🙏 Sunday Reflection | February 2021 Wrap-Up ❄

Hello everyone and a blessed Sunday to you all. I hope this post finds you all well. The short but bitterly cold month of February has passed and now it is time to reflect on what we've been doing, reading and watching over that time. Thankfully, over the month, things settled down at work with …

📖 The Mother’s Day Mystery by Peter Bartram (Deadline Murder #2) ⭐⭐

Having previously enjoyed Headline Murder, Stop Press Murder and Front Page Murder from the nostalgic Crampton of the Chronicle mystery series, I was really pleased to finally get round to reading The Mother’s Day Mystery by Peter Bartram, the next book in the series or so I thought... Turns out this 2018 release is actually the …

📺 A Discovery of Witches (Series 1&2) ⭐⭐

Well my regular readers will know it has been several years since I did full adaptation reviews, however since I combined my monthly books and adaptations wrap-up posts, I have a little more free posting space. So I thought, now and again, it would be nice to re-instate these full reviews for adaptations of books …

🙏 Sunday Reflection | 21st February 2021

Hello everyone and a blessed Sunday to you all. I hope this post finds you all well. A wet but much milder week has passed and now it is time to reflect on what we’ve been doing, reading and watching over that time. This was the school's half-term break and so I have enjoyed some …

📖 Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen ⭐⭐⭐

I got my 2021 reading off to a great start, as on my lazy New Year’s Day at home, I quietly finished my delightful re-read of the Regency classic, Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen. Having loved all of Austen’s finished novels, I took the opportunity when creating my second list for The Classics Club to …

📚 Top Ten Tuesday | Colourful Book Covers to Celebrate Mardi Gras 🎭

Hello my fellow bookworms. Today, I am taking part in this week’s Top Ten Tuesday! A weekly meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, who each week assigns a new topic to inspires us to create a top ten list based on it. This week’s topic is: Purple, Yellow, and/or Green Book Covers (in honour …

🙏 Sunday Reflection | 14th February 2021

Hello everyone and a blessed Sunday and St Valentine's Day to you all. I hope this post finds you all well. A cold, snowy week has passed and now it is time to reflect on what we’ve been doing, reading and watching over that time. It was another quiet and steady time at school with …

📖 The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner ⭐⭐⭐

I rounded out my 2020 reading on a high, with the brilliantly moving historical-fiction, The Jane Austen Society by new-to-me author Natalie Jenner. This was a random request from Netgalley, because, well, it had Jane Austen in the title! Then I started seeing glowing reviews of it from around the blogosphere, so I bumped it to …

📚 WWW Wednesday | 10th February 2021

Good morning, fellow bookworms. It is ‘Hump Day’ Wednesday which means we are halfway through the working week (if you’re at work) and it is time for WWW Wednesday! A weekly meme hosted by Taking on a World of Words, which simply involves answering the following Three Ws: What are you currently reading? What did …

🏛 The Classics Club | My Third Year Wrap-Up 📚

Hello my fellow bookworms and classic clubbers, if you can believe it, I created my second list for The Classics Club back on the 8th February 2018; which means that today I have now passed the three year stage and what a tumultuous year the last one has been! 🤪 Now let's take a butchers …