Crisp mornings, autumn colour and a muddy dog… a weekly check-in
Well, back to lockdown. Things are not too different for me to be honest, I’ve been working from home since March and we tend only go out to walk Scully, which we’re still allowed to do. I don’t know how crazy she would get if…
Beware, octopus… a weekly check-in
Thanks to the readathon, this has been a pretty good reading week, including one of my favourite books of the year, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. I also posted On My Radar for November if you want to keep up with new releases. So…
On My Radar: November
You’re gonna need a lot of books to get through winter, right? Well here are a whole bunch more to add to your TBRs to keep you going! Please do consider supporting an independent book shop this present buying season. Many will post books out…
Readathon: Book Spine Poetry
Welcome to my mini challenge for Dewey’s 24 Hour Readathon, Book Spine Poetry! I hope you are having a great readathon. If for some reason book spine poetry has passed you by, it’s basically a poem made out of book titles. If you want it…
The One Stop #Readathon Update Post
Latest update: 12:00 Hours spent reading: 14.5 Pages read: 864 Books finished: 3 The End Local time: 12:00 GMT Pages read: 274 I read a couple of very short books, Memento and Serpentine and then moved on to Puddin’ which I knew I wouldn’t have…
Readathon TBR
It’s Dewey’s 24 Hour Readathon this weekend! I am trying to finish up Popsugar and ATY challenges so of course I have compiled a readathon TBR completely ignoring my remaining prompts. OK, OK, I threw in some last minute additions that will help, but this…
Tumble weeds… a weekly check-in
I don’t have much to report this week, I haven’t finished any books 🙁 However I have been preparing for Dewey’s 24 Hour Readathon and will be co-hosting hours 7 and 8 and running a mini challenge in the later hours. I did post a…
Ninth House
Alex Stern does not belong at Yale. When she awakes as the sole survivor of a multiple homicide, presumed a drug deal gone wrong, she is given an unlikely offer. Come to Yale, join the House of Lethe and oversee the rituals of the other…
Venturing out, mushrooms and psychic cats… a weekly check-in
So already a day late on my new weekly updates. The oven broke this week which meant Thursday was more of a “helping” Josh out building a replacement cabinet for the new oven kinda evening. Went into Bournemouth on Sunday for lunch and a walk…
Needle felting, pumpkins and some of those book things… a weekly check in
Welcome to this week’s check in! I manage to check in with the Popsugar Challenge group on Goodreads every Thursday so I have no excuse that I can’t do the same on my poor, neglected blog. So here I am, with news of what I’ve…
On My Radar: October
October seems to bring with it even more fabulous books than September did. I hope you’re ready! We might actually see the third book in the Hollow Gods series at long last! I need to go recap the previous books, but I am excited to…
Eight Detectives
Grant McAllister is an author living in seclusion when Julia Hart approaches him, wanting to republish his book. Thirty years ago he wrote a series of stories exploring the rules of the murder mystery genre, but he doesn’t seem to remember much about it. As…