Wordy Witterings
Avid reader, book blogger, English teacher, reviewer 📚 📚 📚 ... panda admirer. Find me at wordywitterings.com
- Book Review of ‘The Vanishing Bookstore’ by Helen Phifer Genre: Cosy fantasy, Witchy fiction, Mystery Recommended for those who like a dual timeline, sisterhood and all things witchy ‘Every story needs a happy ending. And you can’t have yours until you find the bookstore.’ 1692. On the outskirts…
- Book Review of ‘The Secret Lives of Murderers’ Wives’ by Elizabeth Arnott Genre: Crime thriller, Suspense, Women's Lit Recommended for those who like page-turners, an alternative perspective, and strong female protagonists. It’s a baking hot summer in 1960s California and three women have formed…
- Publishing soon... 'Norma and the Blue Hour'. Read my review at Wordy Witterings.
- I review for Amazon... these are my favourite products from the last few months.
- Audiobook review of ‘A Case of Mice and Murder’ by Sally Smith Recommended for fans of Hercule Poirot, 'Rumpole of the Bailey', and cosy murder mysteries. The Inner Temple, 1901: a warren of shaded courtyards and ancient buildings that has formed the heart of legal London for hundreds of years. A…
- It's Top Ten Tuesday, and I'm sharing my top ten Historical Fiction novels.
- It's the summer break, but I'm adding more dyslexa-friendly titles to our school library. Here are three new titles for teenage readers.
- On a summer camper van holiday to the Scottish Highlands. Happy to report that Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid is amazing! #booksky 📚💙 #Atmosphere #Scotland 🏴 #Skye #TaylorJenkinsReid #SummerReads #VeryBritishProblems
- Which other English teachers sell on tes.com? I'm hoping to form a group to test out each others resources so that we can generate some feedback and reviews to boost our sales? #Englishteachers #teaching #edusky #tes #teachingresources #ks3english #ks4english #resourcereviews #teachersupport
- Bonny & Read: A Swashbuckling Tale of Female Pirates Recommended for readers who like their history with sabres, sass, and a side of subversion. There’s something deliciously satisfying about a book that lets women be wild, willful, and wonderfully unrepentant. Bonny & Read is a tale of two such…
- 🌈 🏳️🌈 Happy Pride month! 🌈 🏳️🌈 What's on your Pride reading list? I've just started reading 'In Case You Read This' by Edward Underhill. What else should I be reading? I'd love to find more positive young trans characters. @edwardunderhill.bsky.social #LGBT+ #LGBTQIA+ #BookSky 🏳️🌈💙 📚💙
- Sweet. Positive. Teenage queer love. 🌈 I enjoyed this one!
- 11:22:63... I'm diving in! So many people have recommended this one to me. I'm looking forward to a long summer listen. 🎧📚 #audiobook #StephenKing #booksky 💙📚
- 🎧📚 New Release... I'm currently listening to 'A Case of Mice and Murder' by Sally Smith, narrated by Matthew Lloyd Davies. 🐁 "A dead judge. A lawyer turned sleuth." 👨⚖️🤔 It's delightful! Review to follow soon! #audiobooks #cosycrime #historicalfiction 💙📚 #booksky #NetGalley #ACaseOfMiceAndMurder
- Fancy something quick and lighter than 'Possession'. Hope this fits the bill! #Kawaguchi #AmReading #novella #BookSky 💙📚
- Update: It was both quicker and lighter than Possession, and I gave it ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Had a spare hour to read this morning. Spent the first half choosing my next title from the Goodreads challenge list, then the second half trying to figure out how to download it from Amazon to my kindle. Damn you, Bezos! #ReaderProblems #Booksky 📚💙
- Unravelling the Metafiction of A.S. Byatt’s ‘Possession’ Recommended for: literary scholars, poetry fans, those who enjoy novels with a slower pace. A pair of young scholars investigate the lives of two Victorian poets. Following a trail of letters, journals and poems they uncover a web of…
- My dad has made me a bee bath out of stone! 🐝
- I'm all geared up to teach 'Boys Don't Cry' by @malorieblackman.bsky.social at GCSE after attending tonight's #LitInColour online session. We have an exciting two years ahead!
- 'Follow Me' by Elizabeth Rose Quinn. More tongue-in-cheek than your average mystery novel. Unlikeable characters, massively flawed protagonists, lots of hashtags. Quite a fun read. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #BookSky 📚💙 #FollowMe #BookReview #AmazonFirstReads
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- I've just finished reading 'Orbital' by Samantha Harvey. Absolutely stunning! www.goodreads.com/book/show/12...
- I've just finished ear-reading this after it was recommended to me. Thoughts, anyone? #audiobook #truecrime 🎧📚 #BookSky 💙📚
- Book Review of ‘Incidents Around the House’ by Josh Malerman Recommended for: Fans of Stephen King and Grady Hendrix, those who enjoy a demonic possession and those who can cope with stories about creepy kids. To eight-year-old Bela, her family is her world. There’s Mommy, Daddy and Grandma Ruth.…
- How on earth is it Sunday night already? Where did all my lovely reading time escape to? #BookSky 📚💙 #ReadingTime #Sundaynight #Teachers
- I know that I'm not the only one who's read Hidden Pictures. What did you think of it? #HiddenPictures #BookSky 💙📚 #thriller #paranormal 📚👻 📚🔪
- I loved it's twisty plot, and I didn't see the big one coming!
- Spent the morning viewing Tiffany glass, an exhibition by local artist Anthony Taylor and some stunning glass mosaics at Haworth Art Gallery, Accrington @bsky.art
- Reposted by Wordy WitteringsI created this 20 Day Bluesky Challenge to help educators get started using @bsky.app for professional learning. I hope you find it useful! #EDUSky #TLSky #Librarians #Skybrarians
- Perfect end to a lovely Easter Sunday 🐣 Thoroughly enjoying Follow Me by Elizabeth Rose Quinn 💙📚 #booksky #Easter #Cockerpoo #Thomas&Mercer
