At the beginning of this year, I made the decision that I would read my way through the TBR pile, adding new titles only to the List. This would be The Year. Obviously, I failed with the only adding to the list aspect when I bought Gerald Durrell’s Corfu Trilogy, and this last month saw… Continue reading Recently Read: Returning to Corfu
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Recently Read: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
Now is the time of year when the day-job is less busy, and I have time to read again. My favourite time of year! And, since I continue to work from home, there’s even more time for reading. I’ve finally finished both Harriette Wilson’s memoirs and Carl Ruiz Zafón’s The Shadow of the Wind. I’ve… Continue reading Recently Read: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
Recently Read: From the Cotswolds, to Botswana, to London
My recent reflections on the last year of my blog have led to me looking forwards to the next year, and how I want to continue. Part of this is due to needing to reorganise posts due to increasing the weekly number, but also because otherwise I shall become bored again and have a little… Continue reading Recently Read: From the Cotswolds, to Botswana, to London
The TBR List
The biggest complaint I have about being a reader is that there are too many books in the world. Even if I did nothing but read, all day every day, I still wouldn’t manage to read all the books I want to in my lifetime. It is a sad state of affairs. It’s actually one… Continue reading The TBR List
Reading Lists: February 2020
Is it just me, or does it feel like it’s been a slow start to the year? Or perhaps it’s just the beginning of new plans – the getting started part, where I have to sort myself out and get into the swing of things again after the Christmas holidays. And, really, they aren’t new… Continue reading Reading Lists: February 2020
Reading Plans: The British Crime Classics Challenge
This year, I plan to give my visits to the library and my reading a little bit of purpose: I’m taking up the British Crime Classics Challenge. The rules for this challenge are simple. In fact, there’s just the one rule. To read British crime novels originally published before 1965. Now, of course, I could… Continue reading Reading Plans: The British Crime Classics Challenge
Place: The John Rylands Library
I like libraries. It’s socially acceptable, encouraged even, to be quiet in libraries. I much prefer writing to talking in any case. The John Rylands Library is part of the University of Manchester Library, gifted to Manchester by the widow (and third wife) of John Rylands, Manchester’s first multi-millionaire. Begun in 1889, with architect Basil… Continue reading Place: The John Rylands Library
Reading Lists: December 2019
My favourite thing about the weather turning cold is how socially acceptable it is to snuggle on the sofa under lots of blankets, with a hot drink, and just read. It’s a pity I don’t have more days when I can actually do this, but I relish the ones I do get. And the evenings.… Continue reading Reading Lists: December 2019
Learning to Like my Kindle
Back in the old days, when I moved to Sweden for a year, I got a Kindle. They were still relatively new and shiny, and an internet connection did not come as standard. Mine has an experimental version of the internet, though I don’t think I’ve ever really used it. It still has its first,… Continue reading Learning to Like my Kindle
Reading Lists: October 2019
I’ve decided to change the title of one of my book lists. You see, as with most readers, I have a long, never-ending, always growing, To Be Read list. But what interests me more about readers is the list of books which they thought about reading; the books they picked up on a whim, and… Continue reading Reading Lists: October 2019
Fairy Cake Living 