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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March reading round up
A month of lighter mornings and joy at spring flowers, coupled with an ongoing existential crisis at the state of *waves hand* well, most everything else. Thank goodness there are still books. A Life of One’s Own – Joanna Biggs I actually read this in February and forgot to mention it in last month’s roundup.… Continue reading March reading round up
2024: the reading year in review
I greet you with a traditional December reading round up post. This year my reading aim was to try and crack through as many books in my tbr pile as possible. Even writing this, I realise it sounds both ambitious and futile. But I was feeling stuck with my reading and wanted to move through… Continue reading 2024: the reading year in review
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
October reading round up
I love autumn but mainly in September. October is too unpredictable and, these days, dominated by spooky season. I don’t care. I don’t care for ghosts or cats or creepy or pumpkin space latte. Halloween has been fun since I had a child but it’s a day, a single day. It doesn’t have to be… Continue reading October 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
July reading round up
Looking at this, it seems to have mostly been a library books month so making very little progress through the tbr pile, but it mixes it up a bit. Absolutely and Forever – Rose Tremain This is a short novel and I read it one afternoon in the sun. It’s one of those novels that… Continue reading July reading round up
June reading round up
It’s finally warm and I’ve been taking part in a writing intensive this month – 1000 words a day – and have pretty much completed it too. I did think this might impact on how much I read this month but actually, the biggest obstacle to getting a lot of reading done was the length… Continue reading June reading round up
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
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
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