Top 5 Tuesday: 16-7-2024: Top 5 books set in a big city
Blog Tour ~ The Seamstress on Cider Lane by Jillianne Hamilton ~ Excerpt
Blog Tour ~ The Hobby Shop on Barnaby Street by Jillianne Hamilton ~ Excerpt | Teasers
First Chapter First Paragraph Thursday Intros ~ Meet Me Under the Mistletoe by Jenny Bayliss
Shepherd Market is Old London. Two small squares of ye olde quaint shop fronts and pubs, some dating back to the 1700s, nestle unconcerned among the steel and glas monoliths of their descendants. A peculiar vibe of the village camaraderie and tourism pulses through the tiny neighborhood; doors open with tinkling bells into welcomingly dark shops, and people mingle in the street, strangers and friends passing the time. And it is here, sandwiched between a tailor and a bistro, that Elinor Noel – Nory to those who know her best- runs her secondhand bookshop, Serendipitous Seconds, with her right-hand man, Andrew.
Review for The Extraordinary Curiosities of Ixworth and Maddox
First Chapter First Paragraph Thursday Intros ~ City of the Dead by James Ponti
On a slate gray November day, one hundred years after the discovery of Tutankhamen’s tomb, a group of five young people converged in a part of London known as Bloomsbury. Like Howard Carter, they were looking to recover treasures of Egyptian antiquity. Except they weren’t going to dig a tunnel in the desert. They were going to sneak through one in an abandoned section of the London Underground. And the artifacts they sought weren’t concealed in some long-forgotten tomb. They were on display at one of the busiest museums in the world.
This was no excavation. It was a heist.
Spell the Month in Books April 2023
Weekly Quote for Week 51-2022 ~ Meet Me Under the Mistletoe by Jenny Bayliss
“Some books wrote themselves into people’s hearts as children and lived there, all but forgotten, until a bookseller recognized the spark and reunited them. Other books held their words close, waiting on the shelf to ignite a passion in someone who hadn’t even known they were wanting.”
