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://librofulltime.wordpress.com
Two hardbacks off the pile, two good memoirs by actors: Alison Steadman - "Out of Character" and Kathy Burke - "A Mind of my Own" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/01/08/t... #booksky 📚💙💡
January 8, 2026 at 6:22 PM
Two hardbacks off the pile, two good memoirs by actors: Alison Steadman - "Out of Character" and Kathy Burke - "A Mind of my Own" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/01/08/t... #booksky 📚💙💡
Dean Street December 2025 round-up. Slightly fewer reviews but more participants and more different authors read - so a triumph, in my opinion. librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/01/05/d... @deanstpress.bsky.social #booksky 📚💙
January 5, 2026 at 11:14 AM
Dean Street December 2025 round-up. Slightly fewer reviews but more participants and more different authors read - so a triumph, in my opinion. librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/01/05/d... @deanstpress.bsky.social #booksky 📚💙
Possibly just one for other Iris Murdoch obsessives - I've started reading through her again and doing some Thinking librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/01/03/b... #booksky 📚💙
January 3, 2026 at 8:27 PM
Possibly just one for other Iris Murdoch obsessives - I've started reading through her again and doing some Thinking librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/01/03/b... #booksky 📚💙
State of the TBR January 2026! librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/01/01/s... Some judicious purchasing of books for Emma means I can shift some books onto the Reading Together pile ... Thanks to @summersdalebooks.bsky.social and @britishlibrary.bsky.social for the new review copies. #booksky 📚💙💡
January 1, 2026 at 8:53 PM
State of the TBR January 2026! librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/01/01/s... Some judicious purchasing of books for Emma means I can shift some books onto the Reading Together pile ... Thanks to @summersdalebooks.bsky.social and @britishlibrary.bsky.social for the new review copies. #booksky 📚💙💡
Finally - my book stats and best books read in 2025! librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/12/31/b... #booksky 📚💙💡
December 31, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Finally - my book stats and best books read in 2025! librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/12/31/b... #booksky 📚💙💡
My last review of the year - David Olusoga, Yinka Olusoga and Kemi Olusoga - "Black History for Every Day of the Year", which @heavenalibooks.bsky.social and I have been reading together all year librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/12/31/b... #booksky 📚💙💡
December 31, 2025 at 12:53 PM
My last review of the year - David Olusoga, Yinka Olusoga and Kemi Olusoga - "Black History for Every Day of the Year", which @heavenalibooks.bsky.social and I have been reading together all year librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/12/31/b... #booksky 📚💙💡
One last #DoorstoppersInDecember25 read (well, my second of two) - Josie Dew's excellent travel memoir about cycling around Japan, "A Ride in the Neon Sun" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/12/30/b... #booksky 📚💙💡 @lauratisdall.bsky.social
December 30, 2025 at 5:17 PM
One last #DoorstoppersInDecember25 read (well, my second of two) - Josie Dew's excellent travel memoir about cycling around Japan, "A Ride in the Neon Sun" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/12/30/b... #booksky 📚💙💡 @lauratisdall.bsky.social
A quick read to hopefully make my books come out with a whole one finished on New Year's Eve (only me who does that?) Robert Ankorn and Ruby Compton-Davies – “Birmingham Hidden Walks" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/12/29/b... #booksky 📚💙💡
December 29, 2025 at 6:51 PM
A quick read to hopefully make my books come out with a whole one finished on New Year's Eve (only me who does that?) Robert Ankorn and Ruby Compton-Davies – “Birmingham Hidden Walks" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/12/29/b... #booksky 📚💙💡
My final two reads for #DeanStreetDecember2025 - Winifred Peck - "Arrest the Bishop?" and Patricia Wentworth - "The Red Lacquer Case" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/12/28/t... #booksky @deanstpress.bsky.social 📚💙
December 28, 2025 at 10:07 AM
My final two reads for #DeanStreetDecember2025 - Winifred Peck - "Arrest the Bishop?" and Patricia Wentworth - "The Red Lacquer Case" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/12/28/t... #booksky @deanstpress.bsky.social 📚💙
Three lovely Christmas Day reads (two novellas and a slim volume of verse) - Sally Page – “New Beginnings for Christmas”, Brian Bilston – “And So This is Christmas” and Rev Richard Coles – “Murder Under the Mistletoe” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/12/26/t... #booksky 📚💙
December 27, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Three lovely Christmas Day reads (two novellas and a slim volume of verse) - Sally Page – “New Beginnings for Christmas”, Brian Bilston – “And So This is Christmas” and Rev Richard Coles – “Murder Under the Mistletoe” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/12/26/t... #booksky 📚💙
Two more Furrowed Middlebrow books for #DeanStreetDecember2025 Susan Scarlett – “Love in a Mist” and D. E. Stevenson – “Green Money” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/12/24/t... #bookstagram #booksofinstagram #amreading @deanstpress.bsky.social #booksky 📚💙
December 24, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Two more Furrowed Middlebrow books for #DeanStreetDecember2025 Susan Scarlett – “Love in a Mist” and D. E. Stevenson – “Green Money” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/12/24/t... #bookstagram #booksofinstagram #amreading @deanstpress.bsky.social #booksky 📚💙
A book for #DoorstoppersInDecember, Neil Price's excellent "Children of Ash and Elm", a definitive history of the Vikings. librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/12/23/b... #booksky 📚💙💡
December 24, 2025 at 11:37 AM
A book for #DoorstoppersInDecember, Neil Price's excellent "Children of Ash and Elm", a definitive history of the Vikings. librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/12/23/b... #booksky 📚💙💡
My Book 4 and the Month's Book 27 - Dorothy Lambert's highly entertaining "Much Dithering" #DeanStreetDecember2025 librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/12/18/r... @deanstpress.bsky.social #booksky 📚💙
December 18, 2025 at 5:32 PM
My Book 4 and the Month's Book 27 - Dorothy Lambert's highly entertaining "Much Dithering" #DeanStreetDecember2025 librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/12/18/r... @deanstpress.bsky.social #booksky 📚💙
Two good reads that have in common a strong sense of place - and, as a commenter has pointed out, a strong sense of struggle. Louise Erdrich - "Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country" and Thea Holme - "The Carlyles at Home" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/12/16/t... #booksky 📚💙💡
December 17, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Two good reads that have in common a strong sense of place - and, as a commenter has pointed out, a strong sense of struggle. Louise Erdrich - "Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country" and Thea Holme - "The Carlyles at Home" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/12/16/t... #booksky 📚💙💡
And finally for now, a second Doris Langley Moore - "A Game of Snakes and Ladders" #DeanStreetDecember2025 librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/12/13/r... @deanstpress.bsky.social #booksky 📚💙
December 14, 2025 at 2:58 PM
And finally for now, a second Doris Langley Moore - "A Game of Snakes and Ladders" #DeanStreetDecember2025 librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/12/13/r... @deanstpress.bsky.social #booksky 📚💙
Second #DeanStreetDecember2025 read - Romilly Cavan's "Beneath the Visiting Moon", a charming coming-of-age novel about the clash between faded gentility and real life librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/12/09/r... @deanstpress.bsky.social #booksky 📚💙
December 14, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Second #DeanStreetDecember2025 read - Romilly Cavan's "Beneath the Visiting Moon", a charming coming-of-age novel about the clash between faded gentility and real life librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/12/09/r... @deanstpress.bsky.social #booksky 📚💙
My first review for #DeanStreetDecember2025 "All Done by Kindness" by Doris Langley Moore, which was a real page-turner! librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/12/07/m... @deanstpress.bsky.social #booksky
December 14, 2025 at 2:50 PM
My first review for #DeanStreetDecember2025 "All Done by Kindness" by Doris Langley Moore, which was a real page-turner! librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/12/07/m... @deanstpress.bsky.social #booksky
Review catch-up starts again. Dennis Gray - "Essays from the Edge" from the lovely people at @vertebratepub.bsky.social librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/12/05/b... #booksky 📚💙💡
December 14, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Review catch-up starts again. Dennis Gray - "Essays from the Edge" from the lovely people at @vertebratepub.bsky.social librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/12/05/b... #booksky 📚💙💡
And finally, the fiction books I read when I was poorly Christie Barlow – “The Cafe on the Coast”, P. J. Ellis – “Love and Other Scams”, Talia Hibbert – “Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute” and Alice Peterson – “The Saturday Place” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/12/03/c... #booksky 📚💙
December 4, 2025 at 9:14 AM
And finally, the fiction books I read when I was poorly Christie Barlow – “The Cafe on the Coast”, P. J. Ellis – “Love and Other Scams”, Talia Hibbert – “Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute” and Alice Peterson – “The Saturday Place” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/12/03/c... #booksky 📚💙
Nearly there: State of the TBR December 2025 librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/12/01/s... including setting intentions for #DeanStreetDecember25 and #DoorstoppersinDecember #booksky 📚💙
December 4, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Nearly there: State of the TBR December 2025 librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/12/01/s... including setting intentions for #DeanStreetDecember25 and #DoorstoppersinDecember #booksky 📚💙
#NonfictionNovember2025 Week 5 post: "New to My TBR". What's the betting on whether I'll acquire and read any of these before next year's post? However, there are some super books to explore on the post! librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/11/30/n... #booksky 📚💙💡
December 4, 2025 at 9:08 AM
#NonfictionNovember2025 Week 5 post: "New to My TBR". What's the betting on whether I'll acquire and read any of these before next year's post? However, there are some super books to explore on the post! librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/11/30/n... #booksky 📚💙💡
Joe Walters' "The Truth About Book Reviews" is a great resource for indie authors and a source of hope for book bloggers! librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/11/29/b... #booksky 📚💙💡
December 4, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Joe Walters' "The Truth About Book Reviews" is a great resource for indie authors and a source of hope for book bloggers! librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/11/29/b... #booksky 📚💙💡
Some more nonfiction - James Fox's "Craft Land" and Michael Paramo's - "Ending the Pursuit" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/11/27/b... #booksky 📚💙💡
December 4, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Some more nonfiction - James Fox's "Craft Land" and Michael Paramo's - "Ending the Pursuit" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/11/27/b... #booksky 📚💙💡
I've been really behind with sharing my book reviews and reading challenge updates so a little flurry now, starting with the amazing novella by Brigitte Reimann (trans. Lucy Jones) - "Woman in the Pillory" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/11/28/b... #NovNov25 #booksky 📚💙
December 4, 2025 at 8:52 AM
I've been really behind with sharing my book reviews and reading challenge updates so a little flurry now, starting with the amazing novella by Brigitte Reimann (trans. Lucy Jones) - "Woman in the Pillory" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/11/28/b... #NovNov25 #booksky 📚💙
It's on! Dean Street December Main Post is up, hope lots of people read some books and share their reviews! librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/11/30/d... @deanstpress.bsky.social #booksky 📚💙 #deanstreetdecember25
December 1, 2025 at 2:35 PM
It's on! Dean Street December Main Post is up, hope lots of people read some books and share their reviews! librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/11/30/d... @deanstpress.bsky.social #booksky 📚💙 #deanstreetdecember25