Happy Sunday bookish peeps!
My Weekly Bookish Wrap Up is linked with the Sunday Salon and the Sunday Post.
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:
Another week full of work-related stuff and only a little bit of reading. Instead of reading I’ve been on YouTube and Pinterest looking at crochet inspiration. My step-mum taught me to crochet when I was a teenager but I can only do a regular granny blanket and would love to be able to branch out from there into other patterns and projects.
On YouTube I found an easy…ish to follow tutorial, watching it a couple of times while attempting to create my first solid granny square. The wool I’m using is one I’ve had for quite a while, purchased with the idea of challenging myself to try something new. It’s variegated to keep the crochet interesting while I make many, many squares and then learn how to put them all together.
Slow Cooker Sunday
I’m not slow cooking today but I am shredding chicken to make a honey, garlic stir-fry with all the vegetables in my crisper. During the week, I’m going to make a two ingredient cupcake recipe that looked interesting on Facebook. The two ingredients are a vanilla cake mix and a can of fizzy drink. I’m going to use pineapple and passionfruit mineral water and see what happens. It’s more of a science experiment than cooking, but hopefully the cupcakes taste ok.
Bookish things:
This week, I read the second book in the Good Folk: Modern Folktales series by Penny Reid – Folk Around and Find Out, giving it a rare 5 stars (only the 4th I’ve given this year). I literally laughed out loud at the quirkiness of characters, particularly my favourite Winston Brother – Cleatus. The banter was perfect, the romance swoon-worthy. Highly recommend if you love small town romance, single mums with everything on their plate and a long-standing crush on a scruffy man with a gruff exterior and a heart of gold.
I also read He Would Never by Holly Wainwright. Not a romance (for something different). This novel has been touted as a thriller/suspense however I didn’t find it all that suspenseful. It was definitely a good read – a well paced domestic drama, with interesting dynamics between each of the women and their families taking part in the annual camping trip, and just the right amount of relatability to keep me turning the page.
Bookish Challenges:
2025 Goodreads Reading Challenge: 78/75 books (104%)
Audiobook Challenge: 39/50 audiobooks (78%)
Non Fiction Reader Challenge: 5/12 books (42%)
#20BooksofSummer2025: 16/20 (80%)
And that’s my bookish week. How was yours?
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