All About Books discussion

Keeping it simple this year. Not sure if I'm going to do a big challenge this year but I will do a separate topic as always.

So far, I think my goal will be 100 books.

Good reading to you in 2021, Alannah!

Leslie wrote: "Good reading to you in 2021, Alannah!"

Thank you, Leslie.

1. Secrets by Jacqueline Wilson

2. Murder in the Evening (Miss Alice #2) by Blythe Baker

Good luck Alannah.

Thank you Jade.

3. How to Solve a Murder: True Stories from a Life in Forensic Medicine by Derek Tremain & Pauline Tremain
4. Hexing (Magic & Alchemy #1) by Ciara Graves
5. How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories (The Folk of the Air #3.5) by Holly Black
6. The Sea of Travail (Renaissance Sojourner #2) by Kristin Gleeson
7. Darklight (Darklight #1) by Bella Forrest

You're doing well, Alannah

Thank you Jade

8. Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
9. The Last Night of the World by Ray Bradbury
10. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
11. Clean Break by Jacqueline Wilson

12. Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson

13. The Diamond Girls by Jacqueline Wilson

14. Lola Rose by Jacqueline Wilson

15. The Illustrated Mum by Jacqueline Wilson

16. Impossible Dream (The Percy Place #1) by Gemma Jackson

17. American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of Crime Scene Investigation by Kate Winkler Dawson

18. Hyde by Craig Russell

19. Saint Marie by Louise Erdrich

20. American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins

21. The Story of the Windrush by K.N. Chimbiri

22. A French Girl in New York (The French Girl #1) by Anna Adams

23. Secrets of the Starcrossed (The Once and Future Queen #1) by Clara O'Connor

You’re doing really well.

I wish I could read as much as you, I feel like time gets away from me too fast.

Jade wrote: "I wish I could read as much as you, I feel like time gets away from me too fast."

I think my reading will slow down now I have started studying again. I have gone to university.

*gone back to university

It’s been a long day.

Alannah wrote: "Jade wrote: "I wish I could read as much as you, I feel like time gets away from me too fast."

I think my reading will slow down now I have started studying again. I have gone to university."

Oh good luck with your studies.

Thank you Jade. :)

24. Malice by Heather Walter
25. The Witchfinder's Sister by Beth Underdown
26. Vampire Trouble
(Deadly Destiny #1) by Alycia Linwood
27. The Faerie Girl and Other Tales (Feyland World) by Anthea Sharp
28. Children of Eden (Children of Eden #1) by Joey Graceffa
29. Into the Spotlight by Carrie Hope Fletcher
30. Little Darlings by Jacqueline Wilson

31. Murder in the Crypt (Redmond and Haze Mysteries #1) by Irina Shapiro

32. Wakenhyrst by Michelle Paver

33. The Beauty of Broken Things by Victoria Connelly

34. Ms. Never by Colin Dodds

35. The Courage To Be Disliked: How to free yourself, change your life and achieve real happiness by Ichiro Kishimi

36. Of Wicked Blood (The Quatrefoil Chronicles Book 1) by Olivia Wildenstein

37. Jacky Daydream by Jacqueline Wilson

38. The Witches of St. Petersburg by Imogen Edwards-Jones

39. The View from Castle Rock by Alice Munro

40. The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

41. These Violent Delights (These Violent Delights, #1) by Chloe Gong

42. Master of One by Jaida Jones, Danielle Bennett

43. The Paris Dressmaker by Kristy Cambron

44. Lockdown Hair by Linda Steinbock

45. The Vanishing at Loxby Manor by Abigail Wilson

46. Croatian Tales of Long Ago by Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić

Wow, I can’t get over how much you are reading Alannah, especially while you’re studying and working too.
Please let me know your secret, haha.

Jade wrote: "Wow, I can’t get over how much you are reading Alannah, especially while you’re studying and working too.
Please let me know your secret, haha."

I just make sure I set aside enough time at night time, at least half an hour. I definitely think it helps me sleep at night too. I haven’t really been reading the past few nights and I know my sleep hasn’t been that great, it’s more because I can’t seem to concentrate on reading. This lockdown has messed my sleeping schedule up so much working from home but I also find that because I am so used to the noise in the office, I usually have an audiobook on, I found that really helpful when I first started working from home over the summer, and when I went back in for a while before Christmas, a lot of people still had the option to work from home, including my manager so it was very quiet. I just kept listening to audiobooks, I’m not one for listening to music but when I do, I get too distracted easily, for some reason with audiobooks, I stay a bit more focused. I also take public transport so I manage to read a lot there, however that’s mainly audiobooks too.

Alannah wrote: "Jade wrote: "Wow, I can’t get over how much you are reading Alannah, especially while you’re studying and working too.
Please let me know your secret, haha."

I just make sure I set aside enough ti..."

Interesting, I need to take that advice on board, I don’t work in an office, I work in non essential retail so I’ve been in and out of work since March last year, even when the shops opened back up, I wasn’t getting as many hours so I have no excuse not to make up time. Being out of work has got me back into education and I’m loving the time off to get me stuck into studying, even if it’s just part time.

Jade wrote: "Alannah wrote: "Jade wrote: "Wow, I can’t get over how much you are reading Alannah, especially while you’re studying and working too.
Please let me know your secret, haha."

I just make sure I set..."

That’s what got me to go back in studying as well, I have been loving the extra free time to study as well, it’s going to be so weird if we ever get back to normality but I have to say, I’m enjoying the extra free time I have by not having to travel to work everyday, I can get up later in the morning.