Book review - Mandy Baggot - "Meet me Under the Northern Lights"
Romance, Iceland, found family| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
Romance, Iceland, found family| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
Travel, railways, race, gender, motherhood| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
TBR pile, books to read, book confessions| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
TBR pile, books to read, book confessions| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
pop music, biography, autobiography| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
Empire, colonialism, Britain, British history, world history| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
Here I go, finally steaming through the last of my 20 Books of Summer 2025 project! As we know by now, I’ve used this year’s 20 Books to get a load of hardbacks off my shelves before the paperbacks come out (unsuccessfully in this one’s case as the paperback was published at the start of […]| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
Working my way through my large August NetGalley selection, all non-fiction, I always intended to read these together, and I’m hoping to put together a good disability section for my “Paired Readings” for Nonfiction November later this year. Both of these authors have MBEs, which is a nice touch and a Bookish Beck Serendipity Moment, and […]| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
Having been feeling a bit under the weather with an infection and the attendant antibiotics (I’m feeling quite a bit brighter now, thank you), I am not now sure I’m going to finish the 1.5 books I have left for my 20 Books of Summer project! However, I did at least manage to pick up […]| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
Two books that both discuss the future of Africa and are anti-colonial today, both from NetGalley in my rush of nonfiction from there. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o – “Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas” (19 June 2025, NetGalley) Ireland, it has been observed, was England’s first settler colony. It became a kind of laboratory for other […]| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
Now, the thing with this book is, my 20 Books of Summer 2025 project was supposed to get hardbacks off my shelf where the paperback might have already come out but I might beat it, setting the scene for me to be able to read hardbacks before I could have bought them in paperback. But […]| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
After a good weekend of reading, I’m inching slowly forward with my 20 Books of Summer 2025 project for August, the final month, and as of the time of this review being published I am part-way through Book 18. I acquired both these books in June 2024: “The Hard Way” was an Unbound subscription (yes, […]| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
Running, race, class, gender, education, poverty, Birmingham| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
Empire, colonialism, Britain, British history, world history| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
Moomins, Finnish fiction, short stories| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
Road trip novels, Taiwanese Americans, sibling stories, family| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
Romantic comedy, Nigerian Britons, marriage, friendship, women's health| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
Moomins85, Moomin stories, Finnish novels| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
Puffin Island series, island novels, romance, bookshops, writers| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
Books set in Japan, Japanese authors, sisters| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
Architecture, modernism, brutalism, history, post-war history, Britain| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
Moomins, displacement, refugees, Finnish novels| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
Memoirs, Persephone Books, childhood| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
Moomins, Finland| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
Novels set in New York, one percenters, trust fund divestment, class| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
book confessions, book hauls, TBR, reading challenges, books| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
novels set in Iran, novels set in the US, immigrant experience, class, race, gender, families| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
Romance, village novels, middle-aged heroines, older characters| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
1934 novels, neurodiversity, novellas, art| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
African history, Africa, history, African academics| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
Enough became enough in December 2023. I’ve got so many lovely books that I was so excited to acquire and read, and then they have sat there unread for ages and ages. I have always read my bo…| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
