April 23 Round Up
April flowers and showers, a serial killer on death row, Strauss in Belfast and Blue Danube in my head, monoliths and oligarchs.
March 23 Round Up
Snow and aftersun, Tár and the worst person in the world, seven books and a drone and doom masterpiece, all delivered in the office with a poker face. Life is a ride on ibuprofen and lemsip.
Six Degrees of Separation - April 23
This months #6degrees goes from the streets of Philadelphia to a punk rocker in 70’s London, a cottage in tipperary, a fairytale, myths & legends, spending too much time on our phones to an eco-thriller in New Zealand.
Six Degrees of Separation - March 23
#6degrees this month moves from life’s milestones to morning pages, Irish islands to moon colonies, modern and classic mysteries to refugees and a walk in nature.
February 2023 Round up
Mushroom monsters, Chicago bears, snowdrops and books all feature heavily in this months round up.
2023 NonFiction Reader Challenge
It’s the 2023 nonfiction challenge hosted and on this page I’m going to list the books I’ve read as I attempt to achieve Nosher status for the second year running. Wish me luck.
2023 TBR Pile Challenge
My post for the 2023 TBR Pile Challenge, hopeful encouraging me to put a dent in my tottering heap (and heaving gigabytes) of unread books.
Six Degrees of Separation - February 2023
This months #6degrees moves from Wall Street to Ponzi schemes, a glass hotel on Vancouver Island, a picturesque hotel in Suffolk, a serial killer LA, songbirds in Cyprus and migrant works from Sri Lanka to a remote Ghanian village.
Tips on Book Club Rules
Bookclubs continue to grow in popularity, and in this blog post I share some of the things I’ve learned in ten years of being a book club member.
Six degrees of Separation January 2023
This months #6degrees takes in beaches, English summers, Chile, the Belfast blitz, deepest Mexico and tipperary and snowflakes.
My year in books - 2022 statistics
My 2022 reading year in stats. How did I get on with my various challenges and which format was the most popular?
Six degrees of Separation - December 2022
This months #6degrees takes in Alaksa, 1940’s Paris, LA, hellscapes in Chechnya, and the arctic circle. Brrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Non Fiction November - Week 3
Non fiction November week 3 concerns stories that are stranger than fiction.
Nonfiction November - Week 2
Week 2 of the non-fiction challenge, where you have to pair a work of non-fiction with a fictional book you have read.
Six Degrees of Separation - November 22
Six degrees of separation starts with a naked chef and takes in Seattle, koalas, rural tipperary, fairy tales and a life without technology in the west of Ireland.
NonFiction November - My year in Nonfiction
Week one of nonfiction November and time to look back over my reading year. Still a few weeks left to add a few more but it’s been an interesting and varied year.
October 22 Round Up
My round up includes murals, musicals, banshees, Venice, Americana, shoegazing and the decline of Russia. A pretty normal month.