September has turned into October, so the nights are getting darker, and it’s generally colder. Though it’s still quite warm in the sun sometimes, the slippers and blankets are out at home!
What I read
I also had quite a slow month for books in September, although I enjoyed everything I read a few were quite slow starters that took me a while to get into.
What I read:
- The Wisdom of War (Buffyverse #63) – Christopher Golden
- Of Mice and Murder (Nevermore Bookshop Mysteries #2) – Steffanie Holmes
- The Lamplighters – Emma Stonex
- The Last Bookshop in London -Madeline Martin
- The Masquerades of Spring – (Rivers of London) Ben Aaronovitch
- The Ship of Adventure
- The Royal Librarian – Daisy Wood
I ended the month still working through:
- The Bookshop Ladies – Faith Hogan
- The Circus of Adventure
- The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter – Hazel Gaynor
What I watched
- We are up to ER season 15 (the last one, and full of cameos from former characters), plus Only Connect, Taskmaster, Only Murders in the Building and Rings of Power.
- With Brodie we watched Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and Inside Out 2.
- I’m on to season six of Charmed, and starting to think of what I’ll watch next.
- On Tuesdays my sister and I watched Pride and Prejudice (the one with Keira Knightley) and Little Women (the one with Winona Ryder)
What I did
- We went geocaching a few times including along a bit of old railway line that we hadn’t been along before – it turned out to be a scorching day though when we’d left the house it was cool and misty.
- Hung a bird feeder in our back garden, and the local birds have been devouring the seeds at an unbelievable speed! It has mostly been sparrows, with the magpies collecting up anything dropped as they’re too big to sit on it.
- I did another Harry Potter jigsaw, 1000 pieces this time, and had to do the outside last as it was the hardest bit!
- Visited the Botanic Gardens for a wander
How was your September?
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World of Blyton 
In September my reading picked up again compared with the previous months.
I’ve read 10 books, started with “Lucy Crown” by Irwin Shaw which I have read the last time in 1986. Then two crime novels by German author Charlotte Link followed by “102 Minutes” by Jim Dwyer which I’ve read on 9/11. It describes what happened at the World Trade Center 23 years ago.
Then I’ve read a book by Hans Hass who was an Austrian diving pioneer even before Jacques Cousteau became famous.
I’ve read Ryan O’Neal’s autobiography on his life with Farrah Fawcett (Both of Us). However, I was disappointed by Tom Selleck’s autobiography “You Never Know”, because he focuses on “Magnum” and barely mentions “Blue Bloods”. He entirely ignores his 9 best TV movies on Jesse Stone which he did between 2002 and 2015. For me it was a waste of time, even though he has a nice writing style.
I finally finished “Woodswoman III” and ever since started reading “Woodswoman IIII” by Anne LaBastille (don’t ask me why she didn’t call it “Woodswoman IV”). The first two books/autobiographies are among the best books I’ve ever read in my entire life, but the third book was not impressive and now I struggle through the 4th autobiography.
“A Death in Cornwall” by Daniel Silva was very disappointing, because it starts in Port Navas at the Helford River (where I spent several weeks in May 1987) in Cornwall, but then continues mostly in London, Venice and on the isle of Corsica. So the title is rather misleading.
Last, but not the least I tried to read another light fluff novel by my friend Nancy Thayer, “The Summer we started over”, but it resembles all her previous Nantucket novels so much…nothing new here. I gave up after 60 pages.
Today we’ll drive all the way up to Popham Beach in Maine for 2 weeks’ vacation at the same beach cottage where we stayed in 2022. I put the Ripliad by Patricia Highsmith (the first 4 books, because I never cared for volume 5 which is called “Ripley Under Water”) and “Coming Home” by Rosamunde Pilcher in my suitcase. No e-books for me. 🙂
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