This week....

I'm reading

The highlight of my reading week this week was finishing The Whisky Widow by Karen Brooks. I have no idea why I have never read her before but I really wish I had! I have several of her books on my Kindle and I will now be trying to read them because I loved The Whisky Widow so much!!! This was a 5/5 read for me.

Another book that I finished reading this week was The Friendship List by Beth Miller which I reviewed here. 

I also read So This is Christmas by Helen Rolfe, which I am due to review this week. This is my second Christmassy novel already this year and I have a few more lined up to read too!

I mentioned last week that I was very late in starting my book club book. I finished the book late on the Friday night before our meeting on Saturday morning. Normally we are a read on a theme book club but this month we all agreed to read Butter by Asako Yuzuki. It's fair to say that this was not a popular choice with one of the members declaring it her most hated book ever! It definitely made for a lively discussion! We are going back to our normal format next month with the theme being romance. I am pretty sure I am going to have no trouble finding books to read for that theme!

Now I just have to figure out what I will read next! I have a number of books out from the library at the moment, so I think I will start with Everyone in My Family has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson. I have only found out recently that he is Australian so it will count as a last minue read for Aussie  August 2025. (Edited to add - I did indeed start this book!)

I did go to an author event this week. It was a library sponsored event and there were maybe 10 of us in the room, so it was just like we were just chatting with author January Gilchrist about her book The Final Chapter. The book is a murder mystery set at a writer's retreat. It was a really fun evening with lots of laughs even though there were just a few of us. I invited a friend who is now engaged to one of my friends that I have had for years. It was the first author event she has ever been too, but I think she will come to another one! I may have converted someone to the joys of author events! One convert at a time!

I'm watching

Nothing new really!


Life

Not a lot here either


Posts from the last week

Top Ten Tuesday: Big Books!
Blog Tour: The Girl from the War Room by Catherine Law
Blog Tour: The Friendship List by Beth Miller
Your Friend and Mine by Jessica Dettman
Weekend Cooking: The Convenience Store by the Sea by Sonoko Machida
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett



I've linked this post to It's Monday, what are you reading? as hosted by Book Date, Sunday Salon hosted at Readerbuzz and the Good Book and a Cup of Tea link up hosted at Boondock Ramblings