415 pages ~ ★★★★☆ ~ Kindle The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper is a historical non-fiction which is a little different to other Jack the Ripper books I've read as the focus for this is the background and lives of the five women rather than their murders. Split… Continue reading The Five ~ Hallie Rubenhold
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28. Self confessed geek and complainer. Tea addict, Ravenclaw, Knitter, Bookworm, Developer.
WWW Wednesday ~ 15th January 2020
This post runs weekly on Sam's blog but I'm using it as a mid-month check in. What are you currently reading? I'm currently listening to Period. It's About Bloody Time on audiobook and reading Big Girl, Small Town ahead of its release next month, I'm really enjoying both of these. I'm also just finishing Uprooted… Continue reading WWW Wednesday ~ 15th January 2020
The Year of Less ~ Cait Flanders
216 pages ~ ★★★☆☆ ~ Audiobook When Cait announces to her friends that she's thinking of stopping shopping the announcement isn't too out of character, having previously put efforts into getting out of debt and improving her health they're used to her self-improvement experiments; she tracked her progress on her blog and later wrote this… Continue reading The Year of Less ~ Cait Flanders
2020 Anticipated New Releases
Quite often with book releases I feel like I'm living under a bit of a rock, however there are a few books due for release this year that I am quite excited by. Most of these will likely get pre-ordered or I'll request they be purchased via my local library. The Switch ~ The FlatShare… Continue reading 2020 Anticipated New Releases
2020 Audiobook Challenge
Last week I posted about some of my 2020 Reading Goals, I've since found some challenges which line up with a couple of them perfectly courtesy of Silver Button Books, the first being the Audiobook Challenge 2020. You read the full challenge overview and see who else is participating on Caffeinated Book Reviewer… Continue reading 2020 Audiobook Challenge
Beat the Backlist 2020
Another book challenge which aligns perfectly with one of my 2020 Reading Goals of actually reading some of the books on my bookshelf. To try and help tackle the never-ending TBR pile this challenge focuses on reading any non-new releases, anything published in or before 2019 counts; you also need to have started and finished… Continue reading Beat the Backlist 2020
January – March 2020 ~ TBR
Going back to Quarterly TBR's for the start of 2020, I find these put a bit less pressure on than doing them monthly; I've been through my Goodreads TBR shelf and removed some books which I no longer feel excited about reading. Winter ~ My aim is to get through the rest of Ali Smith's… Continue reading January – March 2020 ~ TBR
Make Do and Mend a Broken Heart ~ Katey Lovell
260 pages ~ ★★★★☆ ~ Netgalley eARC Richard and Leanne have been together for 16 years and married for 7 of them. During the prologue they're viewing a cottage by the sea for a potential purchase, the house needs a lot of work, the previous owners made half an attempt to create an open plan… Continue reading Make Do and Mend a Broken Heart ~ Katey Lovell
December 2019 ~ Wrap Up
December is probably my favourite month and this year was no different, we managed to avoid most of the chaos and had a lovely, relaxed festive period that included a good amount of downtime amongst the family board game arguments; I also manged to fit in plenty of festive reads, something I'm already planning on… Continue reading December 2019 ~ Wrap Up
2020 Goals/Resolutions
Yesterday I posted some reading related goals I've set myself for next year and decided to also include some more general one; most of these are things are quite stereotypical, health related ones January 30 Days of Yoga Challenge Last year for the first time I took part in the Yoga With Adriene Dedicate -… Continue reading 2020 Goals/Resolutions
