Reading BIG Books

For one reason and another I have not done a booky post for ages, so I thought it was about time to recitfy this and get back to my Monthly Reading lists. 

My reading mojo left me completely for a while, then it returned in a slow motion fashion and I took ages to plough my way through the books that I was reading. It didn't help that for some reason I was determined to read books that I didn't think I really wanted to keep, purely in a bid to reduce numbers by the time we move home.

Now as any reasonably normal person will tell you, reading books that you don't think you are going to like reading is not a sure-fire way of encouraging any sort of reading mojo to return, so she hid away and my reading almost came to a standstill ... although it did mean that numerous books were donated to the charity book table in Booths mostly half read and not worth writing about.

So, in a bid to keep me on track I have switched to a new way to choose my reading material.  I am now having a few weeks of reading mostly fiction books and BIG books.  If they are fiction and BIG then even better.  I rarely keep fiction books once I have read them, it's easy for me to part with them as usually they have cost less than a pound to buy and they have to be really special to warrant a second reading.

And if they are BIG books they will take up more space in the boxes when I come to pack away all my treasured books, so they will really have to earn their keep.

So here are the books that I read in July.

One Good Thing by Alexandra Potter

I really enjoyed this book, a good story line that all made perfect sense and not too formulaic. 

  Fiction - Donated

 The Mysterious Bakery on the Rue de Paris

I took this book on our weekend away in July and enjoyed every page, it was a really good story.

 Fiction - Donated

Going Dutch by Katie Fforde

I really enjoyed this one, living right beside the canal as we do reading about boats, both narrow, wide-beam or Dutch barges is nearly always going to be interesting.  I'll miss the canal when we move.

 Fiction and Big - Donated

Simplicious Flow by Sarah Wilson

This was a really good book, but one that I read thoroughly when I bought it in 2019 and then again this month, but one that I really don't need to keep going forward.

Big - Donated

Now I know who to blame for making me take all my extra napkins home every time that we eat out.  😄

That's it for last month, lets see what August brings for my reading mojo, and I will definitely be concentrating on BIG books.  

Sue xx

I would like to point out, that although I provide links to Amazon for 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. 📚