Desperate Reader

I enjoyed The Three Dahlias a lot when I read it a couple of years ago - particularly the nods towards various queens of classic crime, so I...

I meant to both knit and read today and so far haven't really done either, but it has otherwise been the perfect day off despite being u...

I'm sneaking in under the wire for the 1937 book club with a book that I've read a few times before in the distant past, but apparen...

It's a perk of my job that I get to read things I'd never normally bother with even if the quality of that reading is uneven. Forth ...

Apologies for the lengthy silence, and a far bigger apology to my poor manager - I've spent much of the last week preparing for a work r...

It's been a while - mostly due to how exhausting it is dealing with the feral kids we get during School holidays. It's very easy to ...

Packing shorter books was a sound plan, I'm on a roll with them - Columba's Bones is 183 pages, both myself and husband read it yest...

Good intentions got away with me and it's been a while. I'm currently on holiday in the Scottish borders - idyllic, so idyllic and f...

That's another week that's gotten away from me - we've been both short-staffed and very busy at work - it's been all I can d...

I've been in a bit of a slump recently, sleeping badly and very tired, which has mad doing anything seem like exceptionally hard work. I...