About…

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..me and the things I love..and general randomness 

Reading, of course 😉 and audiobooks. Books have been a constant throughout my life and I love sharing those I’ve enjoyed with others.

I’ve been writing reviews and blogging about those books I’ve enjoyed for a few years now and still find it very satisfying and pleasurable. Apart from anything else, it’s a good way for me to keep track of the books I read and listen to and if it’s helpful and/or enjoyable for others so much the better.

All reviews on the blog are just my personal opinions and thoughts on books I’ve read/listened to, they’re not meant to be professional critiques. I hope you enjoy reading them nevertheless.

I’m also enjoying photography and take my camera wherever I go. My photos are under copyright as my own, any others are taken from resources on the internet.

My photography site can be found here.

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I love…..friends

and family…

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Much loved and missed dogs, these are just two of them….

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…and the new family member

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Music, theatre and walks by the sea. I used to live in the south-west of the UK where there are lots of lovely beaches, then relocated to the North Wales coast, and have since moved to Shropshire.

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And maybe the odd glass of wine 🙂

  I’m on Goodreads, Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram – I’d love to see you there too!

Favourite Quotes:

There comes a time when you have to choose between turning the page and closing the book ~ Josh Jameson

You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as though you’ve lost a friend ~ Paul Sweeney

No matter how grouchy you’re feeling,
You’ll find the smile more or less healing.
It grows in a wreath
All around the front teeth—
Thus preserving the face from congealing.
~ Anthony Euwer

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Thanks for visiting and please come back soon 🙂

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  22. This is such an amazing about me, I adore this so much. I am going to stalk the hell out of your blog now and read all of your posts!

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  24. I love to read too. 🙂 Great quotes. Here’s one of my favorites that I think you’ll like too:
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.” – George R.R. Martin

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  25. A pleasure to meet you Cathy. We share a passion for books. I grew up across the street from a library and so I developed a life long love affair with books at an early age. I still spend quite a bit of time at the library, which fortunately is within walking distance. Thanks for visiting and following my blog!

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  35. Love the name of your blog. It is actually my ‘working title’ of a book I’m working on…
    A dear friend once told me what he noticed immediately upon entering a home for the first time, was the book shelves. I knew it was a friendship that would last a lifetime!

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  36. I am a blogging friend of author Marcia Meara’s. Rosie said I could reblog/press some of her posts on my blog, Always Write, http://www.marshajustwrites.com. I have been looking for a way to increase the traffic for book reviewers including myself because I noticed that under normal conditions, book reviews do not draw a lot of traffic.
    Bam Then I discovered all of you. I’m so impressed with what you are doing as a team. Very cool. I have chosen to reblog your post, Manipulated Lives. It will have links to your blog as well as Rosie’s and I took the liberty to copy and paste part of your About page at the bottom of the post with another link back to your blog. I then will push it out on social media. If you agree to that, it will come out on Dec. 29th. Wth that longish introduction, I wish you a Merry Christmas, and I hope to hear from you soon. 🙂

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  44. Great about-page. In my family we read much. Well, what is much, is a definition question. One hour every evening before sleeping. I read quite fast. Well, what is fast in my case? I read about 70 pages in an hour and I read French book, although, I am Finn.

    Have a wonderful day!

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