Topic

2024

A collection of 10 issues

June - theme: Pride Month

The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project 10 Years Later by Moisés Kaufman I planned to read an Alan Hollingworth book for pride month but we were going away to England and it was heavy! So I found another less fun book to read instead. This book was, unsurprisingly, depressing

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The Search by Nora Roberts 26 hour train trips lend lots of time for reading so I finished off a very long forgotten abandoned book. I started this book on our first trip to the USA where I took it from an airbnb book exchange shelf. I'm so

May - theme: Modern Slavery

The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré When I asked my friends and relatives for themes for my book reading bonanza I have to say I was not expecting "modern slavery" and when Brent said it, my first reaction was woah. After some research and a

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How to be a Little Sod by Simon Brett I'm ahead of the Monthly goals so I shoved a little extra light reading in this month (also for a break from Mr. Phinn). This book was funnier! This was loaned to me by my Mother-In-Law when I had

March - theme: Sheep (Memoir March)

Out of the Woods but not Over the Hill by Gervase Phinn Two themes in one month this time! Alex gave me the theme of sheep and when I was looking online ideas I found that Memoir March is a thing. So I combined. Backstory - Many years ago, when

February - theme: Black History Month

We Are Not Like Them by Christine Pride and Jo Piazza I listened to Jo Piazza’s podcast 'under the influence' about Mommy influencers when Ella was a newborn and enjoyed it enough to buy her latest book. It then sat on my shelves for 2 years. Anyway,

January - theme: Finish an abandoned book

Divinity 36: Tinkered Starsong Book 1 by Gail Carriger My Mum bought me this book a little while ago and I started it eagerly, I have no idea why I abandoned it because it was delightful. Sci-Fi setting with some dubious planet names - Attacon 7? Really you couldn’t

Premise - Read at least one book every month for the year of 2024

About halfway through January 2024 we reorganized the spare room and Alex pointed out that I’d hardly been reading since Ella had been born and my ‘to read’ staging bookcase was getting perilously full. So a mission began to get back on the wagon. Here is my blog where