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“Only you, Em, would refer to heartbreak as a distraction. I think I would have a more sympathetic response if I asked to marry a bookcase.”

Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands: Book 2 of the Emily Wilde Series: A Novel by Heather Fawcett

November 26, 2025 by bjornsnipe 2 Comments

To be honest, it took me three weeks to get through this book. Not that it was overly long (at 341 pages, I don’t consider it a long book), and not that I hated it (though to be honest, I would probably have to work up an emotion to it past “meh” to get towards something like hate), but because my reading of it was completely overshadowed by the fact that Gallifrey, my 17 year old Calico cat, died in the middle of reading it, […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: faeries, footnotes, Heather Fawcett, housekeeping, the grim

bjornsnipe's CBR17 Review No:149 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: faeries, footnotes, Heather Fawcett, housekeeping, the grim ·
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this woman’s work

If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home by Lucy Worsley

April 20, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

Bill Bryson’s delightful At Home: A Short History of Private Life came first, but Lucy Worsley’s If Walls Could Talk separates itself from the predecessor by being, well, more intimate! I promise this will be a review of If the Walls Could Talk, but if you are ever in need of a peaceful “sleep read” then I highly recommend plugging into the audio adaptation of Bryson’s book- it is seriously soothing. The biggest difference between At Home and If Walls Could Talk is the female perspective. Bryson’s book was framed around […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Cooking/Food, Health, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Bill Bryson, British history, domestic life, home history, housekeeping, housework, invention, Lucy worsley, social history, world history

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:35 · Genres: Audiobooks, Cooking/Food, Health, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: Bill Bryson, British history, domestic life, home history, housekeeping, housework, invention, Lucy worsley, social history, world history ·
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