Anne Maguire 🏳️‍🌈, reading, writing, 🇺🇦

This is How you never get older..

@Beno10_MFC 110

Check if you're among the smartest people. Use only your brain to solve. Can you find the missing angle?

@TheBookshopMan Go for it ~ you’re forgiven in advance

I apologise in advance. I will be posting a lot about books over the next few days.

@1pcornwell How far you have come ~ through hard work and dedication ~ well done you 👍

Mid 80s when I was a volunteer police officer. Apartment was so small front and back doors were next to each other.

@Waterstones I’d pick The Black Death…

New releases! Which one would you pick? 😍

@BexBookaholic Look forward to hearing what you’re reading and what you think ~ if you can drag your eyes away from the view 😍

My reading view for the next view days ♥️

@1pcornwell Oh I bet that was difficult at times! A brilliant, honest, and at times heartbreaking book. And I thought my childhood was dysfunctional 🥺

Making the audio recording for my memoir True Crime. First time I’ve ever done this with one of my books. Pre-Order #TRUECRIME: linktr.ee/truecrimepatri…

@Airaasayss There’s a teeny white triangle in the top of the letter A…. Or the red one…

Read very carefully!!!!! And look Closely before before You answer......🤔🤔

@BexBookaholic I use Pavers and Cosyfeet. Cosyfeet are very good at helping you with specific needs. Also there are several outlets for sports shoes where you can search on width and usually older stock so decent prices. I can send you some links if you’re interested

I need help people. Does anyone know the best type of shoes / sandals to buy someone with swollen feet / a foot ulcer? I am struggling to find something wide enough and not crazy priced. If anyone has experience of this please help!

@1pcornwell I do, sometimes… I’m reading True Crime at the minute ~ beautiful and honest… and I thought I’d had a shit childhood 😟🫩🥺

Who else doodles?

@TheBookshopMan I feel your pain ☺️ it’s not my fault if Oxfam sometimes have their online bookshop with 60% off or 3 for 2 and only £3.95 postage… 🤭

The more I tell myself I won't buy any more... the more I buy

@revgpp Thanks ~ I’ll get myself a copy I think

@AnneMag99 Thank you! I've nearly finished it; it's compelling & extremely well written.

My brother in law kindly gifted me a £60 book token for my 60th birthday. I rarely buy new books, so this has been a rare gift. This is where I've got so far & still have £13 to go. Reading is great isn't it?

@Waterstones I’m hoping to read London Falling when I get my TBR pile down a bit…

New releases! What's tempting you?

@MadelaineLucyH A intriguing to me immediately… who is the child? Who is the woman? I love Bloomsbury as a setting… museum, university, squares… I’d read that

Ok crunch time, what one do you want to read more: A: 1902. A strange child is discovered in a Bloomsbury townhouse, her family vanished, and no one remembers or knows anything about them. A grieving widow becomes obsessed with finding out what happened. B: 1632. A woman wanders into an isolated village snowed off from the world, and is offered uneasy shelter for the winter. But when young boys start dying in strange accidents, the village must decide whether the outsider is to blame.

@Waterstones Has to be Tsundoku and after reading I’ll know how to get all the other books 🤣🤣 Apart from Baldwin ~ I’ve read it and it’s brilliant

New releases! 🐣 Which are you picking? 📚

@SaffronKim Went for an interview once with the Electricity Board and they were stunned when I walked in. Job was mobile with a car ~ fantastic! The men say to each other ‘she could work in a shop and sell cookers and stuff’…. Like I was invisible which I was…

@SaffronKim Same ~ left school in 1976 ~ careers advisor said get a job in a bank/building society as could get a cheaper mortgage when I married… became the engineer I wanted to be though took years… stood on a careers stall once while a man told his daughter that women can’t be engineers

1972 School careers advisor: “What would you like to be?” Me, aged 14: “A journalist (foreign correspondent), an astronaut, or an actor.” Careers advisor: “Have you considered nursing?” That’s what us girls were up against.

@TheBookshopMan But we need to know what you’ve bought ~ it’s important…. Ok maybe nosey is a better word 🤔🤭

Just 1 book, I said to myself.

@BexBookaholic Here if I can help in any way

The 1st sign that my mental health is bad is when I stop reading. Recently, I have hardly read. I have not been ok. I mask it really well. I am determined to do the things that I know help me: walking, eating better, reading and seeing my counsellor. Mental health matters lads.