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Wives and Daughters
Author: Elizabeth GaskellSeventeen-year-old Molly Gibson worships her widowed father. But when he decides to remarry, Molly's life is thrown off course by the arrival of her vain, shallow and selfish stepmother. There is some solace in the shape of her new stepsister Cynthia, who is beautiful, sophisticated and irresistible to every man she meets.
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HALLOWE’EN PARTY spoilery vlog
This month Hallowe’en Party by Agatha Christie was the winner for the book I should do a spoiler vlog on for my Patreon Windy Poplars tier. Oh, and there’s some good new kitten footage included in the video as well. 😀 You can join my Patreon to watch the video!
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it snowed! so here’s my NOVEMBER TBR! trying (and kind of failing) to keep it small
I woke up to snow this morning so it felt like the perfect time to film my November TBR I’m trying to keep things on the smaller side this month so I have some room to finish up my excessively large October TBR. BOOKS ON MY TBR What’s on your To Be Read list for November?
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The Glass Town Game
Author: Catherynne M. ValenteInside a small Yorkshire parsonage, Charlotte, Branwell, Emily, and Anne Brontë have invented a game called Glass Town, where their toy soldiers fight Napoleon and no one dies. This make-believe land helps the four escape from a harsh reality: Charlotte and Emily are being sent away to a dangerous boarding school. But then something incredible happens: a train whisks them all away to a real Glass Town, and the children trade the moors for a…
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The Pale Horse
Author: Agatha ChristieIn the classic mystery by Queen of Mystery Agatha Christie, an elderly priest is murdered, quite possibly doomed by a woman’s deathbed confession and by the secrets kept safely locked behind closed doors of a mysterious local pub. When an elderly priest is murdered, the killer searches the victim so roughly that his already ragged cassock is torn in the process. What was the killer looking for? And what had a dying woman confided to…
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The Queen’s Rising
Author: Rebecca RossSeries: The Queen's RisingIn this epic debut fantasy, inspired by Renaissance France, an outcast finds herself bound to a disgraced lord and entangled in his plot to overthrow the king. Perfect for fans of Grave Mercy and Red Queen! Brienna desires only two things: to master her passion and to be chosen by a patron. Growing up in Valenia at the renowned Magnalia House should have prepared her. While some are born with a talent for one of the five passions—art,…