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Currently re-reading Albert Camus’ The Stranger so that I can follow it with The Mersault Investigation by Kamel Daoud, which I knew nothing about until recently.

I just finished reading The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins. The writing was very good, and I enjoyed the book. my only complaint is that the book really drug on in places and maybe it could have been shorter in text. On the other hand shortening the book may eliminate some of the excellent descriptions.

One more, he's presumably over indulged a bit...actually this was when they were first putting up the sculptures so I guess he wasn't properly installed at that point.

I guess this is the female equivalent of a man buying a train set for his son/grandson/nephew etc so that he can "help" the child play with it, though he ends up using the set himself!

Am I the only one who still doesn't know what day of the week it is? It's Friday at the moment!🙃

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Good luck, enjoy your reading!

They are lovely aren't they, I might invest as well. Would love to see the blanket's progress, good luck!

No promotional posts please.

I bought the Bramley Hedge book containing all the stories, theoretically for a family member, but probably more so for myself. It's not a book we ever had but I love the illustrations and I'm crocheting a blanket based on some of the colours. I've also bought a Bramley Hedge diary 😃

What a great idea! I never thought of using one of those for knitted garments 😊

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i finally got back into reading and im currently reading a pirates life for tea,my goal is to read 25 books in the next 6 months :)

Hooray! Enjoy 🙂 I have Blindness and Seeing by Saramago

Aye- 2 by Jose Saramago 2 by Elif Shafak. Great stuff.

I saw that there was going to be a brambly hedge trail! I'd love to do that, but it would take me over 2 hours to get to Epping Forest, so I'd have to plan all the car travel very carefully with Olle 😅. I'd love to see the pictures!

Happy New Year!

No, but I bought my mother two books. One was about a walk that commemorates Queen Eleanor, who was Richard the Lionheart's and King John's mother. I also bought her a book about a queen or duchess who was highly involved in the War of the Roses, but I cannot remember her name or which side. Then I bought Little Adrian four books, all by Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet.

Happy New Year everyone 🎇

Funnily enough I did a walk today in Epping Forest and there's a brambly hedge trail on at the moment, as the author was local, sadly she's no longer with us. I agree the illustrations are lovely, I'd never heard of it until we first did the trail in the early summer, they're very cute! I'll post some pics.

Good timing This was my final book of 2025 too and it also made me laugh. It's definitely a fun book to read! You've made me want to read this one!

The Crow Garden was my choice for this challenge and I have to admit, it was less about nature than the title implies! The crow garden is the name of what is essentially a graveyard in the grounds of a Victorian asylum. There are supernatural elements surrounding it, especially the fact that it seems to always attract a lot of crows. And that is... basically it for nature... 😅. I did enjoy the book. It follows a guy who's trying to find work in asylums, to help people deemed insane and thus prove himself to his deceased father. The asylum he ends up in is awful, but when a very pretty and wealthy woman is bought there by her husband, our main character is convinced he can fix her. She has some shocking revelations about her husband though and it starts to become unclear whether she really is delusional and whether she can actually speak to the dead. I found all of that really gripping. It was a little bit like The Madwoman's Ball, which was a great book. But then the twists and turns begin. Normally, I love a good plot twist, and I like lots of different elements of a story that twist together - but there ended up being so many elements to this story that it started to feel oddly chaotic. It left me with the impression that the author had changed her mind about where the story was going part way through. By the time I actually got to the end, there were still a few things that seemed like plot holes, or at least weren't explained enough to make sense. It's a shame because, otherwise, it was getting really good!