My report from the Iris Murdoch Society Conference I went to in August: librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/09/03/t...
Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃♀️
@lyzzybee.bsky.social
Reader, may be quite fond of books 💙📚 book reviewer, book blogger, runner, volunteer, transcriber, editor, parkrun Run Director, Birmingham, UK. Book reviews at https://librofulltime.wordpress.com
State of the TBR! See how minuscule it now is! librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/09/01/s... #booksky 📚💙💡
Hooray! Yesterday's post: Finishing my 20 Books of Summer – Gabrielle Zevin – “The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry, Hannah Bonam-Young – “Next of Kin” and Charles Hadfield and John Norris – “Waterways to Stratford” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/08/31/f... #20BOS26 #booksky 📚💙💡
A lovely read with asexual / ace representation! Book review – Rhoda Baxter – “The Halloween Express on the Brambleberry Steam Railway” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/08/30/b... #booksky @jeevanicharika.bsky.social 📚💙
Rebekah Pierre (ed.) – Free Loaves on Fridays” and Karen Yin – “The Conscious Style Guide” Creeping nearer to my full 20 Books of Summer #20BOS26 librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/08/27/c... #booksky 📚💙💡
More great nonfiction reads – Sylvia Patterson – “I’m Not With The Man”, Sally Coulthard – “The Secret World of Twilight” and Joad Raymond Wren – “The Uses of Utopia” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/08/25/m... #booksky 📚💙💡
More nonfiction reviews from my 20 Books of Summer – Samra Habib – “We Have Always Been Here” and Robert MacFarlane – “Mountains of the Mind” #20BOS26 librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/08/22/m... #booksky 📚💙💡
Two fun novels – reviews of Jenny Jackson – “The Shampoo Effect” and Baek Seungyeon – “The Seoul Letter Shop” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/08/20/t... #booksky 📚💙
Nonfiction roundup – Richard Askwith – “The Race Against Time”, Tim Burrows – “The Invention of Essex” and Takeo Doi’s “The Anatomy of Dependence” #20BOS26 librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/08/18/n... #booksky 📚💙💡
Getting the hardbacks read – reviews of Nathan Waddell – “A Bright Cold Day” Mathelinda Nabugodi – “The Trembling Hand ”https://librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/08/11/getting-the-hardbacks-read-book-reviews-of-nathan-waddell-a-bright-cold-day-and-mathelinda-nabugodi-the-trembling-hand/ 📚💙💡#booksky
Rhoda Baxter's "The Christmas Express on the Brambleberry Steam Railway" was a lovely read, with tough issues covered but a sweet and kind community trying to make things OK. librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/08/07/b... @jeevanicharika.bsky.social
I enjoyed reading Caroline James' "The Nile Cruise" over the weekend librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/08/03/b... @carolinejames1.bsky.social #booksky📚💙
Two Wedding Planners and an Actual Marriage – Victoria Lavine – “Not That Kind of Proposal”, Huma Qureshi – “How We Met” and Jeevani Charika’s “The Wedding Planner’s Guide to Stealing the Bride” #20BOS26 librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/07/30/t... #booksky 📚💙💡 @jeevanicharika.bsky.social
Two wonderful characters – book reviews for Amman Brar – “Mr Sidhu’s Post Office” and Mel Pennant – “Miss Hortense and the Last Rites” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/07/29/t... #booksky 💙📚
Art and organising – book reviews – Bianca Bosker – “Get the Picture” and Alicia Garza – “The Purpose of Power” #20BOS26 librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/07/27/a... #booksky 📚💙💡
Debra Dank – “We Come With This Place” #20BOS26 librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/07/12/b... #booksky 📚💙💡
Book review catch-up! First off, Two books about nature and renewal – Maceo Carillo Martinet – “Healing the Land Teaches us Who We Are” and Lea Korsgaard – “The Butterfly Season” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/07/10/t... #booksky 📚💙💡
A really lovely read, set in Como in Italy and full of family drama. What would you do if you suddenly found you had two sisters? Sue Moorcroft - "Secrets of the Italian Guesthouse" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/07/07/b... @rararesources.bsky.social @suemoorcroftauthor.bsky.social @booksky 📚💙
Two 20 Books of Summer reads that have nothing in common – Scott Jurek, with Jenny Jurek – “North” and Madeline Linford – “Out of the Window” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/07/04/t... #20BOS26 #booksky 💙📚💡
Did I read the 30 books I needed to read to stay on track last month? I did not. But look, there's more of a space on the shelves! State of the TBR July 2026 librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/07/01/s... #booksky 📚💙💡
A new experiment for me in blog posts - What I added to my wish list in June 2026 librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/06/30/w... #booksky 📚💙💡
A book of the year for sure: Sathnam Sanghera – “Tonight The Music Seems so Loud” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/06/29/a... #booksky 📚💙💡
More 20 Books of Summer with two nature-orientated books – Sarah Thomas – “The Raven’s Nest” and Lev Parikian – “Taking Flight” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/06/27/m... #20BOS26 #booksky 📚💙💡
Two good summer reads – Phillipa Ashley – “A Wedding Under the Cornish Sky” and Katie Clapham – “Receipts from the Bookshop” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/06/26/t... #booksky 📚💙💡
Finally getting some more reviews out there with two about queer books – reviews of Layla McCay – The Queer Bookshelf” and A. J. West – “How Queer Bookshops Changed the World” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/06/23/a... with mentions for @paulmagrs.bsky.social and @proud-geek.co.uk #booksky 📚💙💡
