#birthdaybookbash

Prompt 6: T is for... Tea Tarts Timeless (fiction) I had such a wonderful day with girlfriends watching Pride & Prejudice (BBC 1995) and this is some of the food we had. I need to have a repeat and Soon! Most of my friends who came would watch this series regularly (once a year) but we had 1 who had never seen it at all! 😱 Have you read the book and/or seen this BBC production of P+P? #BirthdayBookBash @read3rz_revu #TisFor #Tea #Teapot #Teacup #Tart #FruitTart #TimelessFiction #classics #PrideandPrejudice #alltimefave #cheeseplatter #PloughmansLunch #Flowers https://www.instagram.com/tiensblurb/p/BygqYi5gQ0v/?igshid=1fd43dgz98gem

Prompt 23: Underrated I adored this book sooo much but I find that no one really knows about this! It's a scifi retelling of Jane Austen's Persuasion (my fave!) and I think it was just done sooo well 💖 🌌 It's been several generations since a genetic experiment gone wrong caused the Reduction, decimating humanity and giving rise to a Luddite nobility who outlawed most technology. Elliot North has always known her place in this world. Four years ago Elliot refused to run away with her childhood sweetheart, the servant Kai, choosing duty to her family's estate over love. Since then the world has changed: a new class of Post-Reductionists is jumpstarting the wheel of progress, and Elliot's estate is foundering, forcing her to rent land to the mysterious Cloud Fleet, a group of shipbuilders that includes renowned explorer Captain Malakai Wentforth--an almost unrecognizable Kai. And while Elliot wonders if this could be their second chance, Kai seems determined to show Elliot exactly what she gave up when she let him go. But Elliot soon discovers her old friend carries a secret--one that could change their society . . . or bring it to its knees. And again, she's faced with a choice: cling to what she's been raised to believe, or cast her lot with the only boy she's ever loved, even if she's lost him forever. . #BirthdayBookBash @read3rz_revu #ForDarknessShowstheStars #DianaPeterfreund #scifi #retelling #ya https://www.instagram.com/p/BzLEd-cAxEM/?igshid=10bpwecn4vmgg

Prompt 22: Best 👍 I wanted to do a book stack so here's one of best fantasy/sci-fi I've read in the past year -had to pick those of some size 😅 Have you read any of these beauties? 📚 #BirthdayBookBash @read3rz_revu #bookstack #fantasy #scifi #cityoflies #samhawke #thepoppywar #rfkuang #wildcard #warcross #marielu #fleshers #alisoncroggon #danielkeene https://www.instagram.com/tiensblurb/p/BzIlyCMgFi8/?igshid=19kg8f5bo4blb

Prompt 24: Funny 🤣 Last cuppa before bed (it's chamomile) with my new beloved mug 😍 I also love just how eye-catchingly bright yellow this book cover is! Immediately make me think, it's gotta be hilarious! Did you grow up watching these funny men on screen? 🤪 Wild and Crazy Guys opens in 1978 with Chevy Chase and Bill Murray taking bad-tempered (and slightly pathetic) swings at each other backstage at Saturday Night Live, and closes 21 years later with the two doing a skit in the same venue, poking fun at each other, their illustrious careers, triumphs and prat falls. In between, Nick de Semlyen takes us on a trip through the tumultuous '80s, delving behind the scenes of movies such as Ghostbusters, Beverly Hills Cop, The Blues Brothers, Trading Places,and dozens more. Chronicling the off-screen, larger-than-life antics of Bill Murray, Eddie Murphy, Chevy Chase, Steve Martin, John Belushi, et al, it's got drugs, sex, punch-ups, webbed toes, and Bill Murray being pushed into a swimming pool by Hunter S. Thompson, while tied to a lawn chair. What's not to like? Based on candid interviews from the stars themselves, as well as those in their immediate orbit, Wild and Crazy Guys is a fantastic insider account of the friendships, feuds, triumphs, and disasters experienced by these iconic funnymen, and reveals the hidden history behind the most fertile period ever for screen comedy. #BirthdayBookBash @read3rz_revu #humour #nonfiction @macmillanaus https://www.instagram.com/tiensblurb/p/BzGCRVegFnu/?igshid=imwgi1lv8qhe

Prompt 15: A is for... 🅰️ The 🅰️mazing 🅰️nnie and now that it's midnight (kinda a day late but), I can wish her a Very Happy Birthday!! Looking forward to catch up with you and Julie Kagawa at Supanova later today (after some Zzzz) 🤣😘 I started listening to Shadow of the Fox on audio and within 20 mins, I had to stop because this is a book I will HAVE to read so I can have ALL the feels 💖 I find that I tune out quite a bit with audiobook because I'm usually doing something else too 😅 #BirthdayBookBash @read3rz_revu #AisFor #ShadowoftheFox #SouloftheSword #JulieKagawa #youngadult #fantasy https://www.instagram.com/tiensblurb/p/By-YJsNA70G/?igshid=1hue571v52mcn

Prompt 14: Tropics 🍍🥝 I would usually spoil myself with a classic for my birthday and this year, I decided to go for an Aussie one. I've not read any of Thea Astley work so not quite sure what to expect but I think the cover fits today's prompt to a T 🌴☀️ Tin River is a townlet of terminal attractiveness. Tin River is a state of mind. Researching in the archives Belle discovers the long-dead Gaden Lockyer, a colonial pioneer in Jericho Flats, and soon becomes obsessed. Belle’s quest for Lockyer is her way of coming to terms with the past—her mother, ‘a drummer in her own all-women’s group’; her absent American father; and her ineffectual husband, Seb. In Reaching Tin River, Thea Astley’s satire is at its sharpest and most entertaining. . #BirthdayBookBash @read3rz_revu #tropics #tropicalfruits #ReachingTinRiver #TheaAstley #classic #literature #aussieauthor #aussielit #australianwomenwriters #textclassics #bookstagram https://www.instagram.com/tiensblurb/p/By7oUd1AOZI/?igshid=1tgb5cputqyd2

Prompt 13: Sand 🏜 A retake! Since @read3rz_revu featured the book I was going to do, I wanted to do another one 😂 I do know that we both also LOVED this trilogy set in desert country & filled with Magic, Adventure, Suspense, and of course, Romance. If you haven't read these, please please do yourself a favour and pick them up 🤗 #BirthdayBookBash #RebeloftheSands #TraitortotheThrone #HeroattheFall #AlwynHamilton #fantasy #youngadult https://www.instagram.com/tiensblurb/p/By6a2uGAYar/?igshid=xm1rsno1jbf8

Prompt 12: Gems 💎 Ashamed to admit that despite how excited I was for this book, I still have yet to read it 😅 Have you read this? Do you like it? 💎 On her eighteenth birthday, Lady Truthful, nicknamed “Newt,” will inherit her family’s treasure: the Newington Emerald. A dazzling heart-shaped gem, the Emerald also bestows its wearer with magical powers. When the Emerald disappears one stormy night, Newt sets off to recover it. Her plan entails dressing up as a man, mustache included, as no well-bred young lady should be seen out and about on her own. While in disguise, Newt encounters the handsome but shrewd Major Harnett, who volunteers to help find the missing Emerald under the assumption that she is a man. Once she and her unsuspecting ally are caught up in a dangerous adventure that includes an evil sorceress, Newt realizes that something else is afoot: the beating of her heart. 💎 #BirthdayBookBash @read3rz_revu #gems #historicalfiction #youngadult #loveozya #newtsemerald #garthnix https://www.instagram.com/tiensblurb/p/By2WM21A5N5/?igshid=1oe1jxfakzw1o