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All About Chris
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Jan 96 min read
52 Book Challenge 2024: a year in review
My book dragon guarding the hoard on my bedside table 1 Locked-room mystery Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie 2 Bibliosmia:...
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Jan 63 min read
Reading Log: December
I've been trying (unsuccessfully) to finish as many part-read books for the 52 book challenge as I can, as well as managing a couple of...
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Dec 10, 20243 min read
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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Oct 18, 20245 min read
Reading Log: September
This month I've finally reached my first deliberate DNF of the year. Not quite the milestone I was expecting or hoping for, but...
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Aug 4, 20244 min read
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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Jul 11, 20245 min read
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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Jun 7, 20245 min read
Reading Log: May
My reading this month has been a bit more varied than some recently. I've continued my Pratchett/Discworld re-read, but have also got...
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May 1, 20243 min read
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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chgbayliss
Apr 26, 20244 min read
5 Reasons to be cheerful
Despite feeling generally rather better than through the winter, I've still been struggling a bit recently - my depression is pretty well...
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Apr 2, 20243 min read
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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Mar 1, 20244 min read
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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Feb 1, 20246 min read
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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Jan 2, 20244 min read
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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Dec 5, 20235 min read
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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Oct 31, 20234 min read
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 13, 20234 min read
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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chgbayliss
Sep 26, 20232 min read
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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Jun 19, 20233 min read
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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May 12, 20234 min read
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 8, 20233 min read
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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