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Pages & Tea @pagesandtea.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Books I've read this month: Below Zero (The STEMinist Novellas #3) by Ali Hazelwood - 🌟🌟🌟🌟 The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid - 🌟🌟🌟🌟.5 Greenteeth by Molly O’Neill - 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Paladin's Grace (The Saint of Steel #1) by T. Kingfisher - 🌟🌟🌟🌟 Deep End by Ali Hazelwood - 🌟🌟🌟.5 💙📚

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Pages & Tea @pagesandtea.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Greenteeth included everything I enjoy in a fantasy story - a great setting, mythology, the fae, a quest, and an endearing group of central characters. 💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading

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Pages & Tea @pagesandtea.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Famous actress Evelyn Hugo is ready to tell the truth about her life to one writer in particular. With fascinating characters and a final mystery to be solved I found myself engrossed in Evelyn's life story... 💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading

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Pages & Tea @pagesandtea.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Books I've read this month... 💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading Good Bad Girl by Alice Feeney - 🌟🌟🌟🌟 Phantasma (Wicked Games #1) by Kaylie Smith - 🌟🌟🌟🌟.5 Enchantra (Wicked Games #2) by Kaylie Smith - 🌟🌟🌟🌟.5 It's a Love Story by Annabel Monaghan - 🌟🌟🌟.5

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Pages & Tea @pagesandtea.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

The third book in the Three Dahlias series sees our mystery-solving trio take on something slightly different as they become involved in a cold case, but it isn't long before another murder takes place, giving the Dahlias another piece of the puzzle... 💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading

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Pages & Tea @pagesandtea.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Enchantra was another enjoyable book in the Wicked Games series. A murderous game, a family of characters forced to play against each other, and Genevieve arrives with no idea what's she getting into, but takes to the game quickly. #AmReading #BookSky 💙📚

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Pages & Tea @pagesandtea.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Gothic, ghostly, action-packed and romantic, Phantasma was really enjoyable and I can't wait to continue on to Enchantra... #BookSky #AmReading 💙📚

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

‘Useful phrases for the murder mystery writer abroad’ (my cartoon for this week’s Guardian Books)

Title:
Useful phrases for the murder mystery writer abroad

An eight-panel cartoon showing a writer in a series of situations in a foreign country.

Panel 1: looking at historic buildings saying
"Kia bela vilaĝo!" which is translated below as "What a lovely village!"

Panel 2: in a pretty garden asking the gardener "Ĉu ĉi tiuj estas venenaj" meaning "Are any of these plants poisonous?

Panel 3: in a bar asking the server “Kie oni povas aĉeti pafilon?" meaning "
Can one purchase a firearm nearby?"

Panel 4: on a beach asking a fisherman "Ĉu la tajdo povus forporti kadavron?" meaning "Could the tide carry a dead body away?"

Panel 5: approached by a police officer and saying "Saluton, oficiro." which is translated below as "Hello officer."

Panel 6: being marched to the police station protesting "Okazis miskompreno!" meaning "There has been a misunderstanding!"

Panel 7: in the interrogation room the officer holds up a moleskine notebook, the writer explains "La murdo en mia notlibro estas fikcia." meaning "The murder planned in my notebook is fictional."

Panel 8: locked in a cell asking "Mi ŝatus telefoni al la Brita konsulejo." which means "I would like to telephone the British consulate."

Note: The foreign language used by the writer in the cartoon is Esperanto. It has not been proofread by an Esperanto speaker so there may be errors.

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Pages & Tea @pagesandtea.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Good Bad Girl was puzzling at first, with several threads but no indication as to how the characters were linked, if they were at all. All became clear as I read on, which made it a real page-turner 💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading

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Pages & Tea @pagesandtea.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Books I've read this month: Maude Horton's Glorious Revenge by Lizzie Pook - 🌟🌟🌟🌟.5 The Cruel Dark (The Cruel Dark #1) by Bea Northwick - 🌟🌟🌟🌟 Done and Dusted (Rebel Blue Ranch #1) by Lyla Sage - 🌟🌟🌟 💙📚 #BookSky

Maude Horton's Glorious Revenge book cover

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Pages & Tea @pagesandtea.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

A Quiet Life in the Country is the first in a series of mysteries featuring Lady Hardcastle and her maid/friend Flo. I enjoyed meeting these characters and following their adventure as they attempt to solve a number of crimes... #AmReading #BookSky 💙📚

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Pages & Tea @pagesandtea.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Another cowboy romance series to enjoy... Done and Dusted introduces a good setting and some interesting characters and next time I'm in the mood for a cowboy romance book I think this is a series I will return to... 💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading

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Pages & Tea @pagesandtea.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Gothic, spooky and mysterious, I thought I knew where this was going but it turns out I was very wrong. Really enjoyed The Cruel Dark 💙📚

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Pages & Tea @pagesandtea.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Arctic adventures, murder, mystery, and a desire for answers and revenge - I really enjoyed Maude Horton's Glorious Revenge. #BookSky 💙📚

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Pages & Tea @pagesandtea.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Books I've read this month: Heartless (Chestnut Springs #2) by Elsie Silver - 🌟🌟🌟.5 Powerless (Chestnut Springs #3) by Elsie Silver - 🌟🌟🌟🌟.5 Reckless (Chestnut Springs #4) by Elsie Silver - 🌟🌟🌟.5 Hopeless (Chestnut Springs #5) by Elsie Silver - 🌟🌟🌟🌟 cont... 💙📚 #BookSky

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Pages & Tea @pagesandtea.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Here's a word I don't think I've come across before: Spindrift • \SPIN-drift\ • noun: sea spray; especially : spray blown from waves during a gale Noticed whilst reading Maude Horton's Glorious Revenge by Lizzie Pook. 💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading

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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Today is #WorldBeeDay so we made a bee out of books and now we're buzzing. 🐝

A bee made out of yellow and black books

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Pages & Tea @pagesandtea.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Apparently my detective skills aren't improving at all - I was completely taken in by one of the red herrings in Death in the Clouds! Better leave the mystery solving to Poirot, I think... #BookSky #AmReading 💙📚

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Pages & Tea @pagesandtea.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

So ends my first foray into Cowboy Romance. I've finished the Chestnut Springs series by Elsie Silver. I don't think I've ever binged a whole series back to back before so that was a new experience. I'm going to read something different next, possibly another Poirot book, but next time I want 💙📚

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Pages & Tea @pagesandtea.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Book Review: The Tainted Cup (Shadow of the Leviathan #1) by Robert Jackson Bennett. This was a 5 🌟 fantasy murder mystery that I couldn't put down. I'm already looking forward to reading the next book in the series. #AmReading #Booksky 💙📚 pagesandteablog.wordpress.com/2025/05/13/b...

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Book Review: The Tainted Cup (Shadow of the Leviathan #1) by Robert Jackson Bennett

Name: The Tainted Cup (Shadow of the Leviathan #1)Author: Robert Jackson BennettNumber of Pages: 432 (eBook)Published: February 6, 2024 by HodderscapeGenre: Fantasy, Mystery A Holmes and Watso…

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Pages & Tea @pagesandtea.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

It's time to begin the last book in the Chestnut Springs series. Can't remember the last time I read an entire series back to back and I'm going to miss this world and these characters... 💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading

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Pages & Tea @pagesandtea.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Powerless is the 3rd Chestnut Springs book and I think I may have found a new favourite. I enjoyed Jasper and Sloane's story so much. And I still can't seem to stop reading these so on onto Reckless I go... #BookSky #AmReading 💙📚

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Pages & Tea @pagesandtea.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

There's a new review up on my blog today - The Magpie Murders, the first in the Susan Ryeland series by Anthony Horowitz. I really enjoyed this mystery within a mystery and look forward to reading the rest of the series... #BookSky #AmReading 💙📚 pagesandteablog.wordpress.com/2025/05/02/b...

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Book Review: Magpie Murders (Susan Ryeland #1) by Anthony Horowitz

Name: Magpie Murders (Susan Ryeland #1)Author: Anthony HorowitzNumber of Pages: 529 (eBook)Published: October 6, 2016 by OrionGenre: Mystery, Thriller A professor of literature finds herself c…

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Pages & Tea @pagesandtea.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

I didn't enjoy Heartless quite as much as Flawless but I'm still enjoying the Chestnut Springs series by Elsie Silver enough to want to move straight on to Powerless. Will I end up binge-reading the entire series back-to-back? It's still looking possible. 💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading

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Pages & Tea @pagesandtea.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Books I read in April: Magpie Murders (Susan Ryeland #1) by Anthony Horowitz - 🌟🌟🌟🌟 The Tainted Cup (Shadow of the Leviathan #1) by Robert Jackson Bennett - 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Flawless (Chestnut Springs #1) by Elsie Silver - 🌟🌟🌟🌟 💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading

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Pages & Tea @pagesandtea.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Well that was a surprise. I enjoyed Flawless so much that I might just carry straight on with the next book in the series, Heartless... #AmReading #BookSky 💙📚

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Pages & Tea @pagesandtea.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett definitely gets the full 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 from me. I really enjoyed this murder mystery in a fantasy setting. I couldn't stop reading but I didn't want to get to the end. Such a good story! #BookSky #AmReading

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