I don’t think I’ve had such a busy month for a while – it’s all been school trips and and optician and dentists and exams and weekend trips where we indulged our inner nerds (at EM Con and then as Jane Austen cosplay, because we’re nothing if not versatile) and new initiatives at work and… Continue reading June reading round up
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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
April reading round up
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
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
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
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
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