Category: Book Club
The Hungergames (the book) review
One of the drawbacks of following lots of book bloggers and publishers on twitter is hearing and reading teasers for fabulous books day in and day out. So I’ve been hearing about the Hungergames and the forthcoming movie for ages, but hadn’t had chance to read it. Then (after some rather heavy hints 😉 )…
Can you review a book honestly if you skip chapter 9?
I hope you can, because I have to confess to skipping in Creative Writing – The Essential Guide. That would be because I’m really not interested in scriptwriting, but I was interested in finishing up the book 😉 I was sent this for the purpose of review following an exchange on twitter with the author,…
Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine – review.
I heard a lot about this book via twitter, but couldn’t find any UK reviews until I read an article in the guardian (which I of course can’t find now. Bother). So I searched to see if any UK book bloggers had read it, and instead connected with the publishers, who send me a copy…
Going VIP to the Baby Show at London ExCel Feb 24-26th
Today I did a grown up thing, and went to London. For the day. On my own, without any children at all. I’d been invited by the lovely ladies at AzariaPR to be a VIP blogger at the Baby Show and while I’d had some qualms in the first place (to be discussed later) I’d…
Lost and Found – review.
This is currently Smallest’s favourite book. She adores the interactivity of the paper engineering (as it is described on the book itself). It goes far beyond a standard pop up book with tabs folding in various directions, doors that open and close, lights that turn on and off, and of course, the penguin. Because it…
French children don't throw food – review.
I picked up a conversation about this book on twitter last week and was intrigued by the title. And then very grateful to be sent a copy for review. I was still so intrigued that I read it over the weekend, and had a few twitter conversations about it along the way. It’s written in…
What I wore Wednesday – two maternity outfits for price of one!
I’m not actually going to tell you what I wore on Wednesday. Instead, I’m going to talk about last Thursday and Friday, when I went down to High Wycombe (over to High Wycombe?) for a blogger event. Because of the length of the journey and my advance pregnancy (eek!) I travelled down the afternoon before,…
Dark Parties by Sara Grant – review.
Buy Dark Parties at Amazon I do like teen fiction. But not stereotyped teen fiction. So I was a tiny bit nervous about this as it fits into the current vogue for dystopian fiction and I was afraid it might turn out to be a bit samey. Fortunately my fears were unfounded. Dystopian it might…
Never Coming Home by Evonne Wareham – review
I’ve read a wide variety of stuff already this year, and some of it has been slightly traumatic. Eg Life, Above All, read the book and watched the film for Movie Gazette. (That’s one of my new projects. I’m doing a couple of features on there, one being Film of the Book, and the other…