This is the first wrap-up, a sort of summary of the past month, that I’m doing on this site.
January went by too quickly, from its beginning full of hopes and good intentions for the new year, I found myself on the first day of February with the impression that I hadn’t done even the ten percent of what I wanted.
What I understood is that if you have a full-time job and a house to manage, you arrive tired at the end of the day, and you can’t properly use your free time to dedicate yourself to your hobbies, at least I can’t.
Life updates
– Despite the cold, Scotland has given us beautiful skies, both day and night. If there’s one thing that amazed me when I came here, and it still amazes me, it’s how close the sky seems, clear and constantly moving.
– My sister has opened an online shop to sell her resin works called Il caminetto, there are some very nice creations, and I am really happy that she has found a new way to express her creativity.
You can find her shop here and her Instagram page here.
– My partner has decided to dedicate himself to perfecting his baking techniques, I can only be happy about it: he cooks and I eat.
The books of the month
This month, I was able to keep my resolutions and read/listen to 5 books, but I didn’t reduce my TBR list.
Since the theme of the challenge for January’s films and TV series was crime, I decided to also read some books belonging to the same genre.
1 – Real Crime – Tre vere storie di crimini that, with all due respect to the victims of the cases narrated, I did not like. This short audiobook is proposed as the one that, in a society now full of fictitious true crime contents, wants to show the real work of the investigators during the investigation of a case but does not explain why the narrated cases were chosen and what they have in common. The narration is not engaging but rather sterile, the voice seems electric and more than reading an audiobook it seems the declamation of how good and beautiful the forces of order are … a coincidence that this collection was created in a period in which there is little faith in justice and the daily number of people released from prison for wrongful detention has increased to 8?
Format: audiobook
Source: Storytel
2 – Death on the Nile, a reading I wanted to do after seeing Kenneth Branagh‘s film. An interesting story to complete the knowledge of Poirot’s universe, but which alone has nothing that makes it as immortal as Murder on the Orient Express.
Find my full review here.
Format: audiobook
Source: Storytel
Challenge: a book adapted to film or TV show
3 – Virtual strangers, a romcom set in the city where I live, Edinburgh, which is divided between the classic and nostalgic atmosphere of the city and the modernity of smart working.
Find my full review here.
Format: e-book
Source: Netgalley
4 – In honour of Holocaust Remembrance Day, I read Il baule dei segreti, a child-friendly biography that moved me very much.
Find my full review here.
Format: audiobook
Source: Storytel
Challenge: a biography
5 – Finally, The Christie affair, a novel poised between reality and fiction that adds many nuances to the classic mystery plot. Loved it.
Find my full review here.
Format: audiobook
Source: Storytel
Challenge: a book with a name in the title
Movies and TV series of the month
For this month’s crime themed challenge, I saw:
Click on the following links for full reviews:
– Death on the Nile
– Murder on the Orient Express
– Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
Thanks for reading my blog this month!
