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  • My name is O/ Pale – review

    We were sent both these books for review from Barrington Stoke. Their website says “Struggling, reluctant and dyslexic readers deserve the best books available” and that is what they are aiming to produce. Both these books are written in relatively simple direct language, but with good strong story lines and characters – I hoped they…

  • 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…

  • Rubbish diet – Monday meeting.

    As part of our involvement with the rubbish diet we’ve got a weekly weigh in – every good diet has to keep track of how it’s all going after all. So before I ran out of the house towards the leisure centre today, I took a picture of the state of our wheelie bin right…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Zumba fitness 2 for Wii – review and giveaway

    You may remember me reviewing Zumba Fitness for Wii a while back, when I was working on being fit and svelte. These are not words that describe me now. Blimp describes me now, sadly, 6 months pregnant is not my best look. I tried to keep up with the exercise for a while, and did…