Monday, October 14, 2024

This week...


 I'm reading


This week I finished One Winter at the French Chalet by Mandy Baggot, which I reviewed here. I then  read In Italy for Love by Leonie Mack. If I think about authors I would continue to read even if I was in a reading slump, then Leonie Mack would be one of those! My review for this will be up next week.

I am all about seasonal reads at the moment, although to be fair In Italy for Love is all about autumn rather than the more familiar Christmas books that you normally would be talking about when you seasonal reads. Today I started A Recipe for Christmas by Jo Thomas. This is a review book but not for a blog tour so it's fun to be able to read something by choice!



I'm watching

 
Last week I started watching a documentation about the history of Buckingham Palace. It's really interesting to see how the building which is so familiar to us all has changed over the years.


Life


We had a really lovely weekend.

On Friday night we went to a pub where they have a duelling pianos night. There are two piano players and you can just put it in requests and they will play the songs. We sang-a-long, we danced, we had a cocktail. It was a really fun night and we will do it again at some point. 

On Saturday we went to a barbecue with friends but then we made a last minute decision to see go and see Joanna Lumley live. It was well worth going to hear her listen to her talk about her years of travel. Without making too much of an obvious pun, it was Absolutely Fabulous!




Posts from the last week



Blog Tour: The Promise of Tomorrow by Samantha Tonge
Blog Tour: One Winter at the French Chalet by Mandy Baggot
Blog Tour: The Little Provence Book Shop by Gillian Harvey
Afternoon Tea Diaries - The Mackintosh at the Willow
Sunday Salon: Historical Fiction Reading Challenge - September statistics


I've linked this post to It's Monday, what are you reading? as hosted by Book Date

7 comments:

  1. I love reading Christmas stories too. Happy reading, Marg 😊

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    1. I have a few lined up now Jody!

      Thanks for stopping by!

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  2. Sounds like a busy week. I'm not a big fan of Christmas and tend to avoid Christmas books. There are so many! Come see my week here. Happy reading!

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  3. I need to start thinking about Christmas and getting ready early this year (although I say that every year!) because we might do a little early celebrating at Thanksgiving time when our son and DIL are bringing our granddaughter up.
    The dueling pianos sounds fun! They've had that on some the cruises we've been on, but I've never gone.

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