A month of beautiful spring weather, a week off work and a series of theatre and cinema visits has perked me right up. And there has also been some good reading. Travelling Light – Ewald Arenz A recommendation from BBC Radio 4’s A Good Read and this is from indie publisher Orenda Books. Set in… Continue reading April reading round up
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Review: Maybe, Perhaps, Possibly – Joanna Glen
The path to true love doesn’t run smooth, as they say, and certainly not if your families are both really weird. But I love a good tale of people being really very strange, and as this one also involves puffins and an octopus, AND has a map, what’s not to like? Actually the review copy… Continue reading Review: Maybe, Perhaps, Possibly – Joanna Glen
Richard Russo and the Sully series
Somebody’s Fool, the third book in the Sully series by Richard Russo, is published in paperback on 4 July and as you may be busy out voting that day, what you will need is a good book or three to get down to at while you wait for the results to come in. Nobody’s Fool… Continue reading Richard Russo and the Sully series
May reading round up
It’s been an odd but varied reading month, but with three trips to London and a trip to Birmingham I have at least been able to read a lot on trains, which is better than spending the journey wondering why we can’t run the service anywhere near as well as practically any other country in… Continue reading May reading round up
April reading round up
April feels like it was a long month. Looking at what I read at the beginning of the month, these seem a good while ago. So here’s what I got through in April. Joe Country – Mick Herron I started this month as I finished the last, with Mick Herron’s dodgy spies at Slough House.… Continue reading April reading round up
March round up
This has felt like a long grey month. You’ll spot a theme in the reading – unintended to start with but which has been quietly absorbing. Lila – Marilynne Robinson Lila is the third book in Robinson’s Gilead series, which began with Gilead, the story an old man, John Ames, writes for his son about… Continue reading March round up
2023 Books of the year reading round up
It’s that time again, number crunching and weighing up the good, the bad and the just ok. Stats first: 104 books says Goodreads, 99 says my notebook. I don’t know why I bother. Every year there’s a discrepancy and this year it seems to be worse. Let’s say around 100, give or take somewhere. The… Continue reading 2023 Books of the year reading round up
November reading round up
I finished October feeling rather disillusioned with reading. It hadn’t been a vintage month of books. And as this year was going to be my year of re-reads, I started off by going back to a couple of books I’d read before, to try and rediscover a joy in reading. The Secret History – Donna… Continue reading November reading round up
October reading round up
Oh what a month. My daughter was admitted into hospital for a burst appendix and as such, I’ve spent much of the time being with her for recovery and feeling guilty for not going into the office – turns out the flexible hybrid working still comes with a side helping of guilt – and reading… Continue reading October reading round up
September reading round up
Is it just that ‘events’ seem to be happening so fast or did September just fly by? We’re into autumn proper now and the season change is my favourite time of year. It helps being a September baby, I guess. Anyway, here’s my reading round up for the month – a bumper crop. A Thousand… Continue reading September reading round up
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