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Is Word Over All on your bookshelf? Why/not?

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Book Society choice of September 1930

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Book Society choices in 1929 and 1930 included:

The Lacquer Lady, by F. Tennyson Jesse
The Edwardians, by Vita Sackville-West
The Water Gipsies, by A. P. Herbert

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Is it on your TBR list?

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Is it on your TBR list?

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Is it on your TBR list?

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Would you read it?
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Book Review: The Astral Library by Kate Quinn

Author: Kate Quinn
Title: The Astral Library
Narrator: Kate Quinn
Publication Info: HarperCollins, 2026
Summary/Review:

“Escaping into a book” is a common metaphor, but it’s literal in The Astral Library which offers sanctuary for bookish children and adults who are neglected and abused in real life. Alix Watson, who grew up in foster homes and now is simultaneously facing losing her job, apartment, and bank account, feels it’s her way out.  But just as soon as she receives an invitation to enter The Astral Library through a portal in Boston Public Library, the library is under attack and the Librarian is knocked out. It’s up to Alix to defend The Astral Library against the forces of cost-cutting and censorship, and in true library fashion, those battles will be fought at a board meeting.  Quinn’s novel blends a fantasy adventure with a tribute to the power of literature and a call to action against the very real threats to libraries.  And it’s not subtle, but we’re leaving in times when subtly isn’t enough.

Favorite Passages:
Recommended books:

• The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
• The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
• The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente

Rating: ***1/2

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It's the talk of the town!

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'extremely pacy and absorbing'
'Recommended!'
Kate Whiting (5* Amazon review)

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'Sometimes there comes along a book you never even hoped you’d get to read – something so totally up your street that it feels almost like a personal kindness that the author was willing to write. ...’
Stuck In A Book
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'...essential reading for all those who love books and literature...'

Nicholas Redman, Chairman, Hugh Walpole Society

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From 'Introduction: Five is Better than One' of Recommended! by Nicola Wilson.

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'unexpectedly moving… a tribute to the healing power of reading…'

Times Literary Supplement

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From Chapter 4 'What Upset Sylvia' of Recommended! by Nicola Wilson.

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'unexpectedly moving… a tribute to the healing power of reading…'

Times Literary Supplement

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Extract from 'Recommended' by Nicola Wilson.

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Clemence Dane, from Introduction, 'Five is Better than One' of Recommended! by Nicola Wilson.

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'…enormously engaging...'
The Observer

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The story of the Book Society, and the people that made it happen - available from all good bookshops!

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The story of the Book Society, and the people that made it happen - available from all good bookshops!

Link below or search Nicola Wilson Recommended!

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The story of the Book Society, and the people that made it happen - available from all good bookshops!

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he story of the Book Society, and the people that made it happen - available from all good bookshops!

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The story of the Book Society, and the people that made it happen - available from all good bookshops!

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'moving'

'fascinating'

'engaging'

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Nicola Wilson's new book #Recommended !
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Nicola Wilson's new book #Recommended !
published by @hollandhouse3525, is available now.
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Nicola Wilson's new book #Recommended!
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Nicola Wilson's new book #Recommended !
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Non-fiction November: choosing non-fiction

I just found out about #NonFictionNovember through Liz Dexter from Libro Full Time, hosted by Frances Spurrier at Volatile Rune. Each week has a theme to encourage you to read more non-fiction and this one is “choosing non-fiction”.

I realised that when I choose non-fiction to read (that is not for work), I usually tied it up to my fiction favourite readings. The picture above is a good example of this:

• Books about books, libraries, booksellers, and the history of the book and reading;
• Books about specific books or characters. Besides Aldridge’s Marple and Poirot, I could add Osborne’s The Life and Times of Agatha Christie, Poirot and Marple biographies of Anne Hart, companions, etc.;
• Books about genres or subgenres, either as history or as a collection of essays. To Murder for Pleasure and The Golden Age of Murder, I could add HowDunnit, essays by The Detection Club members, Bloody Murder by Julian Symons, The Life of Crime by Martin Edwards, and others;
• Autobiographies and biographies, to which I could add other authors like Austen, the Brontes, and Trollope;
• More recently, I’ve been adding nature writing books to my TBR, of which The Wild Isles is a good example (it’s an anthology), but I could also add Angela Harding’s A Year Unfolding or A Nature Diary by Richard Adams.

This November, I’m reading Murder Will Out by T. J. Binyon. The book goes through several detectives, dividing its chapters through the different types of detectives: the professional amateur, the amateur amateur, the police, etc.. Binyon describes the differences between these characters when they belong to the same category and talks about the books and their creators so one can get an historical perspective or even see the evolution of the detective.

Now, back to you, do you read non-fiction by choice? And do you choose it?

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