The blog turned 7 years old on Tuesday, so happy birthday to us!

What I have read

I’ve read a lot more this month. I’ve now read 88, so I’m 5 ahead of schedule. Two months left in the year and only 12 books left to read! (I won’t stop if I reach 100 before December 31st of course.)

• Something Rotten (Thursday Next #4) – Jasper Fforde
• The Wartime Midwives – Daisy Styles
• Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
• Miss Nightingale’s Nurses (Nursing #1) – Kate Eastham
• Five Get Into Trouble – reviewed here
• A Mystery for Ninepence – Phyllis Gegan, reviewed here
• First Among Sequels (Thursday Next #5) – Jasper Fforde
• The Mystery of the Vanishing Skeleton (Mystery Island #6) – Helen Moss, recommended here.
• The Liverpool Nightingales (Nursing #2) – Kate Eastham
• Mr Lemoncello’s All Star Breakout (Mr L’s Library #4) – Chris Gabenstein
• The Foyles Bookshop Girls at War (The Foyles Girls #2) – Elaine Roberts.
• The Bomb Girls (The Bomb Girls #1) – Daisy Styles

And I’m still working on:

• The Naughtiest Girl in the School – I’m doing a text comparison on this one
• The Exile: An Outlander Graphic Novel – Diana Gabaldon
• The Four Streets (Four Streets #1) by Nadine Dorries

I’m really struggling with the graphic novel – I find it really hard to work out what’s going on and who is who!

What I have watched

• Hollyoaks
• Finished ER, and felt very sad about it.
• Only Connect
• More of Taskmaster
• Some more of the Letdown
• The Dark Crystal Resurgence on Netflix. I love the film – though I didn’t discover it was a film until I was about fifteen. I’d had a book based on the film and loved it, so I was amazed to find a DVD in a shop and discover there was a film!
• The Bookshop, a 2017 film starring Emily Mortimer and Bill Nighy
• Murder She Wrote, seasons five and six

What I have done

• Visited the Botanic Gardens
• Gone to several parks
• Been to the beach in our coats, hats and boots
• Gone on some very muddy woodland walks
• Visited the deer at the Scottish Deer Centre
• Started my Christmas shopping nice and early!
• Recycled a lot of crisp packets

What I have bought

A new section which won’t appear every month (thankfully for my bank balance).

This month I’ve rediscovered eBay and bought:

• The Third Holiday Book
• The Rabbit’s Party and Other Stories

I needed these to help complete the two series they belong to, so I’m down to missing one from each – The Holiday Book and Susan and the Birds and Other Stories. Neither has a dust jacket and both are a little tatty but they were both well under £5 each so I am very pleased.