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A very cute—but very sad—cat. Someone has a hairball lodged in his belly and is feeling sorry for himself 💔 That little face!
🌙✨🤗 It’s so overwhelmingly brilliant when women with platforms draw an audience’s attention to books. As an author I am intensely grateful—especially with this novel, which in truth could do with a few more readers ☺️ It’s always exciting to hear someone say they couldn’t put it down—and I’m super lucky because when the wonderful @carriehopefletcher finished reading #TheLightBetweenUs, she gave my editor a fab quote to go on the paperback cover 💫 Watch Carrie’s vlog—link in bio! ✨ Anyway I just want to shout out all the amazing women championing novels—I’ve personally been thrilled my books have been talked about on their channels by @kate.lavie, @superlativelylj and @carriehopefletcher, as well as wonderful authors @rowanmcoleman, @say_shannon, @wurdsmyth, @maggieharcourt, @melindasalisbury, @lydiaruffles, @emjaneunsworth. You are all amazing, thank you, and I salute you 💪💖
Today is grey and rainy in the UK - proper “watch a Spielberg film on the sofa” weather - but this atmospheric foggy photo by @xcrini in Germany is NEXT LEVEL 😻 Autumn is well and truly here! (Though I did eat an ice cream in the sunshine yesterday, so...🤷‍♀️☂️) Have a lovely Sunday 🍂📚☕️☔️🍁 - #repost @xcrini . If you ever want to read a scifi that's not really scifi in the sense of being all about the tech, I HIGHLY recommend Katie Khan's books! . The Light Between Us is her newest and I LOVED it. it's kind of a love story but also not because there is SO much more to it. Also: TIME TRAVEL. Kind of. You gotta find out for yourself :P My favorite aspect of the book is without a doubt the friendship between the girls which is still such a rare thing to find in books, especially adult SFF. . I love me some good time travel stories, especially when they tackle the time paradox. (recs always welcome!) While I usually adore Doctor Who and the like, Katie Khan showed me a different side to it, and once again crushed me with the feels. . I'll never tire of her making me read books/topics (*cough* romance *cough*) that I usually wouldn't even think of touching, and making me fall in love with the story, hard. . #bookreadhappyhour - let's do the time warp again!
Who knew that chihuahuas loved autumn? (They definitely don’t love winter!) 🍂
Book recommendations! If you’re heading out to buy books on #bookshopday today, and if you love fantasy and adult fairytales, pick up these by Naomi Novik. I came to UPROOTED two years late; @mushenska kept telling me to read it so I *finally* bought it at Easter — and could not put it down! I doubt I can explain it well enough and I’d hate to give away spoilers, but it’s dark, and (I hate this word, sorry) sexy, and malevolent... here’s the blurb: 🌲 Agnieszka loves her village, set deep in a peaceful valley. But the nearby enchanted forest casts a shadow over her home. Many have been lost to the Wood and none return unchanged. The villagers depend on an ageless wizard, the Dragon, to protect them from the forest's dark magic. However, his help comes at a terrible price. One young village woman must serve him for ten years, leaving all they value behind. Agnieszka fears her dearest friend Kasia will be picked at the next choosing, for she's everything Agnieszka is not - beautiful, graceful and brave. Yet when the Dragon comes, it's not Kasia he takes. 🌲 Meanwhile SPINNING SILVER is a slightly more complex novel — a loose (adult) retelling of Rumpelstiltskin, told from multiple perspectives, and with an interesting take on the inherently anti-Semitic “Jewish money lender” caricature (the author is of Lithuanian-Jewish descent). I took this photo of my ARC then picked up a signed copy of Spinning Silver from @goldsborobooks, woohoo. Happy #nationalbookshopday #bookshopday2018! 📚📚📚 #Uprooted #SpinningSilver
Winter is coming.
I enjoy taking photos so much that I thought it was time I got a proper camera. Cue me walking around the woods snapping one million rubbish photos of my chihuahua in the autumn leaves... and this, captured out my parents’ car window, at traffic lights. “Move forward mum! Just an inch! Back a bit, that’s it! Wait—don’t move off yet!” =beep beep beep beep= “Okay, you can drive now. Sorry. And thank you.” #watchoutworld 💁‍♀️📸
“Dinosaurs eat man. Woman inherits the Earth.” Spending Saturday afternoon with Dr Ellie Sattler (and a live orchestra playing the score). As I get older she’s more and more becoming my role model... “We can discuss the sexism of survival situations when I get back.” Ahh, Ellie. Might buy some safari shorts. And a pink shirt. 💖 #JurassicParkLive (intense goosebumps when they played the theme!) 🦕🦖