This month, my Kindle app notified me that I just passed a silver reading achievement. I’ll be honest, I didn’t know there was any such Kindle challenge, but it was fun to find out that I’m close to gold, nonetheless. Although I prefer reading paperbacks, eBooks are undoubtedly more convenient. For me, I tend to mostly read my Kindle books in bed, or out and about whenever I have a moment to spare. So far this year, I have read 44 Kindle books, but I’ll do a proper update towards the end of 2024.

My new part-time library position has definitely helped keep my reading goals on track. It’s good to model reading in front of library users. Books are important, and I’m a firm believer in making time for reading, rather than leaving it to a free moment. My TBR pile of paperbacks on the coffee table at home (with expandable bookends, lol) is not whittling down in size as I keep buying more books. What can I say? I’m as much of a bookworm as I am a writer.

So, what am I reading this month? Halloween is over, but you wouldn’t know it from my current selection. Ghost horror, supernatural and psychological are top of my list at the moment. I’ve started reading ‘Home before Dark’ and ‘Whispers in the Sand’, but the others are next on my TBR so I’ve included them here. Apart from Riley Sager, which is a library borrow, I bought the others.

I must not buy more books… (X 10)

Yeah, right! As if that will ever happen.

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About Leilanie Stewart

Leilanie Stewart is an award-winning author and poet from Belfast, Northern Ireland. She writes ghost and psychological horror, as well as experimental poetry. Her writing confronts the nature of self; her novels feature main characters on a dark psychological journey who have a crisis and create a new sense of identity. She began writing for publication while working as an English teacher in Japan, a career pathway that has influenced themes in her writing. Her former career as an Archaeologist has also inspired her writing and she has incorporated elements of archaeology and mythology into both her fiction and poetry. In addition to promoting her own work, Leilanie runs Bindweed Anthologies, a creative writing publication with her writer husband, Joseph Robert. Aside from publishing pursuits, Leilanie enjoys spending time with her husband and their lively literary lad, a voracious reader of sea monster books.

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