Tag: book review
May reading round up
What a month it’s been. It seems to have flown by and the year nearly half gone already. You’ll find a theme to many of the books I read this month and despite some of the reviews below not sounding overwhelmingly positive, it’s been a good reading month. Oh William! Elizabeth Strout This is the… Continue reading May reading round up
February reading round up
It was nine days into February before I finished a book, which is rare, partly due to reading The Story of Art in chapters, but also flitting in a restless way between a number of things. Mostly non fiction, which I find mostly to be best read in small chunks and not as immersive as… Continue reading February reading round up
January reading round up
Used to be that a new year took a few days, weeks even, to get used to. 2025 feels like it’s been here for many moons, it wasn’t even strange to write it down. Of course, it feels like the most eventful start to a year we’ve had for some time and even the end… Continue reading January reading round up
November reading round up
Two months to go to get through the tbr pile and I realised I’d not read a lot of non-fiction this year, which is a lot of what’s left. So I tried non-fiction November, with some fiction thrown in because I just can’t limit myself to facts all the time. Reading Lessons – Carol Atherton… Continue reading November reading round up
September reading round up
The best autumn month – it’s all darkness and gloom from now on – and my reading has been all over the place. Several half read books, a few I don’t think I can be bothered to finish and these below, which I did finish. The Exile and the Mapmaker – Emma Musty This is… Continue reading September 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
February reading round up
I have left publishing this so late that I already have a review to write for the next round up. But in normal month terms, this is the 31st so it’s not that late. February has been a grey dull month but I got to celebrate my fifth engagement anniversary on the extra day. Ruskin… Continue reading February reading round up
January reading round up
Ah 2024. War. Elections. Change or destruction? I’m not optimistic so this is why I thought I really should start to make a serious dent in the to be read pile before the apocalypse. I’ve created a spreadsheet and there are around 100 unread books in my house that I need to tackle. It’s a… Continue reading January reading round up
Susan E Barsby 