Tag: reading

Oh the perils of holiday posting when you do a weekly list of what you’ve read.  I’ve been in Gran Canaria, I wrote this on my tablet out there, and thought I’d set it up to publish – after all the Book of the Week post went up fine.  Imagine my surprise when I got home tonight and discovered it hadn’t gone up!  I’ve pushed the September stats back to tomorrow so I can get this up, but it hurts me that I’m posting out of cycle.

As I went on holiday on Thursday, the end of the week is dominated by ebooks – if I was taking actual books to read on the beach I’d need a second suitcase and would be charged excess baggage!

Read:

Welcome to Temptation by Jennifer Crusie

Dangerously Dark by Collette London

A Place of Confinement by Anna Dean

Raincoats and Retrievers by Cressida McLaughlin

Thirteen Guests by J Jefferson Farjeon

Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Joanna Fluke

Stirred with Love by Marcie Steele

Wickham Hall Part 2: Summer Secrets by Cathy Bramley

The Thirty List by Eva Woods

Started:

n/a

Still reading:

Appleby Farm by Cathy Bramley

I bought a couple of eBooks, but I’ve been very restrained!

A mixed week – some stuff I really liked in there, but also a run of average to not great stuff too.  This week’s Book of the Week Post has been tricky to pick too.

Read:

Dandy Gilver and the Unpleasantness in the Ballroom by Catriona McPherson

Bold Seduction by Karyn Gerrard

A Beeline to Murder by Meera Lester

Thoreau in Phantom Bog by BB Oak

The Heist by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg

Me Before You by Jojo Moyes

Scrapbook of the Dead by Mollie Bryan Cox

 

Started:

Stirred with Love by Marcie Steele

A Place of Confinement by Anna Dean

Welcome to Temptation by Jennifer Crusie

 

Still reading:

Appleby Farm by Cathy Bramley

I had a bit of a pre-ordering spree this week – but only bought one thing that I could read Right Now – so not too bad in the grand scheme of things.  For me anyway.

 

A really good week – some lovely books, with nothing left over from last week, although I’ve still got a couple of things on the go.

Read:

Death of a Policeman by MC Beaton

Rembrandt’s Mirror by Kim Deveraux

Finger Lickin’ Fifteen by Janet Evanovich

The Girl of My Dreams by Peter Davis

A Vintage Christmas by Trisha Ashley

The Z Murders by J Jefferson Farjeon

Your Scandalous Ways by Loretta Chase

I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron

Started:

Appleby Farm by Cathy Bramley

A Beeline to Murder by Meera Lester

Dandy Gilver and the Unpleasantness in the Ballroom by Catriona McPherson

Still reading:

n/a (!)

Two e-books bought – and a pre-order arrived.  No real books purchased though.  In other housekeeping news – over on Novelicious, we’ve been doing a Nostalgic Summer Reread of our childhood favourites – you can check out my post on Swallows and Amazons here if you’re interested in whether summer boating holidays in the Lake District lived up to my memories!

 

A very profitable start to the week in reading terms, but then we were away at the weekend and it got a little off track.

Read:

The Museum of Things Left Behind by Seni Glaister

Killing Monica by Candace Bushnell

Love in the Afternoon by Lisa Kleypas

The Confectioner’s Tale by Laura Madeleine

The Shepherd’s Crown by Terry Pratchett

The Garden Intrigue by Lauren Willig

Started:

Your Scandalous Ways by Loretta Chase

Rembrandt’s Mirror by Kim Deveraux

Death of a Policeman by MC Beaton

Still reading:

The Girl of My Dreams by Peter Davis

One book bought, and an ebook preorder arrived too.  I’m feeling almost virtuous!

I’ve read some good stuff this week – and I’m desperately trying to make myself read the last Discworld book S-l-o-w-l-y.  Because after all, once it’s over, it’s over.

Read:

The Woman in the Picture by Katharine McMahon

The Duke Can Go to the Devil by Erin Knightley

The Lady of Misrule by Suzannah Dunn

A Very Big House in the Country by Claire Sandy

Red Velvet Revenge by Jenn McKinlay

Started:

The Shepherd’s Crown by Terry Pratchett

The Museum of Things Left Behind by Seni Glaister

Still reading:

The Girl of My Dreams by Peter Davis

Killing Monica by Candace Bushnell

I bought The Shepherd’s Crown, but that’s it! Progress.

A bumper week of reading – because of a bumper week of train trips!  Lots of good stuff in there, but a few frustrations too.  I’ve mostly been trying to work my way down my NetGalley backlog – and I’m pleased to report that my little yellow post-it notes in the front of my diary have a lot more things crossed off!

Read:

The Piano Man Project by Kat French

The Great Village Show by Alexandra Brown

The Spider in the Corner of the Room by Nikki Owen

Just The Way You Are by Lynsey James

Not Always A Saint by Mary-Jo Putney

Threads of Evidence by Lea Wait

What to Do with a Duke by Sally MacKenzie

Five Go Glamping by Liz Tipping

Hardwired by Meredith Wild

Wicked Charms by Janet Evanovich and Phoef Sutton

Started:

Killing Monica by Candace Bushnell

Still reading:

The Girl of My Dreams by Peter Davis

A Very Big House in the Country by Claire Sandy

I had a little lapse in the supermarket this week and picked up two ebooks that were on offer and recommended too.  Oops. Hey ho.

A couple of issues this week.  Firstly I got to 90 pages from the end of Paris wife in the early hours of Wednesday morning on my way home from work – and then it fell under my rule about not taking books with less than 100 pages to go to work with me* and so it sat unfinished til the weekend.  Then there was an issue with the Spider in the Corner of the Room – I can’t read it when it’s dark.  It’s too scary. So that’s not finished because I haven’t had enough daylight reading time.  This combining together meant at one point this week I had EIGHT books on the go at once.  Which is ridiculous even for me.  I think I’ve done well to get it down to four!

Read:

Dirty Bertie: An English King Made in France by Stephen Clarke

I Don’t Want To Talk About it by Jane Lovering

Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome**

In The Drink by Allyson K Abbott

The Paris Wife by Paula McLain

Wolf Bride by Elizabeth Moss

Started:

The Spider in the Corner of the Room by Nikki Owen

The Piano Man Project by Kat French

Still reading:

The Girl of My Dreams by Peter Davis

A Very Big House in the Country by Claire Sandy

A couple of books bought this week – so a bit of backsliding, but in my defence, they were bridging a gap in a series (I’ve read books 1 and 2, and have book 5 but can’t read it till I bought the ones in between) so really the purchase is helping reduce the pile.  That’s my story anyway, and I’m sticking to it!

* Because I finish them before I’ve finished the train to work and then have to carry around dead weight for the rest of the day.

** Yes, I’ve read this before, but I haven’t reread it in a decade, and it wasn’t on my goodreads list. And I read it properly as part of Novelicious’s Nostalgic Summer Reread.

A very good week’s reading – both in quantity and quality.  Some truly excellent stuff in there – the highlights of the week were two crime novels – one for Children by Robin Stevens (which I recommended in my Summer Reads post) and the other, well you can find out tomorrow!

Read:

The Notting Hill Mystery by Charles Warren Adams

Candy Corn Murder by Leslie Meier

The Little Paris Book Shop by Nina George

The Rules of Seduction by Jenna Mullins

The Cherry Tree Cafe by Heidi Swain

First Class Murder by Robin Stevens

Bound to Be A Groom by Megan Mulry

Death of An Airman by Christopher St John Sprigg

Started:

A Very Big House in the Country by Claire Sandy

Wolf Bride by Elizabeth Moss

Dirty Bertie: An English King Made in France by Stephen Clarke

Still reading:

The Girl of My Dreams by Peter Davis

So a lot of train journeys at the start of the week (to and from work) means that the to read pile on the Kindle is shrinking – and I’ve been valiantly resisting the urge to request more books from NetGalley after writing out my August Post-It note of NetGalley books and realising I got a bit carried away.  I also got a bit carried away late at night the other day – and ordered four actual books.  And I might have bought a few e-books too.  Backsliding again…

A real mix of reading this week – classic crime, non fiction, women’s fiction, cozy crime.  I’m struggling a bit with Little Paris Book Shop (as you may have guessed by now), but I’m loathe to give up on it as I’ve heard good reports from elsewhere.

Read:

The Monogram Murders by Sophie Hannah

Wickham Hall Part 1: Hidden Treasures by Cathy Bramley

A Deceptive Homecoming by Anna Loan-Wilsey

The Year of Living Danishly by Helen Russell

Drape Expectations by Karen Rose Smith

From Pasta to Pigfoot by Frances Mensah Williams

Started:

The Notting Hill Mystery by Charles Warren Adams

Still reading:

The Little Paris Book Shop by Nina George

The Girl of My Dreams by Peter Davis

A bit of an ebook spree this week – 5 bought.  But no actual books.