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cribbles my writing website on sammi cox design studio my craft and design website on my facebook page for all things writing book craft and design related on goodreads where i ll be keeping track of my reading thanks for your understanding patience and support i hope that while sammi loves books hibernates for the year you will still find interesting content to read and explore on this site take care share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest like loading posted in uncategorized tagged book review book reviews books reading writing 11 comments welcome posted on march 24 2016 by sammicoxwriter i love reading well i suppose you worked that out from the title of this site didn t you i read flash fiction short stories novelettes novels full length books poetry books and am quite fond of book series too i also read most genres though there are some i am more likely to read than others but hey i will give pretty much anything a go you never know when you are about to uncover a hidden gem unless you read it you don t know if you will love it and that is part of the magic of books i like to do what i can to support indie authors i m one myself so if you would like me to review your book story just get in touch if you have any suggestions recommendations or review requests please feel free to leave a comment or contact me have a great day to learn more about me read my about page to see what i ve already reviewed visit the a z review index share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest like loading posted in uncategorized leave a comment bookish reflections november and december 2025 and looking forward to 2026 posted on january 9 2026 by sammicoxwriter reading goals for november and december 2025 i honestly didn t know if i was going to bother to finish this post and share it it already feels like these books were read ages ago and i feel pretty certain that i read more books in december but for the life of me i can t remember what they were however i thought it would be good to at least try and wrap up last year in so much as trying to determine how many books i did actually read i didn t hit my yearly goal of a book a week but i wasn t far off with 48 only 4 short i m planning on setting the same target for 2026 but of course as usual i will be hoping for more and probably achieving less it is the way of things here as i look back over 2025 i realise that i have been struggling again to keep up with my book reviews i do wonder if it is time to call it at day at sammi loves books i clearly don t have the time i need to keep a book blog going but whenever this thought occurs to me i feel sad i ve kept this site going for over 10 years and to let it go now feels like giving up so once more i plan to alter my book reviews to try and accommodate fitting this blog into my life when i clearly have very little free time the main format will be reviews in ten points or less yes that means bullet points but i will at least try and keep the appearance the same and i will attempt to maintain my previous format for books that form part of a series if i ve already started reviewing the series i hope that will keep the blog looking cohesive so those are my plans for the coming year we will have to see what comes of them what did i read in november 2025 the girl with the dragon tattoo by stieg larsson 5 5 the girl who played with fire by stieg larsson 5 5 the girl who kicked the hornets nest by stieg larsson 5 5 review forthcoming fall of a philanderer by carola dunn 5 5 murder before evensong by the reverend richard coles 2 5 what did i read in december 2025 pandora by susan stokes chapman review forthcoming hekla s children by james brogden review forthcoming what did i listen to in november 2025 the game played in the dark by ernest bramah 4 5 i didn t post s review for this one but i did thoroughly enjoy it it was a new to me author and detective and i thought the story was quite engaging i also enjoyed the reference to criminals and detectives being likened to cricket what did i listen to december 2025 the signalman by charles dickens 5 5 review forthcoming currently reading bleak house by charles dickens listening to by which i mean i listened to half an hour of it in the opening days of 2025 and not listened to it since the craggy island parish magazines by arthur mathews strawberry shortcake murder by joanne fluke still reading murder after christmas by rupert latimer currently reading stormy petrel by mary stewart read awaiting reviewing the x files ruins by kevin j anderson read awaiting reviewing the christmas egg by mary kelly read awaiting reviewing a jury of her peers by susan glaspell currently listening to number of books read in 2025 48 what books did i buy in november and december2025 hekla s children by jame brogden pandora by susan stokes chapman murder under the sun ed cecily gayford the christmas egg by mary kelly murder after christmas by rupert latimer reading goals for january 2026 and 2026 in general my goals for next month and next year are quite simple a book a week would be nice so 4 books in january and 52 books in 2026 i have many more than that earmarked for my challenge which you can read about here but i aim to get done what i can whilst at the same time limiting my book purchases that being said i can say that the majority of the books bought in 2025 have already been read and rehomed rather than simply being added to the piles of unread books that fill my house share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest like loading posted in bookish reflections tagged audiobooks book blog book blogging book review book blogger bookish books fiction reading reading challenge reading goals reflections review 3 comments micro book review murder before evensong by the reverend richard coles posted on december 5 2025 by sammicoxwriter story summary from goodreads canon daniel clement is rector of champton he has been there for eight years living at the rectory alongside his widowed mother opinionated fearless ever so slightly annoying audrey and his two dachshunds cosmo and hilda when daniel announces a plan to install a lavatory in church the parish is suddenly and unexpectedly divided as lines are drawn long buried secrets come dangerously close to destroying the apparent calm of the village and then anthony bowness cousin to bernard de floures patron of champton is found dead at the back of the church stabbed in the neck with a pair of secateurs as the police moves in and the bodies start piling up daniel is the only one who can try and keep his fractured community together and catch a killer micro book review i usually try to keep away from books written by people who are famous for other things why because there is a good chance that their books are being published because they are famous for other things and publishers have a fanbase already in existence to tap into this doesn t mean the book is going to be terrible but neither does it mean that the book is going to be fabulous either so where do i stand on this particular offering if i m being honest i didn t enjoy it yet him indoors who also read it really really did enjoy it let s start with what i did like i liked the fact that canon clement loves stationary it was interesting to read about the job of a rector and how a parish is run the vocation and religious elements are what made the story for him indoors i liked the two dachshunds what didn t i like the characters i found i wasn t particularly invested in what happened to any one of them the pace of the book felt slow now i know this can be a problem with the first book in a series because there is so much groundwork to lay and then the books that come after do tend to move along a bit quicker but i still felt there was an element of plodding through it to be overcome you can work out from reading the book that it is set in the 80s but i m not sure it is explicitly stated anywhere there s a lack of tension in the story so nothing to draw you in and keep you focused on the crime and its subsequent solving we ve not seen the tv adaptation but plan on watching it soon so i can compare it to the book the cast looks good and i hope i find it more engaging than i did the book will i be reading the second book in the series maybe at some point i had high hopes for this book but they didn t materialise yet now the foundation has been laid down for the series book 2 might be better favourite quotes i didn t make a note of one for this book what i loved that the amateur sleuth loves stationary rating share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest like loading posted in book reviews tagged book review book reviews books cosy mystery fiction historical fiction reading 2 comments micro book review the girl who played with fire by stieg larsson posted on december 4 2025 by sammicoxwriter story summary from goodreads the expose millenium publisher mikael blomkvist has made his reputation exposing corrupt establishment figures so when a young journalist approaches him with an investigation into sex trafficking blomkvist cannot resist waging war on the powerful figures who control this lucrative industry the murder when a young couple is found dead in their stockholm apartment it s a straightforward job for inspector bublanski and his team the killer left the weapon at the scene and the fingerprints on the gun point in only one direction the girl who played with fire ex security analyst lisbeth salander is wanted for murder her history of unpredictable and vengeful behaviour makes her an official danger to society but no one can find her the only way salander can be reached is by computer but she can break into almost any network she chooses micro book review i found the girl with the dragon tattoo addictive reading and it was the same with the girl who played with fire again just under a week was needed to read a 500 page novel and once more i seriously struggled to put it down it was a good sequel some books don t live up the one s that come before it but this one did it s hard not to root for lisbeth salander even with her periodically murky morals yet she doesn t target people that don t deserve it mikael is a great supporter of salander even if he can t get her to talk to him i found this one of the best parts of the story the world might not believe in her but he does i also like as well as find uncomfortable how real the book feels the characters feel real the problems in the world feel real are real and this lends a great believability to the story i enjoyed reading about sweden and actually learned somethings which i didn t know which is always a bonus when reading fiction but i m not sure i would ever get on with cheese and marmalade on toast i m strictly a one or the other kind of girl this paragraph from my review of the first book in the millennium trilogy bares repeating of course with most crime based stories some passages are hard to read this book is no exception so a warning there if you have yet to read the book once again as soon as i finished this book i started on the final one in the trilogy in fact i read the trilogy so quickly and with no break between the books that if i m honest i struggle to mark the point where one ends and the next begins favourite quotes it proved once again the theory that no security system is a match for a stupid employee what i loved everything rating share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest like loading posted in book reviews tagged book review book reviews books crime fiction mystery reading thriller 2 comments micro book review fall of a philanderer by carola dunn posted on december 3 2025 by sammicoxwriter story summary from goodreads for daisy and her husband alec a long awaited break by the sea becomes a busman s holiday when a local ladies man turns up murdered on the beach yet in the coastal town of westcombe it s hard to find someone who wouldn t have wanted george enderby dead the married casanova s scandalous seductions had earned him the enmity of every jilted lover and cuckolded husband in the area not to mention the resentment of his long suffering wife and now as daisy and alec investigate among the seaside cliffs beautiful beach and quaint village this holiday idyll seems nothing more than a sinister backdrop for cold blooded murder while the murderer may be closer than daisy thinks micro book review this might be one of my favourite daisy s yet certainly my favourite out of the recent crop i ve read i loved everything about this story the setting the characters and the storyline i really wish they would make a tv adaptation of this series they make good gentle reading and i m certain they would make good gentle watching too undemanding but engaging this mystery might be a little predictable in places but it is never silly nor is the culprit obvious the descriptions of the little devon seaside village are charming the characters entertaining sid is fabulous and some of the others read like old friends and the young doctor in training and his girlfriend are fun and the mystery itself is a good one there is very little sympathy to be had for the victim because he is a rotter but that also means that the list of suspects isn t particularly short one thing i do like about these books is that although they are light and although they are cosy we are always reminded that many of the characters carry with them the scars of war a quick read with an interesting meandering plot and where the solution to the puzzle isn t revealed until the end this was a delightful light addition to the series and as always i m eager to get stuck in the next one favourite quotes it seems to be the fashion to give the top detectives rather thick assistants look at dr watson and do you know this new chappie the belgian detective same thing he has the bumbling colonel hastings to crow over what i loved everything about it rating share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest like loading posted in book reviews tagged book review book reviews books cosy mystery fiction historical fiction mystery reading women sleuths 2 comments micro book review the girl with the dragon tattoo by stieg larsson posted on december 2 2025 by sammicoxwriter story summary from goodreads the industrialist henrik vanger head of the dynastic vanger corporation is tormented by the loss of a child decades earlier and convinced that a member of his fa...