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Roseyreads
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Alternative, socialist, feminist reader of books, post apocalyptic, fantasy, scifi or nordic noir. Indie/metal/folk/ska music, coffee, science, outdoors. Surviving chronic illness, solo parenting 2 boys and juggling work.
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March wrap up. A huge 7 more books than Feb, March was a big reading month. Highlights were The Gathering by C.J Tudor, One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig, Listen For the Lie by Amy Tintera and These Silent Woods by Kimi Cunningham Grant. March was heavy on fantasy and romance apparently.
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March 2025 Storygraph wrap up. Books read = 12; Pages read = 4983; average rating = 3.64. Highest rated reads were The Drift by C.J Tudor, One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig and Listen to the Lie by Amy Tintera. Average book length =415 pages, Average time to finish = 3 days. 100 percent fiction read. Most read Genres were Fantasy = 5, Romance = 5, Historical = 3, Thriller = 3, Mystery =2. Format was 83 percent digital and 17 percent print March covers and ratings wrap up with all the covers and ratings from March. Morning Star by Pierce Brown. The Drift by C.J Tudor = 4.25. One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig = 4.25. Two Twisted Crowns by Rachel Gillig = 4.0. The Maiden by Kate Foster = 3.25. The Witchfinder's Assistant by Ruth Goldstraw = 3.75. These Silent Woods by Kimi Cunningham Grant = 4.0. The Awakening by Nora Roberts = 3.25. The Becoming by Nora Roberts = 3.5. The Choice by Nora Roberts = 2.75. Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera = 4.0. The Shadow Key by Susan Stokes-Chapman = 3.0
April 1, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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February wrap up. 3 books less than Jan, but darker sci-fi vibes. Highlights were The Gathering by C.J. Tudor, perfect mix of vampire horror meets Nordic noir. Red Rising by Pierce Brown, though I had issues with the chauvenism, I enjoyed the socialist themes & was unadulterated escapism
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Storygraph February 2025 wrap up. 5 books read, 2454 pages, average rating 3.95. Highest rated reads The Gathering by C.J Tudor (4.5), Red Rising by Pierce Brown (4.25), Golden Son by Pierce Brown (4.0). Average book length 492 pages, average time to finish 5 days. 80% fiction 20% non-fiction. Most common themes were Science Fiction (2), LGBTQIA+ (2), Dystopian (2), Fantasy (1), History (1). Storygraph February 2025 book cover summary. Unruly by David Mitchell A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon The Gathering by C.J Tudor Red Rising by Pierce Brown Golden Son by Pierce Brown
March 1, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Little late with my January wrap up, been in a LC crash the past couple of weeks. It's been a Scotland/Jacobite themed historical fiction mood apparently this month. Highlights were Jasper Fforde & Kate Foster. February has started with non-fiction in the form of David Mitchell's Unruly
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Picture is of a wrap up from Story Graph for January for @roseytheredreads. 8 books read. 3202 pages. Average rating 4.0, Average book length 398 pages, average time to finish 4 days, 100% fiction, most popular categories of Fantasy, Historical, Mystery, Science Fiction, Contemporary. Its says 100% print but this is a lie
February 7, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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"I'm meeeeelllllting", the snow cried to me, so I decided to go for a little local walk before it all disappears. No snowdrops yet, but a few robins said hello
January 5, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Snow has fallen in Derbyshire over night, tempted by a winter walk but the reality is a coffee and a great book and enjoying the window view, whilst awaiting my boys arrival home after the weekend spent at their Dads. Plan is to get them both settled into a routine before school starts tomorrow
January 5, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Started re-reading Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde as I've finally got my hands on the follow up, Red Side Story, that I've been waiting an age for (I read it around the time of my sons birth, and he's 13 in January 😩). So excited, I've been waiting for the perfect time and mood to begin
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A book by Jasper Fforde titled Shades of Grey, the cover is white, the authors name is at the top in black simple text, and the title is in 3D text with each letter a different colour. There are some symbols and illustrations of a bowler hat a ladder, a balloon, paint, foliage and a train within the lettering
January 3, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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If I'm honest I'm sick of being strong, strong in the face of everything, isnt she so strong, I wish I was as strong as you, how do you get so strong? I'm not doing that anymore, I'm finishing soft, and simple and peaceful if I can help it, and if that comes with fireplace toast, then let it come
December 30, 2024 at 10:11 PM
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The food and drink was to die for, Yorkshire tapas in Valhalla, coffee and tea in Impossible, and a chocolate shot in a chocolate cup in Monk Bar on the Shambles
December 27, 2024 at 9:59 PM
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Love all of the kooky unique little shops in York, its an alternative gal heaven, here's a few snaps from shops and coffee shops
December 27, 2024 at 9:53 PM
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Belated day trip to York with a friend, as we were too poorly to make the Christmas Markets earlier this month. Beautiful city, architecture and sights, one of my favourite places, and the mist gave it a little extra spook
December 27, 2024 at 9:49 PM
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Ducks at High Peak Junction and Cromford wharf on a very misty boxing day solo walk including High Peak Junction, Bolehill, Black Rocks, Cromford and Cromford Wharf
December 26, 2024 at 4:48 PM
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I've been suffering with a mystery illness thats given me headaches for a week, managed to leave the house this morning & it was deathly quiet as it was break up day yesterday so the country is hungover. The shop assistant gifted me a coffee, so enjoying it in the Peak District with a view & a book
December 21, 2024 at 9:44 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers
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Day 20
A book lies on a surface, The Whitby Witches by Robin Jarvis. The title is red text at the top, the author in black at the bottom. The illustration is of a big black dog with red eyes running down the 199 steps in Whitby. The steps are steep, old and made of stone, and therefore a little crooked and bowed, with a metal handrail up each side, and the cobbled donkey track on the right of the steps
December 12, 2024 at 6:47 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers
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Day 19
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham, a yellow cover with the book title in green text and the author in red. The illustration is water colour esque and is of a triffid plant with its stings unleashed, and a group of people with grey faces and black clothes in the foreground
December 11, 2024 at 8:32 AM
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Not yet, look its taunting me look in my books to read pile, some of which are new, some of which im re reading 😂
December 10, 2024 at 6:48 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers
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#BookChallenge
Day 18
Mort by Terry Pratchett, the writing is on a beige background. There are many disc world characters in the illustration including Death holding a scythe riding a white horse, Binky
December 10, 2024 at 7:05 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers
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#Books
#BookChallenge
Day 17
Book cover, for The Elfstones of Shannara by Terry Brooks. The text is on a scroll, and the illustration is of 3 figures in front of a castle entrance stood on a draw bridge, 1 female, 2 males, the younger male holds a pouch in his hamd and something inside is emitting a blue glow. The older male holds a bow. All are dressed in fantasy/medieval type dress
December 9, 2024 at 7:15 AM
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Todays one cup perfection is a sumatran blend with oat milk and salted caramel syrup, in bed, because yesterdays festivities crashed me
December 8, 2024 at 10:44 AM
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Yearly visit to the panto yesterday at Nottingham Playhouse, this year's production was Jack and the Beanstalk. We always go to this production as its more traditional, and I like to support the Playhouse. Do they have pantomimes outside of the UK or is this one of our unique little traditions?
A photograph taken from the balcony of a theatre, overlooking the audience and down into the stalls and the stage. The stage curtain reads Jack abd the Beanstalk, and the illustration is of a winding country road through fields. Around the outside are leaves on vines in black, back lit by a blue light. There are many stage lights dotted around the theatre
December 8, 2024 at 10:17 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers
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#BookChallenge
Day 16
A book cover, Blindness by Jose Saramago, the illustration is letters in varying shades of orange yellows and reds on a white background
December 8, 2024 at 8:13 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers
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#Books
#BookChallenge
Day 15
A picture of a book, the cover reads Prophet Song by Paul Lynch. The cover is creamy white with black angular illustration showing many buildings and roof tops which look like terraced houses, with narrow orange windows and a orange sun in the background behind the houses. In the foreground are the figures of 3 people shown in black stood outside the buildings on a road or square. One adult figure and 2 smaller which appear to be children, one holds the adults hand
December 7, 2024 at 7:23 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers
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#BookChallenge
Day 14
Book cover for Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. The text is in white, and the illustration is of yhe face of a black woman in profile with her gaze downwards, with red and yellow lighting behind her
December 6, 2024 at 5:47 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers
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#Books
#BookChallenge
Day 13
A book cover titled Love of Country A Hebridean Journey by Madeleine Bunting, tbe background is a costal scene, with a rocky shore in the foreground and the sea in the background with a moody cloudy blue sky, and some red sky indicating its possibly morning or evening
December 5, 2024 at 5:38 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers
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#Books
#BookChallenge
Day 12
Book lies on counter, dark background with lightening bolts, the title is The Stand by Stephen King and the title is in fiery colours of orangey yellow and the author text is white
December 4, 2024 at 11:16 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers
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Day 11
December 3, 2024 at 12:19 PM