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Let’s take a look at this months books.
Month Seven!
Total Reads:
4
Favourite read:
Hotel Avocado by Bob Mortimer
Until Next Time,
Roseanne 🙂
July Reads 📚
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June Reads 📚
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Let’s take a look at this months books.
Month Six, we are halfway through the year!!!
(Audible) – would 100% recommend, the narrator was brilliant. It made the experience 100 times better.
Total Reads:
4
Favourite book:
Project Hail Mary & Traitors gate
Until Next Time,
Roseanne 🙂
May Reads 📚
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Let’s take a look at this months books.
Month Five – let’s go!
Total reads:
7
Favourite book:
The Best Summer Ever by Heidi Swain
Until Next Time,
Roseanne 🙂
April reads 📚
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Let’s take a look at this months books.
Month Four – let’s go!
Total reads this month:
5
Favourite book this month:
The Woman on the Ledge by Ruth Mancini
Until Next Time,
Roseanne 🙂
March Reads 📚
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We have just finished the third month of the year, and we are on a book count of 15.
Let’s take a look at this months books.
Month Three – let’s go!
Total reads this month:
4.5
Favourite book this month:
‘The Wake – Up Call’ by Beth O’Leary
Until Next Time,
Roseanne 🙂
2025 Memories 3/12
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So, I had an idea to document some more memories on my blog. I used to do a lot more of these sort of posts before I started posting more book/reading content, and when I had more time haha, life seems to be busy these days!
So I thought as we are a quarter of the way through the year, I could do a quarterly memories update to capture 2025.
This is part one, the first three months of the twelve of 2025!
Let’s take a look.
January
I’m not always a fan of January. It always seems such a miserable month after the festivities if Christmas, but this one wasn’t too bad! Me & my husband went to London together for the day, we saw ‘Harry Potter and The Cursed Child’ (again) and had a delicious dinner at a fancy Italian restaurant.
There was more footie with my nephew and lots of reading this month!! I love making my new reading lists and new book purchases for the new year. I also had two baby showers to celebrate, which was lovely! Not a bad start to the year, really!
February
In February, we had some fun sleepovers with my Nephew’s and Niece, me and my twin sister played the OG ‘The Sims’ game on its re release anniversary special, so amazing nostalgia there! I went to London to meet up with my Uni friend Kirsty and we watched ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ Musical… we also had dinner with another friend afterwards which was a great catch up (The show was really good).
Me and my Twin sister also saw a show, but in Norwich, we watched Giovanna Fletcher in ‘The Girl on the Train’. It was so cool to see Gi in a show and it was done really well on stage (I love the book!!) Speaking of books, Me and some friends from work started up a reading library in our staff room which has been going well and is nicely stocked now.
This month I also added some colourful accessories to our bathroom to finish it off, (we had it redone at the end of last year), and I have been meaning to add some colourful for a while! And we, of course, enjoyed a lovely Valentines evening together at our favourite Turkish restaurant.
In the February Half Term me and my husband went away for a long weekend. We stayed in Norfolk at a lovely inn and enjoyed a chilled weekend! The pub was lovely and cosy, the food was brilliant (breakfast included, always a winner with us!) And we had a little trip to Banham zoo, which I haven’t been to in years. We even had a Meerkat experience whilst we were there as they were only £15 each, bargain. It was a lovely relaxing weekend, much needed.
March
We had lots of fun in March, including the football and limited edition Ed Sheeran stickers!! My besties little boy had his first birthday party (under the sea themed), and our new sofas finally arrived!!
There was lots of yummy food, including a work meal at Prezzo, Wagas with my sister and our friend Dan, as well as our traditional Mothers Day homemade Afternoon Tea with my sisters and a Mothers Day lunch with Mum. I’ve also been ill a lot this month with coughs and colds, which is not ideal, so here’s to a healthier April.
What have been your highlights this year so far?
Until Next Time,
Roseanne 🙂
February Reads 📚
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We are into the second month of the year, and we are on a book count of 10 (.5 halfway as halfway through one 🤣)
Let’s take a look at this months books.
Month Two – let’s go!
50% read so far – Book Club Pick
Total reads this month:
5.5
Favourite book this month:
Bridget Jones Diary by Helen Fielding
Until Next Time,
Roseanne 🙂
25 books in 2025 📚
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25 books in 25… a new challenge…
This is bit of a different take on this challenge by @katie_ellison (instagram) whose lovely template I have used.
I have chosen 25 books from my tbr shelf that I am finally going to read in 2025!
My double stacked shelves were getting a little out of hand, so what better way to clear them a bit than to actually read some of the books I’ve bought!!
I tried to go for a mixture of genres, there is still a lot of thrillers in there because it’s me so that’s what I buy 🤣 but I do also have some fantasy books, romance, a sci fi, some historical fiction and some crime in there. It’s not a bad mixture.
Here’s my selection…
- A Court of Thorn and Roses
- That Night
- How to Kill Your Family
- The Suspect
- The Castaway
- The Air Raid Book Club
- The Lies You Told
- The Woman On The Ledge
- The Teashop Gurls At War
- A Slow Burning Fire
- An Unwanted Guest
- Hold back The Stars
- The Paris Apartment
- How To Stop Time
- The Wake Up Call
- The Split
- Tomorrow and Tomorrow
- Traitors Gate
- The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time
- The Boyfriend
- Come Back For Me
- With This Kiss
- Love Untold
- The Night She Disappeared
- I Died On A Tuesday
Have you read any of these?
Wish me luck with my challenge ✌🏼📚 I will try and remember to do a little update halfway through the year.
What’s on your tbr list for 2025?
Until Next Time,
Roseanne 🙂
My January reads 📚
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Here are my reads for January… a good start to 2025.
I will try and remember to do one of these each month.
I will rate each one out of five and I will choose a favourite for each month.
Month one – let’s go!
It’s a Wonderful Life: Illustrated Edition
This Time Next Year by Sophie Cousens
I Died On A Tuesday By Jane Corry
The Teacher by Freida Mcfadden
Sleep by C L Taylor
Total reads this month… 5
My favourite Book of the month was…
‘I Died On A Tuesday’ by Jane Corry
Until Next Time,
Roseanne 🙂
My Bookish Haul: Christmas present edition 📚
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I hope you all had a lovely Christmas, New years, and are surviving through the longest month of the year! Gotta love January.
I got some lovely books and bookish presents for Christmas, so I thought I would do a little haul post for you.
Let’s take a look!
Both of these thrillers were chosen for me by my twin sister. I love it when people choose books for me! (Although I have been told that it is harder to do these days due to the amount I’ve read 🤣)
I have read ‘I died on a Tuesday’ and really enjoyed it.
My Mum picked up these two ‘Stranger Things’ novels for me for Christmas.
My mother in law bought me this very cute little book that is perfect for any of you book lovers out there! It’s full of cute little illustrations, bookish quotes, and comics.
I also got a few book themed presents.
I also got a few National Book token vouchers, a Waterstones voucher, and a voucher for my favourite independent book shop! So, all in all, I am sorted for my book purchasing for a little while.
I am very lucky ✨️
I have bought a couple of books so far with my vouchers…
From Waterstones…
That’s all for now, folks!
I hope you got some lovely books this year 📚 I can’t wait to get stuck in.
Until Next Time,
Roseanne 🙂
Roseanne Byford 