The rules are answer the questions below and share a link to your blog in the comments section of Sam’s blog.
What are you currently reading?
What did you recently finish reading?
What do you think you will read next?
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I hope everyone is having a good week so far. I had a lovely morning teaching primary school students about woodwind instruments, between teaching I have managed some reading as well.
What I am Currently Reading
I’m still plodding along with these books. I keep taking a break at the weekends to read a more light hearted book which is probably slowing my progress.
What I have Recently Finished Reading
Thoroughly enjoyed this and it was the perfect comfort read whilst I had covid. Review will follow shortly.
What I Think I will Read Next
As usual I have no idea what I will read next but it might be one of these books.
Please drop me a comment with your WWW Wednesday and I will head over for a visit.
Goodreads Monday is now hosted by Budget Tales Book Club. All you have to do is show off a book from your TBR that you’re looking forward to reading.
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I hope everyone has had a good start to the week so far. My chosen book to feature off my Goodreads TBR today is one that has sat on my Goodreads TBR for a very long time. I added The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society way back in 2019.
To give them hope she must tell their story.
It’s 1946. The war is over, and Juliet Ashton has writer’s block. But when she receives a letter from Dawsey Adams of Guernsey – a total stranger living halfway across the Channel, who has come across her name written in a second hand book – she enters into a correspondence with him, and in time with all the members of the extraordinary Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.
Through their letters, the society tell Juliet about life on the island, their love of books – and the long shadow cast by their time living under German occupation. Drawn into their irresistible world, Juliet sets sail for the island, changing her life forever.
The rules are answer the questions below and share a link to your blog in the comments section of Sam’s blog.
What are you currently reading?
What did you recently finish reading?
What do you think you will read next?
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I hope everyone is having a good week so far. I started the Diabetes Uk Step Challenge this week so my spare time has involved a lot of walking so far this week but I have managed a good bit of reading today as well.
What I am Currently Reading
I took a little break from these last week but today I have been completely absorbed with Lord of Chaos. Queens of the Age of Chivalry is plodding along nicely and I am learning loads!
What I have Recently Finished Reading
I will be honest and say I did struggle to get into this book but I’m glad I persevered. Review will follow soon.
What I Think I will Read Next
There are so many books that I want to read currently. I’m really hoping once teaching slows down I can get some real reading in.
Please drop me a comment with your WWW Wednesday and I will head over for a visit.
I had another really good month with my TBR list for June. I managed to finish two books off my June TBR and I’m half way through another. I’m useless with planned reading so I’m really pleased with this result. I did go slightly off track but overall I’m happy.
My planned reads for July are…
The Help – I’ve wanted to read this for a long time and I finally got a copy in June.
Klova – This book was sent to me by the publishers for an honest review.
House of Odysseus – 24 Books in 2024. Trying to reduce that TBR pile.
Goodreads Monday is now hosted by Budget Tales Book Club. All you have to do is show off a book from your TBR that you’re looking forward to reading.
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I hope everyone has had a good start to the week. I have boiled at school today and was glad to go on an evening walk to cool off. My teaching room at school is very small and even with the windows open I still struggle.
My chosen book to feature today is by one of my favourite authors. I would love to one day be able to say I had read all of his books. It is definitely one of my aims but I’m not sure I will manage it.
The first volume of Alexandre Dumas’ two-part interpretation of the story of Robin Hood, popularised for Nineteenth Century audiences by Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe, set in England in 1162-66.
In this book, Dumas tells the story of Robin Hood’s youth: how he is delivered by an unknown man to be raised by poor but honest foresters, his great skill as an archer, how he comes into conflict with the Baron [sic] of Nottingham, how he meets Friar Tuck, the Maid Marian, Little John, Will Scarlett, and others, how he is declared an outlaw by the King, and decamps, with his followers, into Sherwood Forest to wage war against the Baron.
The rules are answer the questions below and share a link to your blog in the comments section of Sam’s blog.
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What do you think you will read next?
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I hope everyone is having a good week so far. I have managed quite a bit of reading this week and this is basically because we have a lot of work going on on the house which involves a lot of early mornings. Hopefully, I might start to catch up on my reading challenges.
What I am Currently Reading
I just started the Alison Weir today and so far I am really enjoying it but I’ve never found a book by Alison Weir that I haven’t thoroughly enjoyed. Still plodding along with my nightly reading of Lord of Chaos.
What I have Recently Finished Reading
I really enjoyed this book and will definitely read more by Parrish. Review will follow soon.
What I Think I will Read Next
I’m doing really well with my planned reading for June so far so I am really hoping it will continue.
Please drop me a comment with your WWW Wednesday and I will head over for a visit.
Goodreads Monday is now hosted by Budget Tales Book Club. All you have to do is show off a book from your TBR that you’re looking forward to reading.
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I hope everyone has had a good start to the week. I had rather a stressful start to the week but I’m hoping it will be calmer now. I did manage quite a bit of reading today which was nice.
My chosen book to feature this week is one that I really hope to read soon as it has such good reviews and has been on my radar for quite a while. I picked up a copy a few weeks ago so I’m hoping that means I will read it rather than add it to the never ending TBR.
Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step.
Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.
Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.
Minny, Aibileen’s best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody’s business, but she can’t mind her tongue, so she’s lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own.
Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.
The rules are answer the questions below and share a link to your blog in the comments section of Sam’s blog.
What are you currently reading?
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What do you think you will read next?
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I hope everyone has had a good day today. I have been at school all day but I have managed to read a page of my book every 20 minutes when my students change over. I read this page whilst marching on the spot to get my step count up, this got me a very strange look from the head when she walked in to collect something from the room.
What I am Currently Reading
I am thoroughly enjoying The Hedgerow! Parrish’s writing style just reminds me of Dorothy Whipple and I love it. Lord of Chaos is still plodding along but the story is getting slower and slower.
What I have Recently Finished Reading
I could not put this book down and pretty much devoured it over the weekend. Review will be appearing this week.
What I Think I will Read Next
I’m doing quite well with my reading so far this month and I really hope it continues as I am so behind with my challenges. Hopefully, one of these books will be my next read.
Please drop me a comment with your WWW Wednesday and I will head over for a visit.
Goodreads Monday is now hosted by Budget Tales Book Club. All you have to do is show off a book from your TBR that you’re looking forward to reading.
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I hope everyone has had a good start to the week so far. We have building work starting on the house tomorrow and I’m not entirely sure how peaceful our house will be over the next few weeks.
My chosen book to feature is one I’m really interested in because I studied this topic when I was doing my Masters in Classical Studies so I’m really intrigued to read about it in a different period of history.
In her previous two bestsellers, Professor Alice Roberts powerfully and evocatively revived people of the past through examining their burial rites, bringing a fresh perspective on how they lived. In Crypt, Professor Roberts brings us face to face with individuals who lived and died between ten and five centuries ago. The stories in this book are not comforting tales; there’s a focus on pathology, on disease and injury, and the experience of human suffering in the past. We learn of an episode of terrible brutality, when hate speech unleashed a tide of violence against an ethnic minority; of the devastation caused by incurable epidemics sweeping through medieval Europe; of a protracted battle between Church and State for the heart of England – a battle that saw the most famous tomb in the country created and destroyed; and a tumultuous story, forged in the heat of warfare, that takes us out of the Middle Ages into the sixteenth century and the reign of Henry VIII. In the Middle Ages, there’s barely a written note for most people’s lives. The information we can extract from archaeological human remains represents is an essential tool for understanding our history. Most of these dead will remain anonymous. But, in the thrilling final chapter, Professor Roberts introduces an individual whose life and bones were marked by chronic debilitating disease – and whose name might just be found in history… Beautifully written, vividly drawn, and expertly researched, this is a brilliant and unexpected portrait of modern Britain.
I was really pleased with how I did with my May TBR, reading two out of my four books was a big improvement on how I usually do with my planned TBR. I’m really hoping I manage to do the same with my June TBR or even better.
Where the Crawdads Sing and Queens of the Age of Chivalry are both books off my 24 Books in 2024 list. The Hedgerow and Klova are both books very kindly sent to me by publishers. The Household is the book I will hopefully read if I manage to read the first four.
I hope everyone’s planned reading for June goes well.
Lady Book Dragon 