Years Of Reading

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I’m Clare, book blogger since 2017 and full time carer. Life is too short to read books you don’t love, so I don’t.

This is a picture of a stack of three blue books taken against a very blue sky yesterday afternoon outside in my garden!
The picture shows a copy of Self Portrait with Boy by Rachel Lyon on top of a pale blue duvet with branches of white and yellow blossom on it. Next to the book, Jasper, my three year old fox red Labrador is fast asleep!
This is a picture of a copy of In Judgement of others by Eleanor Anstruther on my duvet, with my dog Jasper who is a fox red Labrador lying next to it.
The photo is of a copy of The Echoes by Evie Wyld on top of a pale blue duvet cover which has brown branches yellow and white blossom on it
A picture of Jasper, my fox red Labrador who fell asleep on my bed and took up most of it so I couldn’t get my legs in!
This is a copy of The Cliffs by J Courtney Sullivan on a wooden tabletop
The picture shows a copy of Women and Children First by Alina Grabowski from Indigo Press on a pink, grey and burgundy blanket next to Jasper, my fox red Labrador.
This is a picture of my proof copy of Famous Last Words by Gillian McAllister which is out from Penguin Michael Joseph in January. It is resting on a crocheted blanket.
The picture shows a pile of books I got for my birthday: Self Portrait with Boy by Rachel Lyon Adelaide by Genevieve Wheeler A Half Baked Idea by Olivia Potts What I ate in one year by Stanley Tucci Letters to Margaret by Hunter Davies In The Blood by Arabella Byrne and Julia Hamilton
The picture shows Jasper, my three year old fox red Labrador with his head on my orange cushion as he tries to persuade me to move along the sofa so he can sit there!
The picture shows a copy of The Undercurrent by Sarah Sawyer on top of a white and grey duvet cover, next to Jasper, my fox Red Labrador - he is fast asleep!
The picture is of a proof copy of The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers by Samuel Burr on top of a white and grey duvet cover.
A picture of Andrea Mara’s novel Someone In The Attic on a crocheted blanket which spookily matches the colours on the cover!
Picture shows a copy of Tender by Penny Wincer which has a white background and five horizontal stripes of different colours across it, and the word Tender in blue in the middle. The book is balanced on my knee, as I sit on my sofa, and I have on a pair of blue jeans and black books.
This is a picture of Jasper, my two year old fox red labrador curled up with a proof copy of Nina Stibbe’s latest book, Went To London Took The Dog which is out from picador on November 2nd.
This is a book stack of the three novels that Valérie Perrin has written - Fresh Water for Flowers, Three, and Forgotten on Sunday. They are all published in the U.K. by Europa Editions.
This is a picture of the dinnerladies cast - Victoria Wood’s brilliant BBC sitcom.
The picture shows a copy of the book Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang from Hutchinson Heinemann on a blue and orange flowery duvet cover.