Happy to report it has been a good week again on the book front! Reading and buying!! And borrowing too now as I've decided to take advantage of our local library more - now that i've managed to remember my password for the machine in there! - and so I'm hoping that will help curb my book buying habits a little!
Book Haul
I couldn't stay away! And i'm blaming the videos I've been watching on BookTube again for leading me astray and wanting to add new reads to my TBR mountain! So this little lot arrived this week as The Book People had a good deal on the Costa Book Award books
Alice Oswald - Falling Awake
Francis Spufford - Golden Hill
Brian Conaghan - The Bombs that brought us together
Sebastian Barry - Days without End
Keggie Carew - Dadland
Anyone read any of these yet?! Not sure which one to start with but they all sound so good!
Books Read
Miss Christie Regrets by Guy Fraser-Sampson
Review posted up yesterday - a real classy crime novel!
The Secret Lives of the Amir Sisters by Nadiya Hussain
This is the debut novel from the Great British Bake-off winner Nadiya. Found it to be a very 'safe' debut that had some fun moments as it follows the lives of the Amir family as they go through some personal problems added to the fact that they are the only Muslim family in a small english village. An easy read.
Out of Essex by James Canton
Borrowed this via the library app Overdrive as an e-book and found this to be a fascinating read about the link that Essex has to many literary names such as H.G Wells, Defoe, John Clare and even Shakespeare.
We are all made of Stars by Rowan Coleman
This was another book borrowed from the library and was the book club choice of one of the Facebook groups I belong to. Found it to be an emotional and inspiring book about the power of writing a letter as people were in a hospice asking one of the nurses to write notes to their loved ones for when they passed. A beautiful book.
And that concludes my bookish week! How has yours been? Productive?! I did manage another little clear out of my bookshelves to help the local charity shops with another bag of books for donation so I'm doing my best to keep things under control at home, although I have been plotting ways to find room for another bookcase!!
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