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  Name of Book: The Tumbling Girl Author: Bridget Walsh ISBN: 978-1-913547-51-6 Publisher: Gallic  Part of a Series: Variety Palace Mysteries  Type of book: Mystery, Victorian Era, 1876, England, lower class, new money, singing, acting, secrets, different acts, lack of money  Year it was published: 2023  Summary: The first in a sharp, witty series of Victorian mystery novels, The Tumbling Girl sees an unlikely duo team up to solve a grisly spate of murders. 1876, Victorian London. Minnie Ward, the feisty scriptwriter for the Variety Palace Music Hall, is devastated when her best friend is found brutally murdered. She enlists the help of private detective Albert Easterbrook, who already has his hands full trying to catch the notorious Hairpin Killer. But Minnie can't help getting involved in the investigation, and as the bodies begin to pile up, Albert's burgeoning feelings for his amateur partner start to interfere... A dazzling debut for fans of Sarah Waters an...

 The Sunday Post The Sunday Post is a blog news meme hosted here @ Caffeinated Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news~ A post to recap the past week on your blog and showcase books and things we have received. Share news about what is coming up on your blog for the week ahead. Join in weekly, bi-weekly or for a monthly wrap up. See rules here:  Sunday Post Meme # 46 Its school time So school has started, my little one has begun second grade and I have been attempting in trying to set limits with watching the tablet, mainly by hiding it so he won't get tempted. He also has been going through reading Garfield pretty much all the time. He got invited to a birthday party, but doesn't want to go because its at a pool and because he doesn't know how to swim and doesn't want anyone to laugh at him. I feel kind of hurt he doesn't want to go, but then its his life, so to speak, not mine.  Last Week On The Blog This Week On The Blog New Arrivals At Svetlana's Reads And Vie...

  Name of Book: From the Longing Orchard Author: Jessica Jopp ISBN: 978-1-59709-929-5 Publisher: Red Hen Press  Type of book: LGBtQIA+, art, 1970s-1980s, closeted, art projects, broken marriage, fears, nature, family, relationships, love, crushes, hidden traumas  Year it was published: 2023  Summary: Eighteen-year-old Sonya Hudson has been gripped by phobia since she was thirteen. What would make navigating the world so difficult for this budding visual artist? When the story opens, she lives with her mother and her sister in a suburb in New York in the late 1970s. The narrative carries us back through her childhood, where she struggles with the family’s frequent moving and with her parents’ increasingly fraught marriage. Lingering at the periphery of her consciousness is the shadow of a damaged boy she knew when she was very young. Reverence for the natural world provides comfort, as does her fierce attachment to her sister and her parents’ poignant guidance. But it...

 The Sunday Post The Sunday Post is a blog news meme hosted here @ Caffeinated Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news~ A post to recap the past week on your blog and showcase books and things we have received. Share news about what is coming up on your blog for the week ahead. Join in weekly, bi-weekly or for a monthly wrap up. See rules here:  Sunday Post Meme #45 Barbie Movie  No books last week. Week was the same, pretty much hot and miserable. I am trying to prepare myself mentally for the fact that my son will go to second grade quite soon. I also literally confronted the breadcrumber ghoster with what he wants from me and lets say silence speaks volumes. I don't know if I will see him again or not, or if this is a permanent disappearing act. Perhaps its a good thing I don't really care. Need to write some more reviews on some neglected finished books. I also watched Barbie movie with my younger sister, and I am certainly not used to the rushing pace of movies. Last t...

 The Sunday Post The Sunday Post is a blog news meme hosted here @ Caffeinated Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news~ A post to recap the past week on your blog and showcase books and things we have received. Share news about what is coming up on your blog for the week ahead. Join in weekly, bi-weekly or for a monthly wrap up. See rules here:  Sunday Post Meme #44 Feelings that last forever... All I ever remember from these days is the oh so predictable heat. Mr. Breadcrumber still ghosted me and I am not writing to him. What I think did kind of shock me are the deep feelings of abandonment I have towards my true love leaving me back for South Korea. It was a very complex relationship mainly because he kept on gaslighting me of sorts (If one tells someone that they misunderstand or don't understand the situation then is that gaslighting?) I don't even really recall what I did last week aside from the sahaja yoga part and hanging out with certain someone (although relationship ...