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After reading only two books in April I have decided that May is going to be a month dedicated to shorter books. A good portion of the books I have read so far this year have been big books and I think it is time for some shorter reads which might get my reading mojo back a bit. I will still be doing my Wheel of Time books though which as we know are huge!
Here are my planned reads for May
I hope everyone has some good books planned for the bank holiday weekend.
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I hope everyone is having a good week so far. I am desperately trying to up my reading at the moment as I am really missing it but I keep getting bad headaches which I suspect means I need new glasses. Hopefully I can get to the opticians soon to get it sorted.
What I am Currently Reading
I’m getting closer to the ending of The Fires of Heaven and really enjoying it, I have been finding it a bit of slog but now it is finally picking up. A History of the Roman Empire in 21 Women is proving to be a very interesting read.
What I have Recently Finished Reading
I really enjoyed this and my review will be following shortly.
What I Think I will Read Next
I have so many books that I want to read at the moment but here are probably the top contenders.
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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.
Hello!
I hope everyone has had a good start to the week so far. My day has been jam packed with very little reading time but I have managed a chapter of The Fires of Heaven. I really want to make a push with my Wheel of Time series challenge as I feel like I am falling behind and in danger of neglecting it.
My chosen book to feature this week is another relatively recent purchase but one I hope to read soon. I might even have it as a holiday read.
When Kris Kelvin arrives at the planet Solaris to study the ocean that covers its surface he is forced to confront a painful, hitherto unconscious memory embodied in the physical likeness of a long-dead lover. Others suffer from the same affliction and speculation rises among scientists that the Solaris ocean may be a massive brain that creates incarnate memories, but its purpose in doing so remains a mystery . . .
Solaris raises a question that has been at the heart of human experience and literature for centuries: can we truly understand the universe around us without first understanding what lies within?
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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.
Happy Monday Everyone!
I hope everyone has had a good start to the week. My day has been jam packed with teaching so not much reading has happened but I’m hoping to get more in tomorrow.
My chosen book to feature this week is another one that I have recently added to my Goodreads TBR. I am really enjoying reading George R. R. Martin’s books outside of The Song of Ice and Fire series, especially his science fiction.
From the multiple award-winning, best-selling author of The Song of Ice and Fire Haviland Tuf is an honest space-trader who likes cats. So how is it that, in competition with the worst villains the universe has to offer, he’s become the proud owner of the last seedship of Earth’s legendary Ecological Engineering Corps? Never mind, just be thankful that the most powerful weapon in human space is in good hands-hands which now control cellular material for thousands of outlandish creatures. With his unique equipment, Tuf is set to tackle the problems human settlers have created in colonizing far-flung hosts of hostile monsters, a population hooked on procreation, a dictator who unleashes plagues to get his own way… and in every case the only thing that stands between the colonists and disaster is Tuf’s ingenuity-and his reputation as an honest dealer in a universe of rogues… Tuf Voyaging interior illustrations by Janet Aulisio. Included will be her original eight illustrations, along with 28 newly commissioned ones.
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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 have had a packed day of teaching so very little reading has taken place but whenever I have had a minute I have read a page of A Gentleman in Moscow because I simply can’t put it down.
My chosen book to feature today is one that I have wanted to read for a very long time. It was the first full length book George Eliot published.
Adam Bede is an upstanding, hardworking, intelligent young man, the kind of person who knows what he wants—and what he wants is the incredibly shallow Hetty Sorrel. Though Hetty is a milkmaid, she harbors dreams of becoming a dignified member of the upper class. To that end, she has set her sights on Captain Arthur Donnithorne, a squire and heir to much of the town’s wealth. Meanwhile, Dinah Morris, Hetty’s compassionate cousin, harbors irrepressible romantic feelings for Adam.
This love rectangle forms the character basis for one of the greatest English novels of all time. Upon its release in 1859, Adam Bede was immediately lauded as a seminal work for its depiction of English country life at the turn of the nineteenth century, garnering the praise of Charles Dickens. Eliot’s deft mixing of the fictional with the real has made Adam Bede a timeless classic.
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I hope everyone is having a good week so far. I have had an enforced day of rest but this has also meant I have had a lovely day reading my book.
What I am Currently Reading
Tomorrow I will probably start another book to run along side this one but at the moment I am just reading The Fires of Heaven. I will be honest my reading of this book hasn’t been going exactly according to plan but over the last few days I have really made a push with it so I can catch up slightly.
What I have Recently Finished Reading
I finished this just a few hours ago and I absolutely loved it! I will be writing up the review soon but I can’t wait to read more books by Whipple.
What I Think I will Read Next
I will be honest and say that I actually think I will be reading A Gentleman in Moscow next but you never know what mood I will be in tomorrow.
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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.
Happy Monday!
I hope everyone has a great week planned. I’m hoping for another week of good books and adventures.
My chosen book to feature this week is one of my new books and another Alison Weir book that I haven’t read yet.
This remarkable recreation of the action-packed century that saw the murder of Thomas Becket and the signing of the Magna Carta covers the lives and reigns of the first five Plantagenet queens, who ruled England and France throughout the bloody 1200s, a particularly dramatic and violent period of European history. Wars, crusades, treachery, murder, passion, and the interplay between rival monarchs of Britain and France provide a surprising picture of these five ambitious women and their struggle for power.
The queens covered in the book are Eleanor of Aquitaine, Berengaria of Navarre, Isabella of Angouleme, Alienor of Provence and Eleanor of Castile. One of these queens became legendary when, accompanying her husband on crusade, she saved his life by sucking the blood from his poisoned-arrow wound. Equally intriguing are the descriptions of their marriages, including one that was extremely tempestuous, and one that was a love match turned sour when the jealous husband discovered his queen’s infidelity and retaliated by killing her lovers and hanging their bodies from the canopy of her bed.
This second volume of historian Alison Weir’s critically acclaimed Medieval Queens series brings these unfamiliar, fascinating royals to life, demonstrating how very much they resemble self-determining women of our own time.
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Now I will be honest I only actually managed to read one book off my March TBR. I had really good intentions to read all four but reading didn’t go to plan in March.
So I will try and be better in April and get my TBR ticked off.
I’ve carried two books over from my March TBR and have added two new ones. I’m really excited to read all of these books so hopefully I get around to reading them.
What is on your April TBR?
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I am so pleased to be getting more reading done. I seem to have been in a bit of a rut but now I think I am getting back to normal.
What I am Currently Reading
I have completely fallen in love with The Priory and I plan on purchasing more books by Whipple as soon as possible. Yes, I am still plodding along with The Fires of Heaven.
What I have Recently Finished Reading
I will be reviewing this soon but I must admit it wasn’t my cup of tea. Yet another book I bought because of the hype and got disappointed with.
What I Think I will Read Next
No clue what I will read next but it might be one of these!
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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.
Happy Easter Monday!
I hope everyone has had a good start to the week. I am looking forward to a week of reading and adventuring.
My chosen book from my Goodreads TBR is one of my Persephone books. I currently have all my Persephone books on display in the hallway and it is only a small collection which I try to expand every year.
Monica Dickens’s first book, published in 1940, could easily have been called Mariana – an Englishwoman. For that is what it is: the story of a young English girl’s growth towards maturity in the 1930s. We see Mary at school in Kensington and on holiday in Somerset; her attempt at drama school; her year in Paris learning dressmaking and getting engaged to the wrong man; her time as a secretary and companion; and her romance with Sam.
We chose this book because we wanted to publish a novel like Dusty Answer, I Capture the Castle or The Pursuit of Love, about a girl encountering life and love, which is also funny, readable and perceptive; it is a ‘hot-water bottle’ novel, one to curl up with on the sofa on a wet Sunday afternoon. But it is more than this.
As Harriet Lane remarks in her Preface: ‘It is Mariana’s artlessness, its enthusiasm, its attention to tiny, telling domestic detail that makes it so appealing to modern readers.’ And John Sandoe Books in Sloane Square (an early champion of Persephone Books) commented: ‘The contemporary detail is superb – Monica Dickens’s descriptions of food and clothes are particularly good – and the characters are observed with vitality and humour. Mariana is written with such verve and exuberance that we would defy any but academics and professional cynics not to enjoy it.’
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