Not buying books is so hard!! I haven’t brought a book since my trip to New York in September. It’s a bit of a long shot but I am attempting to read all 60 odd books on my tbr shelves by the end of the year! I didn’t anticipate how difficult it would be not…
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Crime Obsession Part 2
A continuation of my crime obsession ramble, it has come to my realization – and honestly, I don’t know how I didn’t notice before – that I have an abundance of crime novels in both my paperback and kindle library and now gravitate towards them when I am out shopping for books. I don’t necessarily…
Unexpected Turn of Events
So, I had minor surgery on Friday (27/09/2019) and stupidly didn’t think things through. I’ve only had long surgeries with general anaesthetic and didn’t make the connection that I’d be out for the count and out of work all Friday. I did however, expect to be back at work on Monday but I got signed…
Thursday 19th – New York Day 5
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…
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…
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…
At the End of the World is a Book 