Read / December 12th, 2019
Previous posts in this Christmas recommendation series include picture books, junior books, middle-grade books, cookbooks and fiction. Home Work – A Memoir of My Hollywood Years by Julie Andrews “With this second memoir, Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years, Andrews picks up the story with her arrival in Hollywood and her phenomenal rise to fame in her earliest films–Mary…
Read / December 10th, 2019
Previous posts in this Christmas recommendation series include picture books, junior books, middle-grade books and cookbooks. Love is Strong as Death – Poems chosen by Paul Kelly by Paul Kelly You should’ve seen me sit up in my chair when I first heard word about this book coming out. Yes, I said. Take my money. Then when I went to…
Read / December 5th, 2019
Previous posts in this Christmas book recommendation series include picture books, junior and middle-grade books (as well as cookbooks). As ever, these recommendations are fluid, meaning they could suit older or younger readers depending on their tastes or capabilities. Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo Here is the synopsis from the publisher’s website: “Alex Stern is the…
Read / December 3rd, 2019
Previous posts in this Christmas recommendation series include picture books, junior books, and middle-grade books. We have one 100% vegetarian, one most-of-the-time vegetarian (me) and two whatever’s-on-offer-within-reason eaters in the household. This means our home-cooked meals are mostly vegetarian and have been for some time now. So I’m always on the lookout for new cookbooks because…
Read / November 28th, 2019
As you’ve probably deduced by now, this month has been consumed by my Christmas reading recommendations series. Putting that together takes a lot of work (and reading!) and so this month’s book stack is considerably smaller. I was lucky enough to secure a hold copy of Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann around the time (if my memory…
Read / November 26th, 2019
If you’re interested, you can read earlier posts in this series for picture books and junior reads. The Fowl Twins: Book 1 by Eoin Colfer The opening paragraph of the promotional blurb for The Fowl Twins by Eoin Colfer begins thus: “Myles and Beckett Fowl are twins but the two boys are wildly different. Beckett is blonde,…
Read / November 21st, 2019
New to this Christmas book recommendation series? Read the introductory post covering picture books. These junior reading selections are a new edition this year and I should’ve done it earlier. By the ‘junior’ definition I mean titles that are for children aged approximately 6 – 9. But as I’ve said before, these could suit someone…
Read / November 19th, 2019
Welcome to my annual Christmas book recommendation series! Over the coming weeks, I’ll be posting my picks for the books that have nabbed my attention at the time of the year where shelves are crammed with so much choice. I know it can get overwhelming because, honestly, I feel it too sometimes! So if you’re…
Read / November 6th, 2019
First I want to preface this post by saying that I know the topic is hardly original; similar articles and listicles will be written soon – if they haven’t already. Hit me up with those links once they’re available because what a decade it’s been for books and I’m sure I’ll forget tonnes of…
