Hm… maybe I should visit again? Book Review for “Apple of My Eye” by Helene Hanff. Summary: "A celebration of her life-long love for New York, Hanff embarked on this project as an assignment, and realized she had not been to many of the main tourist attractions- the Statue of Liberty, Wall Street, the World Trade Center. As make-believe tourists, off she and Patsy travel to describe the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Grant's Tomb, Fraunces Tavern, some of New York's very special small museums, Orchard Street, a tour of Harlem, and much more.

#BookThreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon Hm... maybe I should visit again? My #bookreview for "Apple of My Eye" by Helene Hanff. This is a real #BeatTheBacklist book that is out of my comfort zone being non-fiction, as well as about New York City, which isn't my thing! #OOCZ2026 #2026BookishBooks

Arms, Legs, Toes, and AARDVARK? Book Review for “Turn Right at the Rainbow: A Diary of Househunting, Happenstance & Home” by Roz Morris. Summary: "You don’t find home. Home finds you. Roz has lived in her London house for thirty years. She arrived there bewildered and reckless, moving in with a man she'd known for one week, and the house kept asking: Are you sure?

#BookThreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon Arms, Legs, Toes, and AARDVARK? My #bookreview for "Turn Right at the Rainbow: A Diary of Househunting, Happenstance & Home" by @Roz_Morris on my #bookblog now! Thanks Roz for the ARC of this lovely #nonfiction book! #2026NewReleaseChallenge #OOCZ2026 #WIAN26

The Mother of All Controversies. Book Review for “MUV: The Story of the Mitford Girls' Mother” by Rachel Trethewey. Summary: "Everyone knows about the six flamboyant Mitford girls but in fact there were seven remarkable women in the famous family—the seventh was "Muv," Lady Sydney Redesdale, the mother of the notorious sisters. Too often portrayed as different from them and outside the girl gang, she was really the original and much of her daughters’ strong will, self-confidence, and extremism came from her.

#BookThreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon The Mother of All Controversies. My #bookreview for "MUV: The Story of the Mitford Girls' Mother" by Rachel Trethewey on my #bookblog now! Yes, I actually read a #biography thanks to @PegasusBooks and #Edelweiss! #2026NewReleaseChallenge #OOCZ2026

For the Love of Syntax. Book Review for “Confessions of a Grammar Queen” by Eliza Knight. Summary: "Bernadette Swift, a young copyeditor at Lenox & Park Publishing, is determined to become the first female CEO in the publishing industry. But first she needs to take the next step up that ladder with a promotion that her boorish and sexist boss wants to thwart. Seeking a base of support, Bernadette joins a feminist women's book club at the New York Public Library, and soon, she's inspiring her fellow members to challenge the male gatekeepers and decades of ingrained sexism in their workplaces and pursue their personal and professional dreams.

#BookThreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon For the Love of Syntax - my #bookreview for "Confessions of a Grammar Queen" by @ElizaKnight, on my #bookblog now. This was fun, even with the #romance and a dog narrating some chapters! #histficreadingchallenge
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The Sugar Flowers Mystery. Book Review for “The Readers' Room” by Antoine Laurain (translated by Jane Aitken, Emily Boyce, and Polly Mackintosh). Summary: "When the manuscript of a debut crime novel arrives at a Parisian publishing house, everyone in the readers' room is convinced it's something special. And the committee for France's highest literary honour, the Prix Goncourt, agrees. But when the shortlist is announced, there's a problem for editor Violaine she has no idea of the author's identity.

#BookThreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon The Sugar Flowers Mystery: My #bookreview for The Readers' Room by Antoine Laurain on my #bookblog. Thanks @pushkinpress @Steerforthpress for the ARC. #2026NewReleaseChallenge #BeatTheBacklist #CloakDaggerChal #2026BooksInTranslation #OOCZ2026 #2026BookishBooks