cat royal of drury lane fame would have been about the same age as jane austen and in short she would have lost her SHIT when she read pride and prejudice aged 37
For December, we're going back to our reading roots and revisiting our some of our childhood favourites 📚💕
First up is Morgan's choice, Secret of the Sirens by Julia Golding, the first of the Companions Quartet 🧭🐉📚
Secret of the Sirens follows 11yo Connie, staying with her eccentric Aunt in the seaside town of Hescombe. Between disapperances of local oil workers, and her Aunt attending secret meetings and hosting mystery guests, Connie soon realises something fantastial is unfolding...
This episode will be available on Monday the 5th of December at 5PM BST. We hope to see you then, and in the meantime, you're always welcome through the bookcase!
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My brain has just thrown a childhood favourite back at me, are there any Julia Golding fans on here who remember the book Dragonfly? That book SHAPED my idea of romance, like the ENDING, and the WORLDBUILDING, and EVERYTHING! Now want to enthuse about it with a friend…
Stacking The Shelves is a meme hosted by Reading Reality all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course ebooks!
I’ve been intentionally not picking any new books up for a couple of weeks, because I once…
Anthy Himemiya’s the kinda girl who’d, with no rhyme or reason to it, show Nanami a picture of a disgusting little gnome in increasingly fantastical ways
I know my childhood fav book series (set in Drury Lane) has its reconstruction being a whole plot point and I now really want to reread that bit to see if they make any foreshadow-y jokes about it lasting forever, ushering a new era etc, given it burnt down 15 years after it was built
This month, we're reading childhood favourites, starting with Secret of the Sirens by Julia Golding. Let's talk shapeshifters, family structures, and subverting gendered tropes 🌊✨⛵️
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trying to be more loose with my process and to love inks.
but more importantly, let this serve as propaganda to go vote for harper in the drawtectives poll. she's the worst girl on earth and she deserves to win.
2 AFRICAN AMERCIANS WERE CROWNED TONIGHT. IM SO PROUD. SO MANY AMAZING THINGS HAPPENED (SOME HORRIBLE, but we'll excuse that for now) THANKS FOR A GOOD NIGHT OF WRESTLING💪