A stressful week at work where I really thought I wasn’t going to get anything read (not for relaxation anyway) but which improved immeasurably at the end.
Challenges:
My tally for the TBR Double Dog stands at twelve books (although I have actually read fourteen in total).
I finished Revival by Stephen King (reviewed here) and an excellent book of short stories, Irregularity (review to follow in a few days) and read the newest Goth Girl short novel for World Book Day on Thursday (but doesn’t count towards the dare because I bought it recently).
I’ve also joined a new challenge, King’s March, which only lasts for a month but gave me an excuse to read the King novel and permission (as if I really needed it) to re-read Carrie.
In progress
I have weeded out my reading list and set a few of the non-fiction book aside, clearing out my currently reading widget on the sidebar just to show fiction; that’s because my non-fiction reading tends to be erratic at the best of times and when I’m very tired (as I ave been recently) I just can’t cope with real things. So just about to start Vanessa & Her Sister (as I’m intending to go to a Bloomsbury event with the author later in March) in hard copy and Cuckoo Song by Frances Hardinge (which is up for the James Herbert award) on Kindle. I’m doing a lot of commuting this week so hopefully will get some proper reading done.
The Jane Eyre Update
Haven’t started it yet, because tired, overworked and stressed, so my Reading Plan is already out of sync, but I have until late April to read this so still hopeful of participation.
New Books
No new books this week, the embargo is more or less holding with only three and a bit weeks to go 😀
The upcoming week is going to be my heaviest for a wee while so hopefully reading will help. Or I may just curl up in a ball and whimper….
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March 8, 2015 at 12:44 pm
lynnsbooks
I hope you enjoy Jane Eyre. I loved that book but I read it in my early teens and haven’t reread since. I have this image of you running out and buying armfuls of books as soon as your embargo concludes!
Lynn 😀
March 8, 2015 at 12:57 pm
brideofthebookgod
I suspect it will be something like that Lynn! Or I may just sneakily download a pile of eBooks when no-one’s looking 😀
March 8, 2015 at 1:44 pm
Bryan G. Robinson
Well, I hope you don’t curl up in a ball and whimper. Hopefully the reading will help…and the week will end as well as this one.
March 8, 2015 at 7:48 pm
brideofthebookgod
Have started whimpering already 😦
March 8, 2015 at 6:08 pm
readerbuzz
I think I need to motivate myself by creating a challenge for spring break, which finally, finally, finally comes in a week.
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March 8, 2015 at 7:48 pm
brideofthebookgod
I am hanging on by my fingertips until Easter
March 8, 2015 at 11:26 pm
Barbara Bartels
Sometimes when I’m really tired, a non-fiction book is just the thing —- to put me to sleep.