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December 28, 2025
Book Review for “Table Two” by Marjorie Wilenski.
#deanstreetdecember @lyzzybee.bsky.social
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#BookThreads #booksky 📚💙 #bookstodon Verbal and Literal Bombs. My #bookreview for "Table Two" by Marjorie Wilenski, on my #bookblog now. Thanks @DeanStPress for giving me a copy of this fascinating, and surprisingly insightful #WWII era novel. #TheClassicsClub #BeatTheBacklist #DeanStreetDecember
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#BookThreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon. TCL's WWW Wednesday #24 - December 24, 2025. My reading schedule means I almost didn't find time to do this update, again. Thanks to @SamAnnElizabeth of Taking on a World of Words for #WWWWednesday #DoorstoppersInDecember #DeanStreetDecember #HappyHolidays2025
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Rhododendron Pie by Margery Sharp, for Dean Street December
“This was a great choice for Dean Street December!”
#furrowedmiddlebrow #deanstreetdecember
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Thank you again for being the most prolific #deanstreetdecember contributor for another year running! 🙏🥰❤️
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Book cover for DSP book The Weather in Tregulla. Image showing village homes, trees and a figure walking down a path.
Finally, @lyzzybee.bsky.social I can join in with #DeanStreetDecember I have started reading The Weather in Tregulla by Stella Gibbons. She's always a good storyteller. 💙📚 @deanstpress.bsky.social
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Image shows the 122 Dean Street Press books the poster has read in left-to-right chronological reading order.
Image shows the 52 Dean Street Press books in his Calibre library the poster has yet to read
After #DeanStreetDecember 2025, an update on the state of my @deanstpress.bsky.social library. It's in 3 tags: dsp-read, dsptbr, and dsp-dnf. On the left, dsp-read. On the right, dsptbr (atm) I did not screenshot dsp-dnf, because there are only five. 😁
#Reading #Mystery #middlebrow #Booksky
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All done with #DeanStreetDecember for 2025. Thanks again to @deanstpress.bsky.social for the reads, and @lyzzybee.bsky.social for her awesome organising and promoting of the event. If DS(P)D returns next year, so will this bad penny!
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20% into "Knock, Murderer, Knock" for #DeanStreetDecember and LOVING it. The most murderous character so far, BY far, is the author. The first murder victim was skewered with a knitting needle, but the author's been savagely skewering her characters since page 1. #Booksky #Mystery #Reading
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3.75/5 for "Let Him Lie" by Ianthe Jerrold, my penultimate read for #DeanStreetDecember 2025. A beautifully written Clayton's detective story.
#Reading #Booksky #Mystery
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The Woods in Winter by Stella Gibbons featuring a wintry scene of trees beside a house, with a rabbit scurrying across the road.
"Mrs. Threader sat alone on Christmas night, sipping ginger
wine. Everything demanded by Christmas was there; cards, paper decorations, mistletoe, holly."
From The Woods in Winter (1970) by Stella Gibbons.
New introduction by Elizabeth Crawford.
#deanstreetdecember #furrowedmiddlebrow #booksky
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3.75/5 for "Mrs Lorimer's Quiet Summer" book 8/10 for my #DeanStreetDecember and another curate's egg of a book from one of the Borders duo @deanstpress.bsky.social has helped me read a score of
#Booksky #Reading #middlebrow
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So far, mine is a quiet summer - a real summer with temperatures in the low to mid-30s C. So reading about Mrs Lorimer's Quiet Summer for #DeanStreetDecember seems extra apt. Even if the only 30C days Clavering would have known would've had a - in front of the of the number! 😆 #Booksky #Reading
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4.25/5 @thestorygraph.com for "This Little Measure" the 6th @deanstpress.bsky.social Sara Woods reprint and book 7/10 for my #DeanStreetDecember This Little Measure is two: the number of characters I liked.
#Mystery #Booksky #Reading
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4/5 @thestorygraph.com for The Swinging Death by Brian Flynn book 6/10 for my #DeanStreetDecember An entertaining tale full of twists and tangles @deanstpress.bsky.social should have included a trigger warning for Inspector McMorran's icky personality flaw but🤣
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"Ok, ok, I LOVE Dean Street’s #FurrowedMiddlebrow books so much I’m slipping in a second one! Happy #DeanStreetDecember! There’s still time to read one and join the fun."
A Winter Away by Elizabeth Fair #booksky #bookreview
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A biography I read largely in honour of my late father brought up the halfway mark in my #DeanStreetDecember - thanks for the trip down memory lane, @deanstpress.bsky.social
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#Booksky #nonfiction #biography #cricket #Arsenal
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3.75/5 @thestorygraph.com for "Four Gardens". My third @deanstpress.bsky.social Margery Sharp was insufficiently sharp for this bitter and twisted old cynic #DeanStreetDecember #BookSky #Reading
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a passage of text on a Kobo Sage e-reader, from "Four Gardens" by Margery Sharp. Text as follows: Within so complicated a system the inhabitants of Morton had naturally to tread with care; but so practiced were their steps, so keen their social noses, that no gaffe of any magnitude had occurred since 1879. In that disorderly year, indeed, there had been two: the seduction of a Major’s daughter by a chemist, and the engagement of a grocer’s daughter to a gentleman’s son.
Char Bagh Indian garden at Hamilton Public Gardens in Kirikiriroa, Aotearoa
VERY early into "Four Gardens" my 4th @deanstpress.bsky.social for #DeanStreetDecember this passage suggesting I'm REALLY going to like it. Me being me, the title of the book automatically made me think of the place on the right. 😀 #Reading #middlebrow #Booksky
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4.25/5 @thestorygraph.com for "Death Comes to Cambers" by E.R. Punshon. Book 3/10 for my #DeanStreetDecember another winner
#BookSky #Mystery #Reading
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10 book covers, all by Sara Woods and all published by Dean Street Press
The top row is all read, the bottom row WILL be all read by the time @deanstpress.bsky.social adds another row for me to collect and use for next year's #DeanStreetDecember insha allah. 😀
#Booksky #Mystery #ebooks #kobo
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Thank you @ConMartin for this wonderful review - an auspicious start to #DeanStreetDecember ! 🥰@conmartin.bsky.social
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Thank you so much! 🙏😍 A perfect pick for #DeanStreetDecember. Looking forward to hearing what you make of the next eight!
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Book 2 of my #DeanStreetDecember , "The Trail of Three Lean Men" was a lot of fun. Two down, eight to go
#Reading #BookSky @deanstpress.bsky.social #Mystery
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3/5 for "Murder Isn't Cricket" by the Radfords. Sadly book 1 of my #DeanStreetDecember did not bowl me over. One down nine to go. Thanks again to @lyzzybee.bsky.social and @deanstpress.bsky.social for this fun SUMMER tradition 😁
#Booksky #Mystery #Reading
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How exciting! We can’t wait to read your entries to #DeanStreetDecember! 🙏🥰✨
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Just 5 days before #DeanStreetDecember, and this year, I'm doing less AND more 10/10
LESS reading from @deanstpress.bsky.social (or, for the pedants, fewer books) but MORE authors, also ten. BIG thanks to @lyzzybee.bsky.social for hosting AGAIN: We who are about to die-ve into reading salute you
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We absolutely love this! We're glad our Woods ebooks are keeping your Kobo busy this #DeanStreetDecember! #SaraWoods #NewEditions
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