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A good book 'n a brew 📚 ☕
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Hi my name's Gill, reader of good books, book blogger. Nothing else to say since no one seems to actually read profiles. 🤨

Book Blog at https://abooknbrew2.wordpress.com/reviews/

And now also at https://abooknbrew.blogspot.com
8 months ago we applied on behalf of my mum for her name to be registered with Land Registry as the owner of her house which she lived in married to my dad for 62 years. 8 months later they haven't even looked at the application let alone processed it!!
November 26, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I've ploughed my way through some boring books this year. Maybe time to give Netgalley a break in '26. I've done it for 7 years and read mostly fab books but it would be nice, that if it's not doing it for me, to just feel able to ditch a book! 😴
November 26, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Finally, after having frozen feet all day long they're toasty warm now.
All I need now is some joggers that aren't half mast.
They have these amazing hot water bottles in Aldi again this year. (They have an envelope in which to place your feet.) 🤗
November 23, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Tomorrow is the last voting day for the Goodreads (readers'!) favourite books of the year. If you read We All Live Here and enjoyed it I'd love it if you voted for it. Thank you! www.goodreads.com/choiceawards...
Opening Round: Vote for the Readers' Favorite Fiction of 2025!
Discover the Readers' Favorite Fiction in the 2025 Goodreads Choice Awards.
www.goodreads.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:42 PM
If you're a note taker or just like playing about with new apps (just me? Yeah, doesn't take much to entertain me) but anyways I was introduced to Upnote. It's brilliant, synchs fabulously, and you can use it all over the place, phone, tablet, Chromebook, windows, iOS.
November 22, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I'm re-sharing this because it's a really good book and it's Saturday, a good day for reading, and because it's one of my better reviews. Gotta blow your own trumpet from time to time. 😀
November 22, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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The Truth About Ruby Cooper – Liz Nugent

If my sister hadn’t been beautiful, none of it would have happened. Ruby Cooper and her sister, Erin, live an idyllic life in their close-knit church community in Boston. But when Ruby is sixteen, she is involved in an incident that causes her family’s…
The Truth About Ruby Cooper – Liz Nugent
If my sister hadn’t been beautiful, none of it would have happened. Ruby Cooper and her sister, Erin, live an idyllic life in their close-knit church community in Boston. But when Ruby is sixteen, she is involved in an incident that causes her family’s world to implode. Across decades, the fallout leaves a wake of destruction behind Ruby in Dublin and Erin in Boston.
www.compulsivereaders.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Small Acts of Resistance, the latest historical novel from @anitafrank.bsky.social is out today.
Happy publication day 🎉🎉
My review of this moving story of bravery and strength set in rural occupied France during WW1.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
#booksky ⌛📚💙
Small Acts of Resistance by Anita Frank
About the book May 1915. When his aircraft crashes in Northern France, British airman Henry finds himself stranded behind enemy lines. His survival depends on the courage and compassion of a local family who risk everything by hiding him in their farmhouse. With her village already suffering under Occupation, Marie knows sheltering Henry will put her own family in grave danger, and that peril only increases when two German officers are unexpectedly billeted with them.
abooknbrew2.wordpress.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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OMG!! This is just about the most prestigious award out there! 😳 Thank you librarians 🙏
Eee 'The Wager and the Bear' by @johnironmonger.bsky.social has been nominated for the 2026 @dublinlitaward.bsky.social !

The 2026 list of nominations comprises of 69 titles, nominated by 80 libraries from 36 countries throughout the world.

@inpressbooks.bsky.social #clifi
November 19, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Short answer: yes, book launches still work.
But the long answer? Only if you treat them as part of a system.
Our latest WriteStats analysis unpacks what the data really says about modern release strategy.
📊 Read → writestats.com/do-book-laun...
#PublishingInsights #BookStrategy
November 18, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Aww, it was very sad Ambulance tonight.
November 18, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Just been looking on here to see if Evri the crap courier is on here. Unsurprisingly they're not. Imagine the abuse they'd get if they were. They are an utter joke of a company definitely not fit for purpose.
November 18, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Oh no! That was unexpected, I've just finished 25 Library Terrace by Natalie Fergie. This is what happens when you read e-books, you don't realise you're approaching the end! How sad.
An absolutely riveting book, I loved it. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
#booksky 📚💙
November 18, 2025 at 8:02 AM
🥶🥶 10 degrees in this bedroom this morning! Never ever if you're building an extension, put a bedroom over a garage, just don't go there, you'll regret it.
November 18, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Well there you go. It was my memory for names that threw me. I had forgotten the name of the 17 year old wasn't Georgia, it was Olivia. 🙄 It's been such a good book. #booksky
Right! I'm totally confused. Has anyone out there #booksky read 25 Library Terrace by Natalie Fergie. I thought Georgia didn't go to live there till she was 17. So she wasn't in the house when she was 7 or 8 she lived with someone else, & Annie didn't even know of her.
November 16, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Right! I'm totally confused. Has anyone out there #booksky read 25 Library Terrace by Natalie Fergie. I thought Georgia didn't go to live there till she was 17. So she wasn't in the house when she was 7 or 8 she lived with someone else, & Annie didn't even know of her.
November 16, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Mostly cloudy but showing some sun the weather app says, blanket cloud out there my husband says. I'm currently living in 25 Library Terrace in July 2011 with Georgia and Tess, discovering the old kitchen range and the key within it. #booksky.
November 16, 2025 at 8:13 AM
So it was off with the strawberry print duvet cover, goodbye till next year, to my campervan, seasidy cover and all my summery, bright cheery covers and hello good old practical but boring check, grey brushed cotton winter bedding. ☹️
November 15, 2025 at 11:11 PM
So, first time in 3 weeks been able to watch Strictly without the accompaniment of fireworks exploding and the dog barking. Instead I've had next door banging around in the background constantly. 8.45am they started, still at it at 8.45pm. Going right off them now. 🤨🤨
November 15, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I love that dress Valbinda or whatever she's called is wearing, it's beautiful, so pretty. And I thought her dancing was really good. Ignore the judges. #Strictly
November 15, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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It's Christmas! And books always make the best gifts. Here is a story the readers in your life will love. It delivers adventure, romance, a deadly wager, Cornwall, climate peril, and a bear. Find a copy on any bookseller's site. Happy Christmas. www.flyonthewallpress.co.uk/product-page...
November 14, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Much as I like the wind, I wish it would shut up now. It's making more noise than the fireworks did, roaring round the house in that aggressive manner.
November 14, 2025 at 6:57 PM
My husband and his brother always call a chimney a chimley, which bugs me no end. Was in Morrisons today and heard some bloke talking on his phone about a chimley. What's with the 'L'. Does anyone else mispronounce it or is it just a Mancunian thing?
November 14, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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If you fancy reading a free sample of Binding the Cuckoo, my alternative-history romance with a pinch of magic, you can claim it here:
storyoriginapp.com/giveaways/a7...

*ROMANTASY
*HISTORICAL ROMANCE WITH MAGIC
*EDWARDIAN
*FOLKLORE
*WOMEN-HELPING-WOMEN
November 14, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Asking my mum who's 90 next year when my grandma was born, we worked it out to be around 1906. She worked in a cotton mill all her life and then only had about 8 years of retirement before she died. She was lovely my grandma. Learned family history I didn't even know today.
November 14, 2025 at 4:41 PM