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🌺 Paris and gardens are two of my favorites subjects, so of course I was delighted to win this book from #ParisinJuly2025 - thanks Emma! Th...

  🎀 It was on the summer solstice in Paris, that this story had begun. The French has their own celebration on that day,  La Fête de la Mu...

  🎪 When I stumbled upon this new-to-me mystery series, which is narrated by a dog (who can resist such a thing? not I), I knew instantly I...

  🐈 My second (and last) read for #ReadingtheMeow2026 hosted by Mallika, is a Japanese semi-autobiographical novel by an acclaimed Japanese...

  🚤 I don't know why, but to me, living in a boat feel somehow romantic. Though in reality I would probably reject the idea, reading a...

  🦍 The one and only Ivan is a silverback gorilla. He was 'picked' from his kind by humans, and currently lives at the  Exit 8 Big ...

  🏬 I picked up this book in the first place because it has double appeals to me. First of all, I myself live in an apartment, and any book...

  🥟 Following Vivien Chien's debut series of Death by Dumpling , which was okay. I have bigger expectation for the second book, but unf...

  🍷 Imagine reading a P.D. Wodehouse, but move the setting to Tuscany, then reduce the usual slapstick moments - just a tiny bit, and add a...

  🧵 I always love reading historical fictions about cathedral. Ken Follet's The Pillars of the Earth has started it all; I have read i...

🛒 This  book brings us to the seaside town in Japan: Mojiko, Kitakyushu, where you'd find one of the convenience store chain called ...

🐻 Pearly Everlasting is a Gothic woodland story, inspired by a true account of a woman nursing a bear cub alongside her daughter, which wa...

👵🏻 Vera Wong is back! Here is a series I am always looking forward to the next installment. I have read and enjoyed the first one: Vera Wo...

🎨 Still Life is the first book in Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series, a crime mystery series penned by Louise Penny. It introduces us t...

  👨🏻‍🎨 First of all, I was quite surprised by the mixed reviews this book gets on Goodreads. There are many two stars, but also four star...

🔴 Olive Kitteridge is Elizabeth Strout's third published book, which won Pulitzer prize in 2009. At first few chapters I asked myself,...

💙 This was my second Clara Benson - I have loved my first; it's a Freddie Pilkington-Soames - and thought that it might be as nice as t...

🍊 My first introduction to Joanne Harris was Chocolat ; I knew I have started that book years ago, but couldn't remember whether I'...