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Tag Archives: Reading
August 2023 round up
August is over and the hopes of an Indian Summer are fading, as is the light in the evening! What I have read I am now at 92/100 books read, having slogged through a few more dud titles as I … Continue reading
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July 2023 round up
July has been fairly miserable weather-wise, we’ve hardly had any days without rain! But we are the intrepid-ish kind, so armed with waterproofs and umbrellas we get out and about anyway. What I have read Not as much as I … Continue reading
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Tagged Doing, July, Monthly round up, Reading, Round Up, Watching
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June 2023 round up
June blessed us with a brief heatwave before endless rainy days, it also brought us the end of the school term. What I have read Quite a bit actually as I have been tending to pick up a book rather … Continue reading
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Tagged Doing, June, Monthly round up, Reading, Round Up, Watching
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May 2023 round up
May is upon us, but spring seems to be dragging its heels. It feels like it’s getting colder instead of warmer… – I wrote that earlier in May when I drafted this post, but at least by the end we’d … Continue reading
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Tagged Doing, May, Monthly round up, Reading, Round Up, Watching
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April 2023 round up
May is upon us, but spring seems to be dragging its heels. It feels like it’s getting colder instead of warmer… What I have read I mostly stuck to the theme of bookshops and libraries with my reading in April, … Continue reading
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Tagged April, Doing, Monthly round up, Reading, Round Up, Watching
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March 2023 round up
It is Easter this weekend, which (this year at least) means it’s April and time for another round-up. The shifting of Easter always gets me, I never know when it’ll be without Googling it. I have a vague idea that … Continue reading
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Tagged Doing, March, Monthly round up, Reading, Round Up, Watching
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February 2023 round up
Being a short month February has ended already! What I have read I have been reading like mad this month which is great for my reading goal, but as I have been devouring a series I have read before (a … Continue reading
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Tagged Doing, February, Monthly round up, Reading, Round Up, Watching
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My 2022 in books and Blyton
This is my third time of assessing what I read the previous year in a blog post. Every year I set some reading goals. The main one is how many books – I generally start with a goal of 100 … Continue reading
November 2022 round up
What I have read I didn’t manage to read an awful lot in November as I was ill for over a week and didn’t read anything at all other than listening to one audiobook. But as I hit my goal … Continue reading
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Tagged Doing, Monthly round up, November, Reading, Round Up, Watching
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October 2022 round up
What I have read I reached 100 books in September but of course I kept on reading. I haven’t updated my goal yet, but I may still do. Currently I’m at 109/100. What I have read: Charlie and the Great … Continue reading
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Tagged Doing, Monthly round up, November, Reading, Round Up, Watching
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September 2022 round up
September is over and with it went the last dregs of summer. We are now into October and autumn, but here’s what I got up to in September. What I have read I reached 100 books this month, which was … Continue reading
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Tagged Doing, Monthly round up, Reading, Round Up, September, Watching
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How many Enid Blyton books have I actually read in the last ten years?
As someone who writes upwards of 2,000 words a week about all things Blytonian, I feel that I actually don’t read an awful lot of her books! At least nowhere near as many as I used to. So I thought … Continue reading
August 2022 round up
August was a better month all round. What I have read I had a much better month in August. I picked up quite a few books which turned out to be un-put-downable and so got read in two days each. … Continue reading
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April 2022 round up
May the fourth be with you! Yes it’s May now, the last legal restrictions ended in Scotland finally and so life is feeling fairly normal – which is actually quite weird. Jacqueline Wilson’s new Faraway Tree book comes out at … Continue reading
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March 2022 round up
Phew, it’s the first of April already. I hope you enjoyed this morning’s post! We had a brief warm spell in March where we could sit outside in short sleeves, but by the end of the week it was snowing. … Continue reading
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