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
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Five Best Books So Far
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
Reading in 2023
I read 46 books last year. This means I did not meet my 50 book challenge target but I am really happy with this number nonetheless. I have updated my Reading Challenge page so you can see what I read last year. Here are my top ten books for 2023: Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross… Continue reading Reading in 2023
Library Day
This afternoon the kids needed to get out of the house so we visited the library in Warwick. It has just recently been renovated and it is so lovely in there. There was a Halloween trail which Austin got stuck into straight away. Evelina chose her teen fiction and settled down to read while we… Continue reading Library Day
How I Log My Reading
As someone who loves to read but also loves to keep track of things, I enjoy logging my reading in a number of ways. The most faithfully updated log is on goodreads.com - this is where my reading challenge is set and so long as I log a finished date for every book, it will… Continue reading How I Log My Reading
Did Not Finish
It is only relatively recently that I have allowed myself to put down a book I am not enjoying rather than power through to the bitter end. I find this harder to do the longer that I have invested in a book. The cover of my current Kindle read promises an autumnal New York romance… Continue reading Did Not Finish
Five Goals for February
I am not going to be writing every day on here but I do want to maintain a somewhat regular writing habit as I have really enjoyed engaging with my blog again and I hope you have enjoyed it too. When I started blogging way back in 2008, I use my blog as a memory-keeping… Continue reading Five Goals for February
Reading Round Up
So far this year I have read five books. Three of these were on Kindle (Below Zero, Amy & Roger’s Epic Detour and Reminders of Him), one was a physical book (The Lost Tide Warriors) and one an audiobook (The Office BFFs). According to Goodreads, I am ‘on track’! My favourite book so far is… Continue reading Reading Round Up
Tiny Book Review
Book 1 of 2023: Amy & Roger's Epic Detour by Morgan Matson. Although I love writing and I love reading, I do not really enjoy writing book reviews. I think I find it difficult to convey my thoughts about a book without spoiling it and I tend to only want to write about the books… Continue reading Tiny Book Review
New Year Reading
I have updated my annual Reading Challenge page so you can see what I read last year as well as keep track of my reading throughout the year, as I will update it from time to time. I was reflecting on the fact that I have not managed to read as many books this year… Continue reading New Year Reading