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Since I started blogging about books, people that I know have often asked me to give book recommendations. This is both the hardest and best part about the last year, because a book recommendation is such a personal thing. A recommendation which is perfect for one person may flunk with the person standing next toContinue reading “What Should I Read? November 2021”

City Vet Maz Harwood has learned the hard way that love and work don’t mix. So when an old friend asks her to look after her Devonshire practise for six months, Maz decides running away from London is her only option. But country life is trickier thatn she feared. It’s bad enough that she hasContinue reading “Book Review: Trust Me I’m A Vet, by Cathy Woodman”

In a famine-stricken village on a dusty yellow plain, two children are given two fates. A boy, greatness. A girl, nothingness… In 1345, China lies under harsh Mongol rule. For the starving peasants of the Central Plains, greatness is something found only in stories. When the Zhu family’s eighth-born son, Zhu Chongba, is given aContinue reading “Book Review: She Who Became The Sun, by Shelley Parker-Chan”

Nobody is more surprised than me to find that on day four of NaNo I am 25% complete, having hit 12,537 words. Is most of it absolute trash? Most likely. Am I going to have more than 10% of it left after I edit? Highly unlikely. But that’s not really the point. The NaNo challengeContinue reading “NaNoWriMo21 Progress Check”

At the beginning of the year I set myself a challenge to read 52 new books in a year, an average of a book a week, and for the first eight months I did rather well actually. Then, September and October happened, and as far as new books go they were rather dire. Full disclosure,Continue reading “The Book A Week Challenge – Progress Check November”

I would like to take a moment of your time to consider the bliss of the book in the bath. Picture the scene for me – It is raining outside. There is the comforting continuous clatter of raindrops on the windowpanes, and you sink deep down into a hot, lavender scented rub of steamy satisfaction.Continue reading “A Book In The Bath”

October was a bit of a rough month overall, where both reading and blogging didn’t feature quite as much as they previously have done. However, I still found a few gems last month, as depicted below. Animal Farm by George Orwell is an a book I have read many times before and always greatly enjoyed.Continue reading “The October List”

1933. Progressive young teacher Marion Crawford arrives as governess to the little Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret. Home becomes a succession of royal palaces: Buckingham, Balmoral, Sandringham, Windsor. But ‘Crafwie’ son grows concerned at the girls remoteness from real life. Determined to give her pupils a fun and normal childhood, she takes them on buses, swimmingContinue reading “Book Review: The Governess, Wendy Holden”

For those of you who like to scroll through the reading and writing spheres of Twitter, NaNoWriMo may have popped up on your feed a few times in the last month or so during Preptober. Today possibly more so as today is Day One of NaNoWriMo. The excitement and enthusiasm is palpable. For those ofContinue reading “NaNoWriMo 2021”

There are a handful of classics which I love, which I have been too scared to review so far; What on earth have I got to contribute to the thousands of reviews/ critiques which already exist about Austen, Orwell, or Tolkien. But when I find myself in a conversation about book recommendations, what I actuallyContinue reading “Book Review: Animal Farm, by George Orwell”