Winner of Mr Monk helps himself
I’m not sure if you remember but I had a giveaway here on the blog a little while ago. The winner of the giveaway is Amrita from Cogito Cogito Ergo Cogito Sum! She shared that her strangest phobia is a...
View ArticleBook Review: The Tulip Eaters
…by Antoinette van Heugten. Nora de Jong returns home from work one day to find her mother, Anneke murdered and her infant Rose missing. The only clue is a dead man on the floor of their living room...
View ArticleBook Review: The Mistress of Spices
…by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. Tilo is a young woman born with a gift for being able to tell the future. She is trained in the using spices to help others and thus becomes the Mistress of spices with...
View ArticleBook Review: The Cuckoo’s Calling
…by Robert Galbraith {a.k.a. J. K. Rowling using a pseudonym} Supermodel Lula Landry falls to her death from her balcony one snowy night. The police deem it as a suicide given Landry’s troubled life...
View ArticleBluetooth conversations
This is a sponsored product review for MobileZap Times have changed. People don’t seem to talk much on the phone these days. I remember I used to talk for hours on end with my friends during school and...
View ArticleBook Review: Looking for Alaska
…by John Green. Miles ‘Pudge’ Halter is ready to make a change and move from Florida to Culver Creek Boarding School in Alabama in search of the Great Perhaps. Here he befriends Chip a.k.a. the Colonel...
View ArticleBook Review: Left Neglected
…by Lisa Genova. Sarah Nickerson is a high-flying Type A personality living in a wealthy suburb in Boston with her husband Bob and three children Charlie, Lucy and Linus. Sarah juggles motherhood,...
View ArticleWe need to talk about Kevin. And Lionel Shriver
If you were to ask me to list my top 5 books of all time, Lionel Shriver’s ‘We need to talk about Kevin’ would definitely be present on that list. I have sort of reviewed this book previously on the...
View ArticleBook Review: The View on the way down
…by Rebecca Wait. ‘The View on the way down‘ is the story of 14 year old Emma lives with her mother Rose, who is obsessed with cleaning, cooking and well, having a perfect home, and her father Joe who...
View ArticleCoupons with Zoutons
This is a sponsored post for Zoutons Who doesn’t love a good bargain? {Don’t lie and tell me you don’t…} Well, I for one, am a sucker for a deal. I love websites that offer these deals and have...
View ArticleBook Review: Leaving Time
… by Jodi Picoult. Thirteen year old Jenna Metcalf has never stopped thinking about her mother Alice, who disappeared under mysterious circumstances a decade ago. A scientist researching grief in...
View ArticleBook Highlight: Embrace
I was fortunate to be contacted to see if I could review the book ‘Embrace: My story from body loather to body lover‘ by Taryn Brumfitt. Given that I am big on body image and well, struggle with my own...
View ArticleHome Hello: Saying hello to a clean home
This is a sponsored post for Home Hello I’ve blogged several times before about how much I dislike cleaning my unit. Of course, I do it anyway but it’s never fun. Event though it’s just a 2 bedroom...
View ArticleBook Review: The Rosie Project
…by Graeme Simsion. Don Tillman is a genetics professor who struggles to have a serious relationship with women. His life is perfectly organised to the last minute as he is a big believer in being...
View ArticleBook Review: Stabbed Ego
…by Luke S. Kennedy. Stabbed Ego is the story of Luke ‘Punchy’ Kennedy. Born in Liverpool Hospital in Sydney’s south-west, he initially lived with his parents Ruben and Diane, and siblings Ruben (three...
View ArticleBook Review: The Silkworm
…by Robert Galbraith aka J. K. Rowling. The Silkworm is Rowling’s second crime novel under the pseudonym Galbraith. Private investigator Cormoran Strike’s business is flourishing after the Lula Landry...
View ArticleBook Review: Paper Towns
…by John Green. Quentin Jacobsen is in love with his neighbour and classmate, Margo Roth Spiegelman. Except she doesn’t seem to acknowledge his existence in spite of them being friends when they were a...
View ArticleBook Review: The Fictional Woman
…by Tara Moss. The Fictional Woman is part-memoir, part sociological research exploring the different labels or ‘fictions’ that are given to women. Moss’ main argument in her first nonfiction book is...
View ArticleBook Review: The Husband’s Secret
…by Liane Moriarty. Cecilia Fitzpatrick is a happily married woman, a mother, running a successful Tupperware business and living the northern suburbs of Sydney. Her life is busy and almost perfect as...
View ArticleOff to Malory Towers #FridayReflections
I loved Enid Blyton books as a child. I still remember my parents getting me my first Blyton book at age six: Stories for you. It was one of her books with a number of short stories in it. It was books...
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