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Hello 2017!


It is the first of January and I am in bed at 3.15pm because I feel (and look) like death warmed up. HOWEVER! Yesterday was a good day to end a year that had markedly more downs than ups and I am feeling positive about going forward from here. Drawing a line in the sand… Continue reading Hello 2017!

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My Top 10 Reads of 2016


It's almost the end of 2016 and what a year it has been. I'm not going to lie and pretend it has been anything but awful, but that doesn't mean that there haven't been good times in between all the rubbish. Quite a lot of the good times for me have been book related -… Continue reading My Top 10 Reads of 2016

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Book Club Reads #2 – God Don’t Like Ugly


Well, November's book was... an experience. One that all members of Book Club agreed is not going to be repeated any time soon, because we haven't got the stamina to survive a second round! (The book we read was the first in a 6 book series. We aren't sure how the last five made it… Continue reading Book Club Reads #2 – God Don’t Like Ugly

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British Books Challenge 2017


I utterly failed at reading at least one 'classic' a month in 2016 - I read a couple and didn't hate them but the desire to pick up more faltered and faded away as the year went on. Oops. For 2017 I have decided I'm going to join in with the British Books Challenge which… Continue reading British Books Challenge 2017

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My December TBR


December. The month I usually fail at reading anything until the last few days and then I read everything in one go! Some years December is all about me desperately squeezing in books to hit my GoodReads Reading Challenge total but as my total for the year was 36 and I'm already on 48, this… Continue reading My December TBR