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25 May 2014
This is is Meme hosted by Kimba @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer and here are the rules.
It is your chance to re-cap your bookish week, what did your review last week, any new purchases, what will be coming up in your blog next week or generally anything you feel you would like to share with the blogging community.
So, what did I do last week?
As always, busy week at work… but hey, that's life I suppose. I have to be grateful that I do have a job, and even though stressful, not a bad one I guess.
Last Sunday the weather was beautiful here with temperature in the low 80's. My sons managed to repair our shed. Amazing, I had been nagging them for weeks and than it was only a two-hour job and all was done. We cleaned out the yard and I treated them to a spontaneous BBQ which was just the perfect end to a lovely day. It's not often any more that we all do things together.
This weekend, it's a long weekend here in England (Bank Holiday weekend), and I kind of hope that I can use Monday to pre-write some posts for the blog. Weather is not very nice, has been raining continuously, so can't sit outside unfortunately :(
On the blog last week
Reviews:
Memes / Features:
- Top Ten Tuesday - books about friendship
- Feature & Follow - have you inspired / convinced someone to read a certain book/genre?
Finish / Start
Finish
This Changes Everything by Sally Ember, Vol I of The Spanner's Series (review to follow soon)
Start
This Changes My Family and Me Forever by Sally Ember, Vol II of The Spanner's Series
Around the Blogosphere
- Rachel at Parajunkee gives us Confidence as a Blogger
- Kristilyn at Reading in Winter muses about reading habits - series extras
- Amanda at Book Badger tells us Why Libraries are my second home
- Lori at Broke and Bookish tells us her Personal Reading Rules (my advice: print out and keep over favourite reading space :)
- David at Talk Stephen King gives us a little bit of gossip about behind the scenes at the Shawshank Redemption
Added to my stash
I received a few books this week for review, and also for review my first 'proper' book in the post (rather than Kindle download) which was kind of exciting!
Received for review:
Harbour Views by Philip Chatting
Pegasus to Paradise by Michael Tappenden
The Terrorist's daughter by Brian Arthur Leven
And look what found its way into my shopping bag when hubby and me went to the local mall yesterday?? Love the cover btw.
Reviews:
This Changes Everything by Sally Ember (The Spanners Vol I)
How to write for magazines … in one weekend by Diana Cambridge (non-fiction)
Pet Sematary by Stephen King
The Bone Garden by Tess Gerritsen
Memes / Features:
This week: Top Ten Tuesday Freebie! Pick your own topic!
Feature and Follow hosted by Parajunkee and Alison Can Read: this week's question: How important is good writing to you? In an ideal world, a book would be beautifully written AND have great character development, plot, etc. But in the real world, which do you prefer: (1) Great characters and plot with lousy writing or (2) Middling character development and plot but gorgeous writing?
Peggy xxx
