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The Week In Books: December 21 – December 27

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More Christmas-y reading and a few tie-in short stories for last week’s Make a Christmas Wish.  I’m trying to make the Laurie Graham last – I love her books so much and I know there’s going to be a longer wait than usual for her next one, so against all my usual behaviour I’m trying to pace myself!

Read:

A Wicked Way to Win an Earl by Anna Bradley

Four Weddings and a White Christmas by Jenny Oliver

My Christmas Wish by Julia Williams

Dad’s Christmas Wish by Julia Williams

Granny’s Christmas Wish by Julia Williams

Anything for You by Kristan Higgins

Nimona by Noelle Stevenson

Started:

Princes at War by Deborah Cadbury

Still reading:

The Night in Question by Laurie Graham

No books bought, but several received as gifts – and they were all ones that I had asked for so that’s excellent news.  I’m going to try to continue to restrain myself, although if I see some good bargains I may not be able to!

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The Week In Books: December 14 – December 20

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Well this is what a week of Tonsillitis will do for the to-read pile!  And a reasonable mix of actual books and ebooks too.  I finally called time on Lair of Dreams this week – I tried again to get into it and I couldn’t.  It’s been lingering way too long, so I’ve reluctantly given up on it.

Read:

Paint the Town Dead by Sybil Johnson

Bricking It by Nick Spalding

A Talent for Trickery by Alyssa Johnson

311 Pelican Court by Debbie Macomber

Agatha Raisin and the Blood of an Englishman by MC Beaton

74 Seaside Avenue by Debbie Macomber

Snowed in for Christmas by Clare Sandy

Christmas at Lilac Cottage by Holly Martin

The Beckoning Lady by Margery Allingham

Make a Christmas Wish by Julia Williams

A Christmas in Disguise by Katie Fforde

Started:

The Night in Question by Laurie Graham

A Wicked Way to Win an Earl by Anna Bradley

Still reading:

n/a

I managed to control myself and no books were ordered from my sickbed.  Which is impressive.  I did do some shopping – but it wasn’t for me!

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The Week In Books: December 7 – December 13

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I’m really struggling with Lair of Dreams – I just can’t get into it, but I hate giving up on a book, so I’m going to give it one more week and try to break through and see if I can get into it.  I developed a cold after last weekend’s nights and thought it was getting better until it struck back with a vengeance on Friday and the weekend, so comfort reading has been the order of the day, rather than the Christmas new releases that I should be looking at!

Read:

Mitzi’s Midwinter Wedding by Christina Jones

As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust by Alan Bradley

Tears of Pearl by Tasha Alexander

One by Sarah Crossan

First Season and Bride to Be (double pack) by Jane Ashford

Those Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Days by Christina Jones

A Winterfold Christmas by Harriet Evans

Started:

Paint the Town Dead by Sybil Johnson

Still reading:

Lair of Dreams by Libba Bray

I didn’t buy me any books this week.  I have bought other people books as part of their Christmas presents – but that doesn’t count does it!

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The Week In Books: November 30 – December 6

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Back on track this week!  I finished a few books that I’d been reading for a while, and then started on the e-book and physical to-read pile.

Read:

Masquerade by Hannah Fielding

Master of Shadows by Neil Oliver

After You by Jojo Moyes

Silent Nights: Christmas Mysteries edited by Martin Edwards

Hot Toy by Jennifer Crusie

From Bad to Wurst by Maddy Hunter

His Majesty’s Hope by Susan Elia MacNeal

Started:

As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust by Alan Bradley

Still reading:

Lair of Dreams by Libba Bray

I have been very restrained and not bought anything at all this week.  I’m not sure that it will last though.  I’ve been trying to put any books that I want on my Christmas list, but I think I’m running out of people who buy me presents who might get them for me!

 

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The Week In Books: November 23 – November 29

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I think I’m pretty much back to normal now – although I still have a few books that I’m still reading, this is more because I had a two day course away from home this week and didn’t really get much reading done!

Read:

The Tea Planter’s Wife by Dinah Jeffries

Shocks for the Chalet School by Elinor M Brent-Dyer

Wickham Hall: Part Four – White Christmas by Cathy Bramley

The Life and Loves of a He-Devil by Graham Norton

Going, Going, Ganache by Jenn McKinlay

Started:

n/a

Still reading:

Master of Shadows by Neil Oliver

Lair of Dreams by Libba Bray

Masquerade by Hannah Fielding

And I managed to restrain the book-buying tendencies after last week’s splurge, so that’s progress too.  Onwards and upwards!

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The Week In Books: November 16 – November 22

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It’s been a difficult week.  If you read my BotW post last Tuesday, you’ll know that my mind’s not quite in the right space for critical reading at the moment, so this week’s diet has been big on lighter, funner books and re-reading old favourites rather than some of the more unknown quantities on the to-read pile.

Read:

The Necromancer by Jonathan L Howard

Explosive Eighteen by Janet Evanovich

Conditional Love by Cathy Bramley

Death before Decag by Caroline Fardig

Full Tilt by Janet Evanovich and Charlotte Hughes

The Dead in their Vaulted Arches by Alan Bradley

 

Started:

Masquerade by Hannah Fielding

The Life and Loves of a He-Devil by Graham Norton

Still reading:

Master of Shadows by Neil Oliver

Lair of Dreams by Libba Bray

The Tea Planter’s Wife by Dinah Jeffries

My other response to the events of last weekend has been to buy books.  Lots of books. Four second-hand online (because you need to hit that £10 free delivery limit) and then a whole bunch from my favourite publisher of classic school stories (the fabulous Girls Gone By) and a whole load more from two of my favourite book dealers.  And I’m not even sorry about it.

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The Week In Books: November 9 – November 15

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A really busy week at work – with lots of shifts and obviously lots of breaking news.  So I started the week well with some books I’m reviewing for Novelicious and then ground to a halt at the weekend.

Read:

Hush by Sara Marshall-Ball

Nightingales under the Mistletoe by Donna Douglas

An East End Christmas by Elizabeth Waite

A Pain in the Tuchis by Mark Reutlinger

Started:

The Necromancer by Jonathan L Howard

The Tea Planter’s Wife by Dinah Jeffries

Still reading:

Master of Shadows by Neil Oliver

Lair of Dreams by Libba Bray

 

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The Week In Books: November 2 – November 8

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Not a lot of new books read this week – because I re-read the first three books in the Finishing School series before I read Manners and Mutiny (which came out on Tuesday)

Read:

Saints and Sailors by Pam Rhodes

Manners and Mutiny by Gail Carriger

Death by the Dozen by Jenn McKinlay

Circling the Sun by Paula McLain

Sabrina by Candice Ransom

Started:

Hush by Sara Marshall-Ball

Still reading:

Master of Shadows by Neil Oliver

Lair of Dreams by Libba Bray

We stopped at an amazing second-hand book shop on our way home from a day out on Saturday – and despite only having 15 minutes in there before closing, I managed to find 4 books – although one of them was a physical copy of the first Daisy Dalrymple book, which I already have in ebook but wanted a real version of, so it sort of doesn’t count – right?!

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The Week In Books: October 26 – November 1

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Post-nightshift slump hit big time this week – no energy and no concentration topped off by a string of early shifts does not make for a lot of progress down the to-read pile, so I switched to kids horror and graphic novels for the Halloween weekend and things improved a little!

Read:

The Astronaut Wives Club by Lily Koppel

Tinsel and Terriers by Cressida McLaughlin

Love in a Nutshell by Janet Evanovich and Dorien Kelly

Lumberjanes: Beware the Kitten Holy by Noelle Stevenson

Shiverton Hall by Emerald Fennell

Nightmares! by Jason Segel and Kirsten Miller

Started:

Lair of Dreams by Libba Bray

Saints and Sailors by Pam Rhodes

Still reading:

Master of Shadows by Neil Oliver

Circling the Sun by Paula McLain

One e-book and a graphic novel bought – which is better than last week, and quite restrained for me in a post-nightshift frame of mind – especially considering the hour I spent wandering Foyles on Monday evening!

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The Week In Books: October 19 – October 25

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Four nightshifts this week, so this week’s reading tends towards the light and fluffy, romantic and cozy crime because that’s all my frazzled brain can cope with at times like that.

Read:

The Duchess’s Tattoo by Daisy Goodwin

The Sound of Murder by Cindy Brown

Smoking Seventeen by Janet Evanovich

A Christmas Cracker by Trisha Ashley

Sisters of Versailles by Sally Christie

Murder at the Brightwell by Ashley Weaver

Tied up in Tinsel by Ngaio Marsh

Started:

Circling the Sun by Paula McLain

Still reading:

Master of Shadows by Neil Oliver

And because of the nightshift effect, I bought a few books this week – the next Stephanie Plum (having reached the end of what I had in stock so to speak) and a few other books I’ve been after for a while that I found at a good price. Quelle surprise that my will power failed me!