Category: The pile

Oh boy, this week ended up a lot busier that I thought it would.  And the reading has suffered.  I was still quite post nightshift-y at the start of the week – so reading was slow and gentle, and then I did a lot of work and didn’t have a lot of free time.  All this made me tired and find it slow to settle to anything.

Read:

Murder at the Manor: Country House Mysteries by Various Authors

The Highlander by Kerrigan Byrne

Sweet Tomorrows by Debbie Macomber

A Killer Closet by Paula Paul

The Crepes of Wrath by Sarah Fox

The Canal Boat Cafe by Cresside McLaughlin

Started:

What I Did For A Duke by Julie Anne Long

The Man on Top of the World by Vanessa Clark

Police at the Funeral by Margery Allingham

Still reading:

The Seven Sisters by Lucinda Riley

Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink

On the brightside, I didn’t buy any books.  So progress there even if I didn’t read as much as I wanted.

I did five nightshifts last week, my brain had hit a go-slow by Wednesday morning and so I didn’t get as much read as  I wanted. Fingers crossed I’m back in normal working order soon!

Read:

Daughters of the Bride by Susan Mallery

Look to the Lady by Margery Allingham

The Herring Seller’s Apprentice by L C Tyler

Ten Little Herrings by L C Tyler

Behind the Shattered Glass by Tasha Alexander

Buzz Books 2016: Romance by Various Authors

Started:

Murder at the Manor: Country House Mysteries by Various Authors

Still reading:

The Seven Sisters by Lucinda Riley

Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink

Those among you who’ve been coming here a while will know that Nightshifts = book purchasing.  I was fairly restrained this time out – two Kindle sequels bought in the early hours and 3 books at the supermarket on Friday after I’d finished when my defences were low…

A bit of a struggle in the middle of this week – no idea why.  And as I started a run of five nightshifts on Sunday evening, expect light, non-taxing reading next week!

Read:

Trouble at Melville Manor by Mabel Esther Allen

Death in the Floating City by Tasha Alexander

A Demon Summer by GM Malliet

Curtain Up by Noel Streatfeild

Man on a Rock by Grant Sutherland

A Woman Unknown by Frances Brody

Started:

Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink

Still reading:

Daughters of the Bride by Susan Mallery

The Seven Sisters by Lucinda Riley

3 second hand books bought – one to replace a book I lost a while back, two to read.

A fair mix (for me) of reading this week – romances contemporary and historical, mysteries contemporary and historical, non-fiction, a children’s book and a comedy of society and manners.  But as you’ll notice, I’m still mostly on books with resolutions and happy endings.  And expect I will be until silly season finally gets underway – if it ever does.

Read:

Only a Kiss by Mary Balogh

Sunset on Central Park by Sarah Morgan

The Secret by Lorna Hill

Before Lunch by Angela Thirkell

Dead is Best by Jo Perry

Death of an Avid Reader by Frances Brody

Queen Bees by Siân Evans

Started:

Daughters of the Bride by Susan Mallery

The Seven Sisters by Lucinda Riley

Still reading:

n/a

One ebook bought – and Gail Carriger’s next Custard Protocol novel (Imprudence, out on Thursday this week) pre-ordered along with a cookbook to get myself free postage!

A mixed bag of reading this week – and I’m really puzzling over what to pick for my Book of the Week tomorrow.  Watch this space.

Read:

How the Duke was Won by Lenora Bell

Total D*ck by Christina Saunders

Only Enchanting by Mary Balogh

Pagan Spring by GM Malliet

The School by the River by Elinor M Brent Dyer

Vicki in Venice by Lorna Hill

Miss Marvel by B Willow Wilson

Cream of the Crop by Alice Clayton

Started:

n/a – finished everything I started this week!

Still reading:

Queen Bees by Siân Evans

One e-book bought, another free ebook bought, but that’s about it.  Although I did acquire a few from other sources – but then I always seem to!

A lovely week of reading – there’s some really charming romance in there, some relatively undiscovered classic children’s stories and a fast-moving thriller.  It’s all good.

Read:

The Job by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg

Can’t Buy Me Love by Jane Lovering

The Little Bookshop of Lonely Hearts by Annie Darling

A Gentleman Never Tells by Eloisa James

Some Kind of Wonderful by Sarah Morgan

The Escape by Mary Balogh

The Wild Lorings – Detectives by Gwendoline Courtney

The MacIains of Glen Gillean by Mabel Esther Allen

Started:

Total D*ck by Christina Saunders

Still reading:

Queen Bees by Siân Evans

Hmmm.  I may have bought three books and a trade comic on Thursday.  But that was still June – so my resolution to do better in July still stands!

I gave up on the Elizabeth Jane Howard this week.  I’ve been hanging in there trying to plough through because I love the Cazalets so much, then my Mum said I didn’t have to keep reading it if I wasn’t enjoying it – and that if she was trying to read something she wasn’t enjoying, I would be the first person to tell her to give up and move on so she was returning the favour for me.  I have a great mum.

Read:

Once a Soldier by Mary-Jo Putney

Poison or Protect by Gail Carriger

Sidney Chambers and the Forgiveness of Sins by James Runcie

An American Airman in Paris (short story) by Beatriz Williams

Sleepless in Manhattan by Sarah Morgan

The Rogue Not Taken by Sarah MacLean

Started:

Queen Bees by Siân Evans

The Job by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg

Still reading:

n/a

I bought six books on Friday.  It was very naughty of me, but I don’t regret it at all.  I’ll try and restrain myself this week though.

I can’t work out whether I did well this week or not.  Ok in numbers, the amount of books I read is not that big, but several of them were quite chunky books so I’ve actually done a lot of pages – over 2500 pages in fact.  But is that good or not?  I don’t usually add up pages, so I have no idea, and I don’t have the time (or inclination) to go back and add it up for a representative number of weeks.  My Goodread stats average out at just over 2000 pages a week for this year so far, and just over 2100 a week for the whole of last year – but I know that there are always some books that I’ve read that don’t have a good reads page count so won’t have made it into the total.  But hey, on that basis, I’ve done well – because the 2500+ figure doesn’t include the half of the Mary-Jo Putney that I read on the train on Sunday evening…

Read:

Wicked Intentions by Elizabeth Hoyt

The Tumbling Turner Sisters by Juliette Fay

Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld

Stormswept by Sabrina Jeffries writing as Deborah Martin

From Pasta to Pigfoot: Second Helpings by Frances Mensah Williams

Wedding Bells for Nurse Connie by Jean Fullerton

Started:

Once a Soldier by Mary-Jo Putney

Sidney Chambers and the Forgiveness of Sins by James Runcie

Still reading:

The Long View by Elizabeth Jane Howard

I pre-ordered Eloisa James’s upcoming novella, but that’s it.  I’m trying to be restrained…