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Welcome to Challenge Check-In. This post is an attempt to keep track of my reading challenges and bingo cards. Welcome to my first Challenge Check-In of 2024. This year I’m attempting a couple of reading challenges I’ve done before which feature bingo cards, so I’m continuing my check-in style posts to post updated versions of each card and see how I’m getting on with my challenges. It’s been…

Name:  The QuickeningAuthor:  Rhiannon WardNumber of Pages:  336 (Kindle)Published:  August 20, 2020 by TrapezeGenre:  Historical, Gothic, Mystery England, 1925. Louisa Drew lost her husband in the First World War and her six-year-old twin sons in the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918. Newly re-married and seven months pregnant, Louisa is asked by her employer to travel to Clewer Hall in Sussex where…

Name:  PersuasionAuthor:  Jane AustenNumber of Pages:  304 (Paperback)Published:  April 1, 2006 by Penguin Books Ltd.  First published December 20, 1817Genre:  Classics, Romance At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome naval…

Welcome to my Monthly Reading Review. This post is my attempt to keep track of how I’m doing with my reading challenges and resolutions. BOOKS I’VE READ The Lighthouse Witches by C. J. Cooke A Body in 3B (A Murder at the Morrissey Mystery #1) by Eryn Scott The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson Total Loaned Books Read This…

Name:  The CloistersAuthor:  Katy HaysNumber of Pages:  320 (Kindle)Published:  November 1, 2022 by Transworld DigitalGenre:  Thriller, Mystery On the wheel of fortune, who will emerge on top… and who will die?When Ann Stilwell arrives in New York City, she hopes to spend her summer working as a curatorial associate at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Instead, she finds herself assigned to The…

Book Review: The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Name:  The Secret History Author:  Donna Tartt Number of Pages:  629 (Paperback) Published: July 1st 1993 by Penguin Books Genre: Mystery, Thriller Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when…

Book Review: Wizard and Glass (The Dark Tower #4) by Stephen King

Name:  Wizard and Glass (The Dark Tower #4) Author:  Stephen King Number of Pages:  728 (ebook) Published:  October 1st 2003 (first published November 4th 1997) Genre: Fantasy Roland, Eddie, Susannah, Jake, and Jake’s pet bumbler survive Blaine the Mono’s final crash, only to find themselves stranded in an alternate version of Topeka, Kansas, one that has been ravaged by the superflu virus. While…

Booking Ahead: November 2021

Booking Ahead is an opportunity to glance through my never-ending TBR list/pile and select a few potential reads for the coming month. If I’m not reading books I love talking about books I’d like to read, so this post is a perfect excuse to do just that. November, and this month I’m selecting one definite read, which is… ‘Salem’s Lot by Stephen King – This is my current read. I decided to reread…

Monthly Summary: October 2021

Welcome to another Monthly Summary on Pages and Tea. October has been another slow-paced month of reading but what I read I enjoyed. I focussed on books for Readers Imbibing Peril, an event that concludes this month. As always I’ve enjoyed participating and reading a spooky-ish read or two. First up this month, Crooked House by Agatha Christie, a murder mystery featuring a country estate and a…

Reading Review: October 2021

Welcome to my Monthly Reading Review. This post is my attempt to keep track of how I’m doing with my reading challenges and resolutions. BOOKS I’VE READ Crooked House by Agatha Christie Home Before Dark by Riley Sager Total Loaned Books Read This Month: 1 Total Own Books Read This Month: 1 Overall Total Books Read This Month: 2 Total Loaned Books Read 2021: 7 Total Own Books Read 2021:…

Book Review: Home Before Dark by Riley Sager

Name:  Home Before Dark Author:  Riley Sager Number of Pages:  402 (ebook) Published: September 17th 2020 by Hodder & Stoughton Genre: Thriller, Horror, Mystery In the latest thriller from New York Times bestseller Riley Sager, a woman returns to the house made famous by her father’s bestselling horror memoir. Is the place really haunted by evil forces, as her father claimed? Or are there more…

Book Review: Crooked House by Agatha Christie

Name:  Crooked House Author:  Agatha Christie Number of Pages:  259 (ebook) Published: February 10th 2010 by William Morrow Paperbacks (first published March 1949) Genre: Mystery, Crime The Leonides are one big happy family living in a sprawling, ramshackle mansion. That is until the head of the household, Aristide, is murdered with a fatal barbiturate injection. Suspicion naturally falls on the…

The Finally Fall Book Tag: 2021 Edition

Its Book Tag time. What better way to enjoy my favourite season than with an autumn themed tag? It’s Finally Fall! This tag was created by Alina on her booktube channel Tall Tales. It’s become something of a tradition on the blog to complete this tag each year; I’ve done it at least a couple of times before, but I always think there’s still room for another autumn-themed post, so here it is, same…

The Finally Fall Book Tag: 2021 Edition

Its Book Tag time. What better way to enjoy my favourite season than with an autumn themed tag? It’s Finally Fall! This tag was created by Alina on her booktube channel Tall Tales. It’s become something of a tradition on the blog to complete this tag each year; I’ve done it at least a couple of times before, but I always think there’s still room for another autumn-themed post, so here it is, same…

Booking Ahead: October 2021

Booking Ahead is an opportunity to glance through my never-ending TBR list/pile and select a few potential reads for the coming month. If I’m not reading books I love talking about books I’d like to read, so this post is a perfect excuse to do just that. It’s time to take another look at my TBR pile and select some reads for October. As I may have mentioned previously, Readers Imbibing Peril…

Monthly Summary: September 2021

Welcome to another Monthly Summary on Pages and Tea. Autumn is here, Readers Imbibing Peril is happening, and my first month of Peril reading provided quality if not quantity… I finally read The Secret History. I feel like I’ve mentioned this book over many previous autumn TBR list posts but never actually got around to reading it. This year, I did. What a book. A tale of friendship and murder on…

Reading Review: September 2021

Welcome to my Monthly Reading Review. This post is my attempt to keep track of how I’m doing with my reading challenges and resolutions. BOOKS I’VE READ The Secret History by Donna Tartt Total Loaned Books Read This Month: 0 Total Own Books Read This Month: 1 Overall Total Books Read This Month: 1 Total Loaned Books Read 2021: 6 Total Own Books Read 2021: 12 Overall Total Books Read 2021: 18 MY…