This week....

 I'm reading...

I mentioned a few weeks ago that I wasn't really listening to any audiobooks at the moment. The time that I could be listening is while I am working,, but there are just times when I can't possibly have another piece of information coming into my head so I just can't listen. However, I decided at the end of last week that the time was right to listen to Jenny Colgan's Christmas at the Island Hotel despite the fact that I don't normally go out of my way to read Christmas books. I have listened to all the books in this series and this is just the right combination of fun and serious and so far it is working for me. I also like that this audio is under 10  hours. A couple of the other books I want to listen to are around 25 hours which is quite an investment in time. 


I have also just started reading When I Come Home Again by Caroline Scott. I have one of this author's other books out of the library which is why I said yes to reading it. Luckily I have a public holiday tomorrow so I might be able to get a good chunk of it read, otherwise there is going to be a mad scramble to get it done.

I'm watching....

The Mandalorian is back!! That is our Friday night viewing set for the next few weeks at least. And we also watched the first episode of The Boys so maybe we will watch more of that. I don't know. 

The one thing we watched over the weekend was Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. We have friends who throw a Halloween dress up party every year. Dress up isn't really my thing but we go to see everyone. This year, though, that wasn't really an option because of our restrictions so instead we all watched this movie and chatted about it in a group chat. I also thought it counted as a good last hurrah for RIP XV.

I have to say I enjoyed it much more than I thought I would. I also found myself reminiscing over that time around 7 years ago when blogland went mad for the Lizzie Bennet Diaries. Do you remember? I think I spent a whole Easter just watching episodes of that show. Good Times!

Life....

One of the reasons we didn't watch much over the weekend is that we were finally allowed to go further than 5kms from our home, so yesterday we want to a botanic gardens to catch up with a friend, and then had coffee with my husband's daughter and her partner. We are still limited to within 25kms of our homes, so we can't yet go wherever we want but hopefully that restriction will be eased soon too! I can't wait to be able to do a day trip to the country somewhere! 

Oh, and I got my hair cut! Thanks goodness! My colour is back to what it should be....which is obviously not the natural colour!

And lastly, yesterday was our first wedding anniversary. It's been a strange year as I am sure I don't have to mention, but we are still super duper happy! Still newlyweds according to one of my colleagues and I am happy with that! This is the beach on a resort island in Vanuatu where we got married. I would love to be there now, I can tell you.

RIP  XV

The end of October bring the end another Readers Imbibing Peril Challenge for another year.

I watched Rebecca,  Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Warrior Nun and The Umbrella Academy.

I listened to Turn of the Screw by Henry James on audiobook

I  read The Sun Down Motel by Simone St James,  and The Deadly Hours.

It kind of surprises me that I have read and watched that much that qualified! 

Posts from the last week

Blog Tour: Serena Fairfax on Why I Love the Rani of Jhansi
Blog Tour: The Exiles by Christine Baker Kline

Weekend Cooking: What I Baked in October

I've linked this post to It's Monday, what are you reading? as hosted by Book Date

This week....

 I'm reading...

This week I tried to sneak in some for fun reads. I think that I should have done required reading as now I feel a bit behind, but oh well. Part of the reason was to read something that came from the library.  They have just advised that we can now order library books to be delivered, and I have received a notification that there are some waiting for me. That's good news right? Well, it would be if I had actually read any of the books that I already have out, so I decided to pick one of those.

I decided to read Those Who Are Loved by Victoria Hislop. I have read a number of her books over the years. She writes historical fiction set in Greece and this book was no exception. This time the author tells the story of a family that is torn apart by the political instability in Greece from the last 1930s through until the 1980s. Like so much of Europe, Greece was invaded by the Nazis, but after that they also had a civil war between communists and government forces.  Within the family, two of the siblings are on one side and the other two on the other. The history is very interesting, but I felt curiously disconnected from the characters.

I also started read The Exiles by Christina Baker Kline for a blog tour later this week. The Exiles tells the story of four women in colonial Australia. Thereason why I accepted this book is because I was curious to see what an American author would do with Australian history.

Finally I also started reading Bottlebrush Creek by Maya Linell over the weekend. I am not sure when I will finish it, but I will. 

I'm watching....

We actually watched a fair bit this weekend. 

I mentioned last week that I had watched the first episode of Emily in Paris. I did think it would take me weeks to watch because it would be something that I needed to watch by myself, but I put an episode on and next thing we knew we had both watched the whole series, and he really enjoyed it too.

We also started and finished watching Staged, which stars David Tennant and Michael Sheen...or should that be Michael Sheen and David Tennant. It is a show that has been completed filmed during lockdown and is them trying to start working on a play together. I had seen clips of them which made me laugh but I didn't realise it was a show. It was lots of fun, and has apparently has just been renewed for a second season.

We also watched Rebecca on Saturday night. Robert had never seen any version of the movie and so thestory was all new to him.. I don't think he was convinced that I had told him about the right movie at the beginning, but in the end it was creepy enough. I thought it was an okay version. Kristin Scott Thomas was really good as Mrs Danvers. The rest of the movie looked good without being great. It also counts as viewing towards RIPXV

Life

We took advantage of the restrictions that have been removed a little by going to the beach today. It was cold and windy, but it was so nice to be able to go and do that after so long of being stuck at home.

We had a four day weekend this week. There was a public holiday on Friday to celebrate the fact that it was the football grand final yesterday. Remarkable right? And not even the silliest reaso to have public holiday. That comes in a couple of weeks time but I am not really complaining about having a day off.

We used the long weekend to bring in a skip and managed to fill it in a about 2 hours. My husband, aka Bob the Builder, removed an old air conditioner ready for the installation of a new split system in the coming weeks. We also have a plan in relation to the next steps in our renovations. We spent time talking about 3 or 4 different projects that are on the agenda. Guess we are on the home reno kick again!

Posts from the last week

Blog Tour: The House by the Lake by Ella Carey
Review: The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James

Weekend Cooking: Spicy Ginger and Apple Self Saucing Pudding
Bestsellers Around the World

I've linked this post to It's Monday, what are you reading? as hosted by Book Date

The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James

When I was offered this book to read, I thought that I was reading outside my comfort zone. I mean, I don't read horror which is the genre that I pigeonholed this one into. I thought, though, that this would make a great book to read specifically for RIPXV which is why I said yes. I had also read some good reviews when it originally came out, and the cover caught my eye from when I first saw it.

But let's examine this idea of being adventurous a bit before I talk about the story.

Do I like a good mystery? Check.

Do I like a dual time line novel? Check.

Do I like buildings that hold their secrets close and then gradually reveal them? Check

So it would appear that I was not reading that adventurously after all. Having said that, this isn't my normal historical fiction dual time line story. There were, of course, things that were outside my norm. But let's talk about the book first.

When the book opens we meet a young woman named Viv Delaney who has ended up in a small town called Fell, New York almost by accident. She ends up at The Sun Down Motel and is offered the job working the night shift. Needing somewhere to sleep and a way to earn money, Viv says yes, setting in place a series of events which ultimately leads to her disappearance.

More than thirty years later her niece Carly turns up in Fell looking for answers. Her mother, Viv's younger sister, has recently died, never having had the answer to the question of what happened to Viv all those years before.

The book alternates between 1982 and 2017 when Carly's life begins to mirror that of her aunt. She gets a job working the night shift at the motel and uses her time during the day to try and solve the mystery of what happened to Viv. This in itself echoes Viv's own life.

Fell is a strange place. Despite being only a small town, it has had more than it's fair share of murders in recent years. Working the night shift, Viv is often the only person awake, except for the ghosts that haunt the hotel. There's a young boy and an unhappy woman and she can often smell cigarette smoke when there is no one else there. And one or all of these ghosts is not happy. Viv often finds locked doors flung open, and there are times when the neon sign at the front of the motel just stops working. The thing about these ghosts is that no one in town will talk about any of the bad things that happen in town. Viv therefore starts investigating who they might be, how they died and how they are linked to the motel. Along the way we meet Alma, the only woman cop in town who has to work the nightshift and Marnie, a local photographer who sometimes works on surveillance. 



Carly sees the same ghosts. While she is really looking for more information about what happened to her aunt, she is also drawn to try and find out who they are and how they died. As she starts to put the stories together, she also meet Alma and Marnie, but they deny knowing Viv very well, and even deny knowing each other.

I have to say that the way that the two stories echo each other definitely helped build the suspense. There were multiple occasions where I found myself holding my breath as I waited to see what would happen next and how the story would be bought to an end.

I mentioned at the beginning that the structure of this book ticks my boxes. It wasn't all familiar though. In my normal reads, the buildings that are hiding secrets are generally older. The Sun Down Motel was relatively new when Viv started working there, but ended up being stuck in time, barely changing between that time and when Carly started, to the point that they had never been able to get a computer to work in the office.

Another difference is that the ghosts are generally less hostile in my normal reads, but I do think that these ghosts had good reason for their hostility! 

It was also interesting to read the dual timeline where both threads were during my life time. Every now and again there were small glimpses of early 80s pop culture which was also fun.

I had never read Simone St James before but on the basis of this book, I will definitely be looking to read more from her. So while this step wasn't as far out of my normal reading patterns as I originally thought, it was worthwhile!

Rating 4/5

Thanks to the publisher for providing a review copy through Netgalley.

Goodreads Summary

Something hasn't been right at the roadside Sun Down Motel for a very long time, and Carly Kirk is about to find out why in this chilling new novel from the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of The Broken Girls.

Upstate New York, 1982. Viv Delaney wants to move to New York City, and to help pay for it she takes a job as the night clerk at the Sun Down Motel in Fell, New York. But something isnʼt right at the motel, something haunting and scary.

Upstate New York, 2017. Carly Kirk has never been able to let go of the story of her aunt Viv, who mysteriously disappeared from the Sun Down before she was born. She decides to move to Fell and visit the motel, where she quickly learns that nothing has changed since 1982. And she soon finds herself ensnared in the same mysteries that claimed her aunt.

Six Degrees of Separation: The Turn of the Screw to Ready Player One

Welcome to this month's edition of Six Degrees of Separation, which is a monthly meme hosted by Kate from Books Are My Favourite and Best.  The idea is to start with a specific book and make a series of links from one book to the next using whatever link you can find and see where you end up after six links.  I am also linking this post up with The Sunday Salon, hosted by Deb at Readerbuzz.






This month's starting point is The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. I haven't read Henry James before, so both that fact, that it is short and also that is a spooky read made it a perfectly ideal time to read it. I could also count it for the RIP XV challenge, and that was going to be my theme for Six Degrees of Separation - books that I have read for RIP  (Readers Imbibing Peril) challenges over the years. It was a solid plan right?

You know that there is a but or a however coming though.

In order to read it, I decided to listen to it on audiobook. Just over 4 hours to listen to is doable. And so I began to listen, and was in for a surprising treat when I realise that the first couple of chapters are narrated by Richard Armitage, and then the meat of the story is narrated by Emma Thompson, who I find very soothing to listen to.  So, instead of the more obvious theme of spooky reads, my theme this month is going to be audiobooks with a celebrity narrator.

Sylvester by Georgette Heyer - This morning I spent some time reading posts from 10 years ago which show just how obsessed I was with Richard Armitage. I mean, it's understandable, but still. One of the reasons I do like to gush fangirl, I mean admire him is as as audiobook narrator. He has now done around 40 or so. I have listened to a couple of other books narrated by him, but it really is the Georgette Heyer books he has narrated that I go back to time and again. And every time I do listen to one of these my review is bound to contain the words aural bliss or something similar. The other Heyer books he has narrated are Venetia and The Convenient Marriage. Venetia is great too.

The Further Tales of Peter Rabbit by Emma Thompson -  It would have been remiss of me to have not included an audiobook narrated by Emma Thompson given that she narrates the vast majority of The Turn of the Screw. I was, however, surprised to see that she has written a couple of Peter Rabbit books that she has then narrated.

Mythos by Stephen Fry - Another example of a celebrity who is an author reading their own audiobooks is Stephen Fry who has narrated many of his own books. He also famously narrated the Harry Potter books when they came out. I have listened to the first of series of short stories that were Audible exclusives and really enjoyed those so I do intend to listen to more by him.

Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman - If Stephen Fry is an example of a celebrity who is an author, then Neil Gaiman is pretty close to being an author who is a celebrity, and someone else who likes to narrate his own audiobooks, not to mention the mythology link here. When we went to hear him speak back in February, he did a reading of the new childrens book that is about to be released called Pirate Stew. I think one of the reasons I like hearing authors narrate their own books, if they are good at it, is that you can hear the expression and emphasis as they meant for it to be heard.

One Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley - There are occasions when the celebrity narrator (or any narrator really) doesn't work for a book, and for me that was true of this book. It didn't help that the book was abridged and I didn't realise it but the narration wasn't for me either. Given that I listened to this 15 years ago (on cassette tape no less) it is probably time for me to let it go, but it certainly has turned out to be memorable for all the wrong reasons.

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline - I wanted to finish on a positive not though! This is not one I have listened to, but I have heard so many rave reviews about Will Wheaton as the narrator. He is also going to be the narrator on the sequel, Ready Player Two, when it comes out later this year so I think I might listen to it instead of reading it!

So there you have it! The Six Degrees of Separation celebrity audiobook narrator edition.

Next month the starting point is the book that you finished this month with, so I will be starting with Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. Goodness only knows where that chain is going to end up.

This Week....

I'm reading....

I have done something this week which I don't normally do...ever. I DNF'd not one book, but two. The first was the audiobook that I have been trying to listen to for weeks. I just didn't have the mental space to be working and listening to that book. The other one is book that I have been trying to read on my phone through the library app. It just didn't work for me. Maybe if I had been reading a book I was loving it would have been different.

I did decide that I was going to start reading Turn of the Screw by Henry James. Normally I don't read the starting book for Six Degrees of Separation, which I will be posting this weekend, but it is also the perfect read for the RIP XV challenge (that might be a clue to what my Six Degrees theme is going to be!). It is a bonus that the intro was read by Richard Armitage (which equates to aural bliss) and the main story is being read by Emma Thompson, which is very comforting!

I also started reading Letters from Berlin by Tania Blanchard. I have not read this author before although I always intended to! So far, I am enjoying it, and I do find the idea that all of her books are based on her family history fascinating!

I'm watching...

We finished watching the first season of Warrior Nun this weekend which is another option for RIV XV.

Now we are thinking about what to start next. There are so many options, it's almost too hard to choose.

Life

You know that we have been in lockdown too long when you suddenly have to become the husband's hairdresser.  I was very, very nervous! I am not sure it's even but he's happy! AS for me...it's at least another month before I will get to the hairdresser.

I mentioned last week that we are starting doing some study. One hour in to a two year course and I was already saying I couldn't do this. It wasn't helped by technological difficulties. Hopefully they are sorted now and I can get on with it, although the first subject is quite introspective which I am not sure I was expecting, or ready for.

As I have mentioned we have been under strict lockdown for the last 6 weeks in the hopes that our COVID numbers would reduce, and they have. Our restrictions are being reduced a bit, but we are still supposed to stay within 5kms of our home, so we still aren't really free to do what we want to do, but hopefully we will get some more freedoms soon. In the mean time,  I am creating a mental list of the places that I want to go when we can go for a drive.

Posts from the last week

Top Ten Tuesday: Spring TBR 
Why I Love: MItchell James Kaplan on Why I Love Dreaming
The Second Wife by Gill Paul
Weekend Cooking: What I Baked in September
Bestsellers Around the World - South Africa and Australia

I've linked this post to It's Monday, what are you reading? as hosted by Book Date

This Week...

I'm reading...

I've had a great reading week over the last week, finishing The Tolstoy Estate by Steven Conte which I gave a grading of 5/5 (review here) and also The Wreck by Meg Keneally which I graded as 4.5/5. My review for The Wreck will be up later in the week and my review for the third book I finished this week, Paris Time Capsule, will be up in couple of weeks.

I somehow seem to have a gap in my reading schedule which means I can take the opportunity to actually read whatever I want. Today I therefore started reading Serenity's Song by Cathryn Hein which is part of the Outback Brides Return to Wirralong series. This is 100% a comfort read for me and so far I am enjoying it.

I am also contemplating reading The Turning of the Screw by Henry James because it is the starting point of the October Six Degrees of Separation. Originally I had no intention of reading it, but I had a look and realised that it is actually a short story, I think that I could definitely fit that in!

Over the weekend I also watched a book talk featuring the authors from The Deadly Hours (which I reviewed last week). One of the silver linings of COVID is that there are so many online events that are accessible that never would have been back in "normal days". One of those authors is Susanna Kearsley who I would love to meet for real one day, but I do think that it probably unlikely. 

I'm watching

This week was more a week of finishing things rather than watching anything new. 

We finished watching Great Canadian Baking Show which we enjoyed and also Singapore Sling, which was... interesting. Singapore Sling was about life in Singapore on the eve of the Japanese invasion during. That aspect was interesting but there were moments that just descended into buffoonery. The other thing was that the episodes just ended. It didn't really feel like the end a few times, including in the final episode. I was expecting them to come back after the ad break.

We are also enjoying watching the Tour de France,mainly for the scenery. It's an easy option when it's heading towards bedtime and we don't want to start a new show for the evening.

Life

This weekend we were supposed to go to Uluru for the weekend. We booked the trip back in February and we were hopeful that things might have settled down a bit so we could still go, but it wasn't to be. Not all was lost though. We needed to create a new car parking space at home so we have been working on clearing out a garden bed for the last few weeks, including chopping down trees, What we learnt early on during our projects is that our garden is full of very big rocks, It just so happens that my street name kind of rhymes with Uluru! I therefore bring you the big rock that we saw this weekend!

I also made the switch to the new Blogger this weekend. I have been resisting it, but for the most part I think that it's okay. In the end of got sick of having to swap it back to the legacy version. I haven't had too many issues with images, and labels are okay now too. Really, the only thing I am not 100% on is that I have a lot of posts in draft, and I can't tell what the scheduled date is just looking in the list. Instead it shows you the date that you saved it which isn't ideal but it is a minor thing!

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Posts from the last week

Top Ten Tuesday: Childhood Favourites
The Deadly Hours
Alphabet 2020: S is for Social Media
Weekend Cooking: You Say Tomato...

The Tolstoy Estate by Steven Conte

I've linked this post to It's Monday, what are you reading? as hosted by Book Date

The Deadly Hours

It's not a secret that I am a bit of a Susanna Kearsley fangirl, and I have been for a long time. It was therefore inevitable that when I saw that there was going to be a short story collection that included one of her stories, of course I was going to want to read it. It didn't matter that I hadn't read any of the other authors.

It was only until later that I actually realised that this story includes characters from The Firebird, A Desperate Fortune and also The Rose Garden, which means that it was super cool to revisit these characters.

In A Weapon of Choice, a young couple with Jacobite connections are on their way to Italy to meet the Duke of Ormonde and protect him from an assassin. Before they can reach their destination they are caught up in a massive storm and forced to take refuge in Portofino, along with two other groups of travellers. Before the storm is over, a man will be dead.

One of the travellers is in possession of La Sirene, a watched that has been been cursed after being crafted from gold sacked from Cartagena. It is engraved with a mermaid, and the outer case has a ship in a storm, and it is inscribed with the motto "Je suis le seul maître de mon temps" , which means I am the only master of my time. Legend has it that whoever has the watch will be cursed with bad luck, until the curse is lifted. The only way for that to happen is that the watch must pass through the four elements: water, earth, air and fire.

The next time we see the watch we are in Edinburgh in 1833. In Anna Lee Huber's story In a Fevered Hour, a mysterious illness is sweeping Edinburgh and Lady Darby and her new husband find themselves investigating at the behest of a master criminal. For a short story, this had quite a lot going on and This is part of the Lady Darby series. Normally I don't like to jump in a series part way through, but I enjoyed this story and I would be more than happy to read more.

We then move forward to Christine Trent's story A Pocketful of Death, set in the 1870s. When lady undertaker Violet Harper is commissioned to move the bodies of a newly minted noble family into their new crypt. In one of the graves, she finds a watch so she returns it to the family. It isn't long before there are a number of deaths in their street. Is it because of the curse or is there something else at play? Once again this is part of an existing series which I haven't yet

The final story is called The Sirens Call by CS Harris and is set in a small coastal town in England. The Home Office has observed that there have been a number of coded messages sent to the Germans from the area around the town and so two officers are sent to investigate. When Rachel Townsend-Smythe find her long time friend Major Crosby dead, she notices that one of his prized possessions is missing: a gold watch. As the finger of blame is pointed at various people in town, Rachel helps one of the investigators to find the truth. While I haven't read this author before, I have had the first book in the Sebastian St Cyr series sitting on my bookshelf for many years. Maybe I should actually read it!

I enjoyed following the watch through time and it's a good premise for a short story collection, although it did take a minute to adjust to each new story. While I picked up the book for Kearsley, I stayed for the other stories!

I am counting this as a read for this year's RIP XV challenge.

Rating 4/5

Goodreads

A stellar line-up of historical mystery novelists weaves the tale of a priceless and cursed gold watch as it passes through time wreaking havoc from one owner to another. The characters are irrevocably linked by fate, each playing a key role in breaking the curse and destroying the watch once and for all.
From 1733 Italy to Edinburgh in 1831 to a series of chilling murders in 1870 London, and a lethal game of revenge decades later, the watch touches lives with misfortune, until it comes into the reach of one young woman who might be able to stop it for good.
This outstanding collaboration of authors includes:
Susanna Kearsley – New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of compelling time slip fiction.
C.S. Harris – bestselling author of the Sebastian St. Cyr Regency mystery series.
Anna Lee Huber – award-winning author of the national bestselling Lady Darby Mysteries.
Christine Trent – author of the Lady of Ashes Victorian mystery series.

This week...

I'm reading...

I started reading The Women's Pages by Victoria Purman this week. Originally this book was supposed to be released in April but it was delayed until now due to COVID. I guess it is ironic that the release was delayed and yet, here we are, still in lockdown. It feels like there are so many things that have been delayed that we will have some great things coming our way soon!

I loved the starting point of this book. It starts on the day that the end of World War II was announced, and it bought to mind that old saying that every ending is a new beginning!

I was excited to see that RIP XV has been announced for this year. That's fifteen installments! Obviously I haven't participated in all of them given that I wasn't reading or blogging about books for quite some time, but it is always an exciting time in the book blogging community. This years it is going to be a more social media oriented event than blogging, but that's okay right?

Readers Imbibing Peril runs in September and October each year and focusses on those darker reads, perfect for the lead up to Halloween, so if you fancy reading some Mystery, Suspense.Thriller, Dark Fantasy, Gothic.Horror,Supernatural and want to share with likeminded people check out the socials! I'm not sure I have too much that fits this category in my TBR but I will find something if I can!

I'm watching....

Last week I took advantage of the fact that the Edinburgh International Book Festival is online this year to watch Alexander McCall Smith talk. I have enjoyed the sessions that I have watched so far, and I have to say that they were all pretty relaxed and accessible. Maybe that was just the sessions that I chose to watch! I am thinking that I might sneak one more session in before the festival ends. We'll see. And if you haven't checked out any of the sessions yourself, check out the website because there are more than 100 sessions that are still available to watch.

We also finished watching second season of The Umbrella Academy. We are officially fans! Whilst it is dark, it is also fun, and laugh out loud funny! We will definitely need to find a new show to watch now. We are thinking about maybe watching Warrior Nun. Has anyone watched it?

Come to think of it, both Umbrella Academy and Warrior Mind could count for RIPXV.

We also started watching a new cooking show called State of Origin. It features Gary and Matt, who used to be judges on Masterchef Australia, teaming up with Manu who is a judge on My Kitchen Rules for the first time. The idea is that there are two team members who cook their national cuisine against another team. For example, last night it was Australia versus China. I enjoyed the first night. I am not sure that the husband is on board just yet, but we will see.

Life

It doesn't take much to excite Melburnians these days. We are four weeks into a strict lockdown with another two weeks to go. As a result, when it is announced that they are going to start livestreaming the penguins at Philip Island you can bet we are all watching! Attending the Penguin Parade down a Philip Island is one of the must do things if you are in Melbourne! It turns out that they are going to be livestreaming it nightly so we probably didn't all need to watch that first night. It does mean though that if you are interested in watching the penguins as they do their dash from the water across the sand and into the dunes to their homes, you can. Check it out on Youtube here.

We are trying to be optimistic that things will be somewhat normal next year and so we have booked tickets to go and see Hamilton in Sydney in July. We haven't booked flights or hotels or anything like that, but hopefully it will all work out. It's something to look forward to at the very least.

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Posts from the last week

The Switch by Beth O'Leary
Weekend Cooking: August Baking
Bestsellers Around the World: Canada and Australia

I've linked this post to It's Monday, what are you reading? as hosted by Book Date