I only read a couple of books during April, but those that I did read I really enjoyed.
I bought this book back in 2016 and fell in love with it immediately. I hadn't re-read it for a long time and with the previous book I read in March being so disappointing, I wanted to move onto something that I just knew I would love to read all over again, so I started the month with it. Click on the link to read more about it.
Her house and the little cottage in her garden are just outside Innerleithen in Scotland where my sister-in-law lives, so it was nice to be able to picture the places that Fiona talked about walking to and from, and the shops that she frequented when she walked into town.
I have kept this book.
A book that I thought I had read before, but after reading through about a quarter of it I found a book mark, and it turned out that the rest was all fresh to me. So something must have stopped me from finishing it the first time that I read it when it was new back in 2019.
I don't know what my notes were in aid of, it's usually shopping lists that I find in books ... which is really handy when I am in Sainsbury's, pondering on what I wrote on the list!!
The card was one off a blog reader a few years ago and is my current bookmark ... to try and stop me using shopping lists. 😄
Anyway it is a really good and thought provoking read, and has made me want to go back and read his first book again.
I have also kept this book.
My last book of the month was this tiny book by Nigel Slater.
It is a tiny little book that I purchased years ago and definitely not for the price it is currently being advertised on Amazon for. There were few recipes that I would have made, so I had a read through, made a few notes and then donated it to the book table in Booths.
Donated.
Strangely, I wasn't in the mood for starting another book right at the end of the month, so I took some time to read through some of my old The Simple Things magazines, before donating them to the charity book table.
So although it doesn't at first glance appear to be a very 'booky' month, the two main books that I did read I really enjoyed. It's good when you can really sink into a book and it gets you thinking about things isn't it.
Sue xx
I would like to point out, that although I provide links to Amazon for all the books that I read each month, not all my books are bought from Amazon. If they are, some of them were bought from the Used section rather than at full price. You do not need to spend a fortune to read good books. 💖
I share the links so that you can learn more about the books that I write about for yourself, or read reviews from others that have read them. Of course most of the books I talk about would also be available from your local library, and if you are very lucky you might even find them in charity or thrift shops.
There are so many ways to bring books into your home if you love reading. 📚
Oh, ~thank you~ 😘.
ReplyDeleteI read The Cottage Garden Diaries years ago* and loved it; a quick firtle has found it waiting patiently on the shelf, so guess what has been swiftly moved to the little table next to my chair in the sitting room?
(Amazon says I bought it in November 2011 😱)
I love that Amazon tells us when we bought our books. :-)
DeleteI love love love book recommendations and yours always seem to chime with me, thanks Sue.
ReplyDeleteIt's a lean month this month for you then, hopefully it will save you some money if you don't buy any of them. ;-)
DeleteI am so tired when I fall into bed that I cannot cooe with reading. Also waiting for new glasses as I'm struggling with small print. I read The Simple Things for free on Libby
ReplyDeleteSadly, I can't read in bed at all any more, I think this is partly what slowed down my reading as many books a couple of years ago.
DeleteI can't imagine any dinner taking more than 30 minutes. I must be making simple things! 😂
ReplyDeleteNot many of mine take that long, if they do it's just things in the oven needing no attention from me. 😄
DeleteThank you for the book reviews. I checked to see if our library has a copy of The Garden Cottage Diaries (they don't always have British books, but, they had this one) and placed a hold on it. I look forward to reading it.
ReplyDeleteI hope you enjoy is when you get it. 😀
DeleteLooks like some great reading happening. I really am having a problem getting into a book this time around, so I started another. Hopefully a rest will enable me to finish the first one off.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
That happens to me a lot. Usually that's when I go back to an old favourite and lose myself in it completely. 🙂
DeleteThat quote is absolutely brilliant and so true, I love it!
ReplyDeleteI'm a solar-powered reader so I've been devouring Elena Ferrante's The Neapolitan Quartet in the sunshine this week, hence my absence from Blogland! xxx
While Alan basks in the sun, I am indoors in the cool reading my next book. 📚😀
DeleteJust bought “ My way home” will read it this month, I am trying to get hold of the cottage one from the library
ReplyDeleteI hope you enjoy them both. Let me know what you think. 😀
DeleteAs usual I love your choice of books Sue and, on this occasion, your book mar.k.
ReplyDeleteI laughed when I saw it.
If it is a recycled card it is one that I sent to you thanking you for a book you offered as a lucky dip.
I'm delighted to see that you have recycled it yet again.
The Cottage Garden Diaries is a favourite of mine.
Sue L.
I'm glad that you picked up on the photo, I was hoping the 'right' Sue would see it. It's been in constant use since the day it arrived. 😀
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