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On the nightstand…

Usually I’m not one to have more than one book on the go at the same time, but I’ve got too many interesting books in the pile at the moment, I can’t wait to start the next one! The Rembrandt Affair by Daniel Silva This one is taking a bit to get into, maybe because [...]

From Grisham to Rowling

A few weeks ago I started reading ‘Runaway Jury’ by John Grisham.  I’ve seen many of his book-to-movies and really enjoyed them so I thought I’d give one of the books a go.  Sadly, it wasn’t anywhere near as good as I thought it was going to be - I couldn’t even finish it! Yesterday morning [...]

Friday Four

(Same as Thursday Three only a day late….) 1. Life My classes start back again next week so I’m enjoying my last few days of freedom, as my friend would say!  The house is being cleaned to within an inch of its life, there is absolutely no dirty washing anywhere, and today I’m treating myself [...]

Three on Thursday: Books

Starting this to help me with the PostAWeek2011 challenge. One of my favourite things to do in the holidays is to settle in with a good book.  Christmas brought with it a few new ones, which I’ve been working my way through. Four Blind Mice – James Patterson I got this book with a voucher [...]

347 Words Per Minute

That is my reading speed, according to this online speed reading test.  Why don’t you take the test, and let me know what your score is? You may be wondering what made me test this…. It has come to my attention that i’ve read an awful lot of books in recent months.  This is because [...]

Quite the little book worm

I’m using the holidays to catch up on my reading, since one of my goals this year was to read more novels.  It just so happens that this post is about three of my all-time favourite authors. Just read The short second life of Bree Tanner: an Eclipse novella [buy from Fishpond] Author: Stephenie Meyer [...]

6 months later…

So, i’m not going to make excuses for not posting for ages, because I knew this would happen!  But, now that I have some real free time, I think you deserve an update.  So much has happened since my last post!  I’m going to break it down into sections so I don’t miss anything out… [...]

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