Two bookmooch books today:

Blast From the Past by Ben Elton

High Society by Ben Elton

(am mooching all of his books at once!)

And three books from a charity shop:

The First Wives Club by Olivia Goldsmith - more enjoyable pap

Asylum to Anarchy by Claire Baron - Heavy duty read about mental health issues

The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier - Childrens book about refugees from the Nazis.


I finished The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories -The title story was superb, really well written, atmospheric and unnerving. The other stories were sweet and surprising, I really enjoyed them and will be hanging onto the book.

So I have just these left to read

City of Night (now at about 210 pages)
Plague Year (getting creased in my handbag-no more progress)
Children of Night (only have until the 7th Nov-another 20 or so pages)
Love, Sex and Marriage in the Middle Ages (as above- no more progress)
Pride and Prejudice (have the two 'sequels' coming soon and want to reread first-no more progress)

The Child was better today, but my god motherhood is feeling like a bit of an upward battle at the moment.