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Reading desert

After what was a veritable reading binge a few weeks ago whilst I was cooped up in bed trying not to sneeze my brains out, the reading now has dwindled to a small trickle. And as I'm typing that, I remember that I actually read a book over the weekend. Ahum. And I read Winter's End, my BlogAHolidayRead, for which I need to write a review (will do over the weekend). Just logged onto BlogAHolidayRead and saw that the first reviews are up, I'll have a little browse and see what my 'colleagues' are doing. And I've been a good reviewer so far, I haven't checked what other people are saying about 'my' book. I can't wait to dive into my stack of Celebrations again though.

Winter in summer

So this is a first for me, reviewing a book. In a kind of semi-official kind of capacity. Penguin have got a Blog A Holiday Read blog going at the moment, you could sign up and were randomly allocated a book if you were one of the first 500 people to sign up. I got allocated 'Winter's End'. My copy came in the mail on Saturday, and I dove in yesterday. It's a thriller, a good old fashioned, macho, leather jackets and '69 Corvette Stingrays (see here for an image) and steaks and beers. I swear, I can almost smell the aftershave from the pages of the book. And I *love* 1969 Stingrays, they're one of my favourite cars. So, so far, so good.