I finished Library of Souls by Ransom Riggs. This is the third and final instalment in the Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children series. I asked Hubby to pick a book from my 52 books shelves as I had choice paralysis and this is the one I picked. I loved the first two books of the series and fully expected to love the third. It was a bit slow to start and I began to get worried but as it picked up I fell into the story. I’m sad that the series is finished but, if Twitter is to be believed, there’s another series on the horizon which makes me happy!
Last Sunday, hubby and his friend Danger 
used a voucher we were given for Christmas and went to one of the BrewDog bars near us for a beer and cheese tasting. The gift was for the two of us, but considering that one of us still had to be able to drive home, Danger went instead. I used my time in town to go to Waterstones and use my stamped up ‘free money’ cards as I had £20 to spend. Waterstones do a loyalty scheme where every time you spend £10 they stamp a card, 10 stamps gets you £10 credit to spend in store. I had 2 and a half complete cards meaning I’ve spent something in the region of £250 in Waterstones, a fact I’m not looking at too closely. I spent more time than I usually do browsing and deciding as I was on my own and had free reign. I ended up buying the illustrated American Gods by Neil Gaiman, The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris and Woman and Power by Mary Beard. I pretty much got the Neil Gaiman book for free with my £20 credit (although, as Hubby points out, it’s not free, look how much money was spent to get that ‘free’ book!) so all in all, I’m quite pleased. I also got the chance to go to my second most favourite shop in the world, Lush. I procured a few bath bombs and melts then happily went on my way to the pub to get some food and wait for Hubby. I should probably explain that Hubby and I have a deal, we set aside a little of the disposable income we have every month to spend on non-essentials, books and Lush in my case, bitcoins in Hubby’s.
It’s also been an exciting week for the post. I received the latest Fall Out Boy album that I’ve had on pre-order for a while. It’s really really good. I also ordered a couple of books from Amazon thanks to their 3 paperbacks for £10 deal. I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson which was recommended to me by my friend Etoile Filante, 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher which I bought as I have the series on my Netflix watchlist and The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood as I’ve had it on my wishlist for a while and it was part of the deal. Finally, there was From Here to Eternity: Travelling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty which I’ve had on pre-order for nearly a year. I read her first novel after it was given to me by a colleague who thought I might find it interesting and I’ve been watching her YouTube channel ever since. I was so excited when she announced she was releasing a new book that I immediately put it on order. I’m about halfway through it now.
This weekend was spent doing a months worth of cooking and filling up the freezer. Hubby has promised me faithfully that we’ll be going to the gym again and I wanted to get ahead of the cooking that needs to be done while we work through the week. All the food prep means that when I get home at night it’s a case of heat and eat. I’m not sure how well it will work but I guess we’ll see.