what mish read - new TBR additions (winter 2023)

Can't stop, won't stop, buying all the books!

I recently saw a video on Instagram where they said something along the lines of 'you're not buying books, you're rescuing them' and that is the mindset I will have from now on haha.

Plus, it goes towards our dream of having a wall full of books one day - our own little library. Or maybe, even an actual library, a whole room of books!

Each couple finds something that is their thing to do, and one of ours is going to bookshop together and browsing the aisles and trying not to come home with all the books haha. When we go away, we always try to stop by a bookstore. That's definitely become a little tradition of ours. One I love. I love sharing this with the Mr. Even though we are quite opposite in what we like to read (he's loves his non-fiction), it's still a wonderful shared thing between us.

I love wondering what he'll end up getting, as it's usually very different from what I will choose.

Anyway, click continue reading to see what I've picked up in our most recent wanderings at bookshops this winter...

what mish read, so far in 2023

It's been a while...

Oh hello again.

Just a photo to brighten up the post. ☀

It's definitely been a while since I posted anything here.

Or even update my bio and what not.

And not the first post to say 'It's been a while'.

I've been meaning to get back into sharing on this little space of the internet that is mine, but to be quite frank with you all I honestly just lost the passion a bit for the last few years...

There's more to say of course, though I'll keep this one short and sweet and save it all for the next post.

I just wanted to... take a baby step back into this space I guess.

Until next time, which will be soon I promise!

Big hugs,

Mish

What Mish Read - The Book Club, of One.

I love reading.

I haven't read all the classics that people should have read, but oh well, I'm getting there. Usually I  choose a book based on the cover. I know, it's a terrible way, but I do think a good cover is one of the first things that gets people interested. But then the blurb definitely has interest me.

Sometimes though, my love for books can be a little bit too much. When a book is really good, I cannot put it down. Cue super late nights and getting little sleep, and procrastinating. Books are such a good way to procrastinate. Getting lost in a different world. Swept up in a story that is different from your own. It's like an opportunity to escape your own life for a small moment.

So, for the love of books I came up with the idea of 'What Mish Read'.
Currently the concept is more about me reading said books then letting you know about it...so it's really more a reviewing club. For now it's just little ol' me in this little book club, but if people show interest maybe one day it will become an actual book club and we can all read a book together at the same time. Maybe we could be the Australian version of Reese Witherspoon's book club. Who knows, we'll see. 😉

Last year I finished reading Kate Mosse's triology based in the south of France. If you love mysteries and stories told at different points in time but they end up connected, definitely check her trilogy out! I came across Mosse when I was looking for another one of Kate Morton's books. Very similar style with the whole two stories happening at different points in time but ended up connected, but I love how Mosse linked all 3 of her books together.

Anyway, this is just a start of something that may or may not be anything but it's something to blog about!

I'll let you know what I am currently reading soon!

Big hugs,
Mish

Hello, again.

So, it's 2020 and my last post was in 2017. So basically, I am bad with this whole blogging thing. 😅

I've always had good intentions for this space. Regular blogs about all sorts, mostly travel and food (definitely food because who doesn't love food?!).

I've got a number of drafts sitting there waiting to be finished, all started with good intentions.

Plus a bunch of photos, well more than a bunch, to go with those posts.

I guess it's similar to social media and why I also suck at that.

Probably comes down to the fact that I am a big over thinker. I'll write something and re-read it multiple times to make sure it's sounding perfect, perfect in terms of grammatically correct but also is it sounding 'cool'. Though I kind of despise the current speaking trends of the moment.

If I am being frank, I absolutely hate people using AF and well as the trend to be so nonchalant about things. As if you're way too cool to write a proper caption, or too cool for the subject you are writing about.

It's not me, it will never be me. I'm okay with that. But I still over think about what I say.

You can bet I am over thinking writing about this haha, but with each year I get older I care a little bit less. Not in the way you think, I still care a whole lot. Some say I care too much about things.

I am starting to care less about what people think and focus on what makes me happy, staying true to myself rather than trying to be someone else so people can like me. Because it is exhausting doing that.

Maybe this is what they say when you get older, wiser, more sure of yourself.

Anyway, with all that rambling, all I wanted to say is that I keen to get back on this bandwagon. I can't guarantee it being a regular thing. Or that it will be good. But it'll be somewhere to share things from the perspective of, well, just an average aussie woman. I'm no one special, but hopefully what I share is helpful or interesting to someone out there.

Big hugs,

Mish.

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