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…
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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…
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…
50 Followers Celebration
When I started this blog back in January, it was to help me to better manage my time with book reading and to manage my OCD. I never thought I’d get any followers beyond my own parents but I continued to blog as it had become a relaxing experience for me. I wanted to create…
Halfway Celebration
Get excited everyone!!! I have now reached my halfway goal for reading this year! My target goal is to read 100 books this year and I have just hit my 50th book! Gosh, I almost can’t believe it, I feel so smug and elated. I should really buy some more books to celebrate but actually…
May and June TBR
Here’s a rundown of the books I’m hoping to read in May and June. I might not read them in the order I’ve put them though. The 1,000 Year Old Boy by Ross Welford There are stories about people who want to live forever. This is not one of those stories. This is a story…
Day Four, Tignes
I have now hit the halfway point of the holiday. Yesterday was a blue sky day, meaning that the slopes were busy and the queues for the ski lifts chaotic. I completely underestimated how difficult I would find this skiing holiday. I think I was in denial about how bad my inflammed kneecap can hurt….
At the End of the World is a Book 