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Reading log: December - revisiting old friends
December really wasn't being a good month for reading - or at least not for finishing books - until I got Covid the week before...
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Jan 2, 20244 min read
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Reading Log: November
It's been a draining and exhausted kind of month, and I've started a new and rather complicated knitting project, so my reading time has...
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Dec 5, 20235 min read
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Reading log: October
A summary of my reading in October... 12 Birds to Save your Life by Charlie Corbett In the middle of my venn diagram of books about...
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Oct 31, 20234 min read
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Reading log: September
I’ve always been a bookworm and find it comforting to be surrounded by books. Almost any time we go on holiday we have to explore at...
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Oct 13, 20234 min read
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Mini Book Review: Morden på Österlen - Ett Fynd att dö för
This is the second book in the Österlen Murders series by Anders de la Motte and Måns Nilsson, which I picked up at the airport this...
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Sep 26, 20232 min read
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Unwell Women by Elinor Cleghorn (critique of a review)
I read the review on the BMJ blog as I thought it would be interesting to get a ’medical’ perspective on the book. Overall I wasn’t...
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Jun 19, 20233 min read
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Some more detection
Continuing the Detective badge (not one I'd originally thought I as likely to do!), I've read up about blood pattern analysis, blood...
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May 12, 20234 min read
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Detecting a theme...
...or, Detective badge part 1 (clauses 5, 7) Given the number of crime/detective books I've read in recent years, and my enjoyment of all...
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May 8, 20233 min read
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Lost in translation
Having grown up knowing a few essential phrases of Swedish for basic survival when meeting up with family, I've spent much of my adult...
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May 3, 20234 min read
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Book review: Murder Before Evensong - Revd Richard Coles
As one of Britain’s most well-known and popular clergy, Revd Richard Coles is a man with many strings to his bow. Famously the only C of...
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Mar 12, 20234 min read
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Books, reading, badges...
I decided earlier this year to try and spend less time doodling around on social media and my phone, and more time actually reading some...
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Mar 10, 20233 min read
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