I love reading all year (obviously) and every season has its different lovely energy that it brings to reading. In summer reading is lying in the park for hours finishing a whole book in a day. It's being stuck on a roasting train going somewhere exciting and getting lost in a story to make the journey fly by. It's that special way you can somehow read at least twice as fast when you're on holiday especially if you're lying by the pool. I really think you slip into some other

Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke ⭐⭐⭐⭐ I was extremely intrigued when I first heard the premise of Caro Claire Burke's debut novel - Yesteryear. The main character is a tradwife influencer, a phenomenon I am endlessly fascinated by. For anyone who doesn’t know a tradwife is a term mostly used to describe female influencers who make content surrounding their life as a traditional wife. It is a step further than just a stay-at-home mum. There is a focus on making everything (and

Spring by Ali Smith (Seasonal Quartet #3) The arrival of March meant it was time for the second instalment of my seasonal reading. I am really enjoying this wee project! It is so lovely to read books so deeply concerned with nature and feel like the scenes on the pages are spreading out around me. Spring was one I absolutely raced through. It casts light on many things that often remain in the shadows. There is something about Ali Smith’s writing that moves me and gets in

I read more books this year than any other! Even when I was at uni and my whole degree was reading! In 2025 I finished seventy-five books this year which I would put down to two main thing. Firstly, consciously deciding to seriously cut down phone use and break the habit of mindless flicking. One thing that really helped with that is my penchant for reading at least three books at the same time so I always have one somewhere within arms reach. Secondly, my very great love of