Lost in Words

The memories of a sixties' child.  Everyone has a story to tell. Here's mine in twenty chapter headings.  Chapter One — Just a Sma...

I went to the five for a pound charity shop this morning, and picked up another haul. However, this post is part two of my catch-up, pre-cov...

This is one of my catch-up posts. I found these books in a local park about a month ago. I mentioned in a previous post that a generous indi...

So, I'm now playing catch up. Having been under the weather for a while, there are a number of posts to catch up on, including several b...

 A while back, someone posted the image below on Twitter X. It speaks for itself. We live in a world where you can buy a book, new, for a fe...

Just to say right at the start of this Christmas post, the billion reads on Kindle Unlimited does not refer to my book. I wish! No, it refer...

I finished reading Cheryl Strayed's book Wild a few weeks back and have been meaning to write about it, a review. As often happens, oth...

I was cycling through the local country park very early this morning to do some shopping, when I came across a bag of books. The park exit t...

I'm currently reading a book called Happy by Derren Brown. I bought it a while back in one of my charity shop book hauls. So far I have...

Last Friday, I got another five for a pound haul of books from the charity shop that keeps on giving. Let's see what I got this time. Al...

I wrote a couple of posts a while back about finding an almost new pair of walking boots. I needed a new pair and there they were, lying at ...

On Saturday, I made another visit to my favourite charity shop for buying books. They have a sale on of five books for a pound. In fact, tha...

I rarely buy magazines these days, the same with newspapers, the availability of free information on the internet means that I don't rea...

I made another visit to a local charity shop that regularly runs five books for a pound sale.  This is what I bought this time. 1) Pause by...

Here are the bestselling print books for the first half of 2023 released by Publishers Weekly.  It does not include audiobooks or e-books.  ...

The first thing to say about this book is that you do not need to like fishing or be interested in the sport of fishing to read it.  As you ...

I came across an article in The Guardian online that posed the question, “why are biographies so popular?”  I could ask, are they?     I ...

I do like to look for bargains in charity shops.  I recently visited one that I had not been to for quite a while.  They had a sale on their...

I am currently writing a series of reviews on books that I have read in the past, in part because I am a new member of the Goodreads websit...

2023 has started with a bang in the world of books.  Spare is a memoir written by the British Royal who chose to step back from his role, P...