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Former professional school librarian, now retired through chronic illness. Trying to keep cheerful by reading, drinking lots of tea, blogging my new life, and my love of bling!Pages
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Reading roundup 23/09/20
Well, I have managed to read two books this week and I am part-way through a third. This is despite being glued to a TV programme on Amazon Prime: the fourth season of the superb This is Us! The first … Continue reading
Reading roundup 16/09/20
Well, I have a confession to make: I haven’t managed to finish a book this week! I have been really struggling with my health and haven’t had the necessary concentration. Instead, I am about half way through my book – … Continue reading
Reading roundup 09/09/20
I got myself into a bit of a muddle with my reading this week. This is what happened… Feeling bored, I had a look through the ebook catalogue on our Public Library’s app and chose a few to download, purely … Continue reading
Reading roundup 02/09/20
After the intense excitement of the two books I wrote about last week, I turned the dial down a bit! I finished two books, about which I will tell you more in a minute. They were both very different but also … Continue reading
Reading roundup 26/08/20
I don’t suppose that it will be hard to guess the titles of the two books I read this last week! After all, in the previous Reading Roundup I gave you all my verdict on John Gwynne’s A Time of … Continue reading
Reading roundup 19/08/20
I must apologise again for missing last week’s Reading Roundup post. There are two books to write about this week and I am already halfway through a third. A few weeks ago, I wrote about one of my favourite author’s … Continue reading
Reading roundup 05/08/20
Well, I have a confession to make – I didn’t finish any books last week! You see, I started one and read about a fifth of it then gave up (more about this below). Then I chose another one, read … Continue reading
Reading roundup 29/07/20
First of all, I must apologise for the missing post on Monday. I was feeling really down in the dumps and couldn’t think of anything positive to write about. The good news is that I have read two books this … Continue reading
Reading roundup 22/07/20
This week I read the final book in a trilogy and started reading something interesting which led me to a decision. I had finished the first two book in Lois McMaster Bujold’s World of the Five Gods series, which fully … Continue reading
Reading roundup 15/07/20
Well, something kind of good has come from my stroke. It’s very weird, but also rather satisfying and pleasing for me. I’m in the middle of reading Lois McMaster Bujold’s World of the Five Gods series – I wrote a … Continue reading
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