Becoming... About the Book: An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States. In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America-the first African-American to … Continue reading Quick Shots Book Review: Becoming by Michelle Obama
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#BookBingo2020 – Round 7: Set in an era you’d love to travel back in time to
The Art of Dying by Ambrose Parry I’ve always favoured historical fiction set within the Victorian era, and this novel is an example of why. The Art of Dying is the follow up to The Way of All Flesh and just like its predecessor it’s about medicine, mayhem, and madness, all playing out with gripping … Continue reading #BookBingo2020 – Round 7: Set in an era you’d love to travel back in time to
The Week That Was…
Back to work next week! Holiday break gone too soon... Joke of the week: ~~~ Book of the week: ~~~ What I've been watching: Season two! Seven days until season three drops... Yes, it's that good, I'm actually counting down! ~~~ What I'm reading right now: ~~~ Until next week... 📚☕
#2020ReadNonFic Challenge Completed
In a bid to push myself to read more non-fiction, I signed up for the #2020ReadNonFic hosted by Book'd Out. I chose 'Nibbler' which was to read six books. I wasn't too sure if I was up to reading twelve, one a month, but look at this, it's halfway through the year and I've read...one … Continue reading #2020ReadNonFic Challenge Completed
Book Review: The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld
The Bass Rock... About the Book: The lives of three women weave together across four centuries in the dazzling new book from Evie Wyld, winner of the Miles Franklin Award. Surging out of the sea, the Bass Rock has for centuries watched over the lives that pass under its shadow on the Scottish mainland. And … Continue reading Book Review: The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld
Book Review: Last Survivor by Tony Park
Last Survivor... About the Book: Greed. Joanne Flack is on the run - suspected of stealing a rare African plant thought to be extinct and worth millions of dollars. Danger. Sonja Kurtz is hired by the CIA to hunt down Joanne and find the link between the missing plant and a terrorist group hiding out … Continue reading Book Review: Last Survivor by Tony Park
#TheClassicsEight: Revisiting Jane Austen’s Emma
‘Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.’ I first read Emma in my early 20s (I'm now in my early 40s) about the time that the Gwenyth Paltrow adaptation came out. That period in the late 1990s saw quite a few classic adaptations, in particular the novels of Austen, Dickens, and … Continue reading #TheClassicsEight: Revisiting Jane Austen’s Emma
The Week That Was…
The first week of my winter school holidays break is almost done and three of those days were spent with another migraine. You'd think that after thirty years of having them that I'd be used to it. For the most part, I am, but this year has been particularly viscous in terms of frequency. I've … Continue reading The Week That Was…
A Month of Reading: June
#BookBingo2020: 0 #2020ReadNonFic: 1 #aww2020: 6 #TheClassicsEight: 1 Total books read for June: 12 Back to my regular monthly total! 12 books a month seems to be my set pattern, regardless of book size. There's comfort in predictability, I suppose!
Book Review: Croc Country by Kerry McGinnis
Croc Country... About the Book: The new outback mystery from the bestselling author of The Roadhouse. Why would the police come back looking for a dead man? Young widow Tilly is making a new life for herself, keeping house for the rangers at the Binboona Wildlife Sanctuary in the isolated wilderness of the north-western Gulf … Continue reading Book Review: Croc Country by Kerry McGinnis
