This year and all it's trials and tribulations continues apace, making for reading moments a bit of grasped quiet in a storm front that is persistently battering away at life. At the moment we're nursing a couple of elderly dogs - one now with a terminal diagnosis, the other just has the wheels falling off left right and centre - we're grateful that they are with us at all to be honest.

This Thursday temptations post is upcoming releases, or books that are out now.