Hayley

Oh, phew 😄

Good luck with your meeting today! I hope you managed to get some sleep and, if not, that you get to make up for it with relaxing treats and an early night. Anxiety really is the worst. Glad to hear you’re feeling better now! I am really, really looking forward to a day off on Thursday. I’ve been balancing a lot of different things for the last couple of weeks and my brain is starting to feel frazzled 😅.

I have this book but I didn’t know it was a follow up! Do you think it works as a standalone?

I absolutely love both Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman but I also remember feeling a bit confused at one point with Good Omens. It’s been a long time since I read it, so I had kind of forgotten! Have you read any of the Discworld books? War, Famine, Pollution and Death appear there too 😄.

I thought she looked young . Is she ok with new people? I’d assume not having a proper home for a while might have made her a bit cautious?

Awww! She’s gorgeous and it’s so lovely that she just clicked with you - she knew she’d found her people! How old is she?

That is the best graduation picture I’ve ever seen 😂

He’s taking a bit of a break but he’ll be popping in

Perhaps if Morton had not stopped to mop his brow in that precise spot, he might never have noticed the black-and-white house. ‘A Study in Black and White’ by Bridget Collins (in The Haunting Season: Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights)

That is true. It would have been far worse if the books just became boring!

We are trialling a different kind of book club this year where we set a theme, rather than a specific book, every 3 months. You can choose any book that fits the theme. The current one is ‘stream of consciousness’ (you can find it here if you’d like to join in: https://www.bookclubforum.co.uk/community/topic/17408-the-bcf-book-club-part-1/#comment-519085 ) Or you can wait and suggest your own category at the end of March 😄

I would happily swear allegiance to Munchkin. Long may she reign! 😄

That look Kevin is giving is withering - he’s like ‘seriously?’ 😂 And Sybil has such beautiful fur!

I've been trying not to buy any more books until I get through my existing stack a bit, but every time I see this book mentioned I'm a little bit more tempted to buy it!

I had the same question when I first saw it on Twitter 😅. It's because they aren't using the term as it's usually used - when an author tours around different book shops to promote their new book. When it's on Twitter, they usually seem to mean that the book is going to "tour" different people's blogs. So there will be a list of bloggers who will all post their reviews of a new book (and sometimes author interviews, I think) on set dates. You sometimes see people refer to it as a 'book blog tour' instead. And if it's not that then I don't have a clue!

Oh yeah, 4 was brilliant! I think the fifth one might have even better tension though! And as for the last one... The Sign of the Devil by Oscar de Muriel 5/5 - I loved it I have had this book since release but saved it for such a long time because I didn't want this brilliant series to be over! There is also the fear, with a final book, that it will be disappointing - maybe leaving loose ends that you'd hoped would be tied up. It's safe to say that I was not disappointed with this book. It was brilliant. It had the same combination of science and the supernatural, the familiar cast of characters, and the tension that stopped me from putting it down until past my bed time... It also had some twists I definitely was not expecting. Although this series is over (😭) I really look forward to seeing what this author comes up with next. Frey & McGray sits firmly amongst my favourite book series. And now for some comments on the ending for those who have finished the whole series (featuring extreme spoilers): I'm now starting The Haunting Season: Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights.

The are gorgeous! (Also, very nice photography on Four in particular!). Pickett has the look of a cat who knows mischief . I recognise that 'nope' position

Hi Charles, websites which provide free pdfs of books which are still in copyright are illegal, so we don't allow links to them on the forum. You can usually get access to newer eBooks for free through your local library, or, if a book is old enough to be out of copyright, you might be able to find pdfs of them from Project Gutenberg.

Actually, there hasn’t been one posted yet this year! You can find past years on the general board but I just created one for us to use this year:

I would like to kick off this year’s pet thread with a very cosy Lilly 😄

I hope you’ll find it friendlier here Nikki! 😄 I love your ‘cat servant’ description - they truly do rule the house. Pet pictures are very welcome here by the way… 😁 I look forward to hearing more about the kind of books you like!

Hi Nikki, what file type are you using? You could try converting it to jpg, if it isn’t that already

I’m really glad you liked it!

I just finished the last Frey & McGray book and I am so sad it was the last one 🥲. A proper review will be coming but it is, overall, such a good series…

I’ve never heard of this man before but I already know from your review that I’d find him unbearably annoying! From the sound of the contradictions, it’s not so ‘brutally honest’ either… I'm glad to see you enjoyed the Sherlock Holmes collection though! The Redheaded League is one of my favourites too. That and the Speckled Band (although it is quite creepy!).