2017 – January – Sarah Withers Blogs

Tuesday’s Teaser – Sirens

The first of my Tuesday Teasers comes from Sirens the debut novel from Joseph Knox.

This or That – 30/01/2017

This week Rae asks You’ve just finished book 3 in a series of 6. Book 1 was good, 2 was great, but the one you just finished was…. “meh.” What do you do?

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When I started blogging at the beginning of the month I wasn’t sure what I would be talking about, or if there was anything in particular I would focus on so I adapted my theme to be about me. The tag line stating the blog was about me, and the header image being some of my favourite pictures from visiting Bathsheba in Barbados, the island my paternal grandparents were originally from. I quickly discovered that my love of reading was shared by a wonderful community of book bloggers so I’ve made some updates to reflect the fact that I am focusing more on books. I will still blog about myself but my main focus will be books, and related things – so my header image is now my living room bookshelf.

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The Discussion Post – How Do You Blog?

Today I’m back to being nosy and asking how you blog

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Professional Development aka 3 Hours of Boredom

Today was a day of professional development, I went and sat the first exam for my level 4 CIPS course. Now I know that completing this course is important for career progression, but as much as I enjoy my day to day job, the theory of procurement is enough to put anyone to sleep. I wrote a little over 11 pages – handwritten! Who knew they were still making you hand write exams, I thought in the few years since I finished my degree they might have moved on. Clearly not!

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Buzz Books 2017 – YA Spring/Summer

Buzz Books Young Adult Spring/Summer 2017 is the sixth collection that’s been put together and contains excerpts from a number of upcoming books. The collection was released on Netgalley as a read now last week and is also available for download directly here from Publishers Marketplace. I’m not the biggest YA reader at the moment, […]

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Buzz Books 2017 Spring / Summer

Buzz Books have been putting together a collection of the most buzzed about books for the past six years. Buzz Books Spring/Summer 2017 is the tenth collection that’s been put together and contains excerpts from 40 upcoming books. This is split into 3 sections: Fiction, Debut Fiction and Non-Fiction.

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The Discussion Post – Childhood Books

This week I’m talking about some of my favourite childhood books – Come and share yours!

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Giving Blood

So on Thursday afternoon I popped over to the car park at work and gave blood. It only took an hour of my time and that means I may have saved a life today. My blood group is B+, I was given a badge to prove it. Only 9.2% of the Scottish population share my blood type, and only 6% of people in Scotland who are eligible to donate actually do. This means out of the 5.3 million people in Scotland, only 491,979 people share my blood type, and less that 29,500 actually donate blood.

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