It’s been another busy week for Reading Ireland Month and this week I concentrated on Non-Fiction, which is really flourishing here in Ireland! I reviewed: Notes to Self by Emilie Pine Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading by Patricia Craig Maeve Brennan Wit, Style & Tragedy: an Irish Writer in New York by Angela Bourke…
It’s that time again! March is coming, my favourite month in my blogging calendar, because it’s Reading Ireland Month – will you be joining us? Ah, gwan, ya will! By now you’ll know that we never stop banging on about Ireland and its hefty cultural punch. Four Nobel Prize winners; five Booker Prize winners; some…
1 summer. 96 Days. 20 Books. 6060 pages. 63 pages a day. Will this year finally be the year I complete my 20 Books of Summer challenge? From now until 5 September I will be attempting to read my 20 Books of Summer. Why not join in with your own 20 (or 10, or 15!), read along…
This post could alternatively have been titled ‘Where Did That Summer Go?’ or, if you live in Northern Ireland, ‘Summer? What Fecking Summer??’ The last three months have flashed by in a flurry of work, kids, work and more work and generally ended up much, much busier than I anticipated. One minute I was watching…
My 20 Books of Summer challenge may look like a complete disaster at the moment, but things are not quite as bad as they seem. My reading is going well, it’s just the reviewing that I don’t seem to have the time for! We are just back from a rainy week in the West of…
1 summer. 96 days. 20 books. 4.8 days per book. Can I do it? From now until 4 September I will be attempting to read my 20 Books of Summer. Why not join in with your own 20, read along with some of the books or just cheer me on as I try and get…
It’s hard to believe a year has passed, but there are hints of a change in the weather here in Ireland and I’ve decided to challenge myself again this year to read my 20 Books of Summer! Last year I managed a mere 16 ½ books, so hopefully I can beat that record this time…
