Top Ten Tuesday: New-to-me Authors of 2015 #TTT
Today, the bloggers at The Broke and the Bookish have asked us to list ten new-to-me authors whose books I read in 2015. This…
Teaser Tuesdays: Wolf Hall
I am surprised by how much I am enjoying this book, and actually enjoying reading about Cromwell – one of the most disliked people…
8.3 One by Sarah Crossan – A Powerful Verse Novel
This is a lovely story of sixteen-year-old conjoined (Siamese) twins, Grace and Tippi. They have been home-schooled in the past, and at 16, for…
Mailbox Mondays: Thanksgiving Haul
Welcome to Mailbox Monday. The books I mentioned I was expecting in my last mailbox post finally showed up last week, almost two weeks…
My #NonFictionNovember Reading Pick – Into Thin Air
On May 9th 1996, five expeditions launched an assault on the summit of Mount Everest. The conditions seemed perfect. Twenty-four hours later one climber…
WW: Christmas Shopping Ideas
Stumped what to shop for friends or family this Christmas, here’s an infographic that might help you out.
Teaser Tuesdays: Into Thin Air
My pick for #NonFictionNovember this year is Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer – a book about the Mt.Everest climbing tragedy that happened in…
Halloween Reading – Drood and The Little Stranger
The season has been perfect for ghost stories – the ghostlier the better. Usually October/November is still fairly bright here, but this year a…
Travel Times Three
It’s been a hectic traveling month for us, three trips in the space of three weeks, and it almost became four but because of…
WW: Halloween Hungama
This year, we did Halloween on a slightly larger scale. Unlike last year, when Piglet was too scared of all the strangers and the…