My Life in Books Tag: 2025 edition This is my second year doing this tag, originally created by Shelleyrae @ Book'd Out. I haven't done a tag for quite some time but I was reminded by Becky @ Becky's Book Blog of how much fun I had with the prompts last time and I had to do it again. The Prompts:…

2026 Bookish (and not-so-bookish) Goals Happy 2026 bookish peeps! I feel like the end of 2025 crept up on me without warning and suddenly I'm staring the new year straight in the face. November and December were incredibly busy, both personally and at work, and I barely even thought about my blog.…

Best of 2025 As I go to pick the books I most want to share, I notice that the books I've read have predominantly been four star reads. While I have read a few five star reads, it is these four star reads that have left a lasting impression. It seems odd that a book I clearly loved enough to give…

Wrapping up 2025 Happy New Year bookish peeps! I hope you've had an amazing festive season celebrating with the people you love. For me the weeks and months leading up to the festive season were overwhelmingly busy but the actual celebrations were relaxed and wonderful. I spent time with family…

NetGalley Check-in – November 2025 It's been a minute since I had a look at my NetGalley shelf to check my progress...since July since I posted a check-in. I have, however been reading my ARCs gradually and giving feedback as I go. I have kinda stopped doing bigger review style posts for now,…

WWW Wednesday WWW Wednesday is hosted by Sam @ Taking on a World of Words. A weekly meme where all you have to do is answers the following three W’s: What are you currently reading?What did you recently finish reading?What do you think you’ll read next? Currently reading: The Temporary Roomie by…

It’s Monday! What are you Reading? Hosted by Kathryn at The Book Date #IMWAYR is a weekly meme to connect with fellow readers. It’s a place to meet up and share what you have been, and are about to be reading. It’s a great post to organise your upcoming week and an opportunity to visit other…

Weekly Bookish Wrap Up: 9th November 2025 Happy Sunday bookish peeps! My Weekly Bookish Wrap Up is linked with the Sunday Salon and the Sunday Post. The Sunday Salon is a meme hosted by Readerbuzz and is a place to link up and share what you have been doing during the week. It's also a great…

WWW Wednesday WWW Wednesday is hosted by Sam @ Taking on a World of Words. A weekly meme where all you have to do is answers the following three W’s: What are you currently reading?What did you recently finish reading?What do you think you’ll read next? Currently reading: It's the first week of my…

It’s Monday! What are you Reading? Hosted by Kathryn at The Book Date #IMWAYR is a weekly meme to connect with fellow readers. It’s a place to meet up and share what you have been, and are about to be reading. It’s a great post to organise your upcoming week and an opportunity to visit other…

Weekly Bookish Wrap Up: 26th October 2025 Happy Sunday bookish peeps! My Weekly Bookish Wrap Up is linked with the Sunday Salon and the Sunday Post. The Sunday Salon is a meme hosted by Readerbuzz and is a place to link up and share what you have been doing during the week. It's also a great…

WWW Wednesday WWW Wednesday is hosted by Sam @ Taking on a World of Words. A weekly meme where all you have to do is answers the following three W’s: What are you currently reading?What did you recently finish reading?What do you think you’ll read next? Currently reading: My reading hasn't changed…

In My Audiobook Era Book Tag Happy Tag Thursday! Today I'm planning on doing the In My Audiobook Era tag. I first saw this tag on Jillian the Bookish Butterfly and I have been saving it for a little while, waiting until I had time to really think about my answers. Here are the prompts if you'd…

WWW Wednesday WWW Wednesday is hosted by Sam @ Taking on a World of Words. A weekly meme where all you have to do is answers the following three W’s: What are you currently reading?What did you recently finish reading?What do you think you’ll read next? Currently reading: I've making a considered…

It’s Monday! What are you Reading? Hosted by Kathryn at The Book Date #IMWAYR is a weekly meme to connect with fellow readers. It’s a place to meet up and share what you have been, and are about to be reading. It’s a great post to organise your upcoming week and an opportunity to visit other…

Weekly Bookish Wrap Up: 12th October 2025 Happy Sunday bookish peeps! My Weekly Bookish Wrap Up is linked with the Sunday Salon and the Sunday Post. The Sunday Salon is a meme hosted by Readerbuzz and is a place to link up and share what you have been doing during the week. It's also a great…

WWW Wednesday WWW Wednesday is hosted by Sam @ Taking on a World of Words. A weekly meme where all you have to do is answers the following three W’s: What are you currently reading?What did you recently finish reading?What do you think you’ll read next? Currently reading: Oh my goodness! It's been…

Weekly Bookish Wrap Up: 5th October 2025 Happy Sunday bookish peeps! My Weekly Bookish Wrap Up is linked with the Sunday Salon and the Sunday Post. The Sunday Salon is a meme hosted by Readerbuzz and is a place to link up and share what you have been doing during the week. It's also a great…

Monthly Bookish Wrap Up – August/September 2025 I'm not sure where the past couple of months went but I know I spent no time blogging and I barely picked up a book. I went away for my birthday on the last weekend of August and so didn't get a chance to post, then all book related things fell off…

WWW Wednesday WWW Wednesday is hosted by Sam @ Taking on a World of Words. A weekly meme where all you have to do is answers the following three W’s: What are you currently reading?What did you recently finish reading?What do you think you’ll read next? Currently reading: Still reading Love…

Top Ten Tuesday: Countries I want to visit IRL (not just in books) Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. This week’s TTT topic is a non-bookish freebie so I want to share…

20 Books of Summer: Completed I did it!! I completed the 20 Books of Summer Challenge hosted by Annabel @ AnnaBookBel and Emma @ Words and Peace for 2025. Last year I chose to read only ten books for the challenge, keeping things realistic for my first time participating in the challenge. This…

Weekly Bookish Wrap Up: 24th August 2025 Happy Sunday bookish peeps! My Weekly Bookish Wrap Up is linked with the Sunday Salon and the Sunday Post. The Sunday Salon is a meme hosted by Readerbuzz and is a place to link up and share what you have been doing during the week. It's also a great…

WWW Wednesday WWW Wednesday is hosted by Sam @ Taking on a World of Words. A weekly meme where all you have to do is answers the following three W’s: What are you currently reading?What did you recently finish reading?What do you think you’ll read next? Currently reading: My latest bedside read is…

Top Ten Tuesday: Books with a High Page Count Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. This week’s TTT topic is: Books with a High Page Count Let me start by saying that,…

Goodreads Monday: Room Mating by Meredith Schorr Goodreads Monday is a really simple weekly meme, hosted by Budget Tales Book Blog, where you choose a book at random from your Goodreads TBR and explain why you want to read it. This meme is also an opportunity to share any progress you have made on…

Weekly Bookish Wrap Up: 17th August 2025 Happy Sunday bookish peeps! My Weekly Bookish Wrap Up is linked with the Sunday Salon and the Sunday Post. The Sunday Salon is a meme hosted by Readerbuzz and is a place to link up and share what you have been doing during the week. It's also a great…

WWW Wednesday WWW Wednesday is hosted by Sam @ Taking on a World of Words. A weekly meme where all you have to do is answers the following three W’s: What are you currently reading?What did you recently finish reading?What do you think you’ll read next? Currently reading: I've just started reading…

TBR Check-in – Audiobook Edition – July 2025 The beginning of the month signals a good time to check-in with my TBR on all my different formats, starting with this post. At my last audiobook check-in I had read all of the outstanding books from 2024 and added quite a few more books in 2025, that…

Goodreads Monday: Love Overdue by Ali Berg and Michelle Kalus Goodreads Monday is a really simple weekly meme, hosted by Budget Tales Book Blog, where you choose a book at random from your Goodreads TBR and explain why you want to read it. This meme is also an opportunity to share any progress you…

Weekly Bookish Wrap Up: 27th July 2025 Happy Sunday bookish peeps! My Weekly Bookish Wrap Up is linked with the Sunday Salon and the Sunday Post. The Sunday Salon is a meme hosted by Readerbuzz and is a place to link up and share what you have been doing during the week. It's also a great…

Monthly Bookish Wrap Up – July 2025 Happy August everyone! This month is my birthday month and even though I'm getting older I still get excited. We have planned a little weekend away at the end of the month to celebrate me turning 52 and hopefully we'll be able to visit some new-to-me bookstores…

WWW Wednesday WWW Wednesday is hosted by Sam @ Taking on a World of Words. A weekly meme where all you have to do is answers the following three W’s: What are you currently reading?What did you recently finish reading?What do you think you’ll read next? Currently reading: I'm still reading The…

Goodreads Monday: Love Overdue by Ali Berg and Michelle Kalus Goodreads Monday is a really simple weekly meme, hosted by Budget Tales Book Blog, where you choose a book at random from your Goodreads TBR and explain why you want to read it. This meme is also an opportunity to share any progress you…

Weekly Bookish Wrap Up: 27th July 2025 Happy Sunday bookish peeps! My Weekly Bookish Wrap Up is linked with the Sunday Salon and the Sunday Post. The Sunday Salon is a meme hosted by Readerbuzz and is a place to link up and share what you have been doing during the week. It's also a great…

Stacking the Shelves: July 2025 Hosted by Reading Reality, Stacking the Shelves is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, whether they be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, ARCs, gifts…

NetGalley Check-in – July 2025 It's time to take a look at where I am up to with my NetGalley ARCs and share the progress (if any) I have made since last month's check-in. Read and reviewed: The Woman Who Met Herself by Laura Pearson - published 23 May 2025 Clementine Crane Prefers Not To by…

The Goodreads Book Tag Happy Tag Thursday! Today I'm going to do the Goodreads Book Tag as seen on Kate's blog Once Upon An Ordinary. Like Kate, I love Goodreads for keeping track of my reading and building my TBR, so I thought this tag would be perfect for me. Here are the prompts if you'd like…

WWW Wednesday WWW Wednesday is hosted by Sam @ Taking on a World of Words. A weekly meme where all you have to do is answers the following three W’s: What are you currently reading?What did you recently finish reading?What do you think you’ll read next? Currently reading: As always I have more…

Book Review: Clementine Crane Prefers Not To by Kristin Bair Publication date: 14 October 2025 Publisher: Alcove Press Pages: 320 Genre: Contemporary Women's Fiction Format read: ARC - e-book For years, Clementine Crane has been the invisible force holding her Byrock, Massachusetts, home…

Book Review: The Woman Who Met Herself by Laura Pearson Publication date: 23 May 2025 Publisher: Boldwood Books Pages: 306 Genre: Contemporary Women's Fiction Format read: ARC - e-book What would you do, if you met your double? Debbie Jones thinks life is an adventure. Even having lost her husband…

Goodreads Monday Goodreads Monday is a really simple weekly meme, hosted by Budget Tales Book Blog, where you choose a book at random from your Goodreads TBR and explain why you want to read it. This meme is also an opportunity to share any progress you have made on your current books, Goodreads…

Weekly Bookish Wrap Up: 13th July 2025 Happy Sunday bookish peeps! My Weekly Bookish Wrap Up is linked with the Sunday Salon and the Sunday Post. The Sunday Salon is a meme hosted by Readerbuzz and is a place to link up and share what you have been doing during the week. It's also a great…

Weekly Bookish Wrap Up: 13th July 2025 Happy Sunday bookish peeps! My Weekly Bookish Wrap Up is linked with the Sunday Salon and the Sunday Post. The Sunday Salon is a meme hosted by Readerbuzz and is a place to link up and share what you have been doing during the week. It's also a great…

WWW Wednesday WWW Wednesday is hosted by Sam @ Taking on a World of Words. A weekly meme where all you have to do is answers the following three W’s: What are you currently reading?What did you recently finish reading?What do you think you’ll read next? Currently reading: I started one of my ARCs…

Favourite reads – January to June 2025 2025 has been abundant in 4 star reads, with hardly a 5 star read to be seen. I'm unsure if I've been tougher on books when rating them or if the books I am choosing are just not living up to what I hoped. That said, I have read a lot of good books, worthy of…

Bookish Mid-Year Review 2025 It's that time of the year...time to look back at the progress I've made on my reading and blogging goals...and to make a plan for the rest of the year. I love these kinds of posts....writing them and reading the posts of others. I get great pleasure out of tracking my…

Goodreads Monday Goodreads Monday is a really simple weekly meme, hosted by Budget Tales Book Blog, where you choose a book at random from your Goodreads TBR and explain why you want to read it. This meme is also an opportunity to share any progress you have made on your current books, Goodreads…

Weekly Bookish Wrap Up: 6th July 2025 Happy Sunday bookish peeps! My Weekly Bookish Wrap Up is linked with the Sunday Salon and the Sunday Post. The Sunday Salon is a meme hosted by Readerbuzz and is a place to link up and share what you have been doing during the week. It's also a great…

Monthly Bookish Wrap Up – June 2025 And just like that another month is done. Gone in a blur of work, family commitments and audiobooks. I'm still struggling to read any other format besides audio. Falling asleep early every night and sleeping in late every morning, my body and brain, both, just…