Wednesday, 1 January 2020

I'm back apparently!!! A look at my holiday in Mexico and what I read!

Ocean Riviera Paradise
Wow that holiday was just what I needed, two weeks of doing to be honest not that much, apart from reading, staring at gorgeous members of the animation team, watching the evening shows, and a couple of daytime activities. 

I'm still sore from the day where I did aqua aerobics in the morning, and then was dancing in the evening on sand for the Beach Party.

The hotel was amazing, I couldn't fault it at all, just a shame the first week's weather was less than fabulous - well it rained a lot.  Thankfully Christmas week it just got hotter and hotter.  I even saw Santa take part in a foam party.

I'm hoping I don't need to say who this is a pic of! 
It was just the sort of holiday I crave, and hopefully has reset me to be able to go back to working at full speed with full enthusiasm, organising blog tours.

But what I know you are really interested in is how many and which books did I read?

Well I read a total of 33 books, and apart from some that I was reading for blog tours, or because I'm organising, or think I may be organising tours, so wanted to make sure I'd read those books - almost all the others have been picked at random scrolling various collections on my kindle.

Given whenever I have a free choice pick my head spins, I said this last year and will say it again, I think most of my books going forward will be picked by me at random from my review TBRs... as I always seem to enjoy whatever comes up and I do want to read them all anyway.

And just to say from the 2020 releases I've read on this holiday, the new year is shaping up to be another wonderful bookish year.

All the reviews which I'm giving dates for below, will be titled with #HolidayReading Mexico - you will spot there may still be some of my Madeira books from the previous holiday popping up, just due to where I scheduled them!

Here they are the books I read, in the order I read them, complete with their scheduled dates so you know when to come back (although I hope you will be back regularly as there will be plenty of other books being reviewed within the same sort of time span).


#1 - Poison by Jacqui Rose - 20th February
#2 - The Mummy Bloggers by Holly Wainwright - 7th February
#3 - How To Be Perfect by Holly Wainwright - 10th February
#4 - Love Lettering by Kate Clayborn - 4th March
#5 - Look At Me Now by Simone Goodman - 21st February
#6 - No Judgments by Meg Cabot - 2nd March
#7 - One Moment by Linda Green - 5th March
#8 - The Leaving Party by Lesley Sanderson - 3rd February


#9 - Dreaming of Verona by T. A. Williams - 6th March
#10 - The Night You Left by Emma Curtis - 9th March
#11 - How To Say Goodbye by Katy Collins - 13th March
#12 - The Cake Fairies by Isabella May - 16th March
#13 - Hattie's Home for Broken Hearts by Tilly Tennant - 20th March
#14 - #No Filter by Maxine Morrey - 24th February
#15 - Summer Under The Stars by Catherine Ferguson - 23rd March
#16 - The Royal Bodyguard by Lindsay Emory - 27th March


#17 - From Here To Nashville by Julie Stock - 30th March
#18 - The Perfect Couple by Jackie Kabler - 25th June
#19 - The Little Village Library by Helen Rolfe - 5th February
#20 - The Summer House in Santorini by Samantha Park - 4th April
#21 - Coming Home To Merriment Bay by Emily Harvale - 14th February
#22  - A Winter Wedding at the Little Duck Pond Cafe by Rosie Green - 17th February
#23 - A Springtime to Remember by Lucy Coleman - 21st January
#24 - Six Wicked Reasons by Jo Spain - 16th January


#25 - The New Guy by Kathryn Freeman - 11th June
#26 - The Fall and Rise of Sadie McQueen by Juliet Ashton - 7th April
#27 - It Started With A Secret by Jill Mansell - 23rd January
#28 - Somewhere Close to Happy by Lia Louis - 22nd January
#29 - Filter This by Sophie White - 4th February
#30 - Villa of Sun and Secrets by Jennifer Bohnet -11th April
#31 - All Summer With You by Beth Good - 14th April
#32 - The Dilemma by B. A. Paris - 15th January
#33 - Lost and Found in Paris by Sasha Wagstaff - 18th April

Happy New Year everyone and I hope you all have a fabulous 2020! 

5 comments:

  1. Oh wow, I am always impressed with your reading. Happy new year Rachel 🥂

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  2. Wow wtg that is really an impressive amount! XXX

    Lainy http://www.alwaysreading.net

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    1. Thanks Lainy, given the amount of sleeping and animation team watching I did, amazed I had time to read at all!!

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  3. That pool looks gorgeous! Glad you had a great holiday and thank you so much for including The New Guy on your reading list :-)

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