Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃♀️
Reader, may be quite fond of books 💙📚 book reviewer, book blogger, runner, volunteer, transcriber, editor, parkrun co-Event Director, Birmingham, UK. Book reviews at https://librofulltime.wordpress.com
- It's late! But it's here. Were you anxiously awaiting it? State of the TBR February 2026, incorporating the effect of the (v welcome) Christmas and Birthday Book Flood librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/02/02/s... #Readindies #booksky 📚💙💡
- And finally, today's review, Two men’s memoirs – Richard Negus – “Words from the Hedge” and Dean Atta – “Person Unlimited” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/01/28/t... #booksky 📚💙💡
- And back to Puffin Island with Christie Barlow for "No. 17 Curiosity Lane" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/01/23/b... @christiebarlow.bsky.social #booksky 📚💙
- Craig Taylor's "Londoners" was a book I read with Emma which we thoroughly enjoyed librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/01/16/b... #booksky @halfmanhalfbook.bsky.social kindly sent it to me in the first place! 📚💙💡
- Accidentally missed sharing a few reads. "Belgrave Road" by Manish Chauhan was an excellent debut about two people meeting in a third country ... librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/01/13/b... #booksky 📚💙
- I failed yesterday to share my review of this fun and essentially kind book, Caroline James' "The Arctic Cruise" which was sent to me on a blog tour and was a nice light read, so do have a look! librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/01/26/b... @carolinejames1.bsky.social #booksky 📚💙
- It was my birthday today, and yes, there were some oblong parcels to open ... as well as some chocolate-shaped and not forgetting jigsaw-shaped ones! I feel very fortunate. librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/01/21/b... I'm sure @deanstpress.bsky.social will smile to see this! #booksky 📚💙💡
- My review is up on the blog tour for Eva Glyn's lovely "The Croatian Island Library" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/01/19/b... #booksky @evaglyn.bsky.social 📚💙
- A great read from @blpublishing.bsky.social - "Stories for Lovers" by a collection of excellent mid-to-late-20th-century writers librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/01/12/b... #booksky 📚💙
- Two interesting nonfiction reads - Dr Ryan Martin - "Emotion Hacks" and LaSara Firefox Allen - "Genderqueer Menopause" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/01/10/t... @watkinswisdom.bsky.social #booksky 📚💙💡
- Two hardbacks off the pile, two good memoirs by actors: Alison Steadman - "Out of Character" and Kathy Burke - "A Mind of my Own" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/01/08/t... #booksky 📚💙💡
- Dean Street December 2025 round-up. Slightly fewer reviews but more participants and more different authors read - so a triumph, in my opinion. librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/01/05/d... @deanstpress.bsky.social #booksky 📚💙
- Possibly just one for other Iris Murdoch obsessives - I've started reading through her again and doing some Thinking librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/01/03/b... #booksky 📚💙
- State of the TBR January 2026! librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/01/01/s... Some judicious purchasing of books for Emma means I can shift some books onto the Reading Together pile ... Thanks to @summersdalebooks.bsky.social and @britishlibrary.bsky.social for the new review copies. #booksky 📚💙💡
- Finally - my book stats and best books read in 2025! librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/12/31/b... #booksky 📚💙💡
- My last review of the year - David Olusoga, Yinka Olusoga and Kemi Olusoga - "Black History for Every Day of the Year", which @heavenalibooks.bsky.social and I have been reading together all year librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/12/31/b... #booksky 📚💙💡
- One last #DoorstoppersInDecember25 read (well, my second of two) - Josie Dew's excellent travel memoir about cycling around Japan, "A Ride in the Neon Sun" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/12/30/b... #booksky 📚💙💡 @lauratisdall.bsky.social
- A quick read to hopefully make my books come out with a whole one finished on New Year's Eve (only me who does that?) Robert Ankorn and Ruby Compton-Davies – “Birmingham Hidden Walks" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/12/29/b... #booksky 📚💙💡
- My final two reads for #DeanStreetDecember2025 - Winifred Peck - "Arrest the Bishop?" and Patricia Wentworth - "The Red Lacquer Case" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/12/28/t... #booksky @deanstpress.bsky.social 📚💙
- Three lovely Christmas Day reads (two novellas and a slim volume of verse) - Sally Page – “New Beginnings for Christmas”, Brian Bilston – “And So This is Christmas” and Rev Richard Coles – “Murder Under the Mistletoe” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/12/26/t... #booksky 📚💙
- Two more Furrowed Middlebrow books for #DeanStreetDecember2025 Susan Scarlett – “Love in a Mist” and D. E. Stevenson – “Green Money” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/12/24/t... #bookstagram #booksofinstagram #amreading @deanstpress.bsky.social #booksky 📚💙
- A book for #DoorstoppersInDecember, Neil Price's excellent "Children of Ash and Elm", a definitive history of the Vikings. librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/12/23/b... #booksky 📚💙💡
- My Book 4 and the Month's Book 27 - Dorothy Lambert's highly entertaining "Much Dithering" #DeanStreetDecember2025 librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/12/18/r... @deanstpress.bsky.social #booksky 📚💙
- Two good reads that have in common a strong sense of place - and, as a commenter has pointed out, a strong sense of struggle. Louise Erdrich - "Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country" and Thea Holme - "The Carlyles at Home" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/12/16/t... #booksky 📚💙💡
- And finally for now, a second Doris Langley Moore - "A Game of Snakes and Ladders" #DeanStreetDecember2025 librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/12/13/r... @deanstpress.bsky.social #booksky 📚💙
- Second #DeanStreetDecember2025 read - Romilly Cavan's "Beneath the Visiting Moon", a charming coming-of-age novel about the clash between faded gentility and real life librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/12/09/r... @deanstpress.bsky.social #booksky 📚💙
- My first review for #DeanStreetDecember2025 "All Done by Kindness" by Doris Langley Moore, which was a real page-turner! librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/12/07/m... @deanstpress.bsky.social #booksky
- Review catch-up starts again. Dennis Gray - "Essays from the Edge" from the lovely people at @vertebratepub.bsky.social librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/12/05/b... #booksky 📚💙💡
- And finally, the fiction books I read when I was poorly Christie Barlow – “The Cafe on the Coast”, P. J. Ellis – “Love and Other Scams”, Talia Hibbert – “Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute” and Alice Peterson – “The Saturday Place” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/12/03/c... #booksky 📚💙
- Nearly there: State of the TBR December 2025 librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/12/01/s... including setting intentions for #DeanStreetDecember25 and #DoorstoppersinDecember #booksky 📚💙
- #NonfictionNovember2025 Week 5 post: "New to My TBR". What's the betting on whether I'll acquire and read any of these before next year's post? However, there are some super books to explore on the post! librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/11/30/n... #booksky 📚💙💡
- Joe Walters' "The Truth About Book Reviews" is a great resource for indie authors and a source of hope for book bloggers! librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/11/29/b... #booksky 📚💙💡
