Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃♀️
@lyzzybee.bsky.social
Reader, may be quite fond of books 💙📚 book reviewer, book blogger, runner, volunteer, transcriber, editor, parkrun co-Event Director, Birmingham, UK. Book reviews at https://www.librofulltime.wordpress.com
A fun read about saving a community centre "Saving Starlight Hall" by Debbie Viggiano, with some excellent robust scenes and a bit of wish fulfilment librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/11/09/b... @debbieviggiano.bsky.social @rachelsrandom17.bsky.social #booksky 📚💙
November 9, 2025 at 6:06 PM
A fun read about saving a community centre "Saving Starlight Hall" by Debbie Viggiano, with some excellent robust scenes and a bit of wish fulfilment librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/11/09/b... @debbieviggiano.bsky.social @rachelsrandom17.bsky.social #booksky 📚💙
Catching up on sharing reading ... I enjoyed reading these two memoirs by interesting women - Amanda Barrie – “I’m Still Here” and Mary Portas – “I Shop, Therefore I Am” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/11/07/t... #booksky 📚💙💡
November 9, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Catching up on sharing reading ... I enjoyed reading these two memoirs by interesting women - Amanda Barrie – “I’m Still Here” and Mary Portas – “I Shop, Therefore I Am” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/11/07/t... #booksky 📚💙💡
My first two reads for @NonFictionNov25 and @NovNov25 Book reviews – E. R. Braithwaite – “‘Honorary White'” and Louisa Yousfi, trans. Andy Bliss – “In Defence of Barbarism” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/11/06/b... @versobooks.bsky.social #booksky📚💙💡
November 6, 2025 at 3:35 PM
My first two reads for @NonFictionNov25 and @NovNov25 Book reviews – E. R. Braithwaite – “‘Honorary White'” and Louisa Yousfi, trans. Andy Bliss – “In Defence of Barbarism” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/11/06/b... @versobooks.bsky.social #booksky📚💙💡
... and the state of my TBR this month librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/11/01/s... #booksky 📚💙💡
November 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
... and the state of my TBR this month librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/11/01/s... #booksky 📚💙💡
Yesterday's launch post for Dean Street December, coming soon! librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/c... #booksky @deanstpress.bsky.social 📚💙 #deanstreetdecember25
November 1, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Yesterday's launch post for Dean Street December, coming soon! librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/c... #booksky @deanstpress.bsky.social 📚💙 #deanstreetdecember25
One last fiction read and review for October - Buchi Emecheta's "Double Yoke", an excellent read librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/o... 📚💙
October 31, 2025 at 5:29 PM
One last fiction read and review for October - Buchi Emecheta's "Double Yoke", an excellent read librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/o... 📚💙
Reading and especially reviewing fiction somewhat frantically to make space for Nonfiction in November! Jeevani Charika – “How Can I Resist You?”, Sudha Bhuchar and Shaheen Khan – “Balti Kings” and Taj McCoy – “Zora Books her Happy Ever After” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/t... #booksky 📚💙
October 31, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Reading and especially reviewing fiction somewhat frantically to make space for Nonfiction in November! Jeevani Charika – “How Can I Resist You?”, Sudha Bhuchar and Shaheen Khan – “Balti Kings” and Taj McCoy – “Zora Books her Happy Ever After” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/t... #booksky 📚💙
Stephen Moss' "The Accidental Countryside" was a lovely "Emma and Liz Read Together" book librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/b... #booksky 📚💙💡
October 29, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Stephen Moss' "The Accidental Countryside" was a lovely "Emma and Liz Read Together" book librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/b... #booksky 📚💙💡
And finally, another fiction/nonfiction pairing, centred on the 1984 Miners' Strike, Tim Tate with LGSM - "Pride" and Rachel Dawson - "Neon Roses" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/a... #booksky 📚💙💡
October 28, 2025 at 5:45 PM
And finally, another fiction/nonfiction pairing, centred on the 1984 Miners' Strike, Tim Tate with LGSM - "Pride" and Rachel Dawson - "Neon Roses" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/a... #booksky 📚💙💡
Nonfiction November Week 1 - My Year in Nonfiction #NonficNov25 Where I share what I've been reading and the highlights in the last year librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/n... #booksky 📚💙💡
October 28, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Nonfiction November Week 1 - My Year in Nonfiction #NonficNov25 Where I share what I've been reading and the highlights in the last year librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/n... #booksky 📚💙💡
Getting ready for Nonfiction November #NonficNov25 and Novellas in November #NovNov25 with a selection of short nonfiction to choose from librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/10/25/g... #booksky 📚💙💡
October 28, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Getting ready for Nonfiction November #NonficNov25 and Novellas in November #NovNov25 with a selection of short nonfiction to choose from librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/10/25/g... #booksky 📚💙💡
Catching up on sharing my blog posts from the last few days. First off, a Fiction/Nonfiction Pairing of two London boys: Kenny Imafidon's memoir, "That Peckham Boy" and Derek Owusu's powerful new novel, "Borderline Fiction" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/10/24/r... #booksky 📚💙💡
October 28, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Catching up on sharing my blog posts from the last few days. First off, a Fiction/Nonfiction Pairing of two London boys: Kenny Imafidon's memoir, "That Peckham Boy" and Derek Owusu's powerful new novel, "Borderline Fiction" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/10/24/r... #booksky 📚💙💡
Two lovely "community" novels: there's romance but the book is about everyone, not just the two (four) central people. Angela Britnell - "The Cornish Christmas Book Club" and Kiley Dunbar - "Mending Lost Dreams at the Highland Repair Shop" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/10/22/b... #booksky 💙📚
October 22, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Two lovely "community" novels: there's romance but the book is about everyone, not just the two (four) central people. Angela Britnell - "The Cornish Christmas Book Club" and Kiley Dunbar - "Mending Lost Dreams at the Highland Repair Shop" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/10/22/b... #booksky 💙📚
Read for @kaggsy59.bsky.social and @stuckinabook.bsky.social 's #1925Week, P. G. Wodehouse's "Carry on, Jeeves" had me howling! librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/b... #booksky 📚💙
October 20, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Read for @kaggsy59.bsky.social and @stuckinabook.bsky.social 's #1925Week, P. G. Wodehouse's "Carry on, Jeeves" had me howling! librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/b... #booksky 📚💙
I forgot to share my review of the lovely "Soyangri Book Kitchen" by Kim Jee Hye - classic Korean Healing Fiction, with lovely slow descriptions of food and a comforting place. librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/10/17/b... #booksky 📚💙 #womenintranslation
October 20, 2025 at 8:12 AM
I forgot to share my review of the lovely "Soyangri Book Kitchen" by Kim Jee Hye - classic Korean Healing Fiction, with lovely slow descriptions of food and a comforting place. librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/10/17/b... #booksky 📚💙 #womenintranslation
On the blog this morning while I was out at parkrun - a really good resource for fiction writers - Elizabeth M. Hurst's "The Wordsmith's Guide to Planning the Perfect Plot" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/10/18/b... #booksky 📚💙💡
Book review - Elizabeth M. Hurst - "The Wordsmith's Guide to Planning the Perfect Plot"
Writing guides, fiction writing, plots
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October 18, 2025 at 1:02 PM
On the blog this morning while I was out at parkrun - a really good resource for fiction writers - Elizabeth M. Hurst's "The Wordsmith's Guide to Planning the Perfect Plot" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/10/18/b... #booksky 📚💙💡
My and Kaggsy's final Moomin read - Tove Jansson's "Moominvalley in November" - and it wasn't as devastating as I'd feared librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/10/15/b... #booksky @kaggsy59.bsky.social 📚💙
October 15, 2025 at 8:07 AM
My and Kaggsy's final Moomin read - Tove Jansson's "Moominvalley in November" - and it wasn't as devastating as I'd feared librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/10/15/b... #booksky @kaggsy59.bsky.social 📚💙
I've finished the excellent "Denim and Leather" by Michael Hann, a history of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal genre. A genuinely excellent work of oral history I recommend to anyone interested (however tangentially) in the subject librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/b... #booksky 📚💙💡
October 14, 2025 at 9:07 AM
I've finished the excellent "Denim and Leather" by Michael Hann, a history of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal genre. A genuinely excellent work of oral history I recommend to anyone interested (however tangentially) in the subject librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/b... #booksky 📚💙💡
I really enjoyed Helga Jensen's novel "A New Life in Amsterdam", a gentle and positive read with a super setting and lots of fun detail about living on a houseboat librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/b... #booksky 📚💙 @rararesources.bsky.social @helgajensen.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 9:21 AM
I really enjoyed Helga Jensen's novel "A New Life in Amsterdam", a gentle and positive read with a super setting and lots of fun detail about living on a houseboat librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/b... #booksky 📚💙 @rararesources.bsky.social @helgajensen.bsky.social
It's great when the next book in a series comes up to your (high) expectations, as Travis Baldree's "Brigands and Breadknives" certainly did librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/10/07/b... #booksky 📚💙
October 9, 2025 at 5:40 PM
It's great when the next book in a series comes up to your (high) expectations, as Travis Baldree's "Brigands and Breadknives" certainly did librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/10/07/b... #booksky 📚💙
Kiran Desai's "The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny" - weird title, good book, slightly long. For more: librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/10/04/b... #bookershortlist #booksky 📚💙
October 5, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Kiran Desai's "The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny" - weird title, good book, slightly long. For more: librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/10/04/b... #bookershortlist #booksky 📚💙
State of the TBR October 2025 - not too bad, actually ... librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/s... #booksky 📚💙💡
October 1, 2025 at 4:22 PM
State of the TBR October 2025 - not too bad, actually ... librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/s... #booksky 📚💙💡
On the blog: The last of my Three Investigators reads! librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/m... #booksky 📚💙
September 29, 2025 at 10:47 AM
On the blog: The last of my Three Investigators reads! librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/m... #booksky 📚💙
Neglected to link to these the other day: librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/09/26/t... Three East Asian themed reads – Juhee Mun – “The Healing Power of Korean Letter Writing”, Satoshi Yagisawa – “Days at the Torunka Cafe” and Souvankham Thammavongsa – “Pick a Colour” #booksky 📚💙💡
September 28, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Neglected to link to these the other day: librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/09/26/t... Three East Asian themed reads – Juhee Mun – “The Healing Power of Korean Letter Writing”, Satoshi Yagisawa – “Days at the Torunka Cafe” and Souvankham Thammavongsa – “Pick a Colour” #booksky 📚💙💡
I really enjoyed reading "When Things go Missing" by Deborah J. Brasket - there are a few books about a woman in her middle years walking out of her life, not many where we concentrate on the fallout at home rather than whatever she's doing! librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/09/27/b... @booksky 📚💙
September 27, 2025 at 11:08 AM
I really enjoyed reading "When Things go Missing" by Deborah J. Brasket - there are a few books about a woman in her middle years walking out of her life, not many where we concentrate on the fallout at home rather than whatever she's doing! librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/09/27/b... @booksky 📚💙