Topic

Light-Reads

A collection of 8 issues

Additional Review 6

Dirty Thirty by Janet Evanovich 30! Yes, she has written and I have read 30 of these guys! Like The Simpsons or SouthPark the characters never age while technology and society changes around them. I have been reading these since I was in Year 8/9! I read the first

Additional Review 5

The No-Show by Beth O'Leary Thanks Caitlin for the loan of this surprisingly good book. I thought it would be a typical rom-com chick lit kinda deal. It was a bit more complicated than that. Nicely written and easy to read, it felt reminiscent of Marian Keyes with

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

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

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

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