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My chosen quote today is by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) who was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist and poet.
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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WWW Wednesday is a meme hosted by Sam at Taking on a World of Words.
The rules are answer the questions below and share a link to your blog in the comments section of Sam’s blog.
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I hope everyone is having a good week so far. I have had an enforced day of rest but this has also meant I have had a lovely day reading my book.
What I am Currently Reading
Tomorrow I will probably start another book to run along side this one but at the moment I am just reading The Fires of Heaven. I will be honest my reading of this book hasn’t been going exactly according to plan but over the last few days I have really made a push with it so I can catch up slightly.
What I have Recently Finished Reading
I finished this just a few hours ago and I absolutely loved it! I will be writing up the review soon but I can’t wait to read more books by Whipple.
What I Think I will Read Next
I will be honest and say that I actually think I will be reading A Gentleman in Moscow next but you never know what mood I will be in tomorrow.
Please drop me a comment with your WWW Wednesday and I will head over for a visit.
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I have finally ticked off another Waterstones store from my challenge. I haven’t been doing very well with my challenge recently so it felt good to tick off another store.
I met my friends in Cambridge today and of course I had to check out the Waterstones store and buy some books.
I actually purchased three books but one was a Dinosaur book for my friends little boy.
Here are the books I bought.
Please drop me a comment if you have read any of these books or if you have a favourite Waterstones store.
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Goodreads Monday is now hosted by Budget Tales Book Club. All you have to do is show off a book from your TBR that you’re looking forward to reading.
Happy Monday!
I hope everyone has a great week planned. I’m hoping for another week of good books and adventures.
My chosen book to feature this week is one of my new books and another Alison Weir book that I haven’t read yet.
This remarkable recreation of the action-packed century that saw the murder of Thomas Becket and the signing of the Magna Carta covers the lives and reigns of the first five Plantagenet queens, who ruled England and France throughout the bloody 1200s, a particularly dramatic and violent period of European history. Wars, crusades, treachery, murder, passion, and the interplay between rival monarchs of Britain and France provide a surprising picture of these five ambitious women and their struggle for power.
The queens covered in the book are Eleanor of Aquitaine, Berengaria of Navarre, Isabella of Angouleme, Alienor of Provence and Eleanor of Castile. One of these queens became legendary when, accompanying her husband on crusade, she saved his life by sucking the blood from his poisoned-arrow wound. Equally intriguing are the descriptions of their marriages, including one that was extremely tempestuous, and one that was a love match turned sour when the jealous husband discovered his queen’s infidelity and retaliated by killing her lovers and hanging their bodies from the canopy of her bed.
This second volume of historian Alison Weir’s critically acclaimed Medieval Queens series brings these unfamiliar, fascinating royals to life, demonstrating how very much they resemble self-determining women of our own time.
Please drop me a link with your Goodreads Monday and I will head over for a visit.
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I hope everyone is having a good weekend so far. I have had a lovely afternoon reading whilst the husband has been catching up on the Grand Prix. Blogging and reading has been rather good this week.
Blog Posts
Currently Reading
Really enjoying The Priory so far and I have finally started to get back into The Fires of Heaven.
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Stacking The Shelves is a weekly meme hosted by Marlene of Reading Reality. It is all about sharing the books that you have recently added to your bookshelves. These books can be physical books, ebooks and of course audiobooks.
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So the restricted book buying has completely gone out of the window this month which is worrying as we are still at the beginning of the month. However, I have been in Bath and that is always fatal as Bath has some of my favourite bookshops.
First up are the books I bought at Persephone Books.
I am completely obsessed with Dorothy Whipple so I was determined to get more of her books from the Persephone book collection.
Books from Waterstones
Mr B’s Emporium
Topping and Company Booksellers
I have one more week left off from teaching so I hope I might get a lot more reading done and I might tackle some of my new books.
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Happy Friday!
I have just returned from a lovely few days in Bath which has involved some book buying and museum visiting.
My chosen poem for today is by the English poet and Jesuit priest Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889).
Spring
Nothing is so beautiful as Spring -
When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;
Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush
Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring
The ear, it strikes like lightenings to hear him sing;
The glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush
The descending blue; that blue is all in a rush
With richness; the racing lambs too have fair their fling.
What is all this juice and all this joy?
A strain of the earth's sweet being in the beginning
In Eden garden. - Have, get, before it cloy,
Before it cloud, Christ, lord, and sour with sinning,
Innocent mind and Mayday in girl and boy,
Most, O maid's child, thy choice and worthy the winning.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Now I will be honest I only actually managed to read one book off my March TBR. I had really good intentions to read all four but reading didn’t go to plan in March.
So I will try and be better in April and get my TBR ticked off.
I’ve carried two books over from my March TBR and have added two new ones. I’m really excited to read all of these books so hopefully I get around to reading them.
What is on your April TBR?
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WWW Wednesday is a meme hosted by Sam at Taking on a World of Words.
The rules are answer the questions below and share a link to your blog in the comments section of Sam’s blog.
Hello!
I am so pleased to be getting more reading done. I seem to have been in a bit of a rut but now I think I am getting back to normal.
What I am Currently Reading
I have completely fallen in love with The Priory and I plan on purchasing more books by Whipple as soon as possible. Yes, I am still plodding along with The Fires of Heaven.
What I have Recently Finished Reading
I will be reviewing this soon but I must admit it wasn’t my cup of tea. Yet another book I bought because of the hype and got disappointed with.
What I Think I will Read Next
No clue what I will read next but it might be one of these!
Please drop me a comment with your WWW Wednesday and I will head over for a visit.
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Happy Wednesday!
I hope everyone is having a good week so far.
My chosen quote this week is by the American novelist Sarah Dessen (1970).
“Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”
Sarah Dessen
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