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Book Review: Kitty and the Moonlight Rescue by Paula Harrison and Jenny Lovlie

September 29, 2020

Our local libraries (Wirral Libraries) are now offering an order-and-collect service, which is fantastic for our book loving family and also the bank balance! Raise your hand if, like me, you spent all the money saved from staying home during lockdown on books!? Too tempting wasn’t it? Not to mention absolutely necessary of course! But … More Book Review: Kitty and the Moonlight Rescue by Paula Harrison and Jenny Lovlie

Book Review: The House With Chicken Legs by Sophie Anderson #amreading #middlegradefiction

May 17, 2020

Rating: 5/5 I definitely recommend this book to all Middle Grade readers -whether you fall into the age bracket or not (like me!) – particularly those who like a little heart felt fantasy. It’s a real page turner and beautifully told. Blurb (from Good Reads): All 12-year-old Marinka wants is a friend. A real friend. … More Book Review: The House With Chicken Legs by Sophie Anderson #amreading #middlegradefiction

Friday Flash: Gingerbread Kisses

March 6, 2020

Harold Snow wiped his hands down his apron and admired his handiwork. Twelve perfectly sculpted gingerbread women smiled up at him, their sweet scent wrapping like a blanket around him. ‘Grandpa, Grandpa, are they done, are they done?’ cried Izzy. She ran to fetch her step, dragging it screeching across the floor, before climbing up beside … More Friday Flash: Gingerbread Kisses

Weekend Writing Prompt #146: Epoch

March 2, 2020

Epoch At the edge of one I wait For doors to open, and welcome me in A pause A breath Then time hurries on With me its captive. ____________________________________________________ A word prompt to get your creativity flowing this weekend. How you use the prompt is up to you. Write a piece of flash fiction, a … More Weekend Writing Prompt #146: Epoch

Book Review: Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield #amreading #bookbloggers #readingrecommendations

March 2, 2020

Rating: 5/5 Blurb (from goodreads): On a dark midwinter’s night in an ancient inn on the river Thames, an extraordinary event takes place. The regulars are telling stories to while away the dark hours, when the door bursts open on a grievously wounded stranger. In his arms is the lifeless body of a small child. … More Book Review: Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield #amreading #bookbloggers #readingrecommendations

Friday Flash: Spilt Milk

February 21, 2020

You may think this is trivial but trust me, if you were me you too would be sobbing as hard as I am right now on the kitchen floor. Oh yes, you too would be letting the snot, the tears, the saliva dribble freely, as the cool stone presses hard into your hands and knees, … More Friday Flash: Spilt Milk

Book Review: Gullstruck Island by Frances Hardinge #amreading #bookbloggers #readingrecommendations

February 10, 2020

Rating 5/5 I’m writing this having just put the book down and therefore with a swelling heart, which is often (though not always) the case in the moments after I finish a good book. Time usually makes me a little more critical, but I’ll honour this book with a review from within its beautiful presence. … More Book Review: Gullstruck Island by Frances Hardinge #amreading #bookbloggers #readingrecommendations

Book Review: In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan

January 27, 2020

Rating: 3/5 I got really excited about In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan, when I stumbled across it on Goodreads. After deciding it was clearly a must-read YA fantasy and something I should read for research and for fun, I bought a second hand copy immediately. Sadly, it didn’t quite live up to my expectations, … More Book Review: In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan

Friday Flash: Always is a Long Time

January 24, 2020

‘Woah, now just slow down there’ a voice hollered from the next aisle seconds before a tiny child came hurtling around the corner pushing a basket on wheels. His beam almost entirely covered his face and his eyes sparkled with mischief. Susie leapt away from the wine bottles she was perusing, just in time to … More Friday Flash: Always is a Long Time

Book Review: The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

December 4, 2019

RATING: 5/5 Margaret Atwood can do no wrong in my eyes. Perhaps it is a mistake to be so uncritical, but to me the scale of her contribution to literature, her years of experience and her dedication to producing intelligent, thought-provoking and culturally necessary stories means I’m not going to write a bad word about … More Book Review: The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

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