Weekly Bookish Wrap Up: 18th May 2025

~ Kyles - Bookish Me

Happy Sunday bookish peeps!

I have decided to link my Weekly Bookish Wrap Up with the Sunday Salon and the Sunday Post, this week and for future posts.

The Sunday Salon is a meme hosted by Readerbuzz and is a place to link up and share what you have been doing during the week. It’s also a great opportunity to visit other blogs and join in the conversations going on there. While the Sunday Post is a meme hosted by Caffeinated Reviewer and is a chance to share news. It’s a post to recap the past week on your blog and share news about what is coming up on your blog for the week ahead.

Non-bookish things:

This week I have continued to research digital planning, focusing on the specifics of how to do it and I’m finding that I may be due for a technology update. My current tablet is 5-6 years old and is just not up to the task. Which then begs the question do I upgrade to the latest version of that tablet or do I switch to another type. There’s lots of pros and cons for both options, which of course, is doing my head in because there’s no clear answer. And so I continue to research …

As we head into the late stages of Autumn, it is becoming colder and more miserably wet. We have had a lot of rain and some parts of our area have seen flooding. We thankfully haven’t, although our backyard is slush and we haven’t been unable to get any work done outside. I expect the gardens will need to wait until Spring now but hopefully we’ll be able to get our fences done.

With the colder weather, I have been giving the slow cooker a bit of a workout. This week, I’ve cooked a delicious silverside, mouth-watering lamb shanks and today I’m making curried sausages. Hubby is very happy to have me back in the kitchen. We’ve been eating big hearty meals and then curling up on the lounge to watch TV or read our books together each evening – our Winter hibernation is beginning early.

Bookish things:

This week I read another two backlist books – Summer Romance by Annabel Monaghan and How to Age Disgracefully by Clare Pooley. Both were 4 star reads and I’m glad I didn’t just strike them from my TBR as we came into 2025.

This coming week, my priority is to finish reading Wild Love by Elsie Silver. It has sat on my bedside table long enough. I am also reading Family Family by Laurie Frankel on audiobook and expect to have it finished by Wednesday. I hope to start ARC Everything’s Coming Up Rosie by Courtney Walsh before the week ends.

Bookish Challenges:

2025 Goodreads Reading Challenge: 48/75 books (64%)

Audiobook Challenge: 18/50 audiobooks

Non Fiction Reader Challenge: 4/12 books

And that’s my bookish week. How was yours?

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15 thoughts on “Weekly Bookish Wrap Up: 18th May 2025”

  2. I’m so glad you joined us this week at Sunday Salon, and I look forward to having you join us again in coming weeks. It makes me feel content to hear that you are headed into a cozy winter in your part of the world; we are moving into summer here, and it’s been a bumpy ride this spring in the US.

    I look forward to hearing more about your reading and your life!

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  3. Urg! Cold and wet with the weather sliding into winter – that sounds miserably familiar. Though we are now in the middle of the driest Spring I can recall and the farmers are clamouring for rain, so if you can spare some – we’d be grateful… Have a great week.

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  5. I hate it when I have to update technology. It is always the worse for it. Trying to send an email with an attachment just takes ages these days where the buttons keep moving. Very inefficient.

    We haven’t had much rain here in South East England. In fact on the news this morning there was a headline about drought.

    I want to read How To Age Disgracefully. I am just so booked up. I’m a couple of weeks off my 20 Books Of Summer Challenge where I have chosen 10 books and am not sure how many I will get done. It’s all good fun though!

    Have a great week!

    Emily @ Budget Tales Book Blog 

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    1. I’m hoping it’s just an upgrade to the same brand rather than a whole new operating system to learn. That’ll make an easier transition.

      Im also planning to do the 20 books of summer challenge too, but I’m yet to choose my books and write a post. Good luck with your challenge.

      Happy reading!

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      1. Fingers crossed for you during this stressful time 🤣

        I did all my Blog posts for it then found a book that I wanted to read, but forgot to put down 😂

        Good luck with your challenge too!

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