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Real Name

Ellie

About My Library

I have a bit of everything in my library - fiction, science, classics, biography, history, you name it! Most of the books on my shelves are unread, because I'm quite good at letting go of books I've finished with and tend to only keep my favourites. However, I still have an entire box room devoted to keeping them contained, because I'm also quite good at collecting MORE books. I'm like a papery magpie and occasionally have to be literally dragged out of bookshops. My mum is convinced that one day the floor will collapse and kill us all in our sleep - but what a way to go... ;)

About Me

I'm a 36 year-old English lass, living in beautiful Derbyshire with my mum and our three cats, Millie, Domino and Leo. Things that make me happy include blackbirds singing, blue skies, trees, smart comedy and leisurely mealtimes with a good book.

MY FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2022

The Bees - Laline Paull (f)
The Secret of Crickley Hall - James Herbert (f)
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse - Charlie Mackesy (f)
The Testaments - Margaret Atwood (f)
Big Little Lies - Liane Moriarty (f)

THE LAST THING I...

Watched: The end of Black Books S2
Consumed: Banana slices with peanut butter
Listened to: Hellfire by VoicePlay ♥
Bought: Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

BOOKS READ IN 2023

January
1. Carmilla - J. Sheridan Le Fanu (f)

February
2. Nine Perfect Strangers - Liane Moriarty, read by Caroline Lee (f)
3. High-Rise - J.G. Ballard, read by Tom Hiddleston (f)
4. The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (f)
5. Orange is the New Black: My Time in a Women's Prison - Piper Kerman (nf)

March
6. The Kingdom - Jess Rothenberg (f)
7. The House at Phantom Park - Graham Masterton, read by Emma Gregory (f)

April
8. Hard Pushed: A Midwife's Story - Leah Hazard (nf)
9. Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients - Adam Kay, read by the author (nf)
10. The Omen - David Seltzer (f)

May
11.The Small Hand: A Ghost Story - Susan Hill, read by Cameron Stewart (f)
12. Queenie - Candice Carty-Williams, read by Shvorne Marks (f)
13. Death on the Nile - Agatha Christie, read by David Suchet (f)
14. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine - Gail Honeyman, read by Cathleen McCarron (f)
15. The ABC Murders - Agatha Christie, read by Hugh Fraser (f)
16. Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It - Geoff Dyer, read by Tom Hollander (nf)

June
17. Plague - Graham Masterton, read by Russell Bentley (f)
18. The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead, read by J.D. Jackson (f)
19. In at the Deep End - Kate Davies, read by Lucy Briggs-Owen (f)
20. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie, read by Hugh Fraser (f)

July
21. The Mysterious Affair at Styles - Agatha Christie, read by Hugh Fraser (f)
22. Poirot Investigates - Agatha Christie, read by David Suchet (f)
23. The Murder on the Links - Agatha Christie, read by Hugh Fraser (f)
24. Battle Royale - Koushun Takami (f)

August
25. The Kraken Wakes - John Wyndham, read by John Sackville (f)
26. Olalla - Robert Louis Stevenson (f)
27. Love in Lockdown - Chloe James, read by Harrie Dobby and Sid Sagar (f)
28. The Cabin at the End of the World - Paul Tremblay, read by Amy Landon (f)
29. The Big Four - Agatha Christie, read by Hugh Fraser (f)

September
30. The Duke and I - Julia Quinn (f)
31. Stargirl - Jerry Spinelli (f)

October
32. Fifty Shades Darker - E.L. James (f)
33. Death of a Bookseller - Alice Slater (f)

Books in bold are my favourite so far!

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