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A Book Club is always a good way to bond with those people who share your love of books, but occasionally the group needs a little prompting on discussion topics to get the conversation flowing. Please find below a few ideas to get things started. What were you expecting from the book to start with?Continue reading “The Maid Book Club Questions”

I started a book this morning which was disregarded 20 minutes later – something inside me feels that I should probably have given it a bit more of a chance, but honestly ‘disregarded’ is just a slightly more polite way of saying ‘threw it on the ground while yelling ‘you idiot!’ repeatedly’. I’m not anContinue reading ““Did Not Finish””

2021 was my first year as a Book Blogger, and so much happened in that time. Now, with the luxury of a week off I finally have time to go through everything that I wrote about, spoke about and posted about. Here, in one page, was my 2021 Fiction Books Book Review: The Christmas InvitationContinue reading “2021 Book Reviews by Genre, including Best Books of 2021”

A five star honeymoon in Rome… What more could a girl want? In Amy’s case a husband might come in handy…. but, with the cost of a cancelled wedding to mop up and no chance of a refund on the honeymoon, she’s jetting off to bask in the Italian sunshine on her own. Except no’oneContinue reading “Book Review: Amy’s Honeymoon, by Julia Llewellyn”

Molly the Maid is all alone in the world. A nobody. She’s used to being invisible in her job at the Regency Grand Hotel, plumping pillows and wiping away the grime, dust and secrets of the guests passing through. She’s just a maid – why should anyone take notice? But Molly is thrown into theContinue reading “Book Review: The Maid, by Nita Prose”

So apparently Giveaways are quite the thing on Twitter – and so now that I have hit the rather overwhelming number of 1000 twitter followers I am hosting my first ever Giveaway. Please see me on Twitter if you are interested in joining in! The book that I have chosen is The Maid by NitaContinue reading “My First Giveaway”

All Marnie wants is somewhere to call home. Mourning lost years spent in a marriage that has finally come to an end, she needs a fresh start and time to heal. Things she hopes to find in the rural west Lancashire village her mother always told her about. With nothing but her two green thumbs,Continue reading “Book Review; The Garden Of Forgotten Wishes, by Trisha Ashley”

This is the true story of how Matt Haig came through crisis, triumphed over a mental illness that almost destroyed him and learned to live again. Moving, funny and joyous, ‘Reasons To Stay Alive’ is more than a memoir. It is a book about making the most of your time on earth. I have beenContinue reading “Reasons To Stay Alive, by Matt Haig”

It’s nice to read a post that sums up so perfectly how I am feeling about reading over the past few weeks. I hope we all have a lovely, non-goal driven, time reading this year.

Dear Books, I know you’re wondering why I keep picking you up and putting you down again. You’re wondering where I am and what I’m doing when I’m not with you. You’re starting to wonder whether I am rethinking our relationship. Last night you saw me with another book, and I think it’s time thatContinue reading “Dear Books; It’s Not You, It’s Me.”