#sentenceoftheday #amreading #thecrowtrap #booksky #summerreading #rachael #novel "And I'm Red Riding Hood."
July 24, 2026 at 1:48 PM
#sentenceoftheday #amreading #thecrowtrap #booksky #summerreading #rachael #novel "And I'm Red Riding Hood."
4th #sentenceoftheday #booksky #verastanhope #anncleeves #thecrowtrap #verastanhopeseries #summerreading "What's that about Vera?"
July 24, 2026 at 6:14 PM
4th #sentenceoftheday #booksky #verastanhope #anncleeves #thecrowtrap #verastanhopeseries #summerreading "What's that about Vera?"
#sentenceoftheday #thecrowtrap #VeraStanhope #anncleeves #amreadingmysteries #booksky #summerread "They had stood at the Haymarket looking down Northumberland Street at the heaving shops."
July 17, 2026 at 6:13 AM
#sentenceoftheday #thecrowtrap #VeraStanhope #anncleeves #amreadingmysteries #booksky #summerread "They had stood at the Haymarket looking down Northumberland Street at the heaving shops."
Another #sentnceoftheday #thecrowtrap #anncleeves #amreading #booksky "The shadow of small clouds blew across the hill."
July 22, 2026 at 11:17 PM
Another #sentnceoftheday #thecrowtrap #anncleeves #amreading #booksky "The shadow of small clouds blew across the hill."
I'm on a roll! 3rd #sentenceoftheday #thecrowtrap #Shetlandseries #mysteries #booksky #amreading "There was an air of hysterical celebration." (Hysterical celebrations are the best)
July 19, 2026 at 10:57 PM
I'm on a roll! 3rd #sentenceoftheday #thecrowtrap #Shetlandseries #mysteries #booksky #amreading "There was an air of hysterical celebration." (Hysterical celebrations are the best)
I've come to the conclusion that #thecrowtrap is not a mystery. It's a character study of four women -- two of whom get bumped. #amreadingfiction #verastanhope #booksky #anncleeves
July 20, 2026 at 3:57 PM
I've come to the conclusion that #thecrowtrap is not a mystery. It's a character study of four women -- two of whom get bumped. #amreadingfiction #verastanhope #booksky #anncleeves
Fourth #sentenceoftheday #anncleeves #thecrowtrap #amreading #booksky #verastanhope "Her square toes were covered in mud." THAT is Vera Stanhope?! At last she arrives, on p. 230. But it's too late for poor Grace, my favorite character.
July 23, 2026 at 1:22 AM
Fourth #sentenceoftheday #anncleeves #thecrowtrap #amreading #booksky #verastanhope "Her square toes were covered in mud." THAT is Vera Stanhope?! At last she arrives, on p. 230. But it's too late for poor Grace, my favorite character.
#sentenceoftheday #booksky #anncleeves #thecrowtrap #amreading Whut. "It was 1985 and she reminded Grace of a young version of Margaret Thatcher." (Me interior monologue: NOBODY looks like a young version of Margaret Thatcher)
July 22, 2026 at 6:08 PM
#sentenceoftheday #booksky #anncleeves #thecrowtrap #amreading Whut. "It was 1985 and she reminded Grace of a young version of Margaret Thatcher." (Me interior monologue: NOBODY looks like a young version of Margaret Thatcher)
Another #sentenceoftheday #amreading #anncleeves #gardening #booksky #summerreading #thecrowtrap "There were large overgrown blooms and under the fruit-net berries had ripened and dropped from bushes and canes, so as she crouched in the border she smelled decay as well as heady perfume."
July 24, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Another #sentenceoftheday #amreading #anncleeves #gardening #booksky #summerreading #thecrowtrap "There were large overgrown blooms and under the fruit-net berries had ripened and dropped from bushes and canes, so as she crouched in the border she smelled decay as well as heady perfume."
UGH, please get me out of this Grace section before I become a blathering idiot. Why do I always identify with the character most likely to get xxx. Like in Record of a Spaceborn Few, and elsewhere. #amreading #thecrowtrap #anncleeves #favoritecharacter #booksky
July 23, 2026 at 12:22 AM
UGH, please get me out of this Grace section before I become a blathering idiot. Why do I always identify with the character most likely to get xxx. Like in Record of a Spaceborn Few, and elsewhere. #amreading #thecrowtrap #anncleeves #favoritecharacter #booksky
Heartbreaking section in #thecrowtrap #anncleeves #amreading #novel #characterstudy #booksky Heartbreaking character: Grace. I hate when a novel tells you someone has died and THEN gives you backstory because you see it was NOT inevitable. #sentenceoftheday "You should be in St. Nick's, you should."
July 22, 2026 at 2:52 PM
Heartbreaking section in #thecrowtrap #anncleeves #amreading #novel #characterstudy #booksky Heartbreaking character: Grace. I hate when a novel tells you someone has died and THEN gives you backstory because you see it was NOT inevitable. #sentenceoftheday "You should be in St. Nick's, you should."
Third #sentenceoftheday #thecrowtrap #anncleeves #booksky #amreading "Then a drunk old man came out of the pub and staggered crabwise across the road towards her, lit by a single lamp further down the street." (Me: Get away from him, girl! That might be your killer! AAARGH!)
July 23, 2026 at 1:14 AM
Third #sentenceoftheday #thecrowtrap #anncleeves #booksky #amreading "Then a drunk old man came out of the pub and staggered crabwise across the road towards her, lit by a single lamp further down the street." (Me: Get away from him, girl! That might be your killer! AAARGH!)
#anncleeves #sentenceoftheday #thecrowtrap #notamystery #acharacterstudy #booksky "There would be meetings." (This part of the book is really dull -- about landed estates & trusts etc But it does give you a sense of English country life, which is more business than Downton Abbey would have u blieve)
July 21, 2026 at 3:04 AM
#anncleeves #sentenceoftheday #thecrowtrap #notamystery #acharacterstudy #booksky "There would be meetings." (This part of the book is really dull -- about landed estates & trusts etc But it does give you a sense of English country life, which is more business than Downton Abbey would have u blieve)
Love the poetic way Ann Cleeves writes about weather: #sentenceoftheday #amreading #thecrowtrap #booksky "It was late afternoon in October, almost dark, with a gusty wind which blew litter and dead leaves into the doorway."
July 22, 2026 at 11:57 AM
Love the poetic way Ann Cleeves writes about weather: #sentenceoftheday #amreading #thecrowtrap #booksky "It was late afternoon in October, almost dark, with a gusty wind which blew litter and dead leaves into the doorway."
#amreading #thecrowtrap which is #notamystery #anncleeves #booksky #sentenceoftheday "By the beginning of autumn she had picked the early apples, wrapped them in newspaper and stacked them in boxes at the back of the garage."
July 20, 2026 at 5:36 PM
#amreading #thecrowtrap which is #notamystery #anncleeves #booksky #sentenceoftheday "By the beginning of autumn she had picked the early apples, wrapped them in newspaper and stacked them in boxes at the back of the garage."
#sentenceoftheday #thecrowtrap #booksky #amreadinganncleeves #summerreading "She switched off the bedside lamp and lay in the milky gleam of the midsummer night."
July 24, 2026 at 12:45 AM
#sentenceoftheday #thecrowtrap #booksky #amreadinganncleeves #summerreading "She switched off the bedside lamp and lay in the milky gleam of the midsummer night."
Grace in #thecrowtrap is the English version of Margaret Salt in Patrick Ryan's Buckeye: an orphan shuttled from one foster home to another. Sad. And she's one of the victims (not a spoiler, we know she's dead early on) #amreading #anncleeves #summerread #booksky
July 22, 2026 at 12:54 AM
Grace in #thecrowtrap is the English version of Margaret Salt in Patrick Ryan's Buckeye: an orphan shuttled from one foster home to another. Sad. And she's one of the victims (not a spoiler, we know she's dead early on) #amreading #anncleeves #summerread #booksky
#amreading #thecrowtrap by #anncleeves. On p. 124 we are introduced to -- who the hell is this Livvy? And when is #VeraStanhope going to show up? As I said, this book is so #notamystery, (altho 2 women die) it's more of a #characterstudy, & I'm enjoying the gossipy nature of the 1st 100 pp. #booksky
July 21, 2026 at 2:07 AM
#amreading #thecrowtrap by #anncleeves. On p. 124 we are introduced to -- who the hell is this Livvy? And when is #VeraStanhope going to show up? As I said, this book is so #notamystery, (altho 2 women die) it's more of a #characterstudy, & I'm enjoying the gossipy nature of the 1st 100 pp. #booksky
#sentenceoftheday #thecrowtrap #anncleeves #amreadingmysteries #booksky #summerreading #englishwriters #verastanhope "The food was profoundly traditional, in that the vegetables were overcooked and a brown glutinous gravy was offered with everything."
July 19, 2026 at 12:06 AM
#sentenceoftheday #thecrowtrap #anncleeves #amreadingmysteries #booksky #summerreading #englishwriters #verastanhope "The food was profoundly traditional, in that the vegetables were overcooked and a brown glutinous gravy was offered with everything."
I'm loving the Grace section of #thecrowtrap #amreading #anncleeves #sentenceoftheday #booksky "She and her father, wrapped up in coats and scarves and gloves, because after the heat of the ward it felt glacial, even in the sun, went for walks in the hospital grounds."
July 22, 2026 at 8:27 PM
I'm loving the Grace section of #thecrowtrap #amreading #anncleeves #sentenceoftheday #booksky "She and her father, wrapped up in coats and scarves and gloves, because after the heat of the ward it felt glacial, even in the sun, went for walks in the hospital grounds."
Here's another "awful food" #sentenceoftheday from #thecrowtrap #amreading #booksky "There were thick slices of cooked ham and beef, bowls of lettuce, slices of a thin salad dressing w/c looked partly curdled." (I'd wondered when we were going to meet #verastanhope. Did she just wander in on p. 54)
July 19, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Here's another "awful food" #sentenceoftheday from #thecrowtrap #amreading #booksky "There were thick slices of cooked ham and beef, bowls of lettuce, slices of a thin salad dressing w/c looked partly curdled." (I'd wondered when we were going to meet #verastanhope. Did she just wander in on p. 54)
Another #sentenceoftheday #thecrowtrap #anncleeves #booksky #summerreading #verastanhope "Outside in the corridor there was constant noise -- the clatter of a wheelchair, staff voices shouting about baths and commodes, and what happened to Mrs. Price's tablets, patients, confused and distressed."
July 19, 2026 at 7:44 PM
Another #sentenceoftheday #thecrowtrap #anncleeves #booksky #summerreading #verastanhope "Outside in the corridor there was constant noise -- the clatter of a wheelchair, staff voices shouting about baths and commodes, and what happened to Mrs. Price's tablets, patients, confused and distressed."
4th #sentenceoftheday #amreading #mysteries #thecrowtrap #anncleeves The suspense is building! One of the main characters is wandering around on a dark moor, with a flashlight. "A hare froze, dazzled by the beam of the torch."
July 20, 2026 at 12:01 AM
4th #sentenceoftheday #amreading #mysteries #thecrowtrap #anncleeves The suspense is building! One of the main characters is wandering around on a dark moor, with a flashlight. "A hare froze, dazzled by the beam of the torch."
Another #sentenceoftheday #amreadinganncleeves #thecrowtrap #novel #characterstudy Novel about four women spending their summer researching the environmental impact of a local surrey. "I don't suppose Lady bloody high and mighty Olivia cooked her tea."
July 24, 2026 at 12:54 AM
Another #sentenceoftheday #amreadinganncleeves #thecrowtrap #novel #characterstudy Novel about four women spending their summer researching the environmental impact of a local surrey. "I don't suppose Lady bloody high and mighty Olivia cooked her tea."
p. 215 of #thecrowtrap and very, very sad. Grace lives in a cottage with two other women who dislike her, Anne even thinks, in fact is convinced that, Grace is "crazy." She is intense and she is "interior" but she is NOT crazy. Ooh, this would be a good time for Vera Stanhope to make an appearance.
July 22, 2026 at 11:10 PM
p. 215 of #thecrowtrap and very, very sad. Grace lives in a cottage with two other women who dislike her, Anne even thinks, in fact is convinced that, Grace is "crazy." She is intense and she is "interior" but she is NOT crazy. Ooh, this would be a good time for Vera Stanhope to make an appearance.