Clare - The Fallen Librarian Reviews 😄📚💖

Evening Bookophiles 😀💖📚, so last week, I couldn’t resist peeking on to #FoxLaneBooks website & they had such a fantastic selection. That I couldn’t resist a book liberation splurge 🦊📚⬇️. Here’s what I got & only 2 of these aren’t signed ⬇️📚💖🦊, see anything you like⬇️⬇️

#BookPost💖📚
A huge thank you to #OrionBooks for my gorgeous copy of #TheGrapevine by #KateKemp
& the most heavenly smelling candle 🕯️💖.
I love the sound of this antipodean
debut, publishing in March 2025. I think you will too📚⬇️💖

Let’s try this again 💖📚I am very excited to reveal the cover of #TheBookOfHeartbreak
by #OvaCeren @excusemereading
This is a beautiful romantasy about heartbreak, angels & curses.
Published by @HotKeyBooks August 2025💖📚⬇️

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Afternoon Bookophiles 💖📚😀. I was just reviewing the 15 books, I immersed myself in during January. Two really stood out for me, neither will be a suprise😆📚💖 & I doubt I will be alone in my choices😆📚👍 ⬇️⬇️
#WaterMoon #SamanthaSottoYambao
&
#OynxStorm #RebeccaYarros
#BookSky

I think I may have all of them & one or two I even duplicated unintentionally 😆💖📚

Evening Bookophiles 💖📚😀
My weekend plans, unexpectedly changed. So I braved a visit into town, which was very crowded 😱😱 & freaked me out but I was determined to visit #Waterstones & my two book limit, was flexible 😆💖📚. Here’s my Saturday book liberation haul📚⬇️💖 #BlueSky

Snap😆💖📚

Morning bookophiles 😀📚💖. Looks like it’s Monday again & STILL January 😱😱. This really is the month that won’t end😆😱. I am on my 2nd frothy coffee ☕️ & trying to recover from finishing #OnyxStorm at 6am today 😆😱📚💖. Not quite sure what to do now😆 #BookSky

Evening Bookophiles 💜📚😀
Earlier today, I finished #Water Moon 🌙 by the immensely imaginative & talented #SamanthaSottoYambao
This is a magnificent, mysterious & magical read, that I completely fell in love with & I hope you do too. If this book isn’t on your shelf or TBL, then it needs to be😀💜📚⬇️

Hopefully next week will feel shorter 😀📚💖 & the back cover is equally as great👍👍📚

Evening Bookophiles 💖📚❄️.
Today has extremely busy & very chilly 🥶 & the temperature is dropping again now to -5* 🥶.
I have only been back at work 4 days but it felt like 16 weeks😱😆.
On the plus side, my daffodils 🌼 have started to open & a new book arrived - oops😆📚⬇️

Afternoon Bookophiles 💖📚😀
The Big Man 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 is on a train back to Scotland 🥲. I am a little sad🥲.
On my way home from the station I stopped to pick up a couple of items & two discounted books popped in my trolley 🛒 & some daffodils, to lift my mood🌼 😀📚💖⬇️⬇️⬇️

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I've just send my first newsletter of 2025.

It's got EXCLUSIVE information about six signed books i'm going to be getting. Patreons always get first dibs.

I won't be adding 5 of these onto the website. That's how exclusive they are!

Hope you like it.

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Adding it to my wantie list😀👍

I enjoyed Times Convert but I adored The Black Bird Oracle😀📚👍

Sounds intriguing 💖📚

The Socialites I’ve never agreed with the old adage that our schools days are the best of our lives. Yes it may have been a time without all the responsibilities of adulthood, unbeset by financial or famili…

An utterly compelling fictional imagining of 3 iconic women destined to become famous names, this book is a fantastic read with full on echoes of Taylor Jenkins Reid... Full review: #booksky
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And to you💖📚

I loved Rewitched too💖📚, I am very much looking forward to the Full Moon Coffee Shop👍📚

I love that train of thought 😆💖

I fell in love with him🦦💖

Back at home, I purged the fridge of Christmas remnants & unpacked my latest book purchases (3 of these I have read on audiobook already) but I wanted physical copies 💖📚 & 3 were on my TBL & I had a £10 Waterstones voucher😆📚💖, so couldn’t resist them💖📚

Evening Bookophiles 📚💖
The Big Man 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 & I had a lovely lunch out & then popped into M&S for a few things.
After that a frothy coffee & part of a lemon meringue cheesecake, my mother got confused & ate my cake (having said she didn’t want anything 😆😱😱😱) #DementiaJoy 😱

I agree & this is part 1 & part 2 is due in 2025👍😀

I tried to only buy new books I hadn’t read, although I confess I have listened to #Rewitched on audiobook😀📚💖

#Quicksilver #CallieHart
#TheFellowshipOfPuzzlemakers @samuelburr
#LulaDeansLittleLibraryOfBanned #KirstenMiller
#EmilieWildesMapOfTheOtherlands #HeatherFawcett
#Rewitched @LucyJaneWood
#DayOne #AbigailDean
#BetterTheBlood #MichaelBennett

#SolveMurdersLikeALady @LadyDolby
#FallRiver #MeredithMiller
#TheSpellShop @sarahbethdurst
#GuiltyByDefinition @susie_dent
#TheSecretsYouHide @KateWritesBooks
#CityOfGodsAndMonsters #KaylaEdwards
#LuckyDays @BethMorrey
#HouseOfFlameAndShadow #SaraJMaas

#OverMyDeadBody @mazevansauthor
#AnnaO #MatthewBlake
#DeadlyAnimals #MarieTierney
#ATempestOfTea @hafsahfaizal
#NosyNeibours #FreyaSampson
#ProfileK @Helen_Fields
#TheHouseOfTheWitch @ClareMarchant1
#TheBlackBirdOracle @DebHarkness
#WhenTheMoonHatched #SarahAParker

I read 208 books this past year while dealing with the Big Man’s cancer treatments, my mother’s decline & my own crippling arthritis.
My reading has been simply to bring me joy - hence the dominance of Crime & Romantasy.
Here are 24 of my favourite books of 2024💖📚
I hope you enjoy them💖📚⬇️

Afternoon Bookophiles📚💖
I hope the new year is treating you well.
The Big Man 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 & I had a quiet day, yesterday. Today we popped into town, to have lunch & visit my favourite charity shops & his favourite (the model shop)
Here’s my book haul , new scarves & an Otter 🦦 💖📚