SPOILERS!!!
Thoughts and notes about the books I am reading. My entries are not book reviews but just my personal thoughts and opinions about what I'm reading at the moment. The entries obviously contain SPOILERS.
Monday, 30 June 2025
Sunday, 29 June 2025
Saturday, 28 June 2025
New Book - Sanditon by Jane Austen (Pages 1 -16)
First Published: 1925 (It was started in 1817)
Mr and Mrs Barker are travelling when their carriage has an accident, and Mr Barker gets his knee hurt.
Stay Buried - Facts
The novel is set in Wiltshire and there are different locations that are used in the book. Wiltshire is a county in South West England. It borders Gloucestershire to the north, Oxfordshire to the north-east, Berkshire to the east, Hampshire to the south-east, Dorset to the south, and Somerset to the west.
Friday, 27 June 2025
Tuesday, 24 June 2025
Monday, 23 June 2025
Take My Hand - Facts
Sunday, 22 June 2025
Saturday, 21 June 2025
Friday, 20 June 2025
Zaragoza - Facts
This book is about Zaragoza during the Napoleonic Wars. The 1808 siege of Zaragoza was a bloody struggle in the Peninsular War.
Wednesday, 18 June 2025
Monday, 16 June 2025
Sunday, 15 June 2025
Queen Victoria 5 (Pages 163 - 279)
On 21 November 1840 Queen Victoria had her first child, and she was disappointed to discover that it was a daughter, who she named Victoria, but she was called Vicky.Victoria, Princess Royal (Victoria Adelaide Mary Louisa) was born on 21 November 1840 at Buckingham Palace. When she was born, the doctor exclaimed sadly: "Oh Madame, it's a girl!" The queen replied: "Never mind, next time it will be a prince!"
Friday, 13 June 2025
Queen Victoria 4 (Pages 89 - 163)
King William IV died on June 20, 1837, at the age of 71, at Windsor Castle.His cause of death is generally attributed to congestive heart failure, though some sources also mention cirrhosis of the liver and pneumonia.
Thursday, 12 June 2025
Queen Victoria 3 (Pages 68 - 89)
In 183r Victoria became sick when she was spending some time in Ramsgate. Ramsgate is a seaside town and civil parish in the district of Thanet in eastern Kent.
Wednesday, 11 June 2025
New Book - Queen Victoria by Lucy Worsley (Pages 1 - 33)
First Published: 2018
This is a book about the life of Queen Victoria. It starts with a double wedding in Kew Palace.
Monday, 9 June 2025
Bleeding Heart Yard - Facts
Harbinder originally comes from Shoreham. Shoreham-by-Sea is a coastal town and port in the county of West Sussex.
Sunday, 8 June 2025
Saturday, 7 June 2025
New Book - Bleeding Heart Yard - Harbinder Kaur 3 - by Elly Griffiths (Pages 1 - 70)
First Published: 2022
Now Harbinder is a Detective Inspector after passing her exames, and her post is in London. So now she lives there, sharing a flat with two other women. This is progress in her job, but she misses her family.
Missing Quail Crossings - Facts
Quail Crossings is near a village in Texas. exas is the most populous state in the South Central region of the United States. It borders Louisiana to the east, Arkansas to the northeast, Oklahoma to the north, New Mexico to the west.
Thursday, 5 June 2025
Wednesday, 4 June 2025
New Book - Missing Quail Crossings - Quail Crossings 3 - by Jennifer McMurrain (Pages 1 - 63)
First Published: 2015
The lovely characters in this series return. It is five years after the events of the last book.
Moving - Facts
One of the events that mark Edwina's life is when her first husband, Ollie, dies of heart failure when they are spending a happy day on Sennen Beach in Cornwall. Sennen Cove is a small coastal village in the parish of Sennen in Cornwall.
Moving 4 - The End (Pages 331 - end)
RATING: VERY GOOD
As the narration progresses from Lucas's point of view, we discover what happened to the characters.