The Mysterious Affair at Styles was my first attempt at the Agatha Christie novels and I’m so glad I started out with Poirot. I used to watch both Poirot and Miss Marple with my mum on a weekend. I used to love it and some of my best weekend memories are sat colouring watching the…
Each year I set myself goals to achieve alongside the Goodreads challenge because numbers mean nothing! Obviously, I don’t have enough on my plate I like to make it more complicated. Well, I hope I haven’t with my 2018 reading goals. I’ve tried to keep things tame. Last year I planned to read 25 of…
I don’t think there is a book that Khaled Hosseini could write that I wouldn’t love. I adore his writing and the way he builds a story around his characters. When I read anything that he’s written I feel like I’m leaving my life and entering a completely new culture. And The Mountains Echoed is…
I recently wrote all about the books that I didn’t enjoy in my Worst Books of 2017 list, and it wouldn’t be a balanced argument without telling you about all the books I have loved in my best books of 2017 list. I have as with the other limited myself to 5. Career of Evil…
2017 has been a mixed bag when it comes to my reading, if you read my blog post about my 2017 Goodreads Challenge you’ll know that reading hasn’t been my only priority this year. I thought I would do a short recap on the books that were the bottom of the list this time around….
I don’t think it comes as a surprise that this is the year of going to miss my 2018 Goodreads challenge. I’m not feeling to bad about it, 2017 has been a year full of changes, for a start my new job has kicked my butt all year and the stress has kind off knocked…
You may remember if you have been following me for that long that at the beginning of this year I bought myself an Erin Condren planner to run my life, to-do and this here blog. Well, I used it for a couple of months but decided that ultimately it wasn’t for me. I found the…
I have so many books on my shelf that it feels as though I will never be done reading them all. Which isn’t to say that’s a bad thing. Just slightly overwhelming. I have this tendency (I’m currently doing it as I write this post) to reread an entire series, just because, or because a new…
Talking to the Dead was a book that my best friend ranted and raved about from the moment I met her even to now. I definitely see why, if you have read my Crime Recommendation post you’ll know that crime is the one genre that I really struggle with, I always find the story to…
The Hundred-Year-Old Man was a book that I started reading a long time ago and remembered enjoying. Unfortunately, I put it down and only picked it back up recently, I’m not sure it was the best idea. This book had me scratching my head all the way through, and by the end, I was struggling…