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Reading: Wintering by Katherine May; The Winter Spirits: Ghostly Tales for Frosty Nights by Various; The Peace of Wild Things: And Other Poems by Wendell Berry Listening: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K . Rowling; Mediations for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman; my 'Strummy' playlist on Amazon Music Watching: Silo and Bad Monkey… Continue reading Currently
The beginning of the year always seems to feel like a non-fiction kind of time for reading. I have physical copies of all the following books which will also support my reading goal of reading 40 physical books in 2025. The Plan by Kendra Adachi - this book on time management has been written for… Continue reading Five Non-Fiction Books for 2025
With a few days left in the year, I have already met my new goal to read 60 books in the year. It is now exactly a year since I stopped teaching and I do not think that it is a coincidence that my ability to read more is a direct result of having more… Continue reading 60 Books in 2024
Another reading post! This seems to be the thing I am writing about most and it will not surprise you to learn that I have already met my reading goal of 50 books for 2024. I have reset the goal to 60 and I am on track for meeting that by the end of the… Continue reading Winter Reads
There are some of my favourite reads from the autumn season: The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods (Kindle) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️I really enjoyed loved The Lost Bookshop. Set in Dublin, a mysterious, hidden bookshop seems to appear out of nowhere. This isn’t just any shop, though; it's a place where secrets are kept, and it has the… Continue reading Autumn Reading
Watching: Silo on Apple TV+ - Rich and I only started this the other day but we are already hooked. Based on Hugh Howey's series which start with Wool (never read but always meant to!), this sci-fi drama is set in a bunker after some unidentified event made living outside impossible. Or so we think.… Continue reading Currently
I picked up this book at Chatsworth last year, drawn by the beautiful Angela Harding cover and the autumnal theme. I have read with Austin a couple of Katya Balen's shorter books, Birdsong and Nightjar. These books are published by Barrington Stoke and are dyslexia-friendly with a specific font and cream pages. Austin is not… Continue reading Autumn Reads: How I Fell in Love with Katya Balen’s Beautiful Books
On Sunday, we got out in between showers for a hearty walk at Welcombe Hills. We always manage to leave it too late for conkers, usually collecting what is left some time in mid-October. This year we managed to get there while it was still September and we still found most of the conkers had… Continue reading Hello October
As we are almost halfway through the year, and I am doing pretty well with my reading challenge, I thought I'd share the five books I have enjoyed the most this year. The Outsider by Stephen King - I hadn't read any King for some time and this book made me want to fill my… Continue reading Five Best Books So Far
I have been in a reading slump lately. Whilst I have been able to get through a few audiobooks (including the prequel to the His Dark Materials trilogy, La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman plus the entire trilogy), I have found it hard to start a new physical book. I have started Babel by R.… Continue reading Slump
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