I was ill this week and while I could read I was not up to writing any reviews. I concentrated on reading two novels for reading groups meeting this coming week. These were: Lucy Ribchester's The Hourglass Factory (512 pages) and Orhan Pamuk's A Strangeness in My Mind (624 pages).

I also continued my dual read/listen of Elizabeth Peters' Guardian ( Read more... )

This week I read Carys Bray's A Song for Issy Bradley (416 pages).

I continued with Hannah Rothschild's The Improbability of Love (61 pages).

I also continued my dual read/listen of Anne Rice's The Witching Hour (96 pages) and completed Elizabeth Peters' Children of the Storm (77 pages). I then moved onto the next in the series Guardian of the ( Read more... )

This week I completed John le Carre's The Night Manager reading the final 128 pages.

I continued with Ann Swinfen's Bartholomew Fair (52 pages) and Hannah Rothschild's The Improbability of Love (155 pages).

I continued my dual read/listen of Anne Rice's The Witching Hour (109 pages) and Elizabeth Peters' Children of the Storm (180 pages ( Read more... )

This week I completed Ann Swinfen's The Portuguese Affair (134 pages) and Marcia Clark's Blood Defence (180 pages). I read over 100 pages of John le Carre's The Night Manager and caught up with my page count so again will not count it.

I made a start on Ann Swinfen's Bartholomew Fair (45 pages) and the first of the 2016 Baileys Women's Prize for ( Read more... )

This week I completed Frances Hardinge's The Lie Tree (115 pages) and Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End (93 pages). I continued with John le Carre's The Night Manager but messed up my page count last time so will not count any pages read until I catch up. I did also read 69 pages of Ann Swinfen's The Portuguese AffairI made a start on Marcia ( Read more... )

As planned my focus this week was on three reading group books. I completed Hannah Kent's Burial Rites (314 pages), read Kate Chopin's The Awakening (141 pages) and started on Frances Hardinge's The Lie Tree (302 pages).

I completed my dual read/listen of Elizabeth Peters' The Golden One (177 pages ( Read more... )

When T. R. Ragan's Furious (318 pages) arrived on my Kindle this week I ended up setting aside other books to read it. However, I completed Ellis Peters' One Corpse Too Many (144 pages) and continued with Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End (64 pages) and John le Carre's The Night Manager (227 pages).

I also began Ann Swinfen's The Portuguese ( Read more... )

This week I read Ann Swinfen's The Enterprise of England (308 pages) and made a start on Ellis Peters' One Corpse Too Many (75 pages) and Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End (69 pages). I also read 84 pages of John le Carre's The Night Manager.

I continued my dual read/listens of Diana Gabaldon's Dragonfly in Amber (67 pages) and Elizabeth Peters ( Read more... )

This week I completed Genevieve Cogman's The Invisible Library (121 pages) and Ellis Peters' A Morbid Taste For Bones (114 pages). I continued with John le Carre's The Night Manager (60 page). I also read Ann Swinfen's The Secret World of Christoval Alvarez (292 pages).

I continued my dual read/listens of Diana Gabaldon's Dragonfly in Amber (37 ( Read more... )

No books completed this week but I began three, These were: Genevieve Cogman's The Invisible Library (216 pages), John le Carre's The Night Manager (129 pages) and Ellis Peters' A Morbid Taste For Bones (94 pages).

I continued my dual read/listens of Diana Gabaldon's Dragonfly in Amber (59 pages) and Anne Rice's The Witching Hour (91 pages ( Read more... )