Booking Ahead/Weekly Wrap Up
19 November 2023 
I’m trying to get back into the habit of doing a round-up of the week just completed and also take a look at my plans for the forthcoming week. I rather got out of the habit of doing so but I would like to reinstate this type of post as I feel it keeps me on track. So, I’m linking up to The Sunday Post over at Kimberly’s Caffeinated Reviewer. Without further ado:
Books read this week:
This week I’ve been concentrating on trying to put things in order on the outside of the house, lots of chopping back in the garden, clearing leaves and looking for any other sorts of problems. Trying to get weather tight really. It’s hard work to be honest but I’ve managed to read The Reformatory by Tananarive Due – which was brilliant, difficult to read and quite horrifying, but absolutely absorbing and impossible to put down. I’ve also made a good start on The Ghosts of Beatrice Bird by Louisa Morgan, and, with all the gardening and outside work I also started listening to Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff – about a quarter of the way in so far. I was approved recently for book 2 so wanted to tuck the first book under my belt.
Complete the Louisa Morgan book and hopefully Empire of the Vampire. Then I have two more November review books that I can make a start on: What the River Knows by Isabel Ibañez and Good Girls Don’t Die by Christina Henry.
Reviews Posted:
- The Witchwood Knot by Olivia Atwater
- The Reformatory by Tananarive Due
Books and travelling with Lynn 
What the River Knows sounds really good, I’ve seen it billed as a mix of The Mummy and Death on the Nile. That might be one I can’t resist 😀
Hoping to pick it up very soon so I suppose I’ll soon find out.
Lynn 😀
I still haven’t started Beatrice Bird so it’s probably going to be a December read for me. Time is going way too fast😭
I really liked it, great writing.
Lynn 😀
Glad to hear you loved The Reformatory. I am also excited to hear Ghosts of Beatrice Bird is off to a good start. I’d hoped to get to that one by the end of the month but I’m probably not going to be able to fit it in until December.
Beatrice Bird wasn’t quite what I expected. Less chilling ghosts than I thought – but still really good and so well written.
Lynn 😀