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What I bought and read in July #RoundUp


A big month for me personally as I have officially given up work as a solicitor!!!!! Slightly daunting but I have signed up to the School's PTA, have a list as long as your arm of summer holiday activities and pledge to immerse myself in all things book!

First to be read this month was our #BookOfTheMonth This is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay. A true account of a doctor working for the NHS. It was equally hilarious and heartbreaking and scored highly with the group.

A football related read followed next with Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer (well it featured a man named Kane!) Following the lives of two men (one called Kane and one called, yes you guessed it, Abel) born to very different fortunes shortly after the turn of the 20th century. The classic saga was gripping from the get go although the hatred between the two was weak and the ending sad.

One I had been waiting to read for a while was Room by Emma Donoghue about a woman and her son living inside a small room following the kidnapping of the woman several years earlier. The main character Jack was the star of this book and Donoghue made the two parts of the book work equally as well.

Continuing with my mission to slowly work my way through the classics next up was Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. A penguin classic set in the 1860's following a Russian student who commits murder and then suffers mental torture in the aftermath. I set a page count per day in order to complete it and struggled at times with the writing. One perhaps best read in the classroom.

Reads over with what did I buy?

As aforementioned (still tying to sound legal) I left work this month and was very kindly bought Little Miss Busy Surviving Motherhood. It made me giggle and put me very much in mind of The Unmumsy Mum by Sarah Turner.


I've also managed to get on a couple of Blog Tours(!) which I'm so excited about. The first one to arrive was the very summery looking How We Remember by J M Monaco (look out for post on that one on 7 September)



The only actual book I purchased (other than our #BookOfTheMonth) was Little Riddlers featuring a poem written by my daughter! So proud! Go buy it!


I'm now in hard core what do I read on holiday mode? Suggestions in the comments please.

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