Tag: #amreading

  • My free reading challenge: Peaks and Troughs

    Down in the dumps I missed posting last week, but you didn’t miss much, I promise: “I did some reading” makes for a less than riveting post, so I spared you all. I also didn’t blog because I was at a bit of a low point, reading-wise. I spent much of the week mildly disgruntled (well,…

  • My free reading challenge: temptation!

    My quest to read as much as I like without spending money on a book for myself until Christmas continues… Dear and lovely readers, this week was hard. Offspring found an unspent book token, so we headed off to Waterstones to spend it. A will of iron Now, that’s not the hard part. I’m –…

  • My free reading challenge: lost in Netgalley

    I signed up for Netgalley recently. I wouldn’t have bothered, but a book I’d requested to review for a blog tour was only available via Netgalley, so I got myself an account. I’ve tried to be disciplined, I swear I have. But it’s a bit like another bookshop – except one where most of the…

  • My free reading challenge: independent writers oozing with talent

    This week has been more reading, reading, reading to slim down my TBR pile. Most of the books I’ve read in the past couple of weeks have been independently published because it turns out independent publishers are mostly the people I know and thus their books are the ones I get to hear about. All my…

  • My free reading challenge: a delightful glut

    Well, last week’s giveaway source of free books provided rich pickings. I’ve only started three so far, and I’ve already finished and loved two of them – the third I’m not so sure about, but we’ll see. To be fair (and to armour myself against future disappointment), I started with the ones that attracted me most.…

  • Words are magic, that’s why it’s called spelling

    Wide-range reading I’ve been reading out of my genre this week – Longbourn caught my eye (and who wouldn’t want a chance to escape back into the Pride and Prejudice universe?) and I’ve absolutely loved it. As well as the story (it’s Pride and Prejudice seen from the servants’ point of view), I’ve loved the…

  • Character is King

      I picked up something new to read this week. Well, something old, actually – in a lull between books I grabbed any old something from my bookshelf and started to read. The writing wasn’t the best. Well, no, I’ll be honest – the novel simply wasn’t written in the style I prefer. I like…