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Here's an apple tree for May 1, will be tying a wi

Here's an apple tree for May 1, will be tying a wish ribbon to it later today.

#appletree #beltaine #blossom #allotment

We did have loads of salad with these warmed goats

We did have loads of salad with these warmed goats cheese, honestly

Let’s finish off #nationalpoetrymonth with anoth

Let’s finish off #nationalpoetrymonth with another from Staying Alive by Sheila Wingfield which I keep going back to all the time, I think this is probably the most reread poem from the books on the shelf.

#poem #poetry @bloodaxebooks

Waiting for us to turn the earth and see what snac

Waiting for us to turn the earth and see what snacks show up

#robin #allotment

Some forget me nots at the allotment

Some forget me nots at the allotment

Just been approved for "Space-Mullet" by Daniel Wa

Just been approved for "Space-Mullet" by Daniel Warren Johnson on @netgalley published by @imagecomics

Gina Chung. Pan Macmillan. (240p) ISBN: 9781035019

Gina Chung. Pan Macmillan. (240p) ISBN: 9781035019458

Green Frog

As you should all know I really like a well-crafted collection of short stories so as soon as this came up on NetGalley I jumped at it.

Gina Chung travels through many different worlds in this collection, but always with the female character central, no matter if it is Sci-Fi, mythological, or domestic situations the women often have moral dilemmas to work through and family is more than likely to be at the centre of it.

The collection plays on Korean myths and behavioural expectations and the weaving through of both these makes for very interesting reading. A spotlight onto a culture like but unlike our own, especially when these two cultures intersect.

There are lots of really strong stories in here but I feel my favourites were the sci-fi based ones, especially about traumatic memories and grief and how there could eventually be technical solutions but at what cost.

Another one I really enjoyed was a tale seen from the perspective of the kumiho who has to revenge her dead sister and her feelings on that and her life.

But I really enjoyed all of them, though the whole collection seemed to riff off a deep melancholy and was quite muted in tone this only heightened the feeling of difference and other.

I received this from NetGalley and Pan Macmillan in exchange for an honest review.

#greenfrog #ginachung @panmacmillan #shortstories #collection #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #netgalley

Just been approved to read "The Phoenix Keeper by

Just been approved to read "The Phoenix Keeper by S.A. MacLean by @netgalley and @orionbooks

#tbr #books #fantasy #phoenix #netgakkey #bookstagram

The latest additions to my @charcopress collection

The latest additions to my @charcopress collection, only two published books outstanding and then all the unpublished yet to come.

Consistently good and challenging translated writing from Latin America translated with great care and understanding.

Still the only publisher who I collect all that is published

Charco Press Books still to get:

- [ ] The Plains (October 2024)
- [ ] Time of the Flies (August 2024)
- [ ] Last Date in El Zapotal (June 2024)
- [ ] The Cemetery of Untold Stories (June 2024)
- [ ] Tidal Waters (May 2024)
- [ ] Explorers, Dreamers and Thieves (May 2024)
- [ ] Fresh Dirt from the Grave
- [ ] The Remains
- [x] Forgotten Manuscript
- [x] Confession
- [x] Why Did You Come Back Every Summer
- [x] The Dark Side of Skin
- [x] Not A River
- [x] Untold Microcosms: Latin American Writers in the British Museum
- [x] Of Cattle and Men
- [x] The Delivery
- [x] A Little Luck
- [x] You Shall Leave Your Land
- [x] Two Sherpas
- [x] Holiday Heart
- [x] Slum Virgin
- [x] An Orphan World
- [x] The Distance Between Us
- [x] Older Brother
- [x] Trout, Belly Up
- [x] Resistance
- [x] Southerly
- [x] The German Room
- [x] Dislocations
- [x] Salt Crystals
- [x] Homesick
- [x] The Forgery
- [x] Here Be Icebergs
- [x] Never Did the Fire
- [x] Catching Fire
- [x] Tender
- [x] Byobu
- [x] Brickmakers
- [x] Die, My Love
- [x] Feebleminded
- [x] The Rooftop
- [x] Occupation
- [x] Elena Knows
- [x] A Perfect Cemetery
- [x] Havana Year Zero
- [x] Theatre of War
- [x] Ramifications
- [x] Dead Girls
- [x] The Wind That Lays Waste
- [x] Loop
- [x] The President’s Room
- [x] Fate
- [x] Fireflies
- [x] A Musical Offering
- [x] Fish Soup
- [x] The Adventures of China Iron
- [x] Holiday Heart

#books #translated #southamerica #centralamerica #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #tbr

I did i! Two full grids in a month, 18 books, I th

I did i! Two full grids in a month, 18 books, I think this is the most I’ve read in a month for a very long time

#aprilreads #haveread #booksread #bookstagram

Day 30 of 19 with some of my favourite poems #poe

Day 30 of 19 with some of my favourite poems

#poem #poetry #nationalpoetrymonth

Not even going to say much about today’s read ap

Not even going to say much about today’s read apart from white colonialism at its worst, but I’ve only one more to read to fill two grids in one month and I’m at 78% on my current read!

#aprilreads #amreading #bookstagram #bookblogger

Book 54 of 2024…

Book 54 of 2024…

Morning! Monday comes around once more with alarmi

Morning! Monday comes around once more with alarming regularity, this week I'm reading "Green Frog" by Gina Chung.

What book(s) are you reading this week?

#bookstagram #bookstagrammer #amreading #mondaymorning

Day 29 of 19 with some of my favourite poems. #po

Day 29 of 19 with some of my favourite poems.

#poem #poetry #nationalpoetrymonth

Emily Henry. Penguin Books. (384p) ISBN: 978024199

Emily Henry. Penguin Books. (384p) ISBN: 9780241995341

Book Lovers

I’m sorry, I’d disparaged romance writing for way too long without trying it again, really sorry.

Two friends keep telling me how good Emily Henry’s writing is and I just ignored them, but eventually thought I like these two people, they are intelligent, and usually have good taste. What have I got to lose?

Several hours of my life, that’s what? Several hours of my life in a really well written, engrossing love story, but also a story about loss, the need for control, family, friendships, misunderstanding, and trying to be true to yourself.

I got so invested in these characters straight away and was so desperate to find out where the various twists and turns of the story would take us, secrets coming out and a very passionate love affair is where it led, but it also led to people being far truer to themselves in the end and dreams being realised.

I’m really feeling these books where people are nice to each other (OK in the case of Nora in her own idiom) and where people fall in love and are happy.

Though I did think my preferred ending would have worked as well I was happy with the ending in the book, but then again my heart is black and scarred.

I loved this so much that Emily Henry is going to be an end of month reading treat as all her books are on the library app.

#booksread #booklovers @emilyhenrywrites @penguinukbooks #romance #bookstagram #bookstagrammer

Now have I got it in me to read two more books thi

Now have I got it in me to read two more books this month so two full pages of the grid are filled in?

Just finished Emily Henry’s ‘Book Lovers’

#booksread #bookstagram #aprilreads #books #reading

Day 28 of 19 with some of my favourite poems #poe

Day 28 of 19 with some of my favourite poems

#poem #poetry #nationalpoetrymonth

Not too warm on way to bus stop today #spring #bi

Not too warm on way to bus stop today

#spring #bitnippy #frost

Day 27 of 19 with some of mu favourite poems #poe

Day 27 of 19 with some of mu favourite poems

#poem #poetry #nationalpoetrymonth

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