Tag: To Be Read

Top Ten Tuesday: Books On My Winter 2023-2024 To-Read List

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Some of you may have noticed that I have missed a couple of Top Ten Tuesday posts recently - which is unusual for me - and also that I've become very much behind in my reviews - which is distinctly not unusual by this point in the year! Things had got a little on top of me recently, I have to say - my father's illness, my daughter's needs, my own health (a burst ear drum, minor in the big picture!) And then an Ofsted Inspection on top of everything else, with mock exam marking... But, I am back and let's return to the books with the regular seasonal tbr update. As always, please bear in mind that I never really have a to-be read list, nor do I really plan my reading at all. I am - as I have said before - totally a mood reader. But, at the moment these are the books that I might get around to reading over the winter. Let's start with my current read: the gentle, familiar milieu of Sophie Hannah's Poirot in a Christmas setting, and the final parts of the Children of Blood and Bone...

Top Ten Tuesday: Books on My Fall 2023 To-Read List

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I do enjoy these seasonal to-be-read lists, even if I consider myself in no way bound by them. Which is just as well really: looking back at the Summer To-Read list, I managed to read just one, a single solitary one, of them! Do I feel any shame? Hell no - no one should ever feel shame for what they read, how they read, how much they read or how often they read! As my mood shifted and changed over the Summer - and it was a little hectic! - so to did the things I fancied reading. I read what served a purpose at the time and that was great! So with that in mind, what vague notional TBR do I have for the coming season as the nights draw in, the mornings grow darker, the temperatures drop and leaves turn...?