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TCL’s #CCSpin 43 #BookReview – Scout-ing for Justice. Book Review for “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee. Summary: "'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ’em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.’ A lawyer’s advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee’s classic novel – a black man charged with the rape of a white girl.

#BookThreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon TCL's #CCSpin 43 #BookReview - Scout-ing for Justice. My #bookreview for "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, on my #bookblog now. Thanks to #TheClassicsClub for getting me to finally read this Pulitzer Prize winning, debut novel from 1960! #BeatTheBacklist

TCL’s – #LetsDiscuss2026 #4, #BookBloggerHop #2 – March 6-12 2026 – Who Will Love Them When I’m Gone? Welcome to another #LetsDiscuss and #BookBloggerHop post. This time the Hop prompt was submitted by Billy @ Coffee Addicted Writer, asking: What Will Happen to Your Books?

#BookThreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon TCL's - #LetsDiscuss2026 #4, #BookBloggerHop #2 - March 6-12 2026 - Who Will Love Them When I'm Gone? on my #bookblog here. Have you thought about what would happen to all your books after you die? Here's what I want for mine.

Women Widening Worlds With Words. Book Review for “The Temple of the Muses” by Jane Davis. Summary: "London, 1780. As the city smoulders in the aftermath of the Gordon Riots, booksellers James and Dorcas Lackington resolve to fight despair not with charity, but with books. Convinced that reading is the surest path out of poverty, they launch a daring experiment to price books so low, even apprentices and servant girls might afford them.

#BookThreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon Women Widening Worlds With Words. My #bookreview for "The Temple of the Muses" by @JaneDavisAuthor, on my #bookblog now. This sequel to "The Bookseller's Wife" is the 2nd Chiswell Street book. #histficreadingchallenge #2026NewReleaseChallenge #2026BookishBooks

TCL’s #6Degrees of Separation for March 7, 2026. From "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë to "The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax" by Dorothy Gillman. This is 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 other books to form a chain. A book doesn’t need to be connected to all the other books on the list, only to the one next to it in the chain.

#BookThreads #booksky #bookstodon TCL's #6Degrees of Separation for March 7, 2026. Find out how I went from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë to The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gillman, on my #bookblog now. Thanks again to KateW @ Books are My Favourite and Best, for this monthly #bookmeme!

TCL’s #ThrowbackThursday and #LinkParty #73 – March 5-April 1, 2026. What is Throwback Thursday? I've noticed many of these memes on a few book blogs. For example, Susan Loves Books does one, which is (or was originally) hosted by Renee@It’s Book Talk. I also noticed that Lorrea @ What 'Cha Readin'?, was doing this as a monthly meme, and Reading Maria does something called "Last Year I Was Reading" where she compares what she's reading now to what she read a year ago.

#BookThreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon TCL's #ThrowbackThursday and #LinkParty #73 - March 5-April 1, 2026. This time I remember my #bookreview of a beloved author who died way too soon! Remember, if you have a #bookblog, you are welcome to join in this #bookmeme any day of the week, all month long.

TCL’s #TopTenTuesday – Freebie: Delicious! – March 3, 2026. The topic for my first #TTT for 2026 is: Genre Freebie! According to Jana's website: "Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.

#BookThreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon TCL’s #TopTenTuesday - Freebie: Delicious! - March 3, 2026. This week's theme, set by Jana @ArtsyReaderGirl is a genre freebie. Find out which genre of #Books, and their #novels I'm highlighting this time, on my #bookblog here. #bookmemes #booklist #TTT

TCL’s #RandomBookishThoughts #6 – Food for Thought… (and #LetsDiscuss2026 #3) What are Random Bookish Thoughts? There are many different discussion memes in the book blogosphere, but most of them come up with topics that have some level of a universal appeal to most, if not all, book bloggers or readers. However, sometimes I think of things that I believe are unique to me and my own reading, blogging, and/or life experiences.

#BookThreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon TCL's #RandomBookishThoughts #6 - Food for Thought... (and #LetsDiscuss2026 #3) This is just a post with some personal, literary musings. This time: I talk about #cookbooks both reading and reviewing them! #bookX #SomethingDifferent #bookbloggers #bookblogging

TCL’s First Lines Friday #11 for February 27, 2025! First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers that was originally hosted by Emma @ (the apparently, now defunct) Wandering Words (don't click on the link, it isn't there anymore). However, the lovely Carrie @ Reading is My Superpower not only does a similar weekly meme, she also hosts a weekly link party to go with it! So, if you decide to do one of these yourself, you might want to join her link party as well!

#BookThreads #booksky 💙📚#bookstodon TCL's First Lines Friday #11 for February 27, 2025! What if you decided to read a book based not on the author or title but on its opening lines? See if you can guess which book I picked, on my #bookblog here. #FridayFiction #FictionFriday #FirstLinesFriday

TCL’s WWW Wednesday #26 – February 25, 2026. The WWW Wednesday meme This meme was formerly hosted by MizB at A Daily Rhythm and was revived by Sam @ Taking on a World of Words and is a great way to do an update on your reading and plans. I know lots of people do this one every week, but my being such a slow reader, you'd all get bored seeing the same thing week after week.

#Bookthreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon TCL's WWW Wednesday #26 - February 25, 2026 on my #bookblog now. My reading list for March is so full, I'm already reading and reviewing them. But I did find the time to do this update. Thanks to @SamAnnElizabeth of Taking on a World of Words for #WWWWednesday

Arms, Legs, Toes, and AARDVARK? Book Review for “Turn Right at the Rainbow: A Diary of Househunting, Happenstance & Home” by Roz Morris. Summary: "You don’t find home. Home finds you. Roz has lived in her London house for thirty years. She arrived there bewildered and reckless, moving in with a man she'd known for one week, and the house kept asking: Are you sure?

#BookThreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon Arms, Legs, Toes, and AARDVARK? My #bookreview for "Turn Right at the Rainbow: A Diary of Househunting, Happenstance & Home" by @Roz_Morris on my #bookblog now! Thanks Roz for the ARC of this lovely #nonfiction book! #2026NewReleaseChallenge #OOCZ2026 #WIAN26

The Art of Rebellion and/or Conforming. Book Review for “The Dream Life of Sukhanov” by Olga Grushin. Summary: "At fifty-six, Anatoly Sukhanov has everything a man could want. Nearly twenty-five years ago, he traded his precarious existence as a brilliant underground artist for the perks and comforts of a high-ranking Soviet apparatchik. Once he created art; now he censors it. His past is a shadow, repressed to the point of nonexistence.

#BookThreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon The Art of Rebellion and/or Conforming. My #bookreview for "The Dream Life of Sukhanov" by @OlgaGrushin, on my #bookblog now. This is a beautifully written story set in pre-fall of the #USSR, is very relevant to today! #histficreadingchallenge #BeatTheBacklist

The Mother of All Controversies. Book Review for “MUV: The Story of the Mitford Girls' Mother” by Rachel Trethewey. Summary: "Everyone knows about the six flamboyant Mitford girls but in fact there were seven remarkable women in the famous family—the seventh was "Muv," Lady Sydney Redesdale, the mother of the notorious sisters. Too often portrayed as different from them and outside the girl gang, she was really the original and much of her daughters’ strong will, self-confidence, and extremism came from her.

#BookThreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon The Mother of All Controversies. My #bookreview for "MUV: The Story of the Mitford Girls' Mother" by Rachel Trethewey on my #bookblog now! Yes, I actually read a #biography thanks to @PegasusBooks and #Edelweiss! #2026NewReleaseChallenge #OOCZ2026

TCL’s Tell Me Something Tuesday #TMST #18 – Changed My Life Books – February 17, 2026. TMST is a weekly meme with optional participation hosted by Jen Twimom @ That's What I'm Talking About. There isn't a check in and she doesn't have a linky. She does, however, encourage you to leave a link to your post on her blog if you participate so she and others can find you! Jen sends out an email with the upcoming prompts roughly every two months.

#BookThreads #Booksky 📚💙 #Bookstodon TCL's Tell Me Something Tuesday #TMST #18 - Changed My Life Books - February 17, 2026. This week Jen @ https://twimom227.com asked if any books I've read have ever changed my perspective on a subject. My reply is on my #bookblog here. #Letsdiscuss2026

TCL’s #DiscussionSunday 2026 #2 – Love is in… the Pages – #LetsDiscuss2026 #2, #BookBloggerHop #1. Welcome to another #DiscussionSunday post. This time, everyone has been asking about... Romance Novels!

#BookThreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon TCL's #DiscussionSunday 2026 #2 - Love is in... the Pages - #LetsDiscuss2026 #2, #BookBloggerHop #1. Here's a new discussion post about... Romance Novels! Yes, I know, yesterday was Valentine's Day, but you'll understand more if you read my post!

TCL’s Spell the Month in Books #32 – February 2026! Reviews From the Stacks Last year I discovered Jana and her blog Reviews from the Stacks. Jana created this fun, monthly book meme. Now, it is true that Jana runs a link party for this which is supposed to take place on the first Saturday of every month. However, that day is reserved for #6Degrees of Separation, so that's why I'm never on time with these. 

#BookThreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon TCL's Spell the Month in Books #32 - February 2026 (Freebie Edition)! Thanks to Jana @ Reviews from the Stacks for this month's theme (which I'm using with my own twist) and this fun, monthly #bookmeme #SpelltheMonth #bookX #booklists #BookTwitter

Sirens on the High Seas. Book Review for “The Determined” by Rachel Rueckert. Summary: "1721, Spanish Town, Jamaica. Captured, convicted, and pregnant, twenty-three-year-old Anne Bonny faces the gallows. When writer Captain Charles Johnson enters the garrison, she strikes a deal: she’ll tell this opportunistic fool her story if he sends a doctor to her friend, Mary Read, who’s battling prison fever. Prior to their arrest, life at sea had offered Anne and Mary freedom that few women knew.

#BookThreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon Sirens on the High Seas. My #bookreview for "The Determined" by @Rachel_Rueckert, on my #bookblog now! Thanks @KensingtonBooks for the @NetGalley ARC of this fascinating women's biographical novel. #histficreadingchallenge
#2026NewReleaseChallenge

The Classics Club Spin #CCSpin #43 pick for TCL! Hello, Classics Club Spinners... I'm here to tell you that Our lucky winning number for the 43rd Classics Club Spin is...

#BookThreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon The Classics Club Spin #CCSpin #43 pick for TCL! Stop by my #bookblog now to find out which book on my list will be my next #CCspin #ClassicsClub read, and why I'm looking forward to reading it. #ccwhatimreading for both this spin and Black History Month!

TCL’s #6Degrees of Separation for February 7, 2026. From "Flashlight" by Susan Choi to "The Paris Deception" by Bryn Turnbull. This is 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 other books to form a chain. A book doesn’t need to be connected to all the other books on the list, only to the one next to it in the chain.

#BookThreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon TCL's #6Degrees of Separation for February 7, 2026 - Find out how I went from "Flashlight" by Susan Choi to "The Paris Deception" by Bryn Turnbull, on my #bookblog now. Thanks again to KateW @ Books are My Favourite and Best, for my favorite monthly #bookmeme!

TCL Joins the Classics Club Spin #ccspin #43! To find out more about this unique reading challenge, please visit The Classics Club Blog for the rules and link-up post.

#BookThreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon TCL Joins the Classics Club Spin #ccspin #43! I'm thrilled to be at it again with the #ClassicsClub. I'm moving books around, adding some, and taking some away! We'll find out on Sunday which of these book I'll be reading by March 29! #ccwhatimreading

TCL’s #ThrowbackThursday and #LinkParty #72 – February 5-March 4, 2026. What is Throwback Thursday? I've noticed many of these memes on a few book blogs. For example, Susan Loves Books does one, which is (or was originally) hosted by Renee@It’s Book Talk. I also noticed that Lorrea @ What 'Cha Readin'?, was doing this as a monthly meme, and Reading Maria does something called "Last Year I Was Reading" where she compares what she's reading now to what she read a year ago.

#BookThreads #booksky 💙📚 #Bookstodon TCL's #ThrowbackThursday and #LinkParty #72 - February 5-March 4, 2026. This time I remember my #bookreview of one of my favorite novellas! Remember, if you have a #bookblog, you are welcome to join in this #bookmeme any day of the week, all month long.

The Last Battle Mystery! Book Review for “Towards Zero” by Agatha Christie. Summary: "What is the connection among a failed suicide attempt, a wrongful accusation of theft against a schoolgirl, and the romantic life of a famous tennis player? To the casual observer, apparently nothing. But when a house party gathers at Gull’s Point, the seaside home of an elderly widow, earlier events come to a dramatic head.

#BookThreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon The Last Battle Mystery! My #bookreview for "Towards Zero" by Agatha Christie, which is the 5th and last Superintendent Battle novel, on my #bookblog now. Only 1 book left to my #battlerace #readingchallenge. #BeatTheBacklist #CloakDaggerChal #TheClassicsClub

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TCL’s #SomethingDifferent Sunday #28 – New Year’s Bookish Resolutions! Yes, I'm still baking my own bread, but instead of updates on that, or my Pottery and my Stained Glass classes, I'm doing a new TAG! This TAG is brought to you by The Strawberry Post, which is a new blog for me. I also see that H.C. Newton @ The Irresponsible Reader takes part, as well. It is 13 questions and should be pretty easy!

#BookThreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon TCL's #SomethingDifferent Sunday #28 - New Year's Bookish Resolutions! No bread, pottery, or stained glass today. Instead I bring you a new #Booktag, brought to you by @TStrawberryPost - a new blog for me! Only 13 questions, about our 2026 reading goals.

A New Recipe for Death. Book Review for “To Kill a Cook” by M.W Akers. Summary: "Nobody in Manhattan eats better than Bernice Black. It’s 1972, and she is the city’s busiest restaurant critic, juggling her fiance and his two young sons with demands of fine dining. Bernice talks fast, walks faster, has a razor-sharp wit and no patience for anything--or anyone--that gets in her way.

#BookThreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon A New Recipe for Death. My #bookreview for "To Kill a Cook" by M. W. Akers, on my #bookblog now. My thanks to @PutnamBooks for the Edelweiss ARC of this fast-paced #murdermystery novel. #histficreadingchallenge
#2026NewReleaseChallenge
#CloakDaggerChal

TCL’s #T5T – Top Five Tuesday #21 – January 27, 2026 – New (to me) Authors for a New Year! Top Five Tuesday was originally created by Shanah @ Bionic Book Worm, but is now hosted by Meeghan @ Meeghan Reads. To participate, link your post back to Meeghan's blog or leave a comment on her weekly post. This week, Meeghan gave us the topic of: Top 5 Authors to Try in 2026!

#BookThreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon TCL's #T5T - Top Five Tuesday #21 - January 27, 2026 - New (to me) Authors for a New Year! Thanks to @Meghan_reads for this fun #booklist topic! Mine, on my #bookblog now, is a list of all female authors and the books I've put on my #CCSpin list. Nice, right?

TCL’s #DiscussionSunday 2026 #1 – Reading Your Age/Eras – #LetsDiscuss2026 #1. Welcome to another #DiscussionSunday post. This time, I've been wondering... Do You Like to Read Your Age/Eras?

#BookThreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon TCL's #DiscussionSunday 2026 #1 - Reading Your Age/Eras - #LetsDiscuss2026 #1. This is a topic I came up with all on my own. In it, I discuss reading books for different age groups, and those written during my lifetime. Stop by my #bookblog to find out more.

For the Love of Syntax. Book Review for “Confessions of a Grammar Queen” by Eliza Knight. Summary: "Bernadette Swift, a young copyeditor at Lenox & Park Publishing, is determined to become the first female CEO in the publishing industry. But first she needs to take the next step up that ladder with a promotion that her boorish and sexist boss wants to thwart. Seeking a base of support, Bernadette joins a feminist women's book club at the New York Public Library, and soon, she's inspiring her fellow members to challenge the male gatekeepers and decades of ingrained sexism in their workplaces and pursue their personal and professional dreams.

#BookThreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon For the Love of Syntax - my #bookreview for "Confessions of a Grammar Queen" by @ElizaKnight, on my #bookblog now. This was fun, even with the #romance and a dog narrating some chapters! #histficreadingchallenge
#BeatTheBacklist #OOCZ2026
#2026BookishBooks

TCL’s WWW Wednesday #25 – January 21, 2026. The WWW Wednesday meme This meme was formerly hosted by MizB at A Daily Rhythm and was revived by Sam @ Taking on a World of Words and is a great way to do an update on your reading and plans. I know lots of people do this one every week, but my being such a slow reader, you'd all get bored seeing the same thing week after week.

#BookThreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon TCL's WWW Wednesday #25 - January 19, 2026. My reading schedule for March is filling up so I have to get the jump on February books, already. But I found the time to do this update. Thanks to @SamAnnElizabeth of Taking on a World of Words for #WWWWednesday

The Sugar Flowers Mystery. Book Review for “The Readers' Room” by Antoine Laurain (translated by Jane Aitken, Emily Boyce, and Polly Mackintosh). Summary: "When the manuscript of a debut crime novel arrives at a Parisian publishing house, everyone in the readers' room is convinced it's something special. And the committee for France's highest literary honour, the Prix Goncourt, agrees. But when the shortlist is announced, there's a problem for editor Violaine she has no idea of the author's identity.

#BookThreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon The Sugar Flowers Mystery: My #bookreview for The Readers' Room by Antoine Laurain on my #bookblog. Thanks @pushkinpress @Steerforthpress for the ARC. #2026NewReleaseChallenge #BeatTheBacklist #CloakDaggerChal #2026BooksInTranslation #OOCZ2026 #2026BookishBooks

TCL’s #SomethingDifferent Saturday #27 – Pottery & Glass (and that Bread Book)! Yes, I'm still baking my own bread, but I've had some fails lately! More about that below. Here are some updates on my Pottery and my Stained Glass classes.

#BookThreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon TCL's #SomethingDifferent Saturday #27 - Pottery & Glass (and that Bread Book)! Today, I update everyone on my progress with my #pottery and #stainedglass classes, and talk about that #breadbaking #cookbook I recently bought! #bookstagram #bookmeme #ceramics