#54321challenge

Now that I’m celebrating completion of the 5-day bathroom install that ended up taking 10 months (ask me if you see me, and you’ve got a good listening ear: it was a catastrophe, but what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, right?), I’m busy organising plasterers, decorators, choosing wallpaper and paint. In what downtime there is, I’m reading, but I’m not in a reviewing frame-of-mind. There’s sunshine and warm weather to enjoy this week. Such lovely summers are too rare to be spent inside on the computer – in Scotland at least. I’ll get back to reviewing next month.

In the meantime, I’m nicking the #54321challenge hashtag from Instagram. Not sure where it started. Do join in if you feel like it.

5 Books I love (All read in the 2020s)

• Around the World in 80 Trees – Jonathan Drori
• The Old Man in His Exile – Arno Geiger
• The Eighth Life – Nino Haratischvili
• The Long Drop – Denise Mina
• The Rabbit Factor – Antti Tuomainen

4 Auto Buy Authors

• Kate Atkinson
• Oliver Bottini
• Abir Mukherjee
• Juli Zeh

3 Genres I Love

• Crime Fiction
• Historical Fiction
• Literary Fiction

2 Places I love to read

• Anywhere and Everywhere (though not in the bath!)

1 Book I’m reading next

• A Sister’s Story – Donatella di Pietrantonio (for Annabel’s Italian Fortnight)

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