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Reading Log - February
Life has suddenly got a bit busier, as i'm back doing musical things regularly, but i'm still making sure I have time to read. The...
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Mar 44 min read
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Reading Log - January
I actually enjoyed keeping my reading log last year, so have decided to continue keeping it going. I found it interesting to see what I'd...
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Feb 14 min read
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Reading Log: October
Somehow I've managed to fall behind on my reading logs - as well as on my actual reading! This is as much as I noted down for October, so...
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Dec 10, 20243 min read
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Reading Log: July
Four Seasons in Japan by Nick Bradley This was a recommendation from a bookseller when I apparently looked as though I needed to buy...
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Aug 4, 20244 min read
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Reading Log: June
June hadn't felt like a very read-y kind of month, but yet somehow there are another ten books added to the year list, and three more...
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Jul 11, 20245 min read
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Reading Log: April
It’s been a very Terry Pratchett month, as I’ve made good progress on my read-through of the full discworld series. I’ve also bought and...
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May 1, 20243 min read
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Reading Log: March
I've been continuing with audiobooks as well as hardcopies through this month. Twenty-something daughter and I started listening to The...
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Apr 2, 20243 min read
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Reading log: February
This month I've discovered that I can actually manage to follow audiobooks while knitting, and rather enjoy them too! There's a part of...
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Mar 1, 20244 min read
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Reading log: January
Through this month I've continued (and finished) my re-read of the Anne of Green Gables series, as well as a variety of other books. I...
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Feb 1, 20246 min read
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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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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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