In my book, September is always sunny enough to be considered summer, so I will shamelessly continue reading my #20BooksOfSummer2025 for an extra month. What with a holiday, a jungle of a garden to…| Market Garden Reader
As before, Emma has created a questionnaire for us to help share our experience of this summer challenge. You can find the link HERE. The August linky oost will stay open for another full week so you can add any late reviews. Find that HERE. Now for the questionnaire – here are my answers:| AnnaBookBel
Some shorter reviews to help reduce the height of the pile of books I’ve read but haven’t written up yet. First my latest read for WITMonth which is also my 20th of my 20 Books of Summer. Challenge done! The Time of Cherries by Montserrat Roig, translated by Julia Sanches The Time of Cherries was Read More| AnnaBookBel
This novella was sheer joy to read! A rediscovered masterpiece, Rum Doodle is a comic novel satirising men, their work and obsessions on an expedition to the Himalaya, first published in 1956, written by an unassuming structural engineer from Guildford, so Bill Bryson tells us in his intro to this edition. It wasn’t a huge Read More| AnnaBookBel
It’s now a tradition to read books by Women in Translation each August (see my earlier post about it here). I’ve read 4 this month already – 1 will be reviewed for Shiny New Books, the other three are reviewed below – 2 hits and 1 meh, in three different languages from three different indie Read More| AnnaBookBel
Stewart’s memoir is my favourite kind of actors’ autobiography, combining lots of Shakespeare, building from one-liner parts to the title character, then film and TV success, with more theatre all the way through. Add to that an interesting working class Yorkshire childhood, and the fact that he’s a humble and lovely bloke, it was perfect. Read More| AnnaBookBel
My internet is back, but it’s patchy, so I bought a wireless home hub to fill in the outages! I’ve now read 17/20 books of my 20 Books and have some reviewing catch-up to do. Here’s two more for you… Sandwich by Catherine Newman There was a time when my parents rented the same cottage Read More| AnnaBookBel
Plans for 20 Books of Summer? What plans? Have I stuck to my original list? Yes and no. Am I as far as I’d like to be? No. I’m well on my way, but I haven’t read any of my own physical books yet, so my shelf’s just as full. What’s more, our new holiday plans require a rethink. 1001 books, reading the world, July in Paris; I want to read them all.| Market Garden Reader
#20booksofsummer2025 June 1 – August 31st *** Answer this questionnaire with what you read in June! *** Post your July reviews here I recently offered questions for you to recap your June re…| Words And Peace
Welcome, readers, to my third review of my #20BooksofSummer2025 reading challenge. Check out my first three reviews: Death of an Airman by St. John Sprigg, The Studio Crime by Ianthe Jerrold, and Impact of Evidence by Carol Carnac if you missed them. You can read more about the 20 books I picked in my introductory […]| Golden Age of Detective Fiction
#20booksofsummer2025 June 1 – August 31st Post your June reviews here WOW, already one month of #20booksofsummer2025 went by! How did you fo for this first month? To help you with a fun recap…| Words And Peace
I had such a great time reading and reviewing cat-themed books for #ReadingtheMeow2025. As a cat lover, these books hold a special place in my heart, and I’m loath to give up this enjoyable experience. However, I have some cat-themed books scheduled for review later in the summer. Now, I’m thrilled to shift my focus […]| Golden Age of Detective Fiction
Hello readers! I am excited to participate in the 20 Books of Summer this year, hosted by AnnaBookBel and Emma at Words and Peace. 20 Books of Summer is a fun reading challenge in which participant…| Golden Age of Detective Fiction