Hello all! And farewell to September…aarrggghhh!! It doesn’t feel like it’s less than 3 months to Christmas but I’m already feeling under prepared! And so many more books I hope to read before the year is through! I need to crack on!!!
Not been a bad week for me – managed to finish 2 books, may have visited NetGalley a few times plus added a library book to the never ending TBR mountain!
BOOKS FINISHED
Leonard and Hungry Paul by Ronan Hession – 5 stars
Just wonderful!
Foxfire, Wolfskin and Other Stories by Sharon Blackie – 4 stars
Wonderful collection of short stories
BOOKHAUL
To Netgalley we go……
Three Hours by Rosamund Lipton
out January 2020
Three hours is 180 minutes or 10,800 seconds.
It is a morning’s lessons, a dress rehearsal of Macbeth, a snowy trek through the woods.
It is an eternity waiting for news. Or a countdown to something terrible.
It is 180 minutes to discover who you will die for and what men will kill for.
In rural Somerset in the middle of a blizzard, the unthinkable happens: a school is under siege. Told from the point of view of the people at the heart of it, from the wounded headmaster in the library, unable to help his trapped pupils and staff, to teenage Hannah in love for the first time, to the parents gathering desperate for news, to the 16 year old Syrian refugee trying to rescue his little brother, to the police psychologist who must identify the gunmen, to the students taking refuge in the school theatre, all experience the most intense hours of their lives, where evil and terror are met by courage, love and redemption
Saving Missy by Beth Morrey
out February 2020
Prickly. Stubborn. Terribly lonely.
But everyone deserves a second chance…
A dazzling debut for 2020 – are you ready to meet Missy Carmichael?
Missy Carmichael’s life has become small.
Grieving for a family she has lost or lost touch with, she’s haunted by the echoes of her footsteps in her empty home; the sound of the radio in the dark; the tick-tick-tick of the watching clock.
Spiky and defensive, Missy knows that her loneliness is all her own fault. She deserves no more than this; not after what she’s done. But a chance encounter in the park with two very different women opens the door to something different.
A new life beckons for Missy, if only she can be brave enough to grasp the opportunity. But seventy-nine is too late for a second chance. Isn’t it?
WILD ABOUT WEEDS by JACK WALLINGTON
Wild About Weeds by RHS-qualified garden designer Jack Wallington is the first gardening book that looks again at garden design’s most ignored group of plants: weeds.
Not all weeds are ugly uncontrollable brutes. Yes, they can be difficult and intimidating, but weeds can bring a wild, rebellious element to a garden.
In his new book, Jack Wallington profiles over 50 weeds and demonstrates surprising ways to grow them. He explains every element of growing weeds in our own gardens, from weed hunting to collecting and storing weeds, and letting these wild plants flourish without taking control.
Wild About Weeds makes a compelling case for leaving weeds in gardens as part of planting schemes to help bring gardens to life and make them more sustainable and wildlife-friendly. Including a brief history of garden weeds, as well as exclusive interviews with top gardeners, designers and botanists,
Wild About Weeds is the must-have guide for anyone looking to tame and nurture the most challenging of plants.
ELLIE AND THE HARP MAKER by HAZEL PRIOR – library copy
In the rolling hills of beautiful Exmoor, there’s a barn. And in that barn, you’ll find Dan. He’s a maker of exquisite harps – but not a great maker of conversation. He’s content in his own company, quietly working and away from social situations that he doesn’t always get right.
But one day, a cherry-socked woman stumbles across his barn and the conversation flows a little more easily than usual. She says her name’s Ellie, a housewife, alone, out on her daily walk and, though she doesn’t say this, she looks sad. He wants to make her feel better, so he gives her one of his harps, made of cherry wood.
And before they know it, this simple act of kindness puts them on the path to friendship, big secrets, pet pheasants and, most importantly, true love.
CURRENTLY READING
The Brothers York by Thomas Penn from Netgalley
Three Days In Florence by Chrissie Manby
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HAPPY READING
Books and Me! 
No idea how I missed this post, I was obviously slacking on Saturday. Love the look of Three Seconds and the Weeds book.
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I will let you off haha! You are allowed to let real life get in the way sometimes over blogs lol! Hopefully I’ll have good things to report back on those books!
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