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Stu Cummins
@thestucumminsreads.bsky.social
Winner Author’s Blogger of the Year 2023 - #UBBAs / “Book hoover legend” - Erin Kelly / “Book tart” - Clare Mackintosh / Let’s talk about books,baby!📚
Continued the girls’ film education with GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES 💁🏼‍♀️ Both of them have names inspired by golden age Hollywood stars, so it’s really special sharing classic movies with them 🥰

(They were also ecstatic over the WICKED FOR GOOD poster 💚🩷)

#dadlife
August 6, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Such an honour to be interviewed for BBC Upload on last night’s show!

You can listen back here if you’re interested 😆 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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July 11, 2025 at 9:57 AM
I finished #WhatHappensInTheDark by @kiaabdullah.bsky.social last night & immediately had to shout about it.It absolutely blew my mind! Kia’s an incredible writer & this is her best yet…

Check out my rambling, gushy review & just know that you NEED this book! 💙📚

🔗 www.instagram.com/reel/DJ-SlNw...
May 23, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Bank Holiday Monday…

Extra reading time 🙌🙌📚📚

What are you reading today??

I’m reading WHAT HAPPENS IN THE DARK by @kiaabdullah.bsky.social (brilliant so far!) and have SUN TRAP by @rachelwolfauthor.bsky.social on audio (totally hooked on it!)

Have a great day all 📚💙
May 5, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Brilliant time listening to the fascinating Chris Whitaker last night. What an incredible life! A really inspiring gent.

Thank you Chris, @orionbooks.bsky.social & @waterstones.bsky.social for an amazing evening 😄 💙📚

#AllTheColoursOfTheDark
April 23, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Happy Easter folks 🐣😄

#dadlife
April 20, 2025 at 8:20 PM
So today the girls got the reading chair of my dreams.

Life’s a b*tch! 😂😂

#dadlife 💙📚
January 30, 2025 at 8:51 PM
My Audible reading round up for 2024 came through!

Please let 2025 be the year the debates around whether audio is reading stop 🙏

Do you like audio? I’m proud of these stats 😄

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January 15, 2025 at 6:26 PM
It NEVER snows here!!!!

Already been hit by at least 754 snowballs…

😍❄️😍❄️😍

#dadlife
January 8, 2025 at 4:55 PM
The last of my festive crime #bookreviews are up over on my Instagram.

Putting the decorations away. Why is it such an awful job?? Immediately makes me feel blue 😩

Anyway…these two were fantastic reads! 📚💙

Instagram.com/thestucumminsreads
January 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Shared my must read 2024 thrillers and the books that hit me the hardest in 2024…

I had such a great reading year - 153 books read (my most ever!). My love of audio was cemented and really helped me reach this total, as I am almost always consuming a book😂

Here’s to a fantastically bookish 2025 💙📚
January 3, 2025 at 11:03 AM
T-minus 112 days until Easter…

Tesco:
December 29, 2024 at 1:58 PM
7yo finally convinced me she HAD to see @wickedmovie…

#DefyingDaddy 🤣🤣

(She LOVED it! 🩷💚)
December 21, 2024 at 12:43 PM
OMG!!! @holly.bsky.social’s
#59Minutes is a bonafide masterpiece of suspense,humanity & raw emotion.I’ve cried (3rd book ever!),bitten my nails to the quick,felt EVERY SINGLE EMOTION. Wish I could put this into all of your hands right now. AN ABSOLUTE MUST READ!!!!
🤯🤯🤯

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December 14, 2024 at 3:32 AM
Wild eyes. Wild hair. Wild love for this book!

Finished Anna Bailey’s #OurLastWildDays & absolutely in awe of its topical savagery & utterly beautiful sense of hope.

Another masterpiece😍

Out April 2025.Pre-order: uk.bookshop.org/a/8657/97808...

Thank you @alisonbarrow.bsky.social & Doubleday 💙📚
December 7, 2024 at 1:41 AM
🎄CHRISTMAS CAN OFFICIALLY BEGIN!!🎄

We’ve seen the wonderful Suzanne and Tracy of @singing_hands perform the Christmas classics and @davebensonphill has unleashed his turkey legs 🍗🍗🤣

That can only mean one thing: CHRISTMAS IS NEARLY HERE!!!

Thank you, you lovely, incredible bunch! ❤️❤️

#dadlife
December 1, 2024 at 11:18 PM
To kick things off, mine would be this ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

#Redemption by @jackjordanbooks.bsky.social

The tension and emotion 🤯🤯
November 24, 2024 at 9:38 PM
PSA:

Did you know that you can read the first TWO chapters of @lisajewelluk’s next thriller #DontLetHimIn, if you pick up this new reissue of #TheTruthAboutMelodyBrowne!?

Means you get a taste 8 MONTHS before publication 😱 & enjoy one of Lisa’s classics 😉

You’re welcome😜 💙📚
November 23, 2024 at 9:07 PM
One thing I love about the bookstagram community is our ability to turn topical pop culture of any kind into a book stack 😉

So in celebration of the #wicked movie release, here is my pink and green stack!

Will you be watching the film?
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November 23, 2024 at 4:23 PM
Morning #booksky 👋 💙📚

Have you been taking part in #ReadChristie2024 ??

My review for November’s pick, #ThirdGirl is up on my Instagram
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www.instagram.com/p/DCn9QOLg55...
November 21, 2024 at 7:19 AM
This…but with grown up crime fiction short stories.

That’s all I want for (the run up to) Christmas…

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November 19, 2024 at 4:07 PM
Girls are at ballet, so I’m enjoying some more of OUR LAST WILD DAYS by Anna Bailey. What Sundays are for!

What are you reading today? 📚💙
November 17, 2024 at 2:59 PM
Hi 👋 everyone!

Thanks so much to all those who have followed me over the last couple of days.Welcome!Thought I’d introduce myself…

I’m Stu, an avid crime/thriller reader & blogger.Some of my favourite authors are Lisa Jewell, Louise Candlish, Will Dean, Jack Jordan, CL Taylor.

Who are your faves?
November 14, 2024 at 6:21 AM
WOW! I’ve been terrible here, BUT I just finished @claremackwrites.bsky.social OTHER PEOPLE’S HOUSES and it is PHENOMENAL!!! I loved it…Ffion & Leo have my ❤️

Full review to follow, but do yourself a favour and pre-order: uk.bookshop.org/a/8657/97814...
November 13, 2024 at 1:07 AM
FINISHED!!

What an absolute powerhouse of a novel - thought-provoking, challenging and painfully timely.

Araminta Hall’s #OneOfTheGoodGuys is an absolute triumph & my full review will be up soon!

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January 7, 2024 at 3:33 PM