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My Audiobook Adventures #8: thoughts on the books that I read from January to April 2025

26 April 202525 April 2025

I have read twenty books so far this year but I have selected eleven of them on which to give reviews and thoughts below. I’d love to know your opinions on these books if you’ve …

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Categories AudiobookAdventures, Books, Review 2 Comments

‘Do Something You Love’ – a Valentine’s week fundraiser

14 February 20259 February 2025

Happy New Year! I hope that this update finds you well. The whole of January was swallowed up by a very nasty flu for both Mum and I.   I’m inviting you to participate in …

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My Audiobook Adventures #7 and book awards!

25 April 202518 July 2024

Audible has sent my listening statistics for the first half of the year! I’m going to give out some awards of my own below to certain books since I’m too ill to review each book …

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Categories Books, AudiobookAdventures, Fantasy, News, Review, Sci-fi 1 Comment

My Audiobook Adventures in 2023 – Audible Stats Day

25 April 202511 January 2024

It’s the most exciting day of the year: Audible Stats Day! Here are all the books to which I listened in 2023 (click on the image and zoom in to see all the books): Have …

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My Audiobook Adventures #5: August 2022 – February 2023

25 April 20252 March 2023

Usually I blog my audiobook adventures approximately once every three months but in October last year, my Dad suddenly died. My thoughts were completely full of Dad and only Dad; my brain was in a …

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Categories Books, AudiobookAdventures, Review 3 Comments

My Audiobook Adventures #4: March-July 2022

25 April 202526 July 2022

The longer that I’m left without the surgery I need, the more damage to my neck occurs. As we continue to try to fundraise the money needed for the life-saving surgery and air ambulance flights …

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My Audiobook Adventures #3

25 April 20251 March 2022

  The longer that I’m left without the surgery I need, the more damage to my neck occurs, which has dangerous consequences. As we continue to try to fundraise the money needed for the urgent …

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Categories Books, AudiobookAdventures, Fundraising, News, Review 6 Comments

My audiobook adventures #2 (plus a little update)

25 April 202528 October 2021

Life is indescribably horrific for me as the state of my neck continues to deteriorate. I’m working very hard every second to stay alive but it’s increasingly difficult, with more neck damage incurred every day, …

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Categories Review, AudiobookAdventures, Books, Fundraising, News 7 Comments

You are invited to the online book launch of ‘We Are The Winter People’ – the Collected Poems of Jenny Rowbory: 7:30pm BST 8th September 2021

10 September 20213 September 2021

You are invited to watch the book launch live here on YouTube at 7:30pm BST 8th September: https://youtu.be/670pI9gaN3g It will be hosted by Paul Kerensa (co-writer of BBC hits ‘Miranda’ and ‘Not Going Out’, comedian, …

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My Audiobook Adventures

25 April 202519 August 2020

‪I have deteriorated further. My neck keeps subluxing and breaking away further in a particular direction and my skull rolls about independently on the pillow so I can’t ever keep it still or safe. It’s …

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Jenny Rowbory is a poet with a unique and important voice, who writes with tenderness, insight, honesty and playfulness. During her first year at university in 2004, she became ill with a virus that caused her to become bed-bound and acutely ill since then.

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