A Treasured Book from my Childhood

A Treasured Book from my Childhood

A Treasured Book from my Childhood | Books I've Read My Memories My Significant Items I was always a voracious reader from a very early age. I seem to remember my dad – who was then a school teacher – teaching me to read to give some respite to my mum who by the time...
What I’ve been reading…January book reviews

What I’ve been reading…January book reviews

What I’ve been reading…January book reviews | Book Reviews Books I've Read This year, my resolution is to write more book reviews – I always appreciate my own readers leaving reviews, so I’m leading by example! I did rather a lot of reading during January. The long...
Short Breaks – Big Inspiration

Short Breaks – Big Inspiration

Apart from planned trips to India and Australia to research two of my books, these days I usually plan my holidays around painting – choosing locations I’ve never visited before and where I think there might be interesting landscapes. There have however been two short...
The Books I Read in 2016: Part 2

The Books I Read in 2016: Part 2

Here’s the promised follow up to my post of a few days ago on my reading during 2016. Of the 58 books I read, 36 were on my Kindle with a decent 40% of physical books. I find the Kindle Paperwhite is easier to read in bed as I don’t need to have lights on...
The Books I Read in 2016: Part 1

The Books I Read in 2016: Part 1

I set myself a target of reading a book a week in 2016 and managed to surpass this with 58. I’ve set myself the tougher goal of 60 books – or 5 a month for 2017 as, without a house move to undertake this year, I should be able to fit in more reading time....