Beat the Backlist 2024
24 February 2024
Filed under Book Reviews
Tags: Austine Decker, Beat the Backlist 2024, Katie Lumsden, Stacey Thomas, The Revels, The Secrets of Hartwood Hall
This year I’ve decided to join the Beat the Backlist challenge (created by Austine Decker) to try and visit some of the books that I didn’t manage to read last year. I’m a bit late posting this and I missed reading a backlist title for January but I have already completed my February book and will be posting a review for that title shortly.
All the details for Beat the Backlist can be found here. The rules are fairly loose:
- The book must have been published in 2023 or earlier.
- You have to start and finish the book in 2024.
- And that’s it!
Sounds easy enough to me – time will tell.
I’m aiming to read at least ten books (and if I manage to fit in more that’s a bonus).
For the month of February I read The Secrets of Hartwood Hall by Katie Lumsden.
During March I’m hoping to read The Revels by Stacey Thomas.
Top Ten Tuesday : Books I Meant to Read in 2023 but Didn’t Get To
23 January 2024
Filed under Book Reviews
Tags: Alex North, Andrea Stewart, CE McGill, Genevieve Cogman, HG Parry, Joanne Harris, Juliet E McKenna, Katie Lumsden, Rowenna Miller, Stacey Thomas, That Artsy Reader Girl, Top Ten Tuesday
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 topic:
Books I Meant to Read in 2023 but Didn’t Get To
Well the first half of last year was fairly dreadful for me and so I had a number of books for review that I didn’t pick up. Thankfully my reading is now back on track but I do have a number of books that I would like to try and catch up with. Here is a selection:
The Magician’s Daughter by HG Parry
The Fairy Bargains of Prospect Hill by Rowenna Miller
The Secrets of Hartwood Hall by Katie Lumsden
Our Hideous Progeny by CE McGill
Scarlet by Genevieve Cogman
The Revels by Stacey Thomas
Broken Light by Joanne Harris
The Bone Shard War by Andrea Stewart
The Half Burnt House by Alex North
The Cleaving by Juliet E McKenna
Have you read any of these – do you have a favourite that I should start first?
Books and travelling with Lynn 