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Christmas and New Year are done and dusted for another 365 days and now we’re left to face that old “new year, new me” chestnut. In a weird, twisted, roundabout way the book I chose for December is actually pretty apt. As apt as a narrative spoken by an unborn child with the intelligence and…

So, it’s November and once again, I’ve found myself at the end of a highly unproductive month where blogging is concerned. I did manage to pick up one book this month, out of the many that are waiting to be read. As it turns out, I picked a pretty complex one at a time when…

So this month I managed to read not one, but three books. I’m finally back on track. And, instead of sticking with what I know, I’ve been branching out for once – no more Jane Austen for me. Fight Club – Chuck Palahniuk Let me start by saying, everything in this book screams crazy. From the very…

It’s starting to sound like I’m making a ton of excuses for not reading (I am), but September’s just passed me by. Like the whole of 2017 has, apparently. This month has been a whirlwind of work, doctor’s appointments and general life madness. September’s read was Jonathan Safran Foer’s Here I Am. He’s another one of my…

Although it’s been a long old month, finding the time (or money, or motivation)to do anything in August has been tricky – hence the lack of writing. BUT, I’m (sort of) back on track, and getting into the swing of being a functioning human being again. This month, I tried my very best to read…

I’ve been dealing with a lot recently, so July has been slow in terms of books. I managed to get through a pretty decent sized one though, so that’s an achievement! This month, I read The Son by Philipp Meyer. It wasn’t something I would have immediately picked up, but it was recommended to me…

What with a whole week off work and beautiful sunny weekends, June has been a busy month of reading for me. This month I’ve been lucky enough to have read six books, all of which totally drew me in, in their own very different ways; needless to say, I’ve been even more of a bookworm…

Let me start this review by saying that I haven’t read Daphne du Maurier’s My Cousin Rachel, so I have no point of comparison between the book and the movie – as a bookworm at heart this disturbs me, to say the least. But, I did come out of the cinema with more than a few thoughts…

Finding the time to read has been tricky in the past few months, so this month I thought I’d make a concerted effort to get back into it. It’s been pretty slow-going this month, not least because I lost my book for a good week (it turned up in the kitchen amongst the recipe books,…