Books, Notes and Wickets

So this time last year I set myself the target of reading 99 books during 2018. Well I sort of went past that a bit...

In 2018 I read...... 170 books!

I’ve read some great books and I’ve read some, quite frankly, crap books but I only gave up on two books because I’m one of those readers that have to read the entire book just incase it turns out to be not as bad as it seems.

Well the year has gone by incredibly quickly yet again, which means it is time for this year’s book advent calendar.

All 24 books were bought from a local charity shop and since I wrapped them in July I now have no idea what I’ll be encountering over the next month.

Last year’s was great fun and helped me discover a few really good authors that I probably wouldn’t have tried otherwise.

Went on a bit of road-trip today down to a magical place somewhere between Bristol and Wells (Somerset-ish) called THE BOOKBARN 

It is a magnificent haven of secondhand books, they say about a million or so, and the best bit is that the very large majority of them are only £1 each!!!!

I may have bought one or two.....or ten ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Only thing is I now not only have to pick which one of these to read first (I’ve already got four on the go) I’m also going to have to reorganise my shelves...

Oh dear. 

Yesterday I went on a road trip with my choir to take part in a chorus festival and i decided to try out an audiobook for the first time. 

As I was listening it mentioned two songs that were important to the character’s mother... one of which we were performing as part of our set. This morning, put the iPod on shuffle and what should come up but the other song.

If that wasn’t creepy enough, I then picked up another book and the page I was reading contained the line “rearranging the deckchairs on a certain doomed vessel”. As I turned the page the iPod came up with ‘My Heart will go on’