Good morning everyone and happy Friday! I love a good buddy read, there’s nothing more lovely then reading a book with someone and getting to discuss what’s happening in the book.
Ive got four buddy reads this February which I’m really looking forward to. The Do Over is with the lovely Reel Bookery on Instagram and My Policeman with the another lovely bookstagrammer Heidi and her books. Cecily is a buddy read with the lovely Bibliobeth which we were meant to start a while ago but my kids were ill so we put it back and finally The Magician’s Assistant which I’m reading for my real life bookclub.
Do you belong to any book clubs?
The Do Over by Lynn Painter (The Reel Bookery)
In this riotous young adult romp for fans of Recommended for You and A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow, a teen girl has the worst Valentine’s Day ever—only to relive it over and over again.
After living through a dumpster fire of a Valentine’s Day, Emilie Hornby escapes to her grandmother’s house for some comfort and a consolation pint of Ben & Jerry’s. She passes out on the couch, but when she wakes up, she’s back home in her own bed—and it’s Valentine’s Day all over again. And the next day? Another nightmare V-Day.
Emilie is stuck in some sort of time loop nightmare that she can’t wake up from as she re-watches her boyfriend, Josh, cheat on her day after day. In addition to Josh’s recurring infidelity, Emilie can’t get away from the enigmatic Nick, who she keeps running into—sometimes literally—in unfortunate ways.
My Policeman by Bethany Roberts (Heidi and her books)
This love is all-consuming
It is in 1950s’ Brighton that Marion first catches sight of the handsome and enigmatic Tom. He teaches her to swim in the shadow of the pier and Marion is smitten – determined her love will be enough for them both.
A few years later in Brighton Museum Patrick meets Tom. Patrick is besotted with Tom and opens his eyes to a glamorous, sophisticated new world.
Tom is their policeman, and in this age it is safer for him to marry Marion. The two lovers must share him, until one of them breaks and three lives are destroyed.
Cecily by Annie Garthwaite (Bibliobeth)
1431 is a dangerous time for a woman to be defiant.
England has been fighting France for 100 years. At home, power-hungry men within a corrupt government manipulate a weak king – and name Cecily’s husband, York’s loyal duke, an enemy. As the king’s grasp on sanity weakens, plots to destroy York take root…
It will take all of Cecily’s courage and cunning to save her family. But when the will to survive becomes ambition for a crown, will she risk treason to secure it?
Inside closed bedchambers and upon bloody battlefields, CECILY portrays war as women fight it.
The Magician’s Assistant by Ann Pratchett (Real life bookclub)
Shortlisted for The Women’s Prize for Fiction.
From the bestselling author of The Dutch House, Commonwealth and Bel Canto, Winner of The Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Pen/Faulkner Award.
Sabine – twenty years a magician’s assistant to her handsome, charming husband – is suddenly a widow.
In the wake of his death, she finds he has left a final trick; a false identity and a family allegedly lost in a tragic accident but now revealed as very much alive and well.
Named as heirs in his will, they enter Sabine’s life and set her on an adventure of unravelling his secrets, from sunny Los Angeles to the windswept plains of Nebraska, that will work its own sort of magic on her.
Over The Rainbow Blog 
I’m rubbish at readalongs! Often fall behind and have to read like mad to catch up 😄
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