the year of magical thinking

Round Up Reviews – No 624 – 622

I said I wouldn’t do this, but I am going to have to. Circumstances have dictated that I’m going to have to do a few round up reviews, just to clear the back log! Life has been very busy these last few weeks and I have started to feel stressed about falling behind on my…

Throwback Thursday or A Long Long Time Ago in the days before Goodreads…

Last week I was having a bit of a clear out and came across a diary from 2007. Goodreads was just a twinkle in some web gurus’ eye in 2007, so I kept track of what I read the old fashioned way. By writing a list in the back of my Moleskine diary. It’s fun…

Top Ten Tuesday – Books that are hard to read

This week’s Top Ten from The Broke and the Bookish is books that are hard to read. At first I tried to think of books I was unable to finish, but then I realised that some books I really, really love are hard to read, so this list is a mix of the two! 1.…