It feels like ages since I wrote the February round up – but we are over a week into April I suppose.
What I read
What I have read:
- How to Date Your Dragon (Mystic Bayou #1) – Molly Harper
- A Sister’s Wish (Yorkshire Blitz #2) – Donna Douglas
- Studies (Maggie Adair #4) – Jenny Colgan
- Boy of Chaotic Making (Whimbrel House #3) – Charlie N Holmberg
- The Island of Adventure
- And the Rest is History (Chronicles of St Mary’s #8) – Jodi Taylor
- The Love Hypothesis – Ali Hazelwood
- Five on a Secret Trail
- Twenties Girl – Sophie Kinsella
- The Briarmen – Joseph A Chadwick
- A Daughter’s Hope (Yorkshire Blitz #3) – Donna Douglas
I ended the month still working through:
- Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
- Witches & Words (Library Witch Mystery #4) – Elle Adams
- A Brief Atlas of the Lighthouses at the End of the World – Gonzalez Macias
- Five Go to Billycock Hill
- The Care and Feeding of Stray Vampires (Half Moon Hollow #4) – Molly Harper
What I watched
- We are up to ER season 8 now, and I also went back to The Crown and watched series 6 which I’d completely forgotten about. I think it dropped in two parts and I was waiting on part 2 before I watched it – but that was in December!
- Tuesday nights we watched The Lost City (with Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum) and Crossroads (with Britney Spears).
- With Brodie I think I half-watched the first Ant-Man movie, and definitely ET. (It’s really annoying that Disney+ doesn’t keep a log of what you’ve watched as if I don’t write it down I often forget!) I think Ewan and I also watched The Marvels.
What I did
- I had a hen party where I got to make a floral wreath which now hangs on my front door.
- I built my mother’s day Lego set – a Dobbie figure
- We had our first (and only, so far) afternoon in the garden as it was actually warm enough to sit outside, and as it was Easter Sunday we rolled our eggs (well, we sort of lobbed them at the greeny poles, but the important thing is that they broke so we could start eating them.)
- And lastly I failed to believe Brodie when he told me he had another gap in his teeth. In my defense it hadn’t been wobbly before this and it just disappeared! We think he swallowed it with his breakfast.
How was your March?
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What is a hen party?
In March I’ve read “Look Both Ways” by one of my favorite thriller authors, Linwood Barclay. However, this was his first attempt on SciFi and I was so disappointed. I hope he’ll continue to write thrillers after this disaster.
I liked “Angels Fall” by Nora Roberts, read the German translation (Verschlungene Wege). The TV movie with Heather Locklear is one of my all-time favorite TV movies.
“Message in a Bottle” by Nicholas Sparks was another March highlight, the movie with Kevin Costner is wonderful as well.
One of the best autobiographies I’ve ever read is by Paul Stutzman who lost his wife in 2007 to cancer. In 2008 he realized dream, took 4 months off from work and hiked the entire length of the Appalachian Trail from Springer Mountain in Georgia to Mount Katahdin in Maine, all 2.173 miles. The book is called “Hiking Through”.
The posthumous novel “Where are the Children now?” by Mary Higgins Clark who died during the pandemic with 92 years and co-author Alafair Burke was a big disappointment. I’ve read it last year in English and now I’ve read the German translation, hoping it would be better, but it contains too many protagonists, too much dialogue, too little suspense and zero atmosphere.
March was too cold do do any day trips, so we stayed at home and watched season 2 of “Cold Case” with Kathryn Harris, new episodes from “Blue Bloods” season 14 and “Nikki, Dog of the Wild North” by Walt Disney which is a wonderful dog and bear cub adventure.
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A hen party is what you’d call a bachelorette party in the US. Men have a stag party.
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