#20booksofsummer hashtag - Bluesky

@bantambookworm.bsky.social

7 months ago

Cara Hunter: Into The Dark Blurb: A woman and child are found locked in a basement room, barely alive.No one knows who they are – the woman can’t speak, and there are no missing persons reports that match their p…

I didn't quite complete my #20BooksOfSummer challenge this year but today I'm sharing my review of In The Dark by Cara Hunter, which I read last week as part of the challenge.

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HopewellsLibrary

@hopewellslibrary.bsky.social

7 months ago

Wrapping up Another Year of 20 Books of Summer This has been quite a summer! I’ve continued to be back into a bit more print reading including one serious history book that I am enjoying at the pace it needs and won’t finish for som…

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Laura Tisdall

@lauratisdall.bsky.social

7 months ago

20 Books of Summer, #20: Alone of All Her Sex At the final hour… I’m reviewing the last of my 20 Books of Summer. While it was by no means my least favourite, it was definitely the hardest to get done in time! I discovered the femi…

Finally! I review #20 of my #20booksofsummer, a fascinating history of the myth and the cult of the Virgin Mary. Including some brilliantly weird stories from the apocrypha. drlauratisdall.wordpress.com/2025/08/31/2... #booksky #skystorians

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Laura Tisdall

@lauratisdall.bsky.social

7 months ago

20 Books of Summer, #18 and #19: Any Human Power and Helm Manda Scott, Any Human Power. This long and weird novel focuses on a single British family who recognise that the world is swiftly being destroyed by those in power and decide to create a grassroot…

Nearing the end... #18 and #19 are on the blog today, both hugely ambitious novels about humans' relationship with the natural world & with the future drlauratisdall.wordpress.com/2025/08/27/2... #20booksofsummer #booksky

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Jan Hicks

@dustystacks.bsky.social

7 months ago

Stay With Me This is the first book I’ve read by Hanne Ørstavik. Stay With Me is her sixteenth novel. She has won multiple awards in her native Norway and her novel Love, translated into English by Martin…

Book 11 for #20BooksOfSummer and my third for #WITMonth, Hanne Ørstavik's exploration of the power of paternal anger is exquisitely written but excruciating and unbearable at the same time. I want to read more by her now.
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Kate Eveleigh

@bantambookworm.bsky.social

7 months ago

Chris Brookmyre: The Cracked Mirror Blurb: FORGET WHAT YOU THINK YOU KNOWTHIS IS NOT THAT CRIME NOVELYou know Penny Coyne. The little old lady who has solved multiple murders in her otherwise sleepy village, despite bumblin…

Earlier this week, I reviewed The Cracked Mirror by Chris Brookmyre for my #20BooksOfSummer challenge.

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Laura Tisdall

@lauratisdall.bsky.social

7 months ago

20 Books of Summer, #16 and #17: You Dreamed of Empires and Only Here, Only Now Álvaro Enrigue trans. Natasha Wittner, You Dreamed of Empires. This short but incredibly intense speculative historical novel spans a few days in 1519, focusing on the infamous encounter between co…

I review #16 and #17 on the blog today - two historical novels, one set in Tenoxtitlan in 1519 and the other in Fife in 1994! drlauratisdall.wordpress.com/2025/08/18/2... #20booksofsummer #booksky

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Chris Lovegrove 💙📚

@calmgrove.bsky.social

7 months ago

The liberty to utter Vintage engraving of a hoopoe. Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie. Granta Books / Penguin Books, 1991 (1990). ‘To give a thing a name, a label, a handle; to rescue it from anonym…

My review of #SalmanRushdie's 'Haroun and the Sea of Stories', simultaneously a children's story, comic fantasy, savage satire, literary fable, and modern fairytale. #20BooksOfSummer #Booksky
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Laura Frey

@lauratfrey.bsky.social

7 months ago

I'm kinda in between books and not sure what to take for my mini vacation to Victoria!! My remaining #20BooksofSummer are not sounding to vacation-y: The Netanyahus and Mornings Without Mii. I actually am dying to start Don Quixote but it's massive and I'd have to shell out for the ebook

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Kate Eveleigh

@bantambookworm.bsky.social

7 months ago

Mark Billingham: Death Message Blurb: The seventh book in the Tom Thorne series, from bestselling author Mark Billingham.THE MESSAGEDI Tom Thorne has seen plenty of dead bodies in his time. But when he starts receiving sick phot…

Today on Portable Magic I'm reviewing Death Message by Mark Billingham for my #20BooksOfSummer challenge:

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Kate Eveleigh

@bantambookworm.bsky.social

7 months ago

Alan Bennett: Killing Time Blurb: We have a choir and on special occasions a glass of dry sherry. It’s less of a home and more of a club and very much a community.Presided over by the lofty Mrs McBryde, Hill Topp …

Today on Portable Magic I'm reviewing Killing Time by Alan Bennett for my #20BooksOfSummer challenge.

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Kate Eveleigh

@bantambookworm.bsky.social

8 months ago

Bob Mortimer: The Satsuma Complex Blurb: My name is Gary. I’m a thirty-year-old legal assistant with a firm of solicitors in London. To describe me as anonymous would be unfair but to notice me other than in passing would be a rari…

Today on Portable Magic I'm reviewing The Satsuma Complex by Bob Mortimer for my #20BooksOfSummer challenge.

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BookerTalk

@bookertalk.bsky.social

8 months ago

Oh William! and Lucy By the Sea by Elizabeth Strout - #10BooksofSummer25 : BookerTalk Every book in Elizabeth Strout’s series about Lucy Barton feels like an encounter with a set of Matryoshka dolls (aka Russian dolls). You get to the end of each one with a deeper understanding of Lucy...

Playing catch up with reviews for #20booksofsummer by doing a double on Elizabeth Strout's "Lucy Barton" series

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Laura Tisdall

@lauratisdall.bsky.social

8 months ago

20 Books of Summer, #13, #14 and #15: We Are All Ghosts in the Forest, The Catch and Mona Acts Out I’ve been racing through my 20 Books of Summer partly because I went on a holiday with lots of long bus journeys and partly because a lot of them were NetGalley ARCs that publish in June or J…

Broke this thread with my holiday reading guide, but reviews of #13, #14 and #15 are on the blog today, including a much better take on Shakespeare drlauratisdall.wordpress.com/2025/07/30/2... #20booksofsummer #booksky

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Laura Tisdall

@lauratisdall.bsky.social

8 months ago

Holiday Reading Guide, 2025 (& 20 Books of Summer, #11 and #12) On my recent holiday to Norway, I was lucky enough to read three books that proved to be excellent company (plus some others that were less so, but will not be spoken of here). While I, as usual, h…

My mini holiday reading guide, with readalikes for those who loved Tomorrow x3, Our Wives Under The Sea and/or A Deadly Education! drlauratisdall.wordpress.com/2025/07/21/h... #booksky #sff #20booksofsummer

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Laura Tisdall

@lauratisdall.bsky.social

8 months ago

20 Books of Summer, #10: All’s Well If it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere wellIt were done quickly. Miranda is a college theatre director working on a production of All’s Well That Ends Well, one of Shakespear…

20 Books of Summer continues with #10, a hallucinatory novel about Shakespeare and chronic pain which I... did not love drlauratisdall.wordpress.com/2025/07/17/2... #20booksofsummer #booksky

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Kate Eveleigh

@bantambookworm.bsky.social

8 months ago

Araminta Hall: Perfect Strangers My review is written with thanks to the publisher for my copy of the book via Netgalley, which I received under the title Imperfect Women. Blurb: Everyone wants perfection.But there is no such thin…

Today I'm sharing my review of Perfect Strangers by Araminta Hall (originally published as Imperfect Women) as part of my #20BooksOfSummer challenge:

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Laura Tisdall

@lauratisdall.bsky.social

9 months ago

20 Books of Summer, #8 and #9: New Suns 2 and Here and Beyond We continue in our slightly-out-of-reading-order journey through my 20 Books of Summer with a collection of short speculative fiction – both SFF and horror – and a science fiction novel…

My next #20booksofsummer post focuses on SFF, with a collection of short speculative fiction plus a SF novel told in linked short stories drlauratisdall.wordpress.com/2025/07/07/2... #amreading #fiction #booksky

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Kate Eveleigh

@bantambookworm.bsky.social

9 months ago

Georgina Moore: River Of Stars This review is written with thanks to the publisher for my copy of River Of Stars via Netgalley. Blurb: Jo hasn’t seen Oliver since that magical, life-changing summer when their idyllic island para…

Today on Portable Magic I'm reviewing River Of Stars by @georginamoore1.bsky.social for my #20BooksOfSummer challenge:

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Kate Eveleigh

@bantambookworm.bsky.social

9 months ago

Liz Mistry: Deadly Reckoning Blurb: A DEADLY DISCOVERY Enjoying a rare day off, DS Jazzy Solanki’s peaceful spring walk is interrupted when a body is discovered along her path. Instinct tells her it’s not a coincidence. A HIDD…

Happy publication day to @lizmistry.bsky.social with Deadly Reckoning! Here's my review for my #20BooksOfSummer challenge.

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BookerTalk

@bookertalk.bsky.social

9 months ago

Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller — life on the margins : BookerTalk Claire Fuller’s Costa award-winning novel was a highly enjoyable companion on my summer road trip around parts of the UK.

Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller is a cracker of a novel about the way society treats people who live on the margins
#20booksofsummer

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Laura Tisdall

@lauratisdall.bsky.social

9 months ago

20 Books of Summer, #6 and #7: Basilisk and The Echo Maker [A moment of reflection, please, for how rubbish these covers are and how much better Basilisk has been served by its US cover, and The Echo Maker by any of its previous covers, but especially this…

My #20booksofsummer continues with books number #6 and #7, two brilliant doorstoppers that explore the multiple worlds that exist inside human brains... drlauratisdall.wordpress.com/2025/07/02/2... #booksky #sff #horror

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Kate Eveleigh

@bantambookworm.bsky.social

9 months ago

CF Barrington: When We Were Killers Blurb: Five friends. One deadly obsession.The salt-scented quadrangles of St Andrews University greet misfit first-year student Finn Nethercott with indifference. This is a place where only privile…

Today on Portable Magic I'm reviewing When We Were Killers by CF Barrington as part of my #20BooksOfSummer challenge:

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Eleanor Franzen

@eleanorfranzen.bsky.social

9 months ago

20 Books of Summer, 7: Larsen Passing, by Nella Larsen (1929): Probably everyone knows the plot of this already because I seem to be the last person on earth to read it, so really I thought I knew the salient points of the prem…

#20booksofsummer 7 (forgot to link to reviews of 4-6 but they're on the blog too!): Passing, by Nella Larsen, a novel whose extreme self-awareness stops it from being too schematic, offering instead an exploration of safety and freedom ellethinks.wordpress.com/2025/06/25/2... #books #reading

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Kate Eveleigh

@bantambookworm.bsky.social

9 months ago

SM Govett: Believe This review is written with thanks to the publisher for my copy of Believe. Blurb: Natalie has spent ten years trying to get over the twin set of events which changed her life forever.The first: th…

Today on Portable Magic I'm reviewing Believe by SM Govett for my #20BooksOfSummer challenge:

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Kate Eveleigh

@bantambookworm.bsky.social

9 months ago

AA Dhand: The Chemist Blurb: Local pharmacist and pillar of the community, Idris Khan, spends his days doling out methadone to the hundreds of addicts in his care. They trust Idris with their secrets, and so he knows mo…

My second review for #20BooksOfSummer is The Chemist by AA Dhand:

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Laura Tisdall

@lauratisdall.bsky.social

9 months ago

20 Books of Summer, #4 and #5: Subduction and The Bombshell 20 Books of Summer continues with two books that ask questions about appropriating other people’s suffering, in wildly different ways. Both are by American writers who are not from the groups…

Numbers #4 and #5 of my #20booksofsummer are reviewed on the blog today. Number #5 is my favourite so far... I've called it 'a beach read for the anarchist at heart' drlauratisdall.wordpress.com/2025/06/18/2... #booksky

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Laura Tisdall

@lauratisdall.bsky.social

9 months ago

20 Books of Summer, #3: The Voyage Home I was unexpectedly captivated by the first book in Pat Barker’s retelling of the story of the Trojan War and its aftermath, The Silence of the Girls; in contrast, the second, The Women of Tro…

Number #3 of my #20booksofsummer is the third book in Pat Barker's trilogy about the aftermath of the Trojan War. Review here: drlauratisdall.wordpress.com/2025/06/16/2... #booksky

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