This week....

I'm reading

I have finished a couple of things books this week. Firstly, my husband and I finished listening to Diddly Squat by Jeremy Clarkson together. Now I need to find something else to listen to in the car together. 

I also finished reading The Forgotten Palace by Alexandra Walsh which I enjoyed. My review for this will be up later this week.

I started reading The Girl Who Escaped by Angela Petch. Last time I read Petch, I was inspired to visit Puglia. It is different to the previous book, but I am liking it.

I'm watching

A four day weekend means plenty of time to watch all sorts of thing! We used the opportunity to catch up on some of the series we are watching including The Mandalorian and Picard.

We also started watching the UK version of Ghosts which is so much fun. We will definitely be watching more of this.

We also went to the movies to watch another French Film Festival movie called The Tasting which I enjoyed. It was a combination of comedy and serious drama. 

Then I watched a movie called Walking on Sunshine which was ....not great. Think Italian Mamma Mia with 80s songs. It was fun to see which 80s song would come next but it was a bit over the top.

The last movie I watched this weekend was a English/Spanish move called Language Lesson and it was so good! It's a very simple movie with only two on screen characters, and it was very heartwarming and fun. Highly recommend!

Life

We had a pretty quiet weekend. My sister and her family came around for lunch today which was nice.


I made an Easter Celebration Cake which was delicious! And looked pretty good for one of my cakes. Normally I make delicious tasting cakes that don't look that great!

Posts from the last week

Top Ten Tuesday: A Visit to the Cafe

Blog Tour: The Little Venice Bookshop by Rebecca Raisin

Weekend Cooking: A Tale of Two Cheesecakes

Historical Fiction Reading Challenge - March statistics

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This Week...

 I'm reading

This week I started reading The Lost Palace by Alexandra Walsh. So far it is really interesting. Lots of ancient mythology mixed with a dual timeline. I need to finish this soon as I have to publish a review next week.

I started and finished listening to Sweet Talk by Cara Bastone this week. There was an element of pressure to that because of have had it in my library for ages, but noticed that Audible had said that they were removing it from their free offerings by 31 March. The odd thing about that is that this is book 2 in a series but book 1 and book 3 are currently still available. It doesn't make a lot of sense! I did enjoy listening to this book and I do intend to go back and read the others at some point.

I then started listening to Diddly Squat by Jeremy Clarkson. This is actually a selection of his newspaper columns that have been collated and published.  I am listening to it in the car with my husband, so even though it is only a couple of hours long it will still take a little while to get through. We've never actually done this before so it's nice.

Because we are listening to Diddly Squat together that meant that I needed to choose another book to listen to when I am in the car. I have a lot of books that I want to listen to, but they are all quite long and I am not sure I can commit to them right now. I ended up choosing to listen to a non fiction book called Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat. I am not sure if it is an actual cookbook. So far, it's more a book that talks about food rather than a cookbook. We will see what happens. 

I'm watching

We watched the first few episodes of season 3 of The Mandalorian over the weekend. We also watched one episode of Last Days of Pompeii which is a really interesting history show which counts down the last couple of days before the volcano destroyed the town of Pompeii. Given that we were in Pompeii not that long ago it is interesting to hear what the experts have to say.

We also watch the first couple of episodes of Bake Off: The Professionals. I think this series originally aired in the UK last year (maybe?). We do enjoy watching this show so we will stick with this for a while. We are also still watching Great Canadian Bake Off. Do you ever get the idea we watch a lot of baking shows? We really do!

I also watched the first episode of The Great Cookbook Challenge. The idea is that the contestants come in and pitch their idea to some judges, including a cookbook publisher and the best idea wins a publishing deal. That's an oversimplification but I liked it enough to keep watching

Life

Last week was a pretty quiet week all round.

Posts from the last week

Top Ten Tuesday: A New Start

Blog Tour: Hopeful Hearts at the Cornish Cove by Kim Nash

Historical Fiction Reading Challenge: April links

Weekend Cooking: What I Baked (In My Kitchen) in March

Six Degrees: Born to Run to I Wish I Had a Red Dress

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