August 2025 – BooksPlease
6 posts published by Margaret during August 2025| BooksPlease
The latest Classic Club Spin challenged you to read book 11 on your CC Spin #41 list by 24th August. That was Brighton Rock by Graham Greene for me. Vintage Digital| 2 October 2010| 258 pages| e-book| 4* Description… More| BooksPlease
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl. For the rules see her blog The topic today is Books with a… More| BooksPlease
Every Friday Book Beginnings on Friday is hosted by Gillion at Rose City Reader where you can share the first sentence (or so) of the book you are reading. You can also share from a book you want to highlight… More| BooksPlease
Lisa at ANZ LitLovers will be hosting a new reading event – Short Story September, running from September 1 to 30. On September 1st Lisa will set up a post where all contributions can be posted so that… More| BooksPlease
Top 5 Tuesday was created by Shanah at Bionic Book Worm, and it is now being hosted by Meeghan at Meeghan Reads. You can see the Top 5 Tuesday topics for the whole of 2025 here. Today the topic… More| BooksPlease
Canongate Books| 5 Jun. 2025| 427 pages| e-book| Review copy| 5* Description: 1854, Edinburgh.Respectable public faces hide sordid private sins.Apprentice Sarah Fisher is helping to fund Dr Will Ra…| BooksPlease
Jo who used to blog The Book Jotter is not running Six in Six again this year. The idea is to summarise the first six months of reading, sorting the books into six ca…| BooksPlease
Top 5 Tuesday was created by Shanah at Bionic Book Worm, and it is now being hosted by Meeghan at Meeghan Reads. You can see the Top 5 Tuesday topics for the whole of 2025 here. …| BooksPlease
I’ve been making good progress with my reading, but I’m way behind with writing about the books I’ve read. So it’s time to catch up with a few short posts. My first one is t…| BooksPlease
It’s time again for Six Degrees of Separation, a monthly link-up hosted by Kate at Books Are My Favourite and Best. Each month a book is chosen as a starting point and linked to six …| BooksPlease
Summary from the Jane Austen shop: It would be an excellent match for he was rich, and she was handsome” Sense & Sensibility, 1811When Elinor and Marianne Dashwood’s father dies, th…| BooksPlease
I’m still catching up with writing about books I read in November. First published in 1931 Mystery in the Channel by Freeman Wills Crofts is a classic crime fiction novel written during the G…| BooksPlease
