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Well, I‘ve had enough of working today (and all weekend 😡) so I‘m going to sit down by the fire, no doubt under a heavy dog, and make a start on one of these lovelies. (Or all of them, knowing me!)

The Wilson is my #bookspin for January, and Queen is right in the middle of the bingo board, and I haven‘t made a dent in #readingtheamericas yet.

I‘m also reading an #arc of The New Life and listening to 2am in Little America.

I‘ve no idea what to read at the moment, as I‘m in that weird limbo waiting for next year‘s challenges. I picked Adam O‘Riordan‘s The Falling Thread off my shelf but that gets average reviews so back it‘s gone, for now.

I couldn‘t get Minnie‘s memoir on audio, following @Megabooks recommendation, but I‘m sure print will be just as good.

I‘ll finish A German Christmas today and will have some driving time tomorrow to listen to more of Dinosaurs.

Apologies Cindy; I haven‘t done a #bookreport or a #weeklyforecast for a couple of weeks now as I haven‘t had the time. I haven‘t had a day off for 3 weeks, inc weekends, which means I‘ve only finished 3 books in December so far. 😞

Anyhow, I finally found the time to start these two beautiful Christmas books last night, from the lovely @julesG - note the Xmassy bookmarks too!

I‘ve also just started Mouth to Mouth & The Rabbit Hutch, for #tob.

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I‘ll continue to dip into Bibliomaniac, which is really fun. I started School last night, and it‘s on the #ToB longlist. I also borrowed Cult Classic from BorrowBox due to ToB. I reserved Haven too and it was available in a few weeks time, but then appeared overnight!

I‘ll hopefully finish the Perry today. My next audio was going to be Olga (ToB again!) but I wonder if it would fit for Puerto Rico for #readingtheamericas23?

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I started After Story yesterday and I am *loving* it so far, @CarolynM ! ❤️

I hope to start Agatha today, for #nonfictionnovember.

On Tuesday I‘m going to the Lake District (for work, not pleasure!) which will be 5 to 6 hours driving in one day. I‘ve just downloaded Matthew Perry to listen to but could do with mixing it up with some fiction too. I have an Audible credit - anyone got any recos of recent great fiction on audio?

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Taste (@mitch) and The Undertaking were my next two picks from my selection jar. I‘m almost halfway through both, and loving them!

I‘m not sure I should be reading The Undertaking though Cindy as, from the hints you‘ve been dropping, I‘m wondering if it might fit a prompt for #booked2023?! 🤣

I‘m also listening to Mary Jane for #pop22.

I seem to be getting nowhere very quickly with the Irving though…🤷‍♀️

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I‘ve added so many fab books to my physical TBR pile in recent weeks that I decided to make a selection jar (squirrel mug!).

My first pick was the Almanac (@youneverarrived) and I thought that might be a book to dip in and out of so I also picked The Age of Miracles (@oryx). Turns out I can‘t put either book down!

I started the Irving 6 weeks ago when I got the ARC and didn‘t get very far, so I‘m picking it up again now.

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I‘m going to start Counterfeit today - thank you @Caroline2 ! 😘

The others are all my current picks to take to the Reading Retreat weekend on Friday, but I reserve the right to change my mind several (make that a dozen) times before then!

I also have Corrections in Ink on audio, which I‘ll probably finish on the drive over there, after which I have the Anna Wintour biography lined up on audio.

Tomorrow and Case Study are ongoing; I hope to finish both this week. If I do then I‘ll make a start on Trust.

I started Treacle Walker on audio this morning, but only listened to about 15 minutes. (Having said that, it‘s less than 2 hours anyway)

After that I‘m undecided whether to use this month‘s Audible credit on Glory… I‘m not sure if it‘s my thing but can‘t get it for ‘free‘ anywhere else.

Have a good week everyone!

Oh dear, it appears I collected even more reservations from the library yesterday, to add to the eleventy-two I already have! From this pile, I‘ll read Trespasses this week, as someone else has already reserved it.

I‘ve just started the Hart, which I think I‘m going to enjoy. Maps, on audio, is so good but a tough listen so can only do a bit at a time.

Then it depends what makes the Booker #longlist….

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Not much change from yesterday‘s #bookreport as I have these 4 ongoing and *must* finish them before I start any more… (chances of that happening?! 🤔)

Brown Girls on audio is only short, so I may add something else later in the week. (See, I‘m already coming up with excuses! 🤣)

I‘m halfway through True Biz and have only just started the other two. A busy week to come so maybe not much time for reading anyway…

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I‘ll finish How High for #camplitsy (of course!) and start on True Biz.

I‘m a bit more than half through The Shipping News, which I‘m still enjoying. Loving the Ali on audio; only an hour or two to go on that.

Just started Metronome as it‘s featured on BBC2‘s Between The Covers this week; it appears to be an apocalyptic novel 🤔! @Oryx @Hooked_on_books

Hope everyone has a good week!

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I‘ll continue on with How High for #camplitsy and also hope to finish We Own This City this week.

I hadn‘t realised #summerheat weekend was so close (how is it nearly June already?!) so I‘ll start Seven Days for that.

Love Marriage is reviewed on the BBC programme Between the Covers on Wednesday so I started that today. I won‘t finish it for then, even though I‘m reading on Kindle as well as listening, but loving it so far!

This week I shall mostly be reading black books!

I started Ghost before I went on holiday but didn‘t take it with me. It‘s very unusual and atmospheric; I‘m enjoying it @Cathythoughts

Also about halfway through We Own This City; it‘s fascinating but perhaps not quite as amazing as I hoped.

And then, of course, I need to make a start on How High for #campToB, as I‘ll be Camp Leader in June!

Have a great week everyone!

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Suddenly things have got rather busy on the book front! I‘m already reading The Namesake and the Prince Philip book; both are great. Just started The Love Hypothesis on audio this morning, for #pop22.

My library has just changed from Libby to BorrowBox and has pushed both my Abedin and Guncle holds at me this morning; there doesn‘t appear to be a postpone option like on Libby?

The Glass Hotel is a #buddyread starting today.

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I‘m listening to Rebel on audio, fascinating so far. I‘ve just started Build Your House ( from the #womensprize long list) and Mermaid Singing. (I decided to read this first before our #buddyread @CarolynM to get an idea of the background).

Haven‘t started the Yanagihara yet and thought it looked like a smaller book than her other two but the writing is *tiny*….!

Hope everyone has a good week!

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I seem to be going unintentionally monochrome for most of my books this week, other than Will. Absolutely loving this on audio; there‘s so many extras that would be missed in print.

Unorthodox is my last book for this quarter‘s #booked2022.

Salt Lick is on the Women‘s Prize longlist - it‘s a little bit pandemic-y for me at the moment.

Haven‘t started the Towles yet, but really looking forward to it.

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The Great Mistake and the Lebowitz are the next two that I‘ve picked off my too-large library pile. Started The Great Mistake last night - seems good so far.

I‘ll also continue with Say Nothing, a mix of audio and print.

Tirra Lirra is a #buddyread with @BarbaraBB and I might pick something else to take on our short 2-night camping trip - depends how far I get with these….

Hope everyone has a good week!

I‘ll see how I get on with Lincoln this evening, if I can motivate myself, as I‘m quite enjoying it when I *do* pick it up.

Bees is another #buddyread with @Caroline2 - a joint effort to clear our TBR shelves.

The Lippman is the next random pick off the TBR.

Hopefully I‘ll finally finish The Sentence this week as I need to drive to a couple of meetings so can listen in the car. Our Riches was on Libby, on audio, and sounds interesting.

Ghosts of Spain has been ongoing for some time, but it‘s really fascinating.

Mermaid is a #buddyread with @Caroline2 and @julesG - haven‘t got any further than yesterday as last night was more of a TV night rather than reading.

Primates is the next one off my TBR shelf (picked by random number)- it gets very mixed reviews so we‘ll see.

Hopefully get some #audiowalking time to listen to The Sentence, but the weather still looks iffy this week.

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Hopefully I‘ll get some more #audiowalking time this week so I can finish The Maid. I‘ll dip into some more of Ghosts too.

Started the Mellors last night…not sure. ?

Also about to start the Bronté one, which I bought from a sale cart at Waterstones a few years ago. There‘s 1 review on Amazon that‘s 5 stars and 3 reviews on Goodreads with an average score of 2.33. ? I‘ve given myself permission to bail soonish if needed!

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I‘ve only just started the top two, but both seem great so far.

The bottom 3 are ARCs due to be published this week so I‘m going to try to read at least one. Not sure why I feel the urge to suddenly be up to date with NetGalley when I have books on there published over a year ago…. But there you go! 😁 I‘ve heard good things about Black Cake so may go for that one first.

Hope everyone has a great week!

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I‘m about 70% through Prodigal Summer and really enjoying it so far. About 30% through Four Thousand Weeks and can‘t seem to get into it just yet. I‘m certainly not finding it uplifting as it claims on the blurb.

I should finish Crying on audio this week; not sure what I‘ll listen to next though. I do have some Kingsolver short essays on Scribd audio.

And finally, I just fancied Rewind, off my physical TBR shelf.

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I‘m hoping to finish Dignity this week, from my #nywd list. I‘ll also start Bellman and Black from that list; I‘d intended to start that last week but didn‘t get much #audiowalking done due to work and weather. @LeeRHarry

The other two are #buddyread books, if I can get to them! The #loudbuddyread is with @Cinfhen @TrishB and others, and Unsheltered is with @Caroline2 for #authoramonth. @Soubhiville

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Loving both Flight Behaviour (#authoramonth) and Tiddas (#nywd)which is on audio. I think I might finish that this week, as I have about 3 hours to go so I‘ll move on to the Setterfield, which is my other #nywd on audio.

Fault Lines is also for #nywd (I‘m getting through them, @LeeRHarry !😁). The two other books arrived on Libby today and are both short graphic books that will take about 10 minutes each to read. 🤣

#Weeklyforecast This is the situation as we enter the New Year.... still reading and very much enjoying these two books. I hope to have moved on by next Sunday 🤞😃. Happy New Year friends 💫 and happy reading this week ❤️ Happy New Year Cindy and thank you 🙏

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I‘m about halfway through Copeland Cane (from the #ToBshortlist) and enjoying it so far; should finish it this week.

Small Things Like These has just come up on Libby and is very short, more like a novella.

Infinite Country is a #buddyread with @BarbaraBB - I have this as both e-book and audio on Scribd so I may mix it up, as I haven‘t got a clue what else to listen to on audio.

Have a good week everyone!

It‘s turned chilly here so it‘s definitely fire-on weather! Started Past the Shallows last night, which feels as though it‘s going to be a tough one. @TrishB So then I‘ve picked something fluffy for after that!

Then of course is our #readingretreat trip to Gladstone‘s Library on Friday. Here‘s my tentative pile, plus Kindle as I plan to read the latest Kim Stone too. I reserve the right to change my mind at least 17 times before Friday! 😁

Forgot to post my #bookreport yesterday so here it is alongside my #weeklyforecast.

A good week last week - Cloud Cuckoo land was the absolute stand-out.

Just started Passing on audio,and about halfway through the Redondo, which is my last prompt for #booked2021.

The Franzen came off hold on Libby a few days ago so I need to get to that ASAP as it‘s a chunkster…. And Little Reunions, from @BarbaraBB is the next book out of my lucky dip jar.

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The Scent Keeper is the next book out of my lucky dip jar; looking forward to it! @robinb

I requested Josh‘s book on Libby and it came through yesterday - I‘m an 80s kid rather than 90s but thought it might be interesting; Neighbours on TV twice a day was definitely a thing when we were kids!

I‘ll also listen to some more of the Doerr on audio, although I‘ve got some work to do this week, so less time for #audiowalking.

Struggling a bit with the Roth. I parked it last week when I was on holiday but it‘s for my course so I‘ll try to plough through it this week.

Just started ‘The Cat..‘ on audio, which won‘t take long as it‘s only 5 hours; then I‘ll move onto the Doerr.(lots of post-holiday ironing to do! 🙄).

The Grohl came up on Libby last week, with no hold so I snagged it. About 40% in - good so far!

Hope your weekend is fab and all is going well Cindy 😘

My October is BUSY so I‘m keeping things light and mostly audios. Three Sisters publishes on Tuesday - another fictionalized story based on real people who survived the Holocaust. It‘s compelling and sad but something is a bit off for me. I‘m at 50% so it could pick up. The other 3 books I‘m excited for and they are all on audio. Traveling (🤞🏼🤞🏼) this week so I may have spotty WiFi.
Have a wonderful week xx

Had to go out peopling this afternoon - so long since we‘ve had to do that! An engagement party, luckily it was lovely weather so it was outside.

Anyway, that‘s why my #weeklyforecast is late today…

I‘m planning on starting As I Lay Dying and Ceremony, ready for my American Literature course that starts at the end of the month. Just started Listen, which is an ARC and about halfway through Mrs March on audio.

Have a good week, all! 😁

A joint #bookreport and #weeklyforecast this week, as I seem to be reading far too many books at once again, so the two things are pretty similar.

The top 3 are books that I finished this week. Loved Early Morning Riser, Married to Bhutan was a pick and A Passage North was a so-so.

Loving all of the 6 ongoing / forecast books, apart from The Fortune Men which I‘m struggling with a little bit.

Have a great week everyone!

Thought I‘d go for a couple of hardback chunksters this week….

I can‘t resist a New York book and the cover / spine of this one really called to me from the library shelf.

The NF, about Jeffrey Epstein, got great reviews in the press a few weeks ago so I‘m hoping for good things.

Have a great week everyone!

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Unwell Women is proving to be a dense, difficult read, but still interesting so I will persevere…. The other two ongoing books are audio so I‘ll alternate with those, although not sure I‘ll get much audio walking done this week.

Up next, I‘m thinking these two… one for #saudiarabia for #readingasia2021 (thanks @rockpools !) and the other as a #buddyread with @BarbaraBB

This week I am mostly reading books with long titles that begin with the word ‘Everyone‘! 🤪

I know it‘s a bit early to start Witch for CampToB @BarbaraBB but I never know how much audio time I‘ll get, so better safe than sorry. I‘ll probably finish the other ‘Everyone‘ today - it‘s OK. Unwell Women is quite dense so will take a bit of getting through and, so far, I think the Osman is better than the first book!

Have a fab week everyone!

I left my #weeklyforecast until later in the day as I couldn‘t figure out what I wanted to read this week…but I still can‘t!

The three books shown here are all ongoing; Sunset is on audio and only about an hour to go so I should do that this week, even though no time for audio walking. The other two I‘m completely engrossed in, which probably isn‘t helping the choice for next books. #bookhangover incoming!

I started We Begin at The End yesterday and can‘t put it down….have you had time to start it yet @Caroline2 ?

The Shafak is calling to me (ie it‘s in the right place on my #bookspinbingo card!) - I think you sent me this one Caroline, so you‘re to blame for a lot of this weeks forecast!

I can also blame @rockpools too, though, for reminding me about the Wakenhyrst buddy read. And…about 2 hours to go on my audio of The Other Black Girl.

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I started Priestdaddy last night (a gift from @Oryx in a pre-pandemic meet-up!) - very funny so far. Also started The Bamboo Stalk last night, for #readingasia2021 #kuwait.

Hoping to start We Begin At The End on Friday, as a #buddyread with @Caroline2 . I‘ll try to listen to some of The Other BlackGirl on audio,but it‘s not looking promising for #audiowalking this week - the forecast is for rain (and too many work meetings!)

#BookReport I finished A Stranger Like You by Elizabeth Brundage 👍🏻 Also I loved… All Things Cease .. I‘ve ordered the rest of her books 🤞🏻. She writes a great literary thriller.

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Finish Sorrow & Bliss which I‘m really enjoying
Start - Table Two
Start - Words to Shape My Name

Happy Reading Week All 😍

I started The Other Black Girl on audio yesterday - at the moment it‘s a bit long-winded, which is annoying me! I will persevere, but I just got notified about the Biden on Libby audio so thought I‘d give that a shot instead.

Loving Milk Fed so far, and Journey to Khiva is from the (physical) library for #readingasia2021.

Have a great week, everyone!

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I started Still Life a couple of days ago - not as good as Tin Man but still loving it. I plan to start Empire of Pain tonight. Nine Nasty Words is a #buddyread with @julesG - I‘ll hopefully get enough time for an #audiowalk this week in order to make a start on it.

And then.... it‘s the most wonderful time of the month! #bookspinbingo will determine what else I make a start on this week!

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Been doing a bit of campervan packing this morning, ready to go camping. Talking 3 books even though we‘re only going for 4 days and won‘t have much reading time...!

The top 2 are for #readingasia2021 (#taiwan and #afghanistan) and I‘ve been saving the bottom one especially for camping - I think it sounds perfect for a few days doing noting in nature!

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Finished: two sequels that I liked just as much as the first!
💎The Satapur Moonstone (#NewYearWhoDis)
🐕Lirael (IRL Book Club)

Up Next:
⚖️Just Mercy (BLM Book Club)
⚰️Burial Rites (#DoubleSpin)
🏠A Place for Us (#NewYearWhoDis)

Ongoing:
⛪️Christianity (never-ending EfM year 3 text)
🌀Circle of Grace (devotional/seasonal blessings)
🌈Rainbow Valley (#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead)
🌅House of Light (Mary Oliver—💜)

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Finished nearly all ongoing books yesterday, except for Klara and the Sun on audio.

These are the two I picked off my library pile this morning, so we‘ll see if I start them later or get distracted by something else shiny!

They‘re both for #readingasia2021, one fiction, one NF.

I was waiting for @TheAromaofBooks to draw the bingo numbers before posting my #weeklyforecast! 😘 Very excited to start on my Poirot re-read. Not sure how many I‘ll get through but I got 3 out of the library for starters....

The other 3 books are already ongoing and I‘m enjoying them all. River Town is unexpected - I didn‘t expect to like it this much. Unsettled Ground is intriguing so far and I‘m learning a lot from Black, Listed.

Needless Street came through on Libby yesterday, having indicated a 6 week wait just last week. I started it last night - weird and wonderful so far.

I‘m *loving* The One Armed Sister on audio - this one should definitely be on the #womensprize shortlist when it comes out on Tuesday.

I then need a new physical book to read - not sure I have enough from Friday‘s library haul.... 🤷‍♀️

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I wasn‘t sure about Death in the Air at first but it improved on further reading yesterday. I‘m still not loving the #qatar book though.

Nearly finished Small Pleasures on audio so will start my next #womensprize choice this week. River Town was on my forecast last week but I didn‘t get to it - hopefully I will this week. I also need some more fiction in my physical books so I‘m going with this for #srilanka.

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I have two physical books and one audio (Small Pleasures) on the go at the mo. I have a plan to get some more walking in this week so I‘ll hopefully move onto one of my other audiobooks (bottom right).

I‘ve ticked off quite a few books on my #bookspinbingo card but not a bingo yet, and one of the other 3 books will help. Although I‘ve just realised they‘re all NF so I might need some fiction too... 🤷‍♀️Decisions, decisions!