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A collection of 10 issues

September - theme: Non-Fiction

A History of the World in Six Glasses by Tom Standage This was a London book box find. That book box was the first I had ever encountered and it was a delight. Housed in an old red telephone box, it had acres of choice and the books changed on

Additional Review 4

Bones Of The Lost by Kathy Reichs 10 years! I started this book in 2014 and made it to about the midway mark. Then Tempe went to Afganistan and suddenly all the bones were replaced with black Hawks, IUD's and military bases. Urgh. So there it sat for

Additional Review 3

Paris Daillencourt Is About to Crumble by Alexis Hall What a fun and cozy book. This is everything my pride month book wasn't. Set in the world of the Great British Bake Off (they call it bake expectations and have fictional judges and comedians but we know who

July - theme: Summer

Cooking with Fernet Branca by James Hamilton-Paterson There were a lot of options in my bookcase for a book fitting the theme of "Summer". I'm not sure why I picked this one but I'm fairly glad I did. Summer makes me think of Rom-Coms

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

Additional Review 2

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

Additional Review 1

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