Booking Ahead/Weekly Wrap Up

Sunday Post

Today I’m posting my Weekly Wrap Up and I’m linking up to The Sunday Post over at Kimberly’s  Caffeinated Reviewer.  Without further ado:

Weekly Update

Well, the weather has cooled down a little which is a bit more comfortable. The house was like an oven for the past week even with all the doors and windows open and with the ceiling fans on. We’re off on our travels again in a few days. I’m hoping to write up a few reviews beforehand that will drop whilst we’re away – that’s the plan at least. I went off at a tangent with my reading this past week and didn’t stick to the plan at all. I did start listening to This Blade of Ours by Shalini Abeysekara but I wouldn’t say it’s gripping me so far, hopefully that improves. I read The Winter Folk by Jen Julian which I really enjoyed and I’ve now picked up The Witch Below the Dreaming Wood by HG Parry. I’m about a quarter of the way in with this one and, to be honest, I’m already hooked, I can’t wait to settle down later and tuck in again.

Next Week’s Reads

Hopefully complete This Blade of Ours by Shalini Abeysekara and The Witch Below the Dreaming Wood by HG Parry. Then I’d like to pick up The Eye of Leviathan by M. A. Carrick .

Reviews Posted:

  1. The Summer Fun Massacre (Slasher Season #1) by Craig DiLouie

Outstanding Reviews

  1. The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson
  2. A Drop of Corruption (Shadow of the Leviathan #2) by Robert Jackson Bennett
  3. The Tinder Box by MR Carey
  4. Nine Goblins by T Kingfisher
  5. The Winter Folk by Jen Julian

Hoping to see you round the blogosphere this forthcoming week

Booking Ahead/Weekly Wrap Up

Sunday Post

Today I’m posting my Weekly Wrap Up and I’m linking up to The Sunday Post over at Kimberly’s  Caffeinated Reviewer.  Without further ado:

Weekly Update

Hey everyone, hope you’ve all been having a good week. The weather has been absolutely lovely and I’ve been making the most of it doing some gardening. We went on a short city break last weekend, returning half way through the week. I’ve been doing some good catching up both with blog hopping, reviewing and reading – but, it’s still early days, but you know, slowly but surely wins the race (apparently!) Since my last update I’ve managed to catch up with three of my outstanding reviews, I’ve only read one book but it was so good (I’ve already reviewed it – The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett). I’ve made a start on The Unicorn Hunters by Katherine Arden which has started very smoothly.

Next Week’s reads

I’m aiming to complete The Unicorn Hunters and then I shall be picking up The Children by Melissa Albert which I’m really looking forward to.

Reviews Posted:

  1. The Caretaker by Marcus Kliewer
  2. We Burned So Bright by TJ Klune
  3. Death’s Daughter by S.A. Barnes
  4. The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett

Outstanding Reviews

  • This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me by Ilona Andrews
  • All Hail Chaos by Sarah Rees Brennan
  • The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson

Hoping to see you round the blogosphere this forthcoming week.

Booking Ahead/Weekly update – what’s been going on

Sunday Post

Today I’m posting my Weekly Wrap Up and I’m linking up to The Sunday Post over at Kimberly’s  Caffeinated Reviewer.  Without further ado:

Weekly Update

You may or may not have noticed that I’ve taken a break recently. This wasn’t planned but happened as a result of travelling, seeing family and having visitors, in total, for almost a month, which meant in simple terms that I had very little free time. Over the next week I shall be travelling a little more but, I’m also hoping to ease myself back into blogging again and catching up with everything I’ve missed out on. I have been reading, although not as much as I’d like as I’ve been far too sociable. I have outstanding reviews to post for This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me by Ilona Andrews, The Caretaker by Marcus Kliewer, We Burned So Bright by TJ Klune, Death’s Daugher by S.A. Barnes, All Hail Chaos by Sarah Rees Brennan and The Raven Scholan by Antonia Hodgson.

Next Week’s reads

I have three books that I’ve already lined up for next week – I don’t expect to read three books but I think I’ll see where the mood takes me. This is what I’m thinking. The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett, The Tapestry of Fate by Shannon Chakraborty or The Killer in Room 5 by Sam Holland.

Reviews Posted:

  1. The Geomagician by Jennifer Mandula

Outstanding Reviews

  • This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me by Ilona Andrews
  • The Caretaker by Marcus Kliewer
  • We Burned So Bright by TJ Klune
  • Death’s Daugher by S.A. Barnes
  • All Hail Chaos by Sarah Rees Brennan
  • The Raven Scholan by Antonia Hodgson

Hoping to see you round the blogosphere this forthcoming week.

Booking Ahead/Weekly Wrap Up

Sunday Post

Today I’m posting my Weekly Wrap Up and I’m linking up to The Sunday Post over at Kimberly’s  Caffeinated Reviewer.  Without further ado:

Weekly Update

Well, what can I say, my reading week has literally been atrocious and I don’t know why. To be fair, I’ve been busy and hardly posting, reading or blog hopping. I have been reading and enjoying Steel Gods by Richard Swan, it’s not a quick read but i do love it. I’m still listening to The Raven Scholan by Antonia Hodgson and I’m so close to finishing and I’m about a hair’s breadth away from completing The Geomagician by Jennifer Mandula. which I’m really enjoying And yet, I have not completed any – so, next week, given how close I am to finishing all of these -well, it’s probably going to look like I’ve read four or five books!

Next Week’s reads

Complete all the above and also think about my first April book which is This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me by Ilona Andrews.

Reviews Posted:

  1. None

Outstanding Reviews

None outstanding

Top Ten Tuesday: A Few Classic Quotes

TTT

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme where every Tuesday we look at a particular topic for discussion and use various (or more to the point ten) bookish examples to demonstrate that particular topic.  Top Ten Tuesday (created and hosted by  The Broke and Bookish) is now being hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl and future week’s topics can be found here.  This week’s prompt is:

Quotes from Books you Love

I decided to use classic books – some of the ones I really have loved over the years and the quotes are well known, so see how many of these you can guess.

‘Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. It seemed to me I stood by the iron gate leading to the drive, and for a while I could not enter, for the way was barred to me.’

‘You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There’s more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!’

‘May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out’

‘Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.’

‘It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.’

‘Tomorrow I’ll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.‘

‘Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.‘

‘My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip‘

‘Curiouser and curiouser’

‘The most wonderful thing about Tiggers is, I’m the only one.’

And the answers are:

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Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell

The Princess Bride by William Goldman

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne

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