many to choose from. I don't think that there's a weak story among them.
  19. Currently reading The Secrets of Blythswood Square, Sara Sheridan
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