Happy Sunday bookish peeps!
I hope you’ve all had a wonderfully bookish week.
I returned to work this week and my whole body has had to move so much more than it has been used to over the last six weeks. I’m absolutely exhausted every day when I come home and yesterday (Saturday) I got out of bed just to fall back asleep on the couch for the morning. It’s going to take a little bit to get back in the swing of things, I think, but I’m happy to be back with my babies. I’ve missed them and they’ve all grown so much. It’s incredible to see.
Now that I’m back at work that means I can expect to get paid for the first time in what feels like a long time. We are so used to being a two income family that we definitely found it tricky to have me on unpaid leave for the whole of my recovery.
Knowing that we’re about to have a bit more money, we splurged and filled our pantry over the weekend, ready for me to go back to cooking. I’ve missed making beautiful dinners and sweet treats for family and friends, and I’m wanting to spend a bit more time in the kitchen. I’m also wanting to start collecting some cookery books and look forward to creating my own recipe journal.
Bookish things:
Being so exhausted this week has meant that my reading has slipped a little, but I did manage to read two books….just. Neither of them were highly rated by me and honestly, I talked myself out of DNFing both of them at one stage or another.
An auto-buy author of mine since her debut, Beth O’Leary‘s latest release Swept Away had promise, however it didn’t live up to it and I found myself really disappointed. It lacked a lot of the romance that I’ve come to expect from this author and the whole lost at sea thing dragged on, becoming more and more ridiculous as it went.
The Year that Changed Us by Helen Rolfe is a backlist title on my Kindle – I’m slowly checking them off the list – that I probably should have returned instead of reading. Frankly, it was dull and I will never get those hours spent reading back.
This coming week, I am listening to Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry in the car and reading two different paperbacks at a time – Wild Love by Elsie Silver and The Baby Dragon Cafe by A T Qureshi – all of which are making up for the disappointment of last week’s reads.
Bookish Challenges:
2025 Goodreads Reading Challenge: 43/75 books (57%)
Audiobook Challenge: 13/50 audiobooks
Non Fiction Reader Challenge: 4/12 books
And that’s my bookish week. How was yours?
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