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  1. 9 hours ago, muggle not said:

    I am 25% into The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden and am really impressed with the book. Arden has taken a big leap in her writing. The story, so far. is a joy to read. I am in wonder that a person can write a book with a storyline this good. I hope the book continues to be of my liking.

    I hope so too MN. I loved it, the story gets better and resolves beautifully.

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  2. 39 minutes ago, muggle not said:

    I checked our library and they have the audio-Book version but not the E-Book (kindle). That doesn't make sense to me.

    So, I bought the book from Amazon and it is now on my kindle. I will probably start reading it on Friday.

    That is bizarre. I hope that you enjoy it.

     

    40 minutes ago, muggle not said:

    The Winternight Trilogy is still one of my favorites.

    Mine too.

  3. 1 hour ago, Madeleine said:

    i enjoyed the Nicola Cornick book, very evocative and based on real people and a real garden, which is sadly no longer there.

    Oh good, I do like books like that.

     

    1 hour ago, Madeleine said:

    There's also a book of the same name by Heidi Swain,which I read as part of the BCF winter read, but wasn't too keen on, typical chick lit!

    Yes, I saw that and passed on by.

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  4. 1 hour ago, Hayley said:

    Ooooh it wasn’t that one, but I just looked it up and that one sounds good!! The one I read was by Alexandra Bell. It’s very like a YA book (not that there’s anything wrong with that, I just wasn’t expecting it) only with some particularly dark references which would have made it unsuitable for YA. Not a huge spoiler, but if you want to know what the unsuitable theme was:

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    It references marital rape, though not in great detail. 


     

    I hope I will too, I like it so far but I’m only one chapter in! 😄

    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.

  5. 1 hour ago, Hayley said:

    I had to really think about what other winter books I owned and ended up choosing The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse. I’m fairly sure the whole thing is set in winter but it definitely begins there, in January!

    Loved The Sanatorium!

  6. 1 hour ago, Hayley said:

    I’ve finished The Winter Garden. I did enjoy it overall but it’s not the kind of book I’d immediately recommend to everyone. In fact, I can imagine some people really disliking it. Full review to come soon!

    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.

     

     

  7. On 2/28/2024 at 8:22 AM, KEV67 said:

    As the book says, an interesting thing is that if you lived in four-dimensional space you would be able to see inside three-dimensional objects. 

     

    Without being pedantic, I can look inside a three dimensional box, you just lift the lid. 🤪😜

  8. 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.

  9. 44 minutes ago, KEV67 said:

    I rejoined Facebook,  but only to get some information on someone.  I am very curmudgeonly these days and don't like people. I like the suggestions for friends Facebook keeps sending me. I cannot remember meeting them, but they very good looking. 

    Please be very careful about who you accept as a friend. 

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