'Happiness can be found in the darkest of places if one remembers to turn on the light'
Hi guys 👋🏻
I love Halloween! So I thought I would share with any of my fellow Halloween fans out there, what I’ve been up to this spooky season!
Let’s take a look…
What have you been up to this Spooky Season?
Until Next Time,
Roseanne 🙂
Hi guys 👋🏻
How is it already October!!!
Spooky season is upon us 🎃
I thought I would share my favourite book from each month so far this year. There have been so many good ones. And who knows, you might even find some inspiration in my list!
Here goes…
Title: The Land of Stories: Worlds Collide
Author: Chris Colfer
Genre: Fantasy (Children’s)
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Title: Remarkably Bright Creatures
Author: Shelby Van Pelt
Genre: Mystery
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Title: Noone Saw A Thing
Author: Andrea Mara
Genre: Thriller
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Title: Glutton
Author: Ed Gamble
Genre: Memoir
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Title: Tattooist of Auschwitz
Author: Heather Morris
Genre: Historical Fiction
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
&
Title: The Inmate
Author: Freida McFadden
Genre: Thriller
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Title: The Housemaid Series1.
1. The Housemaid
2. The Housemaid’s secret
3. The Housemaid is watching
Author: Freida McFadden
Genre: Thriller
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Title: The Dead Zone
Author: Stephen King
Genre: Science Fiction Thriller
Rating:⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
&
Title: The Twins of Auschwitz
Author: Eva Mozes Kor
Genre: Historical, Autobiographical
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Title: The Wilds
Author: Sarah Pearse
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
&
Title: The Perfect Son
Author: Freida McFadden
Genre: Thriller
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Title: Behind Closed Doorz
Author: B A Paris
Genre: Thriller
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
What’s been the best book that you’ve read so far this year?
All recommendations welcome!
Until Next Time,
Roseanne 🙂
Hi guys 👋🏻
Here are my July Highlights…
Lots of fun cinema trips! A Quiet Place Day One was a highlight for sure!
We celebrated my husbands 33rd birthday!
We had some birthday treats including listening to Rome Historian Mary Beard and A trip to the theatre to watch ‘Come from away’ both of which were brilliant.
We celebrated my nieces 7th birthday! 🎈🎀💜
Lots of book buying this month, which is also a highlight. My reading in general has also been great, and I managed to read 7 again this month!! (I’m sure that won’t last into the busy last part of the year 🤣)
Fun with my favourite two 😍
And a bit of pre season watching ✌🏼🚜
Roll on the Summer Hols ☀️
How was your July?
Until Next Time,
Roseanne 🙂
Hi guys 👋🏻
Can you believe that we are actually halfway through the year!!?! Madness.
So far this year I have read ..
I’m hoping to get to 52 by the end of the year 🤞🏻
I thought I would chuck a few recommendations out there based on what I’ve read so far.
These are some of the books I have read, and I’ll give them a little rating out of 5 for you.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5
⭐️⭐️⭐️/5
⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5
Have you read any of these?
If you do, let me know! & any recommendations always welcome.
Until Next Time,
Roseanne 🙂
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Here are my June highlights…
Until Next Time,
Roseanne 🙂
Hi guys 👋🏻
I recently celebrated my 33rd birthday! 😱 Time flies aye.
In this blog post, I thought I would show you which books I was very kindly given. I didn’t ask for any of these, and I love seeing which ones people pick out for me.
There’s a nice mixture of genres here and I can’t wait to get stuck into them.
Is there a better present than a book someone has chosen for you because they think you’ll like it!!
Let’s take a look…
I was also very lucky to get some other ‘bookish’ birthday gifts in the form of some book vouchers! (YAY! New books) as well as this lovely book themed throw from my mother in law (already tucked up safely in my reading corner) and this cute personalised tote bag from my friend at work (perfect for fitting in lots of books during my next shopping spree!!)
An excellent haul, I’m very lucky.
Until Next Time,
Roseanne 🙂
Hi guys 👋🏻
Here are my May highlights…
Promotion to the Premier League…
An absolutely unbelievable weekend, one we’ll never forget.
I can’t wait for the football season to start up again!
Our Birthday!
We had a fun birthday weekend celebrating together. We grabbed lunch and spent the day hanging out together on Saturday. Delicious picky bits at Revs in the sunshine, mini golf, cocktails, and the cinema.
On our birthday, on the Sunday we had a delicious brunch together, exchanged our presents, spent time with family and had a birthday meal with cake to round off the weekend.
Oh… and we may have got a matching tattoo on our birthday as well 👀
(See the blog post below for the inspiration)
Celebrating special birthdays with friends.
We enjoyed a bottomless brunch in the sunshine 🌞 followed by some fun and games at a local bar, including interactive darts & karaoke.
A lovely family holiday to Norfolk.
We stayed in a lovely air bnb cottage in Norfolk. We went along with my mother in law, brother in law, my husbands Auntie, Cousin, and Grandad. We had a lovely time chilling out, cooking together, exploring nearby towns and Norwich City, walks (weather permitting), and we even hired a boat, which was a highlight!
& I saw some bats, which was epic.
Going to see Take That live!
I will always love seeing Take That live! No one does it better. I can’t believe that this was the 7th time I’ve seen them love!!
Another fun month! And we are almost halfway through the year!!! Madness.
Until Next Time,
Roseanne 🙂
Hi guys 👋🏻
I thought I would share some cool little bookish things that I recently bought.
They are just some fun, useful little bits that are perfect if you are a bookworm like me!
Let’s take a look!
These were bought on both Amazon & Temu.
Later bookworms ✌🏼📚
Until Next Time,
Roseanne 🙂
Hi guys 👋🏻
If like me, you can’t walk past a bookshop (or supermarket) without buying new books, or if you need some inspiration for what to read next, then this post is for you!
Here are some of the books that I’ve bought recently, from a variety of places!
Let’s take a look!
✨️
Title: ‘No one saw a thing’
Author: Andrea Mars
Genre: Crime Thriller
Why I chose it: I love thrillers and the blurb sounded very intriguing.
Title: ‘None of this is true’
Author: Lisa Jewell
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Why I chose it: I am a big fan of Lisa Jewells thrillers!!
Title: ‘The Sisters’
Author: Claire Douglas
Genre: Thriller
Why I chose it: I live a thriller, and it mentioned twins (which I am), so my interest was piqued.
Title: Tale of Magic series
Author: Chris Colfer
Genre: Fantasy
Why I chose it: Chris Colfer writes truly magical fiction. His previous series,’The Land Of Stories’ was fantastic, so I had to get this one too.
Title: ‘The Wake Up Call’
Author: Beth O’Leary
Genre: Romance/Rom Com Fiction
Why I chose it: I am a fan of her other books and have read them all, plus they are very easy to read.
Title: ‘The Air Raid Book Club’
Author: Annie Lyons
Genre: Historical fiction
Why I chose it: Because it had ‘Book Club’ in the title and the blurb gave me ‘Goodnight Mr Tom’ vibes.
Do these appeal to you?
Have you read any of these?
Until Next Time,
Roseanne 🙂
Hi guys 👋🏼
I usually do a little reading challenge of some kind each year, over here on my blog. This year, I decided to take the pressure off. I was just trying to read a bit more and read more of a variety of genres. (Which I think I definitely achieved!)
I have kept a list of all of the books that I have read throughout 2023. I kept a list that is in sections depending on the type of book that they are.
I have highlighted our 2023 Book Club books in pink.
In 2023 I read… 🥁
Let’s take a look…
It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover
What have been your favourite reads this year?
Until Next Time,
Roseanne 🙂
Roseanne Byford 