Category: Book Club
Beautiful Malice – book review.
So I completely forgot to publish another Our Year in Books post last weekend (gah!) but I have been reading. In fact I’ve read four books so far this year, but some of them will be reviewed other places, I’ll link when available. Beautiful Malice though, I’ll do you here. First of all, I think…
Recommending a book.
I read a lot of books. You’d think choosing just one to recommend would be easy, but no, it’s not. What if the other person doesn’t like it? What if they absolutely hate it? It would be so embarrassing. But nothing ventured, nothing gained, and I’ve picked a book that I’ve read time and time…
Bumpalicious maternity dress and Emma Jane tights – review.
I was very fortunate, just before Christmas to be contacted by a couple of ppl to review some lovely maternity wear. Bumpalicious do some fabulous dresses and I decided that for once, I wouldn’t be sensible and choose the dress that just possibly I could wear more than once, I’d choose a dress I could…
Our Year in Books.
Last year we kicked off with a charity challenge to read and review 100 books in a month. We nearly made it, but in the end it proved too ambitious a target. It wasn’t the reading that was the problem, it was the writing up and publishing the reviews. On the back of the challenge…
Book related rant – is Harry Potter really all that?
I’ve just, courtesy of twitter, come across the latest words of wisdom from a politician on reading. The headline is All children should read Harry Potter books by 11, says minister The actual quote is “By the end of primary school, all children should be able to read and enjoy books like Harry Potter. But…
Christmas is nearly upon us: stocking fillers reviewed.
I’ve had some great review opportunities, and some odd ones through the blog this year. This surprised me slightly, but was not one I was averse to (one day I’ll blog a list of the things I’ve turned down, you’ll be amazed, you really will). This one is stocking fillers, and there are some great…
You've got to have a dream…
I read a great post about dreaming the other day. It was a timely reminder. In the middle of all my plans and targets, I think it’s possible I’ve lost sight of my dreams. Time to revisit them. I dream of being happy. That’s probably a bit too wide and unfocussed a dream tbh. I…
Gamers ahoy – Disney Universe review and Grease Dance XBox competition.
Rattling through a bit of a backlog of reviews and competitions this week, worth keeping checking in to see what else is coming up 😉 Today it’s Disney Universe – we were very lucky to be sent this to review on Wii. It ticks all my boxes in that it’s suitable from age 7 up…
Now we are two.
It’s been a fairly low key birthday today for Smallest. Big made and iced her a cake (yes, I’m impressed. First time she’d used fondant icing and she made a fabulous job of it.) Small got down on the floor and played pattern games with the Tantrix tiles with her until she made him cry…
Saturday is family film night – Back to the Future.
Or at least, tonight was our second family film night. I’m trying to make it a habit, that we spend one evening a week staring at the same screen together – I’d quite like it if we did board games or something non screen related, but atm, Smallest would destroy them, so a shared film…