BCF Bookclub 2025 - Part 2 Completed Reads

[lunababymoonchild]

The Mayfly, L A Birchon. A short story about time travel. It was very good!

[Hayley]

Finished Dallergut Dream Department Store by Miye Lee as my first book for Time. It’s a strange book (it doesn’t really have a plot!) but just what I needed really, it captured my imagination without needing much concentration! Appropriately, if you’ve ever listened to one of the ‘sleep stories’ from apps like headspace, the narrative style felt very similar to that - probably because it’s mainly description and in first person. 
It’s set in a sort of pre-dream world, which exists outside of normal time. Sleeping people go there and can purchase dreams from the multiple available dream-stores, as well as food items to help them to relax into deep dreamless sleep. We follow Penny, who just got a job at the most prestigious store. Each chapter is essentially about a different type of dream Penny comes across as a seller and why it’s necessary to the dreamer’s waking life. They all end up having a deeper meaning (about things like perseverance and, in one quite heart-breaking one, grief), which did mean that all the chapters ended with a fairly didactic tone. Worth reading if you want something very gentle but also quite fun and fantastical. 

[lunababymoonchild]

Finished The Rules of Time Travel by L A Birchon and thoroughly enjoyed it. It’s self-published and only available on Amazon.

 

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[lunababymoonchild]

Finished Julius, Daphne du Maurier and, now that I know that it’s the life-story of Julius, submit it for this topic of Time

 

[Madeleine]

After much mind changing, I've decided to read "Shadows in the Moonlight" by Santa Montefiore for this challenge.  It's the first of a new series in which someone time travels.

[lunababymoonchild]

17 minutes ago, Madeleine said:

After much mind changing, I've decided to read "Shadows in the Moonlight" by Santa Montefiore for this challenge.  It's the first of a new series in which someone time travels.

Thanks for this, it’s right up my street and an author I’ve never read before. Bought!

[France]

I'll be interested to hear what you both think as I've read, and didn't like much, a couple of her books. But that was a few years ago and my tastes have changed - and so has her writing probably.

[Madeleine]

Must admit I'm not sure about her books either, but this one sounds different.  I do have her Deverill books, and some stand-alones as well but not read them yet.