What Verity Did

Happy Wednesday everyone, and I’m back today with another post of first books in mystery series, to follow on from last year’s dedicated mystery series post and to a lesser extent this post which does at least have a non mystery in it too. As you know I’m always looking for my next bingeable series to add to my lists as other series finish, which can go either way (I’ve read – or tried to read –…

Happy Tuesday everyone. And before you ask, yes, for the second week in a row I’m cheating and writing about a book I finished after Sunday. But as previously discussed: Book Conference. Excitement. Short list last week. And this one has been on the long runners for a few weeks, so it’s not quite as cheaty as it could have been. Or at least that’s what I’m telling myself. And here’s hoping I’m…

I’m exhausted. I’ve had a fabulous time at book conference, but I’ve spent a lot of time talking about reading, listening to talks about reading and buying books to read rather than actually reading. So this list is short and I’ve already caused myself a major problem for tomorrow by writing about American Fantasy last week. Past Verity causing problems for Future Verity once…

As you know I went to see this the night of England’s semi final at the World Cup, but that was only the third-ish preview and press night wasn’t until this week so I held onto my review – but just a warning – I’ve been very careful in my post here not to give too much away about the show – but not all reviews have been so careful. This is qutie a hard one to describe without giving spoilers or…

Just to make a change, this Saturday this is part of the pile of books that I’m taking to Book Con with me to try and sell. This isn’t going to be a new regular feature (or at least I don’t think it is) but because there are not one but two book sales at conference, this is my attempt to try and make sure that I come home with less books than I take with me, and it may or may not be successful.…

Happy Friday everyone. If all goes to plan I should be on my way to Book Con at the moment, so in honour of a long weekend of bookish delights focused on literature for school girls in the twentieth century I’ve got a Girl’s Own boarding school series for you this week. Dimsie is Daphne Isobel Maitland and she is the heroine of nine stories – seven set at her school, The Jane Willard Foundation,…

The third in Ellie Alexander’s Novel Detectives series came out on Tuesday so having already mentioned Glow Job which was out on Monday in yesterday’s post I thought I’d mention this one today. As you may remember this is the continuation series that has spun off Alexander’s earlier and completed Secret Bookcase series featuring the same main character and her new detective agency. This third in…

Happy Wednesday! It’s peak summer holiday season, and so this week I’ve got some of the new books that might make for ideal reading as you hit your sunlounger this vacation season. And given the temperatures that we’ve had in the UK over the last few weeks it might even be cooler (or at least less humid) wherever it is you’re going on holiday. And unlike a normal Recommendsday post, these are…

Yes, yes, yes. I finished this on Monday. But I would have finished it on Sunday if I hadn’t been watching the World Cup final and also reading Dimsie. It happens. Anyway, this is still relatively new (it came out mid-May) and as this peak summer holiday season (it’s the first week of the school holidays in a lot of places in the UK this week) this would also be a great book to read on your…

A rollercoaster week in many ways, ending late on Sunday night with extra time in the World Cup Final and me rereading a Dimsie book instead of something new. Who knows what I’ll write about tomorrow given that the two NetGalley books that I finished aren’t out for months, and there are a lot of later in series on the list too. Oh well, I’m sure it will come to me… Read: A Death in Cornwall by…

It’s been a roller coaster week – from the highs of England scoring against Argentina (seen above) to the lows of losing 30 minutes later, then last night’s 10 goal thriller in the third place game that saw England emerge victorious (just). Today we have the Formula One at Spa (one of my favourite tracks) before the actual World Cup Final and so I’m taking a Sunday off. I hope you all have a…

Remember this moment. The month when I only had one book to report. Genuinely one physical copy. Of course this won’t last because Book Con is next weekend and there is no way that I am coming back from that empty handed. The goal will be to come back with less books than I took, even if that means doing a drop off at a National Trust with a second hand bookshop on the way home. Anyway the one…

Happy Friday everyone, and what a great Friday it is because yesterday evening Taylor Jenkins Reid announced that her next book is out in March. More on that at the end of this post, but I’ve taken the opportunity to make today’s series about the Reidverse novels. What I’m talking about with the Reidverse are the full length novels The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Daisy Jones and the Six,…

Happy Thursday – and happy new Three Dahlias day! We have two books in the series this year and the first of them, Death on a Lively Sea sees our three heroines on a super yacht in the Med with a property mogul whose father died recently in a death that he doesn’t think was natural and who is convinced he’s going to be murdered next. And so he’s done the only thing a sensible billionaire can do:…

Happy Tuesday everyone, it’s due to be sweltering again today and it’s also the France v Spain semi final so I suspect nota lot of reading is going to be occurring. But I do have something from last week’s heat affected list to talk about. Screenshot I’ve struggled with how to describe the plot of this because the blurb really doesn’t give anything away. So here is what the blurb says: A woman…

It’s so hard to concentrate in the heat isn’t it? And to sleep. And to do anything other than slump somewhere and drink cold drinks and moan about how hot it is. That was basically my week. Lots of time on hot trains not being able to thing about anything except how hot I was. This week is meant to be a bit cooler (please, please, please) but we’ve also got an England semi-final at the World Cup…