It might be February already but I said I wanted to read more books this year than I did last year so here is my musings on the first book I...

The first time I typed the title of this blog I typed Summer 2017, I'm off to a great start! I love Autumn. Nature starts charging it...

Having recently been made redundant and finding myself back in the routine of job searching, I've experienced a dip in my internal and e...

Shortly before Christmas, James started asking me about books  'We've never really had the book chat, have we?' 'No, I guess...

I’m a big fan of alliteration, you may have gathered this about me already if you’ve read some of my other blog posts. So I decided that on ...

I did say in my last blog post that there would be no  'New Year, New Me'  but I have given my blog a new name so I didn't reall...

I’m on annual leave today, I’m not actually away on holiday anywhere, just taking a few days to chill and relax.  My original plan was to ma...

I started off this summer with the best of intentions, I had a two week holiday booked, I had four books packed and a schedule of when I was...

I randomly picked up 'When Mr Dog Bites' in a library I had nipped into to use the loo. I'd already picked up a few books (recip...

I'm not sure how interesting my post about my favourite things in January actually was for anyone who read it,  but I enjoyed writing it...

Rachie's Musings on: Dream a Little Dream by Giovanna Fletcher It has come to my attention recently that my mother reads my blog which h...

Rachie's Musings on: The Tiny Wife by Andrew Kauffman The Tiny Wife was a fairly short read but it’s packed full of awesomeness. At the ...

Rachie's Musings on: Loser by Jerry Spinelli Loser follows the story of Zinkoff, or Donald Zinkoff as he is known to his parents and tea...

Rachie's Musings on: Change Your Mind – 57 Ways to Unlock Your Creative Self by Rod Judkins I was wandering through an art gallery gift ...

Rachie's Musings on: The Boy Who Kicked Pigs by Tom Baker When I picked up The Boy Who Kicked Pigs in a bookshop, I didn’t particularly ...

Rachie's Musings on: One Million Lovely Letters by Jodi Ann Bickley I ordered One Million Lovely Letters after hearing about it from var...

Rachie's Musings on: The Fault in Our Stars When The Fault In Our Stars was published in 2012, I was still at uni and in my ‘ not readin...

Rachie's Musings on: Billy and Me by Giovanna Fletcher Billy and Me very quickly became one of my favourite books that I’ve read.  It is...

Rachie's Musings on: All I Know Now, Wonderings And Reflections on Growing Up Gracefully.  Before I start with my thoughts and musings, ...

Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway. As a kid, I was fairly confident, possibly even too confident at times, I was scared of insects, dogs and li...