
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? – March #1
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is a wonderful place to meet up and share what you have been, and are about to be, reading over the week. It’s a great post to organise yourself. It’s an opportunity to visit and comment and er… add to your groaning TBR pile! Everyone is welcome. This meme started on J Kaye’s blog and then was hosted by Sheila from Book Journey. Sheila then passed it on to Kathryn over at The Book Date.
It’s been another weekend of good weather, allowing us to go on a much longer walk than usual – about 5 and 3/4 miles in the end. And boy do my aching knees and feet know it! I took several screen shots, from my pc, of the area nearby that doesn’t appear on either of our walking maps, as this was where we wanted to explore. The walk involves crossing under, and then over, the M1 motorway – 8 lanes of traffic but not too busy on a Sunday. Sadly the white elephant that is HS2 will cut right through this countryside, possibly cutting off our access to much of it and definitely destroying what is currently a peaceful and beautiful haven.
Tomorrow sees schools fully reopen in England, since the current lockdown started back in January. This is good news for my husband, as he works peripatetically in primary schools so hasn’t been earning a full wage. I work in an alternative provision, so we’ve remained open to all pupils through out this, and most of the previous, lockdown. It feels good, but scary, to take this first step back to normality.
Read Last Week
Overload Flux was quite a long read, and I took my time to enjoy it, rather than speeding through and missing key elements. I really enjoyed this and will treat myself to the next book in the next month or so.
356 Days was a DNF at only 6 chapters in. I had only picked up because it is my turn to lead a Book of the Month discussion and this is what the members picked. I’d not bothered with it on Netflix because I’d heard others say it wasn’t that good, the book was no better. I don’t have issues with the content, but the writing was either very bad, or poorly translated and I intensely disliked both protagonists by the time I gave up on it.
The final book is an anthology, from which I’ve read a couple of short stories, the jury is still out on what my final rating will be for this one.
Currently Reading
I made no progress on the CJ Hall book but I have read more of See No Evil, and hope to complete it this week. I have a couple of arc books to read next week, so it’s just a case of seeing how much time I have for these.
Up Next
The first two are arc reads, though I also have them both on pre-order. Deep Blue Sea is one of my clear your TBR list reads.
