Category: Book Club
The Naturals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
The Naturals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes was actually sent to Big to review, which she did, over here. Then after she’d read it, I took it with me to blogfest last weekend, as I’d a couple of nice train journeys to do. And when I got back and my head was bouncing and I couldn’t…
Power and perspective.
Since the weekend, and the whole feminism/blogfest thing, I’ve read an awful lot of blogposts about that particular session. I’ve seen people upset, and angry that they were misunderstood or misinterpreted, people who were there upset about the reaction of the room, people who weren’t there alleging that the panellists were bullied and misheard. And…
Tesco Toy Team
I get a lot of approaches via the blog these days. Invitation to test toys for Tesco? The kids said yes please! (And tips for PRs, given that we were given travel expenses without a second thought, and every exchange with the PR firm concerned was courteous and prompt, I was very pleased to say…
Blogfest – so much more than a feminism debate.
I will admit at the start I am biased. This is the second year I’ve taken part in Mumsnet Blogfest, last year I was a clinic adviser, and this year I was in the clinic and also on a panel. I absolutely loved it last year, and it fired me up to become much more…
We love you Hugless Douglas
I’ve read some other books for myself this week, including Allegiant, but I’m not quite ready to write down what I feel about that. (Yes, the kind of book where you’ve got to absorb it. There you go.) So tonight, I’ll give you a review of Hugless Douglas, the We love you edition. I don’t…
Home education: just a vanity project?
Most of the time when I mention I home educate people either ask me if it’s legal, or tell me they couldn’t do that. They don’t have the patience, or the knowledge, or the courage – I’m fairly sure I’m seen as some kind of a saint or perhaps superwoman. I’m neither. Just a parent.…
I've read some books.
This week. Quite a few in fact. The lemon Grove. The book thief. The dark heroine. And I’ve finally finished the 10pm question. I loved the book thief. The narrator’s voice. The humanity. The pain and sadness and hope and fierce joy. I almost started over reading it straight away. Instead I gave it to…
Kids Boost from TalkTalk – review
This review is overdue, and for that I apologise profusely. It’s supposed to be a video review. Which is why it’s overdue, as it turns out that I’m basically incompetent with videos. I film them the wrong way, or can’t work out how to stream a hangout to air so that I could just talk…
Phoenix by S.F.Said
I was thrilled to be offered this book via netgalley, as I’d seen the wonderful trailer by Dave McKean and thought it looked great. (This is the trailer, in case you’ve missed out.) I’d also had S F Said recommended to me in the past, so was hopeful this would be an enjoyable experience. It…
Igam Ogam – A Q&A before the new series.
Smallest likes television. She likes to watch the same things over. And over. And over again. This gets a bit monotonous. So when I was sent details of a new series of Igam Ogam starting 17th September on Channel 5 (6.10 am. You might want to record it.) I was interested. The previous series is…