The last round up – or the penultimate round up, depending on how you look at it – of the year!
What I read
I am at 143/150 (having added the one I proof-read as it is out now – more on that, later) so I should make my goal – just! Goodreads says I’m 5 ahead of schedule which is good as December is always such a busy month I may struggle to read another 7 books let alone 12.
What I read:
- The Summer Skies – Jenny Colgan
- Anne of Avonlea (Anne of Green Gables #2) – L.M. Montgomery
- Sweetpea (Sweetpea #1) – C.J. Skuse
- The Secret Island
- A Bitter Pill (The Bookshop Mysteries #1) – S A Reeves
- Close Knit – Jenny Colgan
- Better Homes and Hauntings – Molly Harper
- Secret Suffragette – Barbara Mitchelhill
- The Secret of Spiggy Holes
- My Vampire Plus-One (My Vampires #2) – Jenna Levine
I ended the month still working through:
- Collin’s Children’s Annual – Review part one, part two coming later this week
- The Caravan Family
- The Book of Lost Enchantments – Jessica Dodge
- The Accidental Actress (Heather Bay #2) – Amber Eve
What I watched
- We finally finished ER, and also Taskmaster and Only Murders in the Building. We are still watching Only Connect and Lego Masters Grandmasters (we would have finished Lego Masters already if it wasn’t only coming out one episode per week!)
- We watched all of Ludwig and are looking forward to a second series.
- I’m still on Charmed but on the last season now.
- With Brodie we watched Hocus Pocus 2 and The Wizard of Oz.
- On Tuesdays my sister and I have continued with Ten Years Younger in Ten Days though it became just Ten Years Younger with the second series as it allowed them to do more surgery!
What I did
- For bonfire night we went up a hill to watch the fireworks. There are no organised displays here but we were lucky to catch a decent private display at a local sports club.
- We only managed two walks one of which involved stopping for hot chocolate, the other for lunch.
- We put up our Christmas tree and (re)built our Lego Santa’s sleigh.
- We visited Santa and Brodie made some more crafts at a festive workshop.
How was your November?
Fiona
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worldofblyton
World of Blyton 
According to goodreads.com I’ve read 108 out of 115 books at this point and I’ll be very lucky if I can finish two books (“Bad Boy” by Peter Robinson and the German Charlotte Link thriller) by New Year’s Eve. This was one extremely busy year. Normally I read 120 to 130 books per year, but there just seems to be less and less time, too many doctors’ appointments I guess. 😦
BUT in 2025 I plan to read my 400+ children’s books from the 1940’s, 1950’s and 1960’s, those were decades when the very best and suspenseful children’s books were written. I’m not even sure that I’ll be able to reread EB before 2026.
However, we plan to move from our two-story house into a bungalow in 2026 and there’s no way, all 24 large bookcases would fit. So I’ll simply have to sort out a few hundred books at least. And declutter our house in general.
I also have 4 big rubber containers on the attic filled with old novels which I planned to reread again, but never got around to it.
We have more than 2.000 books and over 6.000 movies and classic TV series from the 1950’s and 1960’s on DVD.
“The Secret Island” is also one of my all-time favorite EB books!!!
Lovely pics of Brodie.
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