Cathy J
@whatcathyreadnext.bsky.social
Gardener 🌱 | Avid reader | Historical fiction fan | Admirer of John Buchan | Book blogger always ready for the next chapter... 💙📚
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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl. The rules are simple: Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want. Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to…
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#TopTenTuesday Things You Might Be Thankful For #TuesdayBookBlog #books #bookreviews #Thanksgiving #booksky
#WWWWednesday Check out the books I've just read, I'm reading now & I'll be reading next #books #bookreviews #amreading #booksky
#WWWWednesday – 26th November 2025
Hosted by Taking on a World of Words, this meme is all about the three Ws: What are you currently reading? What did you recently finish reading? What do you think you’ll read next? Why not join in too? Leave a comment with your link at Taking on a World of Words and then go blog hopping! What I'm…
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November 26, 2025 at 8:00 AM
#WWWWednesday Check out the books I've just read, I'm reading now & I'll be reading next #books #bookreviews #amreading #booksky
John Buchan Fact of the Day (329/365) #OnThisDay in 1911 Buchan's son John (known as Johnnie) was born. He became 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir on the death of his father in 1940 and saw action in Sicily during WW2 #JBFactOfTheDay #JohnBuchan #books #booksky 💙📚
November 25, 2025 at 2:26 PM
John Buchan Fact of the Day (329/365) #OnThisDay in 1911 Buchan's son John (known as Johnnie) was born. He became 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir on the death of his father in 1940 and saw action in Sicily during WW2 #JBFactOfTheDay #JohnBuchan #books #booksky 💙📚
#TopTenTuesday Things You Might Be Thankful For #TuesdayBookBlog #books #bookreviews #Thanksgiving #booksky
#TopTenTuesday Things You Might Be Thankful For #TuesdayBookBlog
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl. The rules are simple: Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want. Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to…
whatcathyreadnext.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 8:00 AM
#TopTenTuesday Things You Might Be Thankful For #TuesdayBookBlog #books #bookreviews #Thanksgiving #booksky
My review of the action-packed Commander (Agricola #3) by Simon Turney #books #bookreviews #historicalfiction #booksky
Book Review – Agricola: Commander by Simon Turney @HoZ_Books @AriesFiction
About the Book In the aftermath of Rome's civil war, Agricola returns to Britannia in command of his own legion. This is not the honour it seems at first. Agricola's new legion threatens mutiny and the frontier province has suffered under troublesome governors. And the Brigantes, a powerful Celtic tribe in Britannia, are ready to make war against Rome. To stabilise Roman rule and bring peace, Agricola must use all his political and military skills.
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November 24, 2025 at 10:43 AM
My review of the action-packed Commander (Agricola #3) by Simon Turney #books #bookreviews #historicalfiction #booksky
John Buchan Fact of the Day (328/365) In a 1917 speech, 'It seems to me that America must keep constantly before her eyes the need of internationalism...She must make herself permanently responsible, as one of the world's greatest powers, for the world's good governance.' #JBFactOfTheDay #booksky 💙📚
November 24, 2025 at 9:25 AM
John Buchan Fact of the Day (328/365) In a 1917 speech, 'It seems to me that America must keep constantly before her eyes the need of internationalism...She must make herself permanently responsible, as one of the world's greatest powers, for the world's good governance.' #JBFactOfTheDay #booksky 💙📚
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New on my blog: Five Dutch Novels I’ve Read alifeinbooks.co.uk/2025/11/five... #BookSky
Five Dutch Novels I’ve Read - A Life in Books
Book reviews, snippets of book news, and alerts about books outside the glare of the publicity spotlight.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:27 AM
New on my blog: Five Dutch Novels I’ve Read alifeinbooks.co.uk/2025/11/five... #BookSky
John Buchan Fact of the Day (327/365) Buchan wrote, 'To me as a child, autumn meant the thick, close odour of rotting leaves, varied by scents from the harvested stubble; glimpses of uncanny scarlet toadstools... acres of spongy ground which miraculously dried up at the first frosts' #booksky 💙📚
November 23, 2025 at 1:58 PM
John Buchan Fact of the Day (327/365) Buchan wrote, 'To me as a child, autumn meant the thick, close odour of rotting leaves, varied by scents from the harvested stubble; glimpses of uncanny scarlet toadstools... acres of spongy ground which miraculously dried up at the first frosts' #booksky 💙📚
My Week in Books - Books read, reviewed & acquired this week #books #bookreviews #amreading #booksky
My Week in Books – 23rd November 2025
On the blog last week Monday - I published my review of The Assassin of Verona by Benet Brandreth. Tuesday - This week's Top Ten Tuesday topic was Books I Think Will Be Future Classics. Wednesday – As always WWW Wednesday is a weekly opportunity to share what I've just read, what I'm currently reading and what I plan to read next...
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November 23, 2025 at 8:00 AM
My Week in Books - Books read, reviewed & acquired this week #books #bookreviews #amreading #booksky
John Buchan Fact of the Day (326/365) In his memoir Memory Hold-The-Door, Buchan writes, 'My boyhood must have been one of the idlest on record. Except in the last year of my Glasgow grammar school, I do not think that I ever consciously did any work.' #JBFactOfTheDay #JohnBuchan #books #booksky 📚💙
November 22, 2025 at 2:37 PM
John Buchan Fact of the Day (326/365) In his memoir Memory Hold-The-Door, Buchan writes, 'My boyhood must have been one of the idlest on record. Except in the last year of my Glasgow grammar school, I do not think that I ever consciously did any work.' #JBFactOfTheDay #JohnBuchan #books #booksky 📚💙
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Tell him to shove his plan where the sun don’t shine. #IStandWithUkraine 🇺🇦
Zelenskyy says Ukraine faces most difficult moment as Trump pushes plan to end war
Zelenskyy says Ukraine faces most difficult moment as Trump pushes plan to end war
US president presses Kyiv to accept plan that would mean giving up territory to Russia
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said Ukraine faces one of the most difficult moments in its history, as Donald Trump demanded Kyiv accepts within days a US-backed “peace plan” that would force it to give up territory to Russia and to make other painful concessions.
Trump confirmed on Friday morning that next Thursday – Thanksgiving in the US – would be an “acceptable” deadline for Zelenskyy to sign the deal, which European and Ukrainian officials have warned amounts to a “capitulation”. Continue reading...
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November 21, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Tell him to shove his plan where the sun don’t shine. #IStandWithUkraine 🇺🇦
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#sixonsaturday 22-11-25 with winter tasks: harvesting sweet potatoes, yacon and taro, overwintering red banana tree, raking leaves, hakonechloa and miscanthus, and a pretty pelargonium flower 🌱: fredgardenerblog2.wordpress.com/2025/11/22/s...
November 22, 2025 at 8:06 AM
#sixonsaturday 22-11-25 with winter tasks: harvesting sweet potatoes, yacon and taro, overwintering red banana tree, raking leaves, hakonechloa and miscanthus, and a pretty pelargonium flower 🌱: fredgardenerblog2.wordpress.com/2025/11/22/s...
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#Festive #ThreeTwoOne quickfire questions with Jean Fullerton #author of Winter Wishes for the East End Girls | @Bookouture
I'm delighted to be joined by Jean Fullerton today, author of Winter Wishes for the East End Girls. Winter Wishes for the East End Girls was published yesterday by Bookouture…
I'm delighted to be joined by Jean Fullerton today, author of Winter Wishes for the East End Girls. Winter Wishes for the East End Girls was published yesterday by Bookouture…
#Festive #ThreeTwoOne quickfire questions with Jean Fullerton #author of Winter Wishes for the East End Girls | @Bookouture
I'm delighted to be joined by Jean Fullerton today, author of Winter Wishes for the East End Girls. Winter Wishes for the East End Girls was published yesterday by Bookouture and available now for e-readers: full details below. Over to Jean to tell us more. Tell me THREE things about your festive book. Firstly. Winter Wishes for the East End Girls…
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November 22, 2025 at 8:30 AM
#Festive #ThreeTwoOne quickfire questions with Jean Fullerton #author of Winter Wishes for the East End Girls | @Bookouture
I'm delighted to be joined by Jean Fullerton today, author of Winter Wishes for the East End Girls. Winter Wishes for the East End Girls was published yesterday by Bookouture…
I'm delighted to be joined by Jean Fullerton today, author of Winter Wishes for the East End Girls. Winter Wishes for the East End Girls was published yesterday by Bookouture…
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Welcome to my stop on the @annerandomthings.bsky.social #BlogTour for the dark and chilling #ScarsOfSilence by Johana Gustawsson Tns by David Warriner - book two of the brilliant #LidingöMysteries 💙📚
Out now from @orendabooks.bsky.social
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Out now from @orendabooks.bsky.social
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Scars Of Silence (Lidingö Mysteries Book Two) by Johana Gustawsson
Scars Of Silence (Lidingö Mysteries Book Two) by Johana Gustawsson. Translated by David Warriner. Published 20th November 2025 by Orenda ...
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November 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Welcome to my stop on the @annerandomthings.bsky.social #BlogTour for the dark and chilling #ScarsOfSilence by Johana Gustawsson Tns by David Warriner - book two of the brilliant #LidingöMysteries 💙📚
Out now from @orendabooks.bsky.social
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Out now from @orendabooks.bsky.social
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#fivestarflashback ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
#BookReview: The First Day of Spring by Nancy Tucker @penguinbooks.bsky.social #TheFirstDayofSpring #damppebbles
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#whattoread #bookish #BookSky #skybrarians #bookrecs #bookrecommendation
#BookReview: The First Day of Spring by Nancy Tucker @penguinbooks.bsky.social #TheFirstDayofSpring #damppebbles
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#whattoread #bookish #BookSky #skybrarians #bookrecs #bookrecommendation
#BookReview: The First Day of Spring by Nancy Tucker @HutchinsonBooks @najmafinlay #TheFirstDayofSpring #damppebbles
‘So that was all it took,’ I thought. ‘That was all it took for me to feel like I had all the power in the world. One morning, one moment, one yellow-haired boy. It wasn’t s…
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November 21, 2025 at 6:30 PM
#fivestarflashback ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
#BookReview: The First Day of Spring by Nancy Tucker @penguinbooks.bsky.social #TheFirstDayofSpring #damppebbles
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#whattoread #bookish #BookSky #skybrarians #bookrecs #bookrecommendation
#BookReview: The First Day of Spring by Nancy Tucker @penguinbooks.bsky.social #TheFirstDayofSpring #damppebbles
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#whattoread #bookish #BookSky #skybrarians #bookrecs #bookrecommendation
My review of the dark, thought-provoking The Matchbox Girl by Alice Jolly #TheMatchboxGirl #WW2 #books #bookreviews #historicalfiction #booksky
Book Review – The Matchbox Girl by Alice Jolly @BloomsburyBooks @JollyAlice
About the Book Adelheid Brunner does not speak. She writes and draws instead and her ambition is to own one thousand matchboxes. Her grandmother cannot make sense of this, but Adelheid will stop at nothing to achieve her dream. She makes herself invisible, hiding in cupboards with her pet rat, Franz Joseph, listening in on conversations she can't fully comprehend.
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November 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
My review of the dark, thought-provoking The Matchbox Girl by Alice Jolly #TheMatchboxGirl #WW2 #books #bookreviews #historicalfiction #booksky
John Buchan Fact of the Day (325/365) In his autobiography Memory Hold-The-Door, published posthumously in August 1940, Buchan writes, 'Wood, sea and hill were the intimacies of my childhood, and they have never lost their spell for me.' #JBFactOfTheDay #JohnBuchan #books #booksky 📚💙
November 21, 2025 at 1:40 PM
John Buchan Fact of the Day (325/365) In his autobiography Memory Hold-The-Door, published posthumously in August 1940, Buchan writes, 'Wood, sea and hill were the intimacies of my childhood, and they have never lost their spell for me.' #JBFactOfTheDay #JohnBuchan #books #booksky 📚💙
I've given 17 of the 87 books I've read so far this year 5⭐️ ratings and I think I'm picky. If you rate books you read, how many have earned 5⭐️? #books #bookreviews #booksky 📚💙
November 20, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I've given 17 of the 87 books I've read so far this year 5⭐️ ratings and I think I'm picky. If you rate books you read, how many have earned 5⭐️? #books #bookreviews #booksky 📚💙
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My review of #TheAfterparty by Ruth Kelly is live on #damppebbles!
Interesting, intriguing characters, and a compelling, page-turning plot. Another stellar read from Ruth Kelly.
Check out my review...
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My review of #TheAfterparty by Ruth Kelly is live on #damppebbles!
Interesting, intriguing characters, and a compelling, page-turning plot. Another stellar read from Ruth Kelly.
Check out my review...
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@panmacmillan.bsky.social
#BookSky #skybrarians #bookish
November 20, 2025 at 3:04 PM
*NEW BLOG POST*
My review of #TheAfterparty by Ruth Kelly is live on #damppebbles!
Interesting, intriguing characters, and a compelling, page-turning plot. Another stellar read from Ruth Kelly.
Check out my review...
➡️ buff.ly/tmFVIAC
@panmacmillan.bsky.social
#BookSky #skybrarians #bookish
My review of #TheAfterparty by Ruth Kelly is live on #damppebbles!
Interesting, intriguing characters, and a compelling, page-turning plot. Another stellar read from Ruth Kelly.
Check out my review...
➡️ buff.ly/tmFVIAC
@panmacmillan.bsky.social
#BookSky #skybrarians #bookish
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On the Ramblings today - I'm pleased to kick off the blog tour for The Future of Travel from @melvillehouse.bsky.social - a thought-provoking read on the effects travel is having on our planet. More here: kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/11/20/i...
November 20, 2025 at 10:00 AM
On the Ramblings today - I'm pleased to kick off the blog tour for The Future of Travel from @melvillehouse.bsky.social - a thought-provoking read on the effects travel is having on our planet. More here: kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/11/20/i...
'Atmospheric, gritty, suspenseful' My review of noir thriller set in Mumbai, The Forgotten Daughter by Joshi #NovNov25 #books #bookreviews #thriller #booksky
Book Review – The Forgotten Daughter by Joshi #NovNov25
About the Book In the rain-slick alleys of Kamathipura, truth is a luxury few can afford. When Meher disappears, the city shrugs—but one man refuses to forget. Vishy, a solitary book seller with a past he won’t speak of, begins a quiet rebellion against apathy. As he searches for Meher, the shadows grow darker, and the cost of remembering becomes unbearable.
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November 20, 2025 at 1:29 PM
'Atmospheric, gritty, suspenseful' My review of noir thriller set in Mumbai, The Forgotten Daughter by Joshi #NovNov25 #books #bookreviews #thriller #booksky
John Buchan Fact Of the Day (324/365) In Memory Hold-The-Door, published posthumously in August 1940, Buchan recalls being expelled from a dame's school for upsetting a pot of broth on the kitchen fire. It was, however, where he learned to knit #JBFactOfTheDay #JohnBuchan #books #booksky 💙📚
November 20, 2025 at 10:25 AM
John Buchan Fact Of the Day (324/365) In Memory Hold-The-Door, published posthumously in August 1940, Buchan recalls being expelled from a dame's school for upsetting a pot of broth on the kitchen fire. It was, however, where he learned to knit #JBFactOfTheDay #JohnBuchan #books #booksky 💙📚
John Buchan Fact of the Day (323/365) Following his death in 1940, Buchan's widow Susan took on the task of negotiating the broadcast rights for radio dramas and television adaptations of his work #JBFactOfTheDay #JohnBuchan #books #booksky 💙📚
November 19, 2025 at 3:07 PM
John Buchan Fact of the Day (323/365) Following his death in 1940, Buchan's widow Susan took on the task of negotiating the broadcast rights for radio dramas and television adaptations of his work #JBFactOfTheDay #JohnBuchan #books #booksky 💙📚
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It’s my very great pleasure to chat with Graeme Cumming all about his latest thriller Borderline lindasbookbag.com/2025/11/19/d...
November 19, 2025 at 7:06 AM
It’s my very great pleasure to chat with Graeme Cumming all about his latest thriller Borderline lindasbookbag.com/2025/11/19/d...
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My review of #TheAutumnSpringsRetirementHomeMassacre by Philip Fracassi is live on #damppebbles!
A GREAT concept and I love how well-written the story is. An engaging, emotional and enjoyable horror mystery.
Check out my review
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My review of #TheAutumnSpringsRetirementHomeMassacre by Philip Fracassi is live on #damppebbles!
A GREAT concept and I love how well-written the story is. An engaging, emotional and enjoyable horror mystery.
Check out my review
➡️ buff.ly/ge4tnpP
@orbitbooks.bsky.social
#BookSky
November 19, 2025 at 12:02 PM
*NEW BLOG POST*
My review of #TheAutumnSpringsRetirementHomeMassacre by Philip Fracassi is live on #damppebbles!
A GREAT concept and I love how well-written the story is. An engaging, emotional and enjoyable horror mystery.
Check out my review
➡️ buff.ly/ge4tnpP
@orbitbooks.bsky.social
#BookSky
My review of #TheAutumnSpringsRetirementHomeMassacre by Philip Fracassi is live on #damppebbles!
A GREAT concept and I love how well-written the story is. An engaging, emotional and enjoyable horror mystery.
Check out my review
➡️ buff.ly/ge4tnpP
@orbitbooks.bsky.social
#BookSky
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*NEW BLOG POST*
Today on #damppebbles I am sharing this week's #WWWWednesday post. Find out what I've recently finished reading, what I'm currently reading and what I plan to read next!
Check out my post here...
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#BookSky #skybrarians #books #bookish #book
Today on #damppebbles I am sharing this week's #WWWWednesday post. Find out what I've recently finished reading, what I'm currently reading and what I plan to read next!
Check out my post here...
➡️ buff.ly/XYLxjc3
#BookSky #skybrarians #books #bookish #book
November 19, 2025 at 12:35 PM
*NEW BLOG POST*
Today on #damppebbles I am sharing this week's #WWWWednesday post. Find out what I've recently finished reading, what I'm currently reading and what I plan to read next!
Check out my post here...
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#BookSky #skybrarians #books #bookish #book
Today on #damppebbles I am sharing this week's #WWWWednesday post. Find out what I've recently finished reading, what I'm currently reading and what I plan to read next!
Check out my post here...
➡️ buff.ly/XYLxjc3
#BookSky #skybrarians #books #bookish #book