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Firefly Summer by Nan Rossiter ⭐⭐.5 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Dead Heat by Bronwyn Parry ⭐⭐⭐.5 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

The Christmas Love Letters by Sue Moorcroft ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Billy Summers by Stephen King ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I'm in too please. 💕📚
Starting Point: Two Days Gone p.351
Dead Heat p.27
A Parfait Crime p.146

Fri Oct 27:
Two Days Gone by Randall Silvis COMPLETED 44 PAGES
A Parfait Crime by Maya Corrigan 46 pages
Dead Heat by Bronwyn Parry 89 pages
Murder on the Marsh by Anne Penketh 49 pages
DAILY TOTAL = 228 pages

Sat Oct 28:
A Parfait Crime by Maya Corrigan COMPLETED 112 pages
Murder on the Marsh by Anne Penketh 43 pages
Dead Heat by Bronwyn Parry 86 pages
The Christmas Love Letters by Sue Moorcroft 87 pages

DAILY TOTAL = 328 pages
RUNNING TOTAL = 556 pages

Sun Oct 29:
The Christmas Love Letters by Sue Moorcroft COMPLETED 289 pages
Dead Heat by Bronwyn Parry COMPLETED 150 pages
Firefly Summer by Nan Rossiter 32 pages

DAILY TOTAL = 471 pages
RUNNING TOTAL = 1,027 pages

Mon Oct 30:
Murder on the Marsh by Anne Penketh COMPLETED 142 pages
Firefly Summer by Nan Rossiter 67 pages

DAILY TOTAL = 209 pages
RUNNING TOTAL = 1236 pages

Tues Oct 31:
The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman 46 pages
Secrets of Southern Girls by Haley Harrigan 62 pages
Firefly Summer by Nan Rossiter 102 pages

DAILY TOTAL = 210 pages
RUNNING TOTAL = 1446 pages

Wed Nov 1:
The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman 56 pages
Secrets of Southern Girls by Haley Harrigan 118 pages
Mrs Winterbottom Takes a Gap Year by Joanna Nell 23 pages
Firefly Summer by Nan Rossiter COMPLETED 151 pages

DAILY TOTAL = 348 pages
RUNNING TOTAL = 1794 pages

Thu Nov 2:
The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman 98 pages
Mrs Winterbottom Takes a Gap Year by Joanna Nell 202 pages
Secrets of Southern Girls by Haley Harrigan 87 pages

DAILY TOTAL = 387 pages
RUNNING TOTAL = 2181 pages


Fri Nov 3:
Mrs Winterbottom Takes a Gap Year by Joanna Nell COMPLETED 97 pages
Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary by Nina Stibbe 10 pages
The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman 136 pages
Secrets of Southern Girls by Haley Harrigan 21 pages

DAILY TOTAL = 264 pages
RUNNING TOTAL = 2445 pages


Sat Nov 4:
The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman COMPLETED 86 pages
The Sentence is Death by Anthony Horowitz 105 pages
Secrets of Southern Girls by Haley Harrigan COMPLETED 32 pages
Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary by Nina Stibbe 122 pages

DAILY TOTAL = 345 pages
RUNNING TOTAL = 2790 pages

Sun Nov 5:
The Sentence is Death by Anthony Horowitz 81 pages
Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary by Nina Stibbe 93 pages

DAILY TOTAL = 174 pages
GRAND TOTAL = 2964 pages

Christmas at the Inn on Bluebell Lane by Kate Hewitt ⭐⭐⭐.8 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

The Book of Beginnings by Sally Page 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

The Well of Saint Nobody by Neil Jordan ⭐⭐.5 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

The Last List of Mabel Beaumont by Laura Pearson ⭐⭐⭐.4 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Daisy and Kate by Meredith Appleyard ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

It All Comes Back to You by Melissa Wiesner ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

The Returned: A gripping Irish crime thriller by Amanda Cassidy ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

The Detective Up Late by Adrian McKinty ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

At the Coffee Shop of Curiosities by Heather Webber ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

The Air Raid Book Club by Annie Lyons ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Continuing #24
July 29th
Put your Feet in the Dirt, Girl by Sonia Henry 48 pages
Invisible Girl by Lisa Jewell 79 pages
Gone Tonight by Sarah Pekkanen 113 pages
DAILY TOTAL - 240 pages
RUNNING TOTAL = 6460 pages

July 30th
Invisible Girl by Lisa Jewell 31 pages
Gone Tonight by Sarah Pekkanen 239 pages (COMPLETED)
DAILY TOTAL = 270 pages
RUNNING TOTAL = 6730 pages

July 31st
Invisible Girl by Lisa Jewell 142 pages (COMPLETED)
Put your Feet in the Dirt, Girl by Sonia Henry 55 pages
DAILY TOTAL = 197 pages
GRAND TOTAL FOR JULY = 6927 pages

Set in the late 1800's this is a beautifully written, gentle book about the awakening of a woman to a side of herself she had never suspected existed.

Edna married her businessman husband Leonce "quite by accident" when he fell madly in love with her. He appears to be a good husband, provides well for his wife and family, but is quite controlling, his life, and therefore Edna's, dictated by the social mores of the time.

She has had a slightly unorthodox upbringing and holds some radical views on motherhood and femininity, stating that while she would die for her children, she would never 'lose herself' for them. But perhaps she is already 'lost', or at least wandering.

Slowly she starts shedding the confines placed upon her, and despite veiled warnings from those she considers friends, she allows her own personality and desires to come to the fore.

The Awakening, originally titled "A Solitary Soul" caused an outcry when it was first published, dealing with marital infidelity instead of the norm of that time, romantic fiction.

This is a book that I fully intend to revisit, and savour. Modern authors could learn a lot from MS Chopin.

The audio version is beautifully narrated, and the music is sublime. 4 1/2 stars from me.

The Short Straw by Holly Seddon ⭐⭐⭐.5
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

The Lies She Told: A chilling crime thriller that will keep you guessing by Lynda Renham ⭐⭐⭐.7
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I'm in! I missed July 1st, but am starting July 2nd.😊❤📚
Starting Points:
The Vanishing Point by Val McDermid I'm on p. 215
The Word Is Murder by Anthony Horowitz I'm on p. 178
July 2nd
The Lucky Shamrock by Carolyn Brown 31 pages
The Word Is Murder by Anthony Horowitz 102 pages
DAILY TOTAL = 133 pages

July 3rd
The Lucky Shamrock by Carolyn Brown 100 pages
The Word Is Murder by Anthony Horowitz 43 pages
DAILY TOTAL = 143 pages
RUNNING TOTAL = 276 pages

July 4th
The Vanishing Point by Val McDermid 26 pages
The Lucky Shamrock by Carolyn Brown 62 pages
The Word Is Murder by Anthony Horowitz 222 pages (COMPLETED)
DAILY TOTAL = 310 pages
RUNNING TOTAL = 586 pages

July 5th
The Lucky Shamrock by Carolyn Brown 80 pages (COMPLETED)
The Room with Eight Windows by Jane A. Adams 24 pages
The Vanishing Point by Val McDermid 31 pages
DAILY TOTAL = 135 pages
RUNNING TOTAL = 721 pages

July 6th
The Vanishing Point by Val McDermid 61 pages
The Room with Eight Windows by Jane A. Adams 102 pages
DAILY TOTAL = 163 pages
RUNNING TOTAL = 884 pages

July 7th
The Vanishing Point by Val McDermid 79 pages
The Room with Eight Windows by Jane A. Adams 117 pages
DAILY TOTAL = 196 pages
RUNNING TOTAL = 1080 pages

July 8th
The Room with Eight Windows by Jane A. Adams 18 pages (COMPLETED)
The Girls of Heatherly Hall by Julie Houston 12 pages
DAILY TOTAL = 30 pages (not much reading done, but I had a good day at the races 😊)
RUNNING TOTAL = 1110 pages

July 9th
The Vanishing Point by Val McDermid 27 pages (COMPLETED)
The Girls of Heatherly Hall by Julie Houston 356 pages (COMPLETED)
The Wedding Gift by Carolyn Brown 58 pages
DAILY TOTAL = 441 pages
RUNNING TOTAL = 1551 pages

July 10th
The Wedding Gift by Carolyn Brown 235 pages
Runaway by Peter May 111 pages
DAILY TOTAL = 346 pages
RUNNING TOTAL = 1897 pages

July 11th
The Wedding Gift by Carolyn Brown 43 pages (COMPLETED)
Runaway by Peter May 68 pages
A Cryptic Clue by Victoria Gilbert 100 pages
No Safe House by Linwood Barclay 10 pages
DAILY TOTAL = 221 pages
RUNNING TOTAL = 2118 pages

July 12th
A Cryptic Clue by Victoria Gilbert 131 pages
Runaway by Peter May 139 pages
DAILY TOTAL = 270 pages
RUNNING TOTAL = 2388 pages

July 13th
Runaway by Peter May 68 pages
Black Thorn by Sarah Hilary 33 pages
A Cryptic Clue by Victoria Gilbert 89 pages
DAILY TOTAL = 190 pages
RUNNING TOTAL = 2578 pages

July 14th
Black Thorn by Sarah Hilary 291 pages
DAILY TOTAL = 291 pages
RUNNING TOTAL = 2869 pages

July 15th
Hercule Poirot's Silent Night by Sophie Hannah 84 pages
The Start of Something Wonderful by Jessica Redland 62 pages
Black Thorn by Sarah Hilary 35 pages (COMPLETED)
DAILY TOTAL = 181 pages
RUNNING TOTAL = 3050 pages

July 16th
Runaway by Peter May 38 pages (COMPLETED)
The Book of Lost and Found by Lucy Foley 29 pages
The Start of Something Wonderful by Jessica Redland 138 pages
Hercule Poirot's Silent Night by Sophie Hannah 62 pages
DAILY TOTAL = 267 pages
RUNNING TOTAL = 3317 pages

July 17th
The Start of Something Wonderful by Jessica Redland 144 pages (COMPLETED)
The Short Straw by Holly Seddon 10 pages
Hercule Poirot's Silent Night by Sophie Hannah 79 pages
The Book of Lost and Found by Lucy Foley 74 pages
DAILY TOTAL = 307 pages
RUNNING TOTAL = 3624 pages

July 18th
The Short Straw by Holly Seddon 213 pages
The Book of Lost and Found by Lucy Foley 145 pages
Hercule Poirot's Silent Night by Sophie Hannah 12 pages
DAILY TOTAL = 370 pages
RUNNING TOTAL = 3994 pages

July 19th
Hercule Poirot's Silent Night by Sophie Hannah 14 pages
The Short Straw byHolly Seddon 78 pages
The Book of Lost and Found by Lucy Foley 10 pages
DAILY TOTAL = 102 pages
RUNNING TOTAL = 4096 pages

July 20th
The Short Straw by Holly Seddon 19 pages (COMPLETED)
Hercule Poirot's Silent Night by Sophie Hannah 133 pages (COMPLETED)
The Book of Lost and Found by Lucy Foley 159 pages
The New Wife by J.P. Delaney 42 pages
DAILY TOTAL = 353 pages
RUNNING TOTAL = 4449 pages

July 21st
The Book of Lost and Found by Lucy Foley 51 pages (COMPLETED)
The New Wife by J.P. Delaney 60 pages
The Lonely Hearts Beach Club by Amy Miller 24 pages
Miss Morton and the English House Party Murder by Catherine Lloyd 57 pages
DAILY TOTAL = 192 Pages
RUNNING TOTAL = 4641 Pages

July 22nd
The Lonely Hearts Beach Club by Amy Miller 109 pages
Miss Morton and the English House Party Murder by Catherine Lloyd 75 pages
Kill For Me Kill For You by Steve Cavanagh 12 pages
The New Wife by J.P. Delaney 180 pages (COMPLETED)
DAILY TOTAL = 376 pages
RUNNING TOTAL = 5017 pages

July 23rd
The Lonely Hearts Beach Club by Amy Miller 149 pages (COMPLETED)
Miss Morton and the English House Party Murder by Catherine Lloyd 17 pages
Kill For Me Kill For You by Steve Cavanagh 112 pages
DAILY TOTAL = 278 pages
RUNNING TOTAL = 5295 pages

July 24th
Miss Morton and the English House Party Murder by Catherine Lloyd 137 pages (COMPLETED)
Kill For Me Kill For You by Steve Cavanagh 164 pages
Three Sisters by O.J. Mullen 16 pages
Put your Feet in the Dirt, Girl by Sonia Henry 15 pages
DAILY TOAL = 332 pages
RUNNING TOTAL = 5627 pages

July 25th
Kill For Me Kill For You by Steve Cavanagh 112 pages (COMPLETED)
Three Sisters by O.J. Mullen 48 pages
DAILY TOTAL = 160 pages
RUNNING TOTAL = 5787 pages

July 26th
Three Sisters by O.J. Mullen 71 pages
Put your Feet in the Dirt, Girl by Sonia Henry 66 pages
Invisible Girl by Lisa Jewell 79 pages
DAILY TOTAL = 216 pages
RUNNING TOTAL = 6003 pages

July 27th
Invisible Girl by Lisa Jewell 14 pages
Three Sisters by O.J. Mullen 65 pages
DAILY TOTAL = 79 pages
RUNNING TOTAL = 6082

July 28th
Three Sisters by O.J. Mullen 39 pages (DNF)
Invisible Girl by Lisa Jewell 70 pages
Put your Feet in the Dirt, Girl by Sonia Henry 29 pages
DAILY TOTAL = 138 pages
RUNNING TOTAL = 6220 pages