Blogging seems to be a little past me at the moment but I have been snapping away like mad with my phone – mainly via Instagram. So I thought I’d share some and explain a bit more of what happens in the pictures. My friends tied the knot this weekend. At the end of April it’ll [...]
Interrupted by Rachel Coker 4 out of 5 In fifteen-year-old author Rachel Coker’s young adult debut, young Allie Everly’s life is changed forever by the illness and death of her beloved mother and subsequent adoption by an older woman in Maine. Bitter and feeling unloved, Allie rejects her new mother and her new mother’s faith [...]
The Half-Stitched Amish Quilting Club by Wanda E. Brunstetter 4 out of 5 Amish widow Emma Yoder’s first quilt class brings the most unlikely people together. There’s Star, a young woman yearning for stability; Pam and Stuart Johnston, a struggling couple at odds in their marriage; Paul Ramirez, a widower hoping to find solace [...]
Last week my new toy arrived. I’m on my second book so far and so this week we have two lists – first the books I have read on my sparkly new Kindle followed by my wishlist. Lots of pictures this week. Read/In Progress Got but haven’t started (My version has a really [...]
Dear Monday, you didn’t just creep round this week, you slammed right into the week and crashed. Saturday was the breakfast and catching up with the girls and then yesterday was Millie Mae’s baptism. The weekend was good fun but again I needed another day in my weekend – that would have been good. (Click [...]
So this is going to sound crazy – as mad as this is I like the idea – so what if I got rid of all my reading books. I know, I know how crazy am I given that I’ve spent a bunch of my wages on books or DVDs. I make a list of [...]
I would class myself as a Nerdfighter – if you don’t know what a Nerdfighter is please look here. So John Green who is one half of VlogBrothers is an author. He writes Young Adult (YA) books which are probably technically out of my age bracket (I’m 25 – am I supposed to still read [...]
The Book You Plan To Read Next There is a whole pile of books that I plan to read next – whether I’ll actually manage to read them is a whole other thing. The Lord of The Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (Started didn’t finish) Labyrinth by Kate Mosse (Started didn’t [...]
A Book You Wish You’d Written/Genre You Wish You Could Write in Ultimately I kind of wish that I could write a story that someone would want to pick up and read. I completed NaNoWriMo last year and keep meaning to edit it and tweak it into something better but I just keep failing at [...]
Your favourite biography/autobiography I am sure there are more that have made me laugh to the point of nearly falling out of bed but the ones I remember are Billy and Brave Mouth by Pamela Stephenson (both also made me cry too) about her husband Billy Connolly, and Dear Fatty by Dawn French. I’ve also [...]
