2023

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.

What are you currently reading?
What did you recently finish reading?
What do you think you will read next?

Hello!
I hope everyone has had a good week so far. I have had a busy few days teaching and working on my Etsy so tomorrow I am looking forward to an adventure day.

What I am Currently Reading

I am still reading The Cicero Trilogy but I am very close to finishing. I will really miss this book as I absolutely love it but I am looking forward to reading something else as I have been reading this for quite a while now.

What I have Recently Finished Reading

I took a little break to read this book as I had been sent a copy by the author. Review will follow shortly.

What I Think I will Read Next

I am so behind with my book challenges so I think I will need to start reading some shorter books to try and catch up. Hopefully I will manage to catch up.

Please drop me a comment with your WWW Wednesday and I will head over for a visit.

Happy Reading

Etsy

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Lyra’s Pawsome Books #10

Hello!

I have been really busy this month with my Etsy store. I have been busy making some new bookmarks and fulfilling orders and I absolute love coming up with new ideas. My last update was in April so I thought it was high time for an update. As usual links are included to the different products.

My love of the musical themed bookmarks continues and I have added a couple more instruments to the line.

Saxophone Bookmark

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Flute Bookmark

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I have also been busy making some different Bee Bookmarks. So we now have gold and silver bee bookmarks available.

Silver Bee Bookmarks

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Halloween Bookmarks

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I love making the Halloween Bookmarks and I am adding new designs often so watch this space. Halloween Book Boxes are coming soon as well.

Christmas Bookmarks and Book Boxes are also on the way so it is all busy busy here at Lyra’s Pawsome Books.

Happy Reading

Goodreads Monday: 14/08/2023

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.

Hello!

I hope everyone has had a good start to the week. I have done some teaching and chores today but I have also managed some reading and a nice walk. I have also spent a lovely evening making some more Halloween bookmarks for my Etsy shop.

My chosen book today is a new release and one by one of my favourite authors. I really want to read this soon but first I need to go book shopping!

Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summers crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie, it turns out, is also celebrating her forty-fifth birthday. They are, in fact, birthday twins.

A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix’s children’s school. Josie has been listening to Alix’s podcasts and thinks she might be an interesting subject for her series. She is, she tells Alix, on the cusp of great changes in her life.

Josie’s life appears to be strange and complicated, and although Alix finds her unsettling, she can’t quite resist the temptation to keep making the podcast. Slowly she starts to realise that Josie has been hiding some very dark secrets, and before she knows it, Josie has inveigled her way into Alix’s life—and into her home.

But, as quickly as she arrived, Josie disappears. Only then does Alix discover that Josie has left a terrible and terrifying legacy in her wake, and that Alix has become the subject of her own true crime podcast, with her life and her family’s lives under mortal threat.

Please drop me a link with your Goodreads Monday and I will head over for a visit.

Happy Reading

Etsy

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The Weekly Brief

Hello!

I hope everyone has had a good weekend so far. My blogging hasn’t been great this week but I have really tried to push my reading.

Blog Posts

Currently Reading

I haven’t been able to put this down this week, it is so good.

Happy Reading

Etsy

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Friday Poetry: W. J. Turner

Happy Friday!

I hope everyone is well. I have had a lovely day which has involved some book shopping and an Eeyore purchase.

My chosen poem today is by the painter and poet W. J. Turner ( 1889-1946).

The Lion

Strange spirit with inky hair,
Tail tufted stiff in rage,
I saw with sudden stare
Leap on the printed page. 

The stillness of its roar
For midnight deserts torn
Clove silence to the core
Like the blare of a great horn

I saw the sudden sky;
Cities in crumbling sand;
The stars fall wheeling by;
The lion roaring stand:

The stars fall wheeling by,
Their silent, silver strain,
Cold on his glittering eye,
Cold on his craven mane

The full-orbed moon shone down,
The silence was so lid,
From jaws wide-open thrown
His voice hung like a cloud.

Earth shrank to blackest air;
That spirit stiff in rage
Into some midnight lair
Leapt from the printed page. 

W. J. Turner

Happy Reading

Etsy

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Reading My Height in Books #7

Hello!

I thought it was time for my monthly challenge update. Although I read seven
books in July, four of them were Kindle books so I need to work out approximate
heights for those. I will add any Kindle books on at the end of the year.

Terrible Picture Time!

The stack now measures 33 inches so not much of an increase from last month.
I now have 34 inches to go.

Look at that stack grow!

I have two big books currently on the go so hopefully these will make a big
difference in the height once I have finished them. I’m massively behind with
my Goodreads Challenge as well so I really need to up my reading to catch up on
my book challenges.

I hope your book challenges are going well this year.

Happy Reading

Mid Week Quote: Leo Tolstoy

Hello!

I hope everyone is having a good week so far.

My chosen quote this week is by one of my all time favourite authors, Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910).

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
Leo Tolstoy

Happy Reading

Etsy

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Goodreads Monday: 7/08/2023

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.

Hello!

I have been going through my vast TBR again and have found another book that I would love to read but forgot about. I’m really intrigued by this book and would love to read it.

Four brides. One Dress.

A tale of faith, redemption, and timeless love.

Charlotte owns a chic Birmingham bridal boutique. Dressing brides for their big day is her gift . . . and her passion. But with her own wedding day approaching, why can’t she find the perfect dress…or feel certain she should marry Tim?

Then Charlotte discovers a vintage dress in a battered trunk at an estate sale. It looks brand-new-shimmering with pearls and satin, hand-stitched and timeless in its design. But where did it come from? Who wore it? Who welded the lock shut and tucked the dog tags in that little sachet? Who left it in the basement for a ten-year-old girl? And what about the mysterious man in the purple vest who insists the dress had been “redeemed.”

Charlotte’s search for the gown’s history-and its new bride-begins as a distraction from her sputtering love life. But it takes on a life of its own as she comes to know the women who have worn the dress. Emily from 1912. Mary Grace from 1939. Hillary from 1968. Each with her own story of promise, pain, and destiny. And each with something unique to share. For woven within the threads of the beautiful hundred-year-old gown is the truth about Charlotte’s heritage, the power of courage and faith, and the timeless beauty of finding true love.

Please drop me a link with your Goodreads Monday and I will head over for a visit.

Happy Reading

Etsy

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The Weekly Brief

Hello!

I hope everyone is well. Blogging and reading have gone reasonably well this week.

Blog Posts

Currently Reading

Still plodding along with these two although I’m reading The Cicero Trilogy more at the moment.

Happy Reading

Etsy

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August 2023 TBR

Hello!

I hope everyone is having a good weekend so far. I will be honest all my reading challenges are getting behind at the moment except maybe my reading my height in books. I really hope I can start moving forward again and start to catch up.

Here are some of the books I hope to read in August.

Books I hope to finish in August