I have been looking forward to this week for a long time, and though life threw a bit of a spanner in the works it still turned out pretty great…
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Sunday Salon: Keeping busy
May 5, 2013 – 5:51 pm
I feel like I have done a lot of stuff in the last fortnight, possibly because today has been busy and isn’t over yet! But looking through my recent photos I actually do have some things to tell you all about…
Sunday Salon: Where does the time go?
April 21, 2013 – 1:54 pm
Three weekends ago I was patting myself on the back for having read four books in four days. Since then I have finished…drumroll please…one book. Granted, it was Crime and Punishment, but I started reading it in February so, err, yeah…
Sunday Salon: Easter read-a-thon anyone?
March 24, 2013 – 1:56 pm
Lately I seem to have spent a lot of my free time planning various holidays, which has got me thinking about what makes the perfect holiday. The thing is, my favourite way to relax is with a book, but when it comes to holidays I always want to go somewhere new, to see and learn new things, which tends not to leave masses of time for reading, or really relaxing…
Sunday Salon: Short stories
March 17, 2013 – 9:46 am
I know, I know, it’s been months since I posted in the Sunday Salon. How are you all? What have you been up to? Me? I’ve been busy, but not with as much reading as I’d like. This week I have been thinking about short stories…
Sunday Salon: Making a list
January 20, 2013 – 9:09 am
This weekend my love of lists reached obsessive proportions…
Sunday Salon: Keeping track
January 13, 2013 – 9:34 am
I spotted an open invite recently to complete a survey about book blogging and it highlighted something that had already begun to concern me – I don’t keep track of where my books come from…
Sunday Salon: New year, new books
January 6, 2013 – 12:35 am
Every year when my family asks what I want for Christmas and my birthday (they’re pretty close together) I give them a wishlist that is 90% books and every time I have to reassure them that yes, books really really are what I want. You’d think they’d learn. Thankfully, they know me well enough to buy me said books, in addition to a few useful things…
Sunday Salon: Do you re-read?
November 18, 2012 – 6:11 pm
Re-reading is one of those subjects that comes up every now and again and every time I say wish I did, I just never get round to it. But that’s a rubbish excuse. I mean, if I don’t re-read, then what’s the point of my beautiful library (except as a repository for the ever-expanding TBR)? I have friends who re-read all the time, who return to certain books over and over again, and I can definitely see the appeal…
Sunday Salon: Speed reading
November 4, 2012 – 9:00 am
I have had wildly varying reading speeds lately, and this has set me thinking. Are the better books the ones that slow you down, that make you re-read sentences or even paragraphs? Or are the books that you read in one or two settings in an engrossed daze actually better…