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Thursday 12 February 2015

Year in Books February half way mark


Not the best of photographs but early morning is not the best time to take photo's in my little cottage.

On the table today are the two books I have just completed Sarah Butler's Ten Things Learnt About Love & Marjorie Celona's Y.  Both of these had been residing on my bookshelf for some time. Ten Things Learnt About Love tells the story of Alice and Daniel.  Alice has returned home from travels abroad when she learns that her father is gravely ill. Her mother died when she was just four years old leaving her father to raise her and her two older sisters.  Daniel is a homeless man whose one wish would be to find his daughter he has never met. You soon realise that these two have one common link. It was a great book as a debut novel but at times did seem to loose it's way a little but I'm sure Ms Butler will go onto produce more great works in the future.   Y is set in Canada and tells the story of Shannon a young girl who was abandoned by her mother outside the YMCA when she was just hours old.  Shannon is put into foster care but is eventually adopted by Amanda a single mother of a little girl just a little older than herself.  Her one wish as she gets older is to find out her true identity.  Quite an emotive book in places as you follow her journey in finding the truth.  

On my kindle I have now downloaded my return to my childhood read The Anne of Greengables Collection by Lucy Maud Montgomery.  These were some of my favourite books as a child  and I am looking forward to visiting these again.  In fact I am up to chapter three already.

Also on the table is my little note book, I do have a little obsession for note books to add to the collection of all my other obsessions.  In here I write down all the books I either buy or download to try and stop duplication, but I also like to keep a record of how many I buy across the year.  I also make a note of the books I read each month in order to not miss out any on my blog.  Since starting my blog I have purchased some 160+ books and have read around 120 and there is still plenty of space in my little book which means I can carry on buying more.....

It is number two son's birthday next week so yet another card has been purchased and posted.  We have a lot of birthdays at the beginning of year in our household. I suspect my son would like to think I have enough savings to buy him a lovely car like this but I'm afraid he is out of luck unless he would like one from matchbox cars...  My Hyacinths are coming into bloom and the smell is already just glorious.  Last year they seemed to have grown rather tall & gangly  which meant they had problems staying upright if anyone knows why this might be please leave me a comment in order that I don't make the same mistake again .  And to finish off is my little blue cup and saucer.  I am usually a cup of tea in a mug kind of girl but there are times when only a cup and saucer will do.  I blame Kate over at Just Pootling who did a lovely anniversary giveaway last year which I was very fortunate to win and in so doing introduced me to the merits of a cup & saucer and Tea Pigs the every day brew is very nice but I am now rather hooked on the Lemon & Ginger flavor and there are still so many for me to try. 

So here we are approaching the half way mark of February and already I have read my way through four books with the fifth underway.

For some of you it will be the half term holidays and for others that will be next week but whatever you are doing during the holidays I hope you still find a little me time to indulge in a little reading.

Mx

12 comments:

  1. Hello Mitzi

    You have read a lot of books. I've not read Anne of Green Gables and will be intrested to read your review. I finished The Wind in the Willows and throughly enjoyed it.

    Thank you for your good wishes.

    luv
    irene
    xxxx

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    1. I read the books as a child and saw the tv adaptation/film many years ago and always loved them so it was a must for my going back to my child hood reads. I have the Wind in the Willows too and that is on the list for a revisit at some point this year. Glad you are feeling better.

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  2. I too keep a list of what I've read, as I'm an avid reader. I've listed everything I've read since 2001. I'm sure I buy more than I read, though, and my Amazon wishlist is still ridiculously long! But books and reading make me happy, so I'm not too fussed - there are worse pastimes, after all!

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    1. I did get to a point where I was buying more than I was reading so I did put a halt on buying anymore until I had worked my way through them. I would say that between my kindle and the bookshelf there is probably at least 50 more to be read and I have seen yet more that I want. Like you my wishlist is overflowing and sometimes they end up on there twice as I've forgotten I have already added them. So it's just as well I keep a list of what I have bought or I would end up with duplicates. And you're right there are worse past times.

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  3. I love Anne of Green Gables! Have you read L.M.Montgomery's Emily of New Moon series? They were books I adored as a young teen, I still have the collection now....high time I revisited them to be honest! X

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    1. No I haven't read that series may have to seek it out at some point.

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  4. You have been a busy reader! It is years since I read Anne of Green Gables, if only I had time to add more books to my pile! Re the hyacinths, I think they just do that sort of thing! It isn't you or anything you did or not. Just get some bamboo skewers or chop sticks and stick in the soil and then tie a pretty ribbon round them and the stems/leaves and that will support them - I have seen that done on lots of blogs and it looks quite pretty I think! xx

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    1. It is taking me a bit to get back into the Anne of Green Gables but I think its more that my head is not in the right spot as been busy workwise hopefully I'll get more into it over the weekend and I have a couple of days off next week. That's a really good idea for my Hyacinths I will see if I can get some skewers on the way home this evening and I have some ribbon that will just do the job. They are now completely in flower and the heads were lying across the table this morning.

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  5. I'm a reader as well! Anne was one of my favorites growing up.
    Amalia
    xo

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    1. Hi Amalia

      I have almost finished Anne of Greengables and I have enjoyed going back to this one. There are a further 7 books but I think I'm going to save those to another time.

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  6. Thanks for popping by my blog this week. I've got a book recommendation - The Girl on The Train, Paula Hawkins only took me 3 and a bit days to read, brilliant.

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    1. Hi Amanda, I heard Paula Hawkins talking to Simon Mayo on Radio 2 when it was launched and from her description it sounded really good. I shall be doing some people watching from a train this weekend too. It might be just the thing for journey although I'll be with my daughter and therefore I may have to be sociable:-) we can at least people watch together.

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