Category: Reading Lately

• December 21, 2023

  My Favourite Books of 2023

  Towards the end of December, I like to share my favourite books from the year preceding. In the past, I’ve kept track of the number of books I’ve read, but in 2023, in common with a few other things, that practice has been lost. Suffice to say, I’ve read a lot of books, a mix…
• November 30, 2022

  My Ten Favourite Books of 2022

  Towards the end of each year, I tend to write a round-up of my ten favourite books from the twelve or so months preceding. However, 2022 has been a different sort of year for me in terms of blogging – a new job and changing domestic arrangements have meant that many of my old blogging…
• February 6, 2022

  Falling in Love With Place Through Stories – Landscape to Light by Neil M. Gunn

  Recently, I’ve been reading Landscape to Light, a collection of essays by the late Neil M. Gunn – who, in addition to being one of the 20th century’s foremost novelists, also hailed from Caithness. I’ve loved reading Gunn’s views on all sorts of things, and as well as finding his essays interesting in their own right, they’ve also helped…
• December 16, 2021

  My Ten Favourite Books of 2021

  At around this point in winter, I like to round up my ten favourite books of the year, in no particular order (and with the caveat that the list refers to the year of reading – I often read books many years after publication). This year I read thirty-nine books in total, fewer than normal…
• December 8, 2021

  Autumn and Early Winter Reading – The Wild Silence, Feral, The Way Home and The Giver of Stars

  It’s been several months since I shared a reading post on here – mainly due to being occupied with my own book. I’ve written less on my blog this year than any other – a shifting of my attention away from the blogosphere and onto the other writing I want to send into the world.…
• July 13, 2021

  Spring and Early Summer Reading – I Am An Island, Where The Crawdads Sing, Wintering & True North

  It’s been some time since I shared a reading post on the blog, the result of a slowing-down of my motivation for putting finger to keyboard and sending words out into the blogosphere. In the background, I’ve been absorbing the words of other authors, and it’s rare for a day to pass without me picking…
• February 7, 2021

  Lockdown and January Reading (*contains gifted item)

  One positive of these last few months in lockdown (and I think we really do have to seek out the good now and then, don’t we?) has been the chance to devote more time to reading. Reading can be such an escape from the realities of our current situation (even if, like me, you occasionally…
• December 17, 2020

  My Ten Favourite Books of 2020 – And What I’ve Been Reading Lately

  At around this point in December, I usually like to round up my ten favourite books of the year, in no particular order, and with the caveat that the list refers to the year of reading rather than the year of publication. However, 2020 has been a year like no other, and between Covid, lockdown…
• September 2, 2020

  Summer Reading 2020 (includes gifted items)

  It’s been some time since I shared a reading update on here, between lockdown and taking a break for the school holidays. I’ve also found that (sob!) my bookish posts aren’t as popular as some of the other posts I write here – sadly there’s that effort-reward balance in terms of deciding how much time…
• January 27, 2020

  Reading Lately – The Art of Coorie, Monster Slayer, The Salt Path and Finding Mr Flood (* post contains one gifted item)

  It’s been a while since I shared a reading update, mainly because December was spent deciding on my favourite books from the twelve months previous. Meanwhile, January just keeps going… and going… and going ☺️. One of my favourite things about the long winter is the excuse to curl up with my reading pile and…