Title: Windswept Author: Annie Worsley Dates read: 26/06/25 – 28/07/25 Rating ⭐️⭐️3/4 (2.75 stars) Publisher: William Collins Number of pages: 305 Fiction or non-fiction: non-fiction Subject or genre: memoir, nature Book blurb: A few years ago, Annie Worsley traded a busy life in academia to take on a small-holding or …
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April-May Reviews Roundup
I’ve finished reading quite a lot of books lately and written the reviews for them but haven’t quite found my schedule with posting them. I’ve got reviews going back to books I finished in April that aren’t posted yet. So I figured I’d do some drive-by mini reviews just to …
Book Review: The Twat Files by Dawn French
Title: The Twat Files Author: Dawn French Dates read: 13/04/25 – 22/04/25 Rating 3/5 Publisher: Penguin Number of pages: 400 Fiction or non-fiction: nonfiction Subject or genre: humour, memoir Book blurb: Wanker. Git. Prick. Prat. Dick. Eejit. Plonker. Pillock. Nincompoop. Bellend. Halfwit. Dolt. Chump. Nitwit. Moron. ****wit. Simpleton. Lunatic. Dork. …
Book Review: Untypical by Pete Wharmby
Title: Untypical Author: Pete Wharmby Dates read: 07/04/25 – 10/04/25 Rating 5/5 Publisher: HarperCollins Number of pages: 256 Fiction or non-fiction: non-fiction Subject or genre: autism, memoir Book blurb: It’s time to remake the world – the ground-breaking book on what steps we should all be taking for the autistic …
Sunday Reading Wrapup
What are you currently reading? M.T. Clanchy – From Memory to Written Record: England 1066-1307 47% read. I’ve said this before – this book was written to be written, not to be read. It’s utterly fascinating but it’s a serious slog DK Publishing – SuperSimple Chemistry 18% read. I picked …
April 2023 Reading Wrap-Up
I read 7 books in April which seems to be about my average in 2023 Jeremy Clay – The Burglar Caught by a Skeleton: And Other Singular Tales from the Victorian Press A collection of extraordinary, bizarre and morbidly funny stories from the Victorian press. There were farces and tragedies …
A Quick Catch Up
So, the news in brief and some reading roundups are The not-COVID I had at the beginning of the month? Yeah, it turned out to actually be COVID. Li and I were both pretty sick for about 10 days, and completely exhausted for about another week. I still get fatigued …
Benedict Cumberbatch, Fictional Mothers & WWW Wednesday
I finished reading This Is Not A Book About Benedict Cumberbatch last night and it left me feeling quite disappointed. I was really looking forward to reading this, the subtitle of the book professed it was about ‘the joy of loving something – anything – like your life depends on …
Drive-by Mini-Reviews, the second
I keep telling myself I’m going to get better at writing proper reviews as and when I finish a book but… it’s not going very well. I’m still not completely confident at writing them, if I’m being honest, but I can already tell I’m improving when I look at the …