This week....

I'm reading

This was another week where I started more than I finished. Whilst that isn't a terrible thing it also isn't ideal, especially seeing as I haven't started that one book that I need to review this week! I guess there's still time.

As I mentioned last week, I was in Perth for the Rachael John's Book Club Retreat last weekend, and I took The Bad Bridesmaid with me to both read and get signed. I ended up finishing the book 5 minutes into my flight home, and then I tried to sleep because it was the red-eye flight. Notice I said tried, not really succeeded. I have shared a post about the retreat yesterday.

I then finished Wicket Maiden by Chrissie Harrison, which is a book featuring a woman cricketer as the sport star. I reviewed it here.

Next up was The Woman Who Met Herself by Laura Pearson, who is now an auto-buy author for me! My review is here.

On audio I finished listening to Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry. I had seen a lot of reviews saying it didn't feel like an Emily Henry romance, but it did to me!

For my next audiobook, I started listening to The Mirror by Nora Roberts, which is the second book in the Lost Brides series. I listened to the first one at the beginning of last year.

I also started reading Page Turners by Viola Shipman. Shipman's books can be very difficult to get hold of here, so when I saw that my old library system had it I decided the 40 minute drive to the library was worth it!

I also started reading Head Over Wheels by Leonie Mack. This is another sports romance, this time featuring professional cyclists! Have only read a few chapters but I am really liking it to so far!

In other news, Emma from Words and Peace has announced that she will once again be hosting Paris in July, which is one of my favourite blogging events! Check out the announcement post!

I'm watching

This week we watched all five episodes of the new Stanley Tucci show, Tucci in Italy. If you watched his previous series it follows the same format where he visits different places, they all love him, he loves the food they share and so on! There's every chance I might watch it again yet. I still enjoy watching his previous series. 

I also watched the Netflix movie, Nonnas which stars Vince Vaughan and Susan Sarandon amongst others. It tell the story of a man who wants to start a restaurant on Statton Island where all the chefs are nonnas. It was a lovely movie, made even better by the fact that it is based on a true story.

We also watched the first few episodes of Murderbot, based on the books by Martha Wells. I have to say I was pleasantly surprised by this. We now have to wait for each new episode to come out.

Life

I started listening to a new podcast called No One Saw it Coming which is hosted by Marc Fennell. I am becoming a big fan of Marc Fennell. He does intelligent TV and podcasts, as well as hosting the TV quiz show Mastermind. In this series, they talk about the things that kind of just happened, and no one was expecting. This week's episode was about how you can trace the roots of chemotherapy as a treatment back to a WWII attack on the port of Bari in Italy.

We had a very French weekend. It wasn't necessarily designed that way but it just happened. Last week I made chocolate eclairs. Then on Friday night we went to a French themed dinner before we went to see the arena version of Les Miserables. It was so good!

Then on Saturday, I went to a macaroon making class, which was so much fun. I am aiming to post about that for my next Weekend Cooking post.

Now, we are going to be eating macaroons and chocolate eclairs for the next few days. We had a lot of passionfruit flavoured ganache left over from the class, so I ended up using this as a glaze on some eclairs, and filling it with chocolate cream, so in effect combining the two!

Posts from the last week

Top Ten Tuesdays: Books that Feature Travel
Blog Tour: Wicket Maiden by Chrissie Harrison
The Madamoiselle Alliance by Natasha Lester

Blog Tour: The Woman Who Met Herself by Laura Pearson
Cook the Books: The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club by Helen Simonson
Sunday Salon: Rachael Johns Book Club Retreat 2025



I've linked this post to It's Monday, what are you reading? as hosted by Book Date and Sunday Salon hosted at Readerbuzz