It has been a busy couple of days and it only just occurred to me that I didn’t blog days 2-4, so prepare for a post with four days smooshed together!! Monday 16th On this day, I decided to lounge in my hotel room for the morning, reading a book obviously! I headed out at…
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Sunday 15th – New York Day 1
I kid you not, I feel like a melting snowman today. This is my first trip to the states since I had my corrective surgery. It’s been great not having rivers of sweat running down my hands and armpits but I have also learnt that a backpack is not my friend (as I now sweat…
What Books Have Made it Into My Suitcase?
So, by the time this is posted, I will have just boarded my flight from Gatwick to New York. My oldest and dearest friend is getting married in New York and I am excited to be a part of her wedding and to get to go back to New York again. I’ll be there for…
Goodreads – Agatha Christie Part 1
I have always loved watching Poirot and Miss Marple on the television. I knew of Agatha Christie and the books she wrote but I never entertained reading them when I was younger. The BBC’s production of the ‘ABC Murder’s’, offered me such a different view of Poirot that it gave me leave to want to…
A Growing Crime Obsession
My obsession with crime started when I was a teenager and first started watching CSI with my Mum. From those first CSI episodes, I then started watching all the spin-off series, moved to NCIS, watched all those spin-off series, discovered Bones and my television obsession was complete. My Mum has always loved crime fiction, but…
August Book Haul
Technically, this book haul was not paid for with money I shouldn’t have spent! It was paid for with ‘celebratory I have read 100 books this year and I’m feeling a bit low’ money. So, technically, I broke no rules! The Diamond of Drury Lane by Julia Golding I am Cat Royal – Orphan, Adventurer,…
August Kindle Haul
This list of Kindle books wasn’t so much impulse buying as buying the next books in series that I wanted to continue reading. I actually brought these way back on the 16th of August, but just forgot to post them! I have been quite restrain this month in terms of book buying. I only brought…
August Round Up
I always think of August as a funny month. A boring month. A long month. Nothing happens in August. At work, August is the month that most people have off. It is a long month to stretch a paycheck through. I have been lucky that this August has been quite warm, coming from the UK…
Goal Completed: 100 Books in a Year
I’m as giddy as a school girl as I write this. Overwhelmed that I managed to complete this goal and still have months of reading left in the year. Makes me think I should set an even higher reading goal for 2020. Did I ever think I would complete this goal? At the beginning of…
