My Week in Books – 12th June 2022

MyWeekinBooksOn What Cathy Read Next last week

Monday – I shared my review of Portable Magic by Emma Smith. 

Tuesday – I published my review of the wildly inventive Villager by Tom Cox as part of the blog tour. 

Wednesday – I shared my review of contemporary romance, How To Save a Life by Clare Swatman, as part of the blog tour. And WWW Wednesday is my weekly opportunity to share what I’ve just read, what I’m currently reading and what I plan to read next… and to take a peek at what others are reading. 

Thursday – I made a further foray Down The TBR Hole in an effort to reduce my To-Read shelf on Goodreads… with limited success.

Friday – I shared my review of techno-thriller, The Transfer Problem by Adam Saint.

Saturday – I joined other gardeners in sharing my fruit and vegetable themed #SixonSaturday update. 


New arrivals

Absolutely nothing! Keep this up and my TBR pile may finally reduce…


On What Cathy Read Next this week

Currently reading

Planned posts

  • Blog Tour/Book Review: The Companion by Lesley Thomson
  • Book Review: The Death of Remembrance by Denzil Meyrick 
  • Book Review: News of the Dead by James Robertson

#SixonSaturday My Gardening Week – 11th June 2022

Garden AllotmentSix on Saturday is a weekly meme hosted by The Propagator. If you’d like to join in you can find more details here. If you can find the time, do check out the posts by other participants.

Between watering, weeding and feeding the garden demands a lot of attention at this time of the year. However, it’s also the time when you start to see the results of your efforts, especially when it comes to fruit and vegetables.

  1. A flower spike on a hosta with a lovely bronze heuchera in the background.
  2. I love the markings on this Dalmation Cream foxglove I bought recently and it already looks very much at home.
  3. We harvested the first container of new potatoes (the variety is Rocket) and, as has become our custom, steamed them with garden mint, slathered them with butter and ate them in the garden. Not a huge yield but very tasty.

4. The first climbing French beans (the variety is Cobra) have made an appearance.
5. Not to be outdone, one of the courgettes has produced its first fruit, although it’s still small at the moment.
6. To get any raspberries at all this year was a surprise as they’ve been neglected for a couple of years and I didn’t cut down the old canes at the beginning of the year. Therefore these are fruiting on old wood and are hence quite small but tasty none the less. It proves there is still some vigour in them so I’ll be giving them more attention next year. (I can’t believe I’m already thinking about next year!)

Enjoy your garden or outside space this week.