Category: Book Club
Reading Eggs Great Literacy Challenge – supporting Tommy's.
I’m quite a fan of Reading Eggs as you may be able to tell from that review. Smallest goes through phases of addiction, then wanders off for a while, and it means that I know she’s building her reading skills while having fun. Given that we also do lots of reading, drawing and general literacy…
Harry Potter tour at warner bros studio
I will write this up properly after the weekend, but I just wanted to pop something here tonight. It’s fabulous. We loved it. You can see on my instagram stream (liveotherwise obviously) a succession of pics, many more to come. If you’re Harry Potter fans it’s fantastic. I only wish it didn’t involve 5 hours…
Read 52: The Silent Wife.
The Silent Wife by ASA Harrison is a difficult book to review. The author died before the novel was published, so it is her one and only work, and it’s received lots of plaudits in the book world. It’s frequently likened to Gone Girl (which I haven’t read) or Before I go to Sleep (which…
Earth Star by Janet Edwards.
I very much enjoyed Earth Girl, the debut SF from Janet Edwards. So when I saw via twitter that the sequel was being released for review via netgalley, I couldn’t wait to get my hands on it. 18-year-old Jarra has a lot to prove. After being awarded one of the military’s highest honours for her…
Acid by Emma Pass.
I’ve been struggling with reading recently. I’ve started lots of books, and got quite a way into some of them, got interrupted by life and just never really felt like going back. I hate it. It’s kind of untidy in my head, half started stories, but none of them dragging me back, all feeling rather…
The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau
Buy on Kindle Buy at Hive Review of The Testing book 1 in a projected series by Joelle Charbonneau. Release Date 1st August 2013 Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Isn’t that what they say? But how close is too close when they may be one in the same? The Seven Stages War…
The beach with added Miffy
Yesterday I packed up the entire contents of the house and dragged them down the road to the beach for a couple of hours, then dragged them home again. That’s what it felt like anyway. It occurred to me that I carried less stuff when I was interrailing for a month than I do for…
Love you, bye.
Hey little sister. Thought I’d take some time to tell you the news, just in case you haven’t been keeping up. Your namesake is 3 1/2 now. Which means you’ve been gone 5 years. Hardly seems possible, that five years have flown by without you. I think of you daily. Naming one of my children…
Review: Half Lives by Sara Grant.
I very much enjoyed Dark Parties by Sara Grant, so I was very happy to be chosen as a Gollancz Geek to review Half Lives. The blurb from Goodreads. Present day: Icie is a typical high school teenager – until disaster strikes and her parents send her to find shelter inside a mountain near Las…
Sometimes I forget the important things
And I need a little reminder. Today we were sent a WeekendBoxClub box for review and knowing that I’m away this weekend, I thought I’d get started on it straight away. I’d forgotten how lovely it is to spend one to one time with Smallest, focusing on her and just doing something for her. I…
