Rusty Book Love

Why? This is terrible but I cannot remember why I picked this book. I think I was lead to it by Book Riot's 2019 Read Harder Challenge but now I look, I have no idea which task it would fit under.   Although I loved Horror and Stephen King as a teenager, I haven't read one of his books in over 20 years so whatever the why was, I'm grateful. What? Otherwise known as amazon spiel: Adapted as a major TV series, produced by Steven Spielberg, King's bestselling novel centres on a small town suddenly and inexplicably sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible dome. In UNDER THE DOME, King has produced another riveting masterpiece. The end of every chapter hooks you into the next, drawing you inside a psychological drama that is so rich, you don't read it, you live it. It is the story of the small town of Chester's Mill, Maine which is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of th...

I have been missing for the whole of August. I have felt guilty about not posting. And also sadness. Then I realised this was ridiculous. This blog is supposed to be for me. It is. Honest. So why haven't I posted? Many reasons. I am in the middle of a life change. I have taken redundancy from a company where I have worked for 15 years. 15 years is a big hunk of life and a lot has happened in that time. My workplace though has remained static. And stable. Predictable perhaps. This process of deciding to leave that stability has affected my sense of self and strangely, affected my love of reading. My mind has been so busy deciding what to process and what to ignore that there wasn't space for books. That made everything else more difficult to deal with. On top of that, I had a normal excuse - summer holidays! I have two minis and the above has allowed me to have a bit more fun with them so my next posts won't even be book related (although I'll tell you what I've r...