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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. We are still trying to get ready for Christmas and it is so nice seeing the decorations go up around the house.
What I am Currently Reading
I’m mainly focusing on Murder at Holly House at the moment because I want a nice festive read.
What I have Recently Finished Reading
Absolutely loved reading about Dr Galloway’s adventures again.
What I Think I will Read Next
As usual I’m not sure what I will read next but it might be one of these books or it might be a more festive read.
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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’ve had a busy day putting up Christmas decorations and teaching but I also managed to start my day with a bit of reading as well. I have also finally managed to start some of my festive books.
My chosen book to feature on Goodreads Monday this week is from a series I plan on finishing in 2024. This is the next book I need to read in the series.
A revolution brewing for generations has begun in fire. It will end in blood.
The Free Navy – a violent group of Belters in black-market military ships – has crippled the Earth and begun a campaign of piracy and violence among the outer planets. The colony ships heading for the thousand new worlds on the far side of the alien ring gates are easy prey, and no single navy remains strong enough to protect them.
James Holden and his crew know the strengths and weaknesses of this new force better than anyone. Outnumbered and outgunned, the embattled remnants of the old political powers call on the Rocinante for a desperate mission to reach Medina Station at the heart of the gate network.
But the new alliances are as flawed as the old, and the struggle for power has only just begun. As the chaos grows, an alien mystery deepens. Pirate fleets, mutiny and betrayal may be the least of the Rocinante’s problems. And in the uncanny spaces past the ring gates, the choices of a few damaged and desperate people may determine the fate of more than just humanity.
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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. The first book I read and reviewed this year was The Box of Delights by John Masefield but I still haven’t read the first book in the series. I’m really hoping I get to read this book before the end of the year.
Young Kay Harker lives in an old house in the country, filled with portraits of his ancestors. His only companions are his unpleasant guardian Sir Theopompus and his governess Sylvia Daisy Pouncer (who, Kay suspects, has stolen all his toys). Life is lonely and dull, until one night Kay’s great-grandpapa Harker, a sea captain, steps out of his portrait to tell him about a stolen treasure that belongs to Kay’s family. The evil Abner Brown is searching for it too, but Kay is helped by the midnight folk: creatures like Nibbins the cat and Rollicum Bitem Lightfoot the fox, and even his lost toys, who will join him on his dangerous quest.
The Midnight Folk is a feast of imaginative story-telling, a glorious cornucopia of pirates and witches, lost treasure and talking animals. Although it was published in 1927, it evokes an older world: houses are lit by oil lamps, and travel is by horse, carriage – or broomstick. Masefield perfectly captures a child’s perspective, from the terrors of tigers under the bed to the horrors of declining a Latin adjective. Yet there is also plenty of humour that adults will appreciate, from Miss Piney Trigger, who swigs champagne in bed and prides herself on having backed a host of Derby winners, to Kay’s lessons: ‘Divinity was easy, as it was about Noah’s Ark. French was fairly easy, as it was about the cats of the daughter of the gardener.’ This mingling of past and present, reality and fantasy, has made this one of the most rewarding and influential children’s books ever written.
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Now I will be honest my November TBR did not go to plan at all. In fact I read a total of one book from my planned list. Being a mood reader really does have its disadvantages sometimes. However, I am planning on a December TBR and I hope that I will manage some of the books. Usually, I go all Christmas themed for my December TBR but this year I am not sure I will be going fully Christmas. Maybe, a few Christmas reads will make an appearance.
Books I hope to read in December
Fingers crossed I manage to read some of these books.
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I hope everyone has had a good week so far. I have had a lovely evening reading today and it has been lovely. Just sitting in front of a fire with a big mug of tea and a good book is simply the best.
What I am Currently Reading
I visited Sudeley Castle in half term and loved it and this book does not disappoint. The pictures are superb and the book is packed full of info.
What I have Recently Finished Reading
I’m still not sure about this book. Some parts I loved and some parts were very disappointing.
What I Think I will Read Next
I usually start thinking about Christmas reads around about now but to be honest I just don’t seem to be in the mood yet. I still want nonfiction!
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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’m on my last full week of teaching and I must admit I am looking forward to more free time to read once I have finished.
I’m still enjoying my Tudor history books and my TBR list is growing with Tudor related books. This one is currently at the top of the pile and I really hope to get reading it soon.
Henry VIII is best known in history for his tempestuous marriages and the fates of his six wives. However, as acclaimed historian Tracy Borman makes clear in her illuminating new chronicle of Henry’s life, his reign and reputation were hugely influenced by the men who surrounded and interacted with him as companions and confidants, servants and ministers, and occasionally as rivals–many of whom have been underplayed in previous biographies. These relationships offer a fresh, often surprising perspective on the legendary king, revealing the contradictions in his beliefs, behavior, and character in a nuanced light. They show him capable of fierce but seldom abiding loyalty, of raising men up only to destroy them later. He loved to be attended by boisterous young men, the likes of his intimate friend Charles Brandon, who shared his passion for sport, but could also be diverted by men of intellect, culture, and wit, as his longstanding interplay with Cardinal Wolsey and his reluctant abandonment of Thomas More attest. Eager to escape the shadow of his father, Henry VII, he was often trusting and easily led by male attendants and advisors early in his reign (his coronation was just shy of his 18th birthday in 1509); in time, though, he matured into a profoundly suspicious and paranoid king whose ruthlessness would be ever more apparent, as Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk and uncle to two of Henry’s wives, discovered to his great discomfort, and as Eustace Chapuys, the ambassador of Charles V of Spain, often reported.
Recounting the great Tudor’s life and signal moments through the lens of his male relationships, Tracy Borman’s new biography reveals Henry’s personality in all its multi-faceted, contradictory glory, and sheds fresh light on his reign for anyone fascinated by the Tudor era and its legacy.
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I hope everyone is having a good week so far. I must admit this week is getting a little bit on top of me work wise but I’m hoping I can get through it ok. Next week is my last full week at all my different schools so I am looking forward to having a little bit more free time from then on.
What I am Currently Reading
I’m still going with Mary Beard and I’m still really enjoying it but it is rather a detailed read which I really can’t read when tired. The Lost Bookshop is a kindle book I downloaded for my holidays but never got around to reading. However, finding myself on a train journey I got the kindle app on my phone and started reading it and I’ve been hooked ever since.
What I have Recently Finished Reading
I will be honest I was not impressed with this read but I will elaborate more when I review it.
What I Think I will Read Next
I really want to continue with my nonfiction reading but I’m not sure whether I will manage it as when I’m tired I always want easy reads.
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 you have all had a good start to the week. I’ve had rather a busy day with teaching but I managed to get some reading done today.
My chosen book today is by an author who is fast becoming one of my favourites. I have added every single book of Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s that I haven’t read to my Goodreads TBR.
The Mayan god of death sends a young woman on a harrowing, life-changing journey in this one-of-a-kind fairy tale inspired by Mexican folklore.
The Jazz Age is in full swing, but Casiopea Tun is too busy cleaning the floors of her wealthy grandfather’s house to listen to any fast tunes. Nevertheless, she dreams of a life far from her dusty small town in southern Mexico. A life she can call her own.
Yet this new life seems as distant as the stars, until the day she finds a curious wooden box in her grandfather’s room. She opens it—and accidentally frees the spirit of the Mayan god of death, who requests her help in recovering his throne from his treacherous brother. Failure will mean Casiopea’s demise, but success could make her dreams come true.
In the company of the strangely alluring god and armed with her wits, Casiopea begins an adventure that will take her on a cross-country odyssey from the jungles of Yucatán to the bright lights of Mexico City—and deep into the darkness of the Mayan underworld.
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I went back to school today which was a bit of a shock and sadly I was still coughing all the time but at least I actually had the energy to do a school day. I thoroughly enjoyed my hour lunch break of reading though.
What I am Currently Reading
I’ve started reading Hauntings by Neil Oliver again after taking a little break. I’m still finding it frustrating and interesting in equal measure. Twelve Caesars by Mary Beard so far is absolutely fascinating.
What I have Recently Finished Reading
Goodbye Mr Chips was a lovely quick read and I know it wasn’t a nonfiction book but as it was only a small book I thought I would sneak it in. The Private Lives of the Tudors was an excellent book that I really enjoyed.
What I Think I will Read Next
Still keeping to my nonfiction theme for November one of these books is highly likely.
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. I have spent the day reading as sadly I was too poorly to go to school. I’m really hoping I can start to feel better soon as I’m quite fed up of this cough and cold.
My chosen book this week is by one of my favourite authors but one I haven’t read for a very long time. I went through a huge Philippa Gregory phase a few years ago but for some reason it has been a couple of years since I have read any of her books. However, I picked this book up at Sudeley Castle and it has gone straight on my TBR pile and very near the top.
Fleeing rebels in Scotland on Queen Elizabeth’s false promise of sanctuary, Mary Queen of Scots finds herself imprisoned as the “guest” of George Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury and his indomitable wife, Bess of Hardwick. Soon the newly married couple’s home becomes the center of intrigue and rebellion against Elizabeth, and their loyalty to each other and to their sovereign comes into question. If Mary succeeds in seducing the earl into her own web of treason, or if the great spymaster William Cecil links them to the growing conspiracy to free Mary from her illegal imprisonment, they will all face the headsman. Using new research and her passion for historical accuracy, Gregory places the doomed queen into a completely new tale of suspense, passion, and political intrigue.
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