Marie H

I’ve just started reading The Strays of Paris, and it’s great!

Thanks Poppy, I hope to read one of Margery Sharp’s next. I love most to the female authors from Dean Street Press, especially around the 40s and 50s, they are very soothing!

This one has improved, for me. Humour with provincial snobbery, it’s really enjoyable.

Reading at the moment The Mingham Air by Elizabeth Fair This is very enjoyable, as Elizabeth Fair is a great with gentle humour in 1950s rural England. Fair has been more giving with gentle humour, compared with Angela Thirkell and her Barsetshire novels (Thirkell was a hideous snob and loathed most of the working class, or those with new money) Sadly, this was Fair’s last novel, and this one may be less interesting, but as the previous five novels were a lovely, cosy read.

That’s good that you enjoyed her books, as I have Rhododendron Pie, The Foolish Gentlewoman and Four Gardens in my kindle list.

Whoops, sorry!

Episode 5 of The Book of Boba Fett ….Din Djarin . Loved it, but I was expecting some of The Mandolorian/Din Djarin, but not the whole episode!! We never saw anything new of Boba Fett.

Watched 4 episodes of The Book of Boba Fett, and I’m not a great fan atm. Especially I found Episode 4 was dissatisfying, when many have thought it was spectacular. I have difficulty with the acting of Temuera Morrison, or maybe he has been given some very clunky lines. The Disney effect with some so-call “comedy” skits are there, and they are as bad as ever. I hope that E5, with the hope of the return of The Mandolorian helps things. Otherwise TBoBF is a curate’s egg, for me.

Reading in 2022 We Are Wolves by Katrina NannestadThe blurb from Waterstones “When the Russian Army marches into East Prussia at the end of the Second World War, the Wolf family must flee. Liesl, Otto and their baby sister Mia find themselves lost and alone, in a blizzard, in the middle of a war zone. Liesl has promised Mama that she will keep her brother and sister safe. But sometimes, to survive, you have to do bad things. Dangerous things. Wild things. Sometimes to survive, you must become a wolf. A story of hope, survival and the refugee experience that is both timeless and incredibly timely, and set to become a modern classic.” (Waterstones blurb) A good book that I really enjoyed. Excellent as a children’s book, as there is some violence in the book, but it is sensitivity handled. Rating 4 and 1/2 out of 5.

I managed some reading on Saturday, so the reading mojo is improving.

Finished We Are Wolves by Katrina Nannestad. Good story, so I’ll give it a 4 and a half out of 5. Had The Green Planet by Simon Barnes delivered this morning! The BBC programme, with David Attenborough, was wonderful on Sunday evening. So that will be my reading matter next.

Lily is beautiful! *trying to imagine feeling Lily's soft ears*

Happy New Year y'all!

Happy New Year everyone! I’m reading We Are Wolves by Katrina Nannestad.

Watched last 4 episodes of series 1 of animation of Star Wars The Bad Bunch. Enjoyable, and much better than the Clone Wars series (I’m only on series 2, so far) Hopefully the new The Bad Bunch series 2 will be in early-ish 2022, probably after the The Book of Boba Fett starting on December 29th.

I really MUST keep a log of the money I spend on books the next year! Though this year meant that I’ve saved on not having coffees & cakes in Costa during the pandemic may have balanced…..slightly.

I’ve read less books than average years, approximately half as usual. This year I just can’t concentrate as normal, but I have enjoyed mostly graphic novels & audiobooks. The reading plan for 2022 is to read more & buy less, but that’s just the usual every year!

Merry Christmas to all!

Starting on The October Man (Rivers of London #7.5) by Ben Aaronovitch - #7.5 being a novella. I’m making sure to be update with the RoL universe, so then after Monday Monday graphic novella, I will be anticipating the Rivers of London #9 Amongst Our Weapons in April 2022.

Received Lore Olympus Volume 1 by Rachel Smythe. Waiting this one for a couple of weeks from Waterstones, and it’s one heavyweights tome of a paperback! Blurb is gushing “Scandalous gossip, wild parties, and forbidden love - witness what the gods do after dark in this stylish and contemporary reimagining of one of mythology's best-known stories.dark in this stylish and contemporary reimagining of one of mythology's best-known stories.” This graphic novel is just lushness! So beautifully drawn

Finished the Rivers of London #8 The Fey & The Furious graphic novel. Quite a good one, 4 out of 5. Loving Richard Osman The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club #2). The plot is rather ridiculous, but Osman’s offbeat characters and descriptions are wickedly fun. 26% listened.

Finished listening Ben Aaronovitch’s False Value (Rivers of London #8). It was okay, but this book was the least enjoyable of the series, for me. It didn’t grab my attention, where all other’s had. The previous ones had always had spectacular plot lines, but this one didn’t have the same “wow!” effect.

Episode 6 was good, but Episode 4 was the best of the series

Casillero Del Diablo Malbec - my favourite red wine now

Prime video for Star Wars The Bad Bunch, which is so much better to watch than the Clone Wars imho. Episode 4 - 6 of The Wheel of Time. WOW! Though episode 4 was the most spectacular one!😍