Category: Book Club
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Captain Fantastic: The Undersea Monster review and giveaway
I love being approached by authors to share their work, and I particularly like when the book is good for home education. Tommy Balaam at Captain Fantastic is dyslexic, and on a mission to help other people with it. The book we’re reviewing, Captain Fantastic: the Undersea Monster, is a fab colourful cartoon-style book with…
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Getting started with home education in the UK.
If your child is in school, you need to know your rights around deregistration. If not, you can skip on down to the getting going with home education section. Deregistration – The Legal Stuff The legalities around Home Education in the UK are different from country to country, as education is one of the things…
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Twenty years a blogger
Twenty years, on and off, recently more off than on, but still here, still writing. We’ve been through a lot in the last couple of decades. Added 3 children to the family (Big is older than the blog!), moved house a couple or three times, changed jobs, lost jobs, worked from home, not worked, home…
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Wolfsong by T J Klune
I don’t know how this is my first T J Klune book. It certainly won’t be my last. One point though, set aside some time, if you can, this is a hefty tome, and if you’re anything like me, you’re going to want to devour it. Yes, there are werewolves and magic. There’s romance and…
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Cytonic by Brandon Sanderson
Disclosure – links to bookshop.org on this blog are affiliate links. Other booksellers are available. Today I’m really pleased to be taking part in the Cytonic blog tour for the latest instalment in the Skyward series by Brandon Sanderson. Spensa’s life as a Defiant Defense Force pilot has been far from ordinary. She proved herself…
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Goals /to do this week (25/7)
Volunteer x 2. Book dentist appts. Finances. (shudder) Read (and review) a book. Continue #MinsGame (work on living room) Blog post x 3 Pitch collaborations x 2 Exercise x 3 Kentwell costume check. Move email subscribers to new provider and write up process. Whiteboard plan next 5 weeks. Look at book progress so far, brush…
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The secret life of Albert Entwistle #AlbertsPals
Hi folks! So pleased today to be sharing an extract from the Secret Life of Albert Entwistle as one of #AlbertsPals Enjoy!! *** He weaved his way through a jumble of steel carts stuffed with sacks of mail. Some of the younger staff were sifting through the letters and parcels, dropping them into grey sacks…
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Space Detectives by Mark Powers, illustrated by Dapo Adeola
Disclosure: we were sent a copy free for review and links to bookshops are affiliate links, where I may get a small amount of money if you buy through it. Dog lost in space? Grown an extra head and don’t know why? Pocket money stolen by a green blob? You need the Space Detectives! Connor…
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Inscape by Louise Carey
Inscape by Louise Carey publishes on 21st January. Available from bookshop (affiliate) and other booksellers. Copy supplied free for the purpose of review. Warning: use of this gate will take you outside of the InTech corporate zone. Different community guidelines may apply, and you may be asked to sign a separate end-user license agreement. Do…
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On being heard.
Today I was listened to by an audiologist. This isn’t a first for me – I’ve been to many audiology appointments over the course of my life, starting at around the age of 5 when my teachers accused me of not paying attention in class, and I said I couldn’t hear, and they said of…