It was a big week for reading! I've put an asterisks to identify NetGalley review books, because there are a lot of them this week, and I'm sick of typing ' thanks to NetGalley the publisher's for the free DARC in exchange for an honest review'! After I finished the fun action / romance For Her Eyes Only I decided to go a complete change of pace and read Neil Sharpson 's The Burial Tide * a rather fun, horror novel set in rural Ireland. I loved it, it was very atmospheric and a satisfying read. I then went out of order in my review books, preferring to read the romance The Fame Game by Ronica Black *. Look at that cover. Beautiful. The book itself was a really nice, rather sweet low stakes romance. Now I'm going back to Very Impressive For Your Age by Eleanor Kirk*, which sounds like a really great read, but it's a coming of age novel about someone coming to terms with their dreams, and it sounded a bit thematically s...
It's really easy to write posts about weekends when I go to festivals, or when we go travelling and there is plenty of that coming up in the next six weeks! Some of my favourite weekends are like this one. I decided not to make any social arrangements, since I am out every night next week, and then we are away for the weekend. As usual, we hosted my parents for Friday night dinner On Saturday morning we ran to Black Rock (17 kms) had breakfast, came home and lazed. It was glorious. then I went to the Pole studio for practice time, and worked on some tricks that had been giving me issues. Sunday was even more relaxed. Sun is shining and I haven't left the house. There was tea and reading, and spinning in the suns hine and of course knitting, which I still can't show you because it's a supers secret test knit. It's not exciting, and these sorts of quiet weekends all tend to look a bit the same, but it is pretty satisfying. I'm relaxed and ready for a busy week, ...