Another Cracking Read from Sophie Green: Read a Review of Thursdays At Orange Blossom HouseAn uplifting novel about family feuds, fresh friendships, mindfulness and yoga. What more could you ask for in this crazy world at the moment! Sophie Green has compiled pure relatable escapism within the covers of her new novel Thursdays At Orange Blossom House. Like her previous novels of The Inaugural Meeting of the Fairvale Ladies Book Club and The Shelly Bay Ladies Swimming Circle, Sophie Green introduces us to formidable women who escape their everyday reality by attending a weekly yoga class. Not only do they find themselves but they establish firm friendships together outside of the classes. There is nothing that these women can’t deal with in the face of the myriad of their adversities and age differences.Maud’s wise cracks and advice come from 74 years of experience running a cane farm in Far North Queensland. Patricia is caring for her aged parents and feeling her life slipping through her fingers. Dorothy is dealing with multiple miscarriages and facing IVF. While Sandrine is seen as a light at the end of their tunnel providing them with an hour of escapism every Thursday night by providing a life changing yoga class at Orange Blossom House. But what has brought Sandrine to develop this place of enlightenment? And how will these four women come together to form such a formidable bond?Put the kettle on or pour yourself a glass of your favourite wine and enter the soothing world of Thursdays At Orange Blossom House.

its an amazing app BUT i hate how you can’t have ratings like 4.25 or 4.5 or 4.75 etc. i think that would be very helpful because sometimes it’s very hard to put a book into 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 stars you need an in-between! also i think the recommendations tab/page needs an update the layout is very old fashioned and the books it recommends you are based on a weird algorithm, i hardly like any of the books i get recommended. also maybe you could allow us to make our own sub-folders under the ‘want to read’ section eg. ‘really want to read’ or whatever. also ofc if there was a section/folder marked as never finished so the book wouldn’t be counted as ‘read’ or ‘want to read’ but simple ‘never finished’. THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WOULD BE VERY HELPFUL! also ofc re-reading the app doesn’t deal too well with that, the dates get switched up and i have to enter the dates manually also if you could give a book 2 (or more ratings) for each reread eg. if i read a book in 2016 and gave it 2 starts then read it again in 2020 and gave it 4 stars, it doesn’t let you keep both ratings it just keeps the most recent one so PLEASE FIX THIS, and also i hate how you can’t have a book in ‘want to read’ AND ‘read’

The app is great overall for tracking books read, and want to read etc, but there are a few glitches I’d love if developers could fix!Firstly, there are errors when updating the dates read. The date it shows in my “read” bookshelf, and thus orders them, is based on the date I entered it and doesn’t update based on when I edit the dates read. So if I forget to enter a book as I’m reading it, then I add it later and edit the dates read, it still shows in my bookshelf as the date I added it rather than my selected dates read.Secondly a bunch of books have all of a sudden converted into different languages. I get having different listings/editions for different languages, but books I added to my want to read that were in English now aren’t. Not sure how that’s managed to happen, I ended up searching (with difficulty) and finding the English version again to add, but it just is very strange! I see others have commented on this too, so definitely a wider issue.

I want to give this app more than 2 stars. I use it almost every day and it is a fantastic way to log my reading progress and to check potential reads. However. And this is a big one. The app is constantly crashing, and particularly when I am in the middle of writing reviews. The amount of times that I have had to go back and rewrite most of a long review…well it is far too many. This is beyond irritating and a massive waste of my time. Some of my saved reviews are much shorter than I originally intended due to having to rewrite them sometimes three times. It’s just not good enough. I would rather pay for an app that works and is reliable than have an app that has a major issue like this. It would be great if this could be fixed and I could give this app a four or five star review like it deserves. Well five stars would be if I could give half star reviews. Like 3.5 etc. not all books fit easily in a 1-5 star box. Anyway I’m now moving on, and you can probably tell from this review why I get so annoyed when my other reviews are disappeared into an abyss.