Category Archives: Books

Broken Kindle!

March 21, 2012 – 4:08 am

A post describing the amazing experience of my Kindle is long overdue. After all it got me back to reading and I have read the following books since receiving it on the beginning of this year: The Sleepless Nanny by Christa Charter The English German Girl by Jack Wallis Simons Seven Agatha Raisin books that I [...]

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Venice inspired weekend

February 5, 2012 – 10:21 pm

I’ve still not blogged about this week’s Venice trip which is mainly due to my pictures being worse than I expected. I’ve tried looking through them and editing the ones I’ve got to make them bearable, but about 3/4s of them just aren’t all that. The ones I have started posting can be found over [...]

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La Fenice

February 4, 2012 – 11:58 pm

For the past couple of days I’ve been reading Donna Leon’s ‘Death at La Fenice’ which is the first of her Commisario Brunetti books. Whilst I’ve read them before many years ago I don’t really remember them too well and am yet again wondering who the murderer could be. It really helps with the immersion [...]

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More on the Agatha Raisin series

January 25, 2012 – 11:32 pm

I mentioned a few weeks ago: I wish I had never discovered the Agatha Raisin series as it is sure to bankrupt me over time! Since then I have made a resolution that I will only buy one book each calendar week to not only draw out the series, but also ensure my bank account [...]

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Jessica Daniel – Locked In & Vigilante by Kerry Wilkinson [@kerrywk]

January 24, 2012 – 7:09 pm

Locked in was the first book I downloaded a sample of before realising I liked the book enough to buy it. It was specifically this sentence within the first few pages: She had no texts, no missed calls and the only emails were ones offering her enhancements she definitely wouldn’t be needing without far more [...]

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Children’s stories

January 21, 2012 – 11:47 pm

I’ve had several separate conversations about books I read as a child over the past few days. One of them evolved around fairy tales, particularly the quite grim Grimm’s ones [see what I did there...?] and the other about Sherlock Holmes. If my memory is correct, which is always a caveat to add to most [...]

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Memories of the Future – Volume 1 by Wil Wheaton [@wilw]

January 17, 2012 – 11:01 pm

I’ve been reading Wil Wheaton’s blog ever since first stumbling across it some time in 2007 and I’ve been following him on Twitter for as long as I can remember. I remember enjoying his behind the scenes posts about filming Star Trek and always planned to buy the book. Memories of the Future was one [...]

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Agatha Raisin series by M. C. Beaton

January 14, 2012 – 11:39 pm

I wish I had never discovered the Agatha Raisin series as it is sure to bankrupt me over time! It sort of happened as I was browsing the Kindle store when I discovered the Agatha Raisin omnibus containing the first for books of the series which now spans more than 20 books. The books included [...]

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The English German Girl by Jack Wallis Simons

January 12, 2012 – 8:08 am

I bought this book for two reasons – to balance out the chicklit of the previous book and because I’ve always been very interested in books surrounding Germany and the holocaust ever since reading The diary of Anne Frank and its accompanying literature as a little girl. I should also mention it was in the [...]

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The Sleepless Nanny by Christa Charter [@trixie360]

January 8, 2012 – 4:00 am

One of the first things I did when I got my Kindle on Friday was to go through the Amazon Marketplace and purchase books written by friends or those I know through Twitter. This included Christa Charter’s or, as she’s better known, @trixie360′s book The Sleepless Nanny. There is some background to the book on [...]

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All Kindle’d up!

January 6, 2012 – 11:21 pm

Thanks to the amazing, brilliant [insert others here] Joe who bought it off my Amazon Wishlist, I now have a Kindle which arrived today. You know, the item I put on my wishlist thinking no one in their right mind would ever buy it for me! I’ve played with it a little bit, but have [...]

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Hints on etiquette and the usages of society with a glance at bad habits

January 5, 2012 – 2:12 am

I’ve been reading ‘Hints on etiquette and the usages of society with a glance at bad habits‘ by Charles Wm. Day which is fully available online. Up until seeing the link by raincoaster I wasn’t aware that books were fully available on archive.org, but I will now need to have a look for others that [...]

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“Thanks for ordering from Amazon.co.uk”

September 8, 2011 – 12:15 pm

I’m still trying to do more reading and with an English exam coming up, as well as a lot of unread books at home what could possibly be better than buying books, right? A few years ago I read several Donna Leon novels and liked them a lot. They are set in Venice which is [...]

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Things I would like

April 25, 2011 – 10:13 pm

This isn’t a new year’s resolution and it’s probably a quite #firstworldproblems kind of post. It all comes down to wanting to change things without changing too much and at the same time trying to take charge of life I guess rather than months passing by without me barely noticing. Or maybe not change, but [...]

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Classic books I’ve read

November 21, 2010 – 2:25 pm

There’s thing that’s been going round Facebook where allegedly the BBC has found in a study that most people would have only read five books of the below list. No one, however, posted a link to the original BBC study or article and I’m far too lazy too Google it. I was going to be [...]

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The Hobbit

June 25, 2010 – 3:41 pm

I’m currently listening to ‘The Hobbit’ written by J. R. R. Tolkien and read by Rob Inglis. It’s this version. Over the years I’ve always insisted that I don’t like audiobooks much and have only ever listened to a few which includes Stephen Fry reading Harry Potter, several Patricia Cornwell ones, Stephen Hawking, and the [...]

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Project365 week 2 – “The big freeze followed by the big thaw then some more snow followed by rain. What’s going on?”

January 14, 2010 – 3:55 pm

It’s week two of my Project365 and another week featuring mostly pictures taken in and around the flat. The few times I have left the house I didn’t come across much worth taking a picture of and twice I nearly forgot to take one alltogether which explains the pictures of whatever I was watching or [...]

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In 2009

December 31, 2009 – 11:45 pm

#In2009 is a hashtag that’s been popular on Twitter the past few days and it’s been interesting to see what other people have done in 2009. I posted a tweet as well, but feel like I want to elaborate a bit more. My tweet: #In2009 I moved back to Reading #rdg and realised a lot [...]

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