This week’s prompt: How do you strike a balance between providing enough information to pique readers’ interest without giving away too many spoilers in your reviews? This is an interesting prompt, because it’s the perennial problem when writing reviews. Here’s the issue. Without sharing all the information about the plot, you can’t really talk about READ MORE
Month: June 2025
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | FAVOURITE BOOK COVERS
I have so many book covers I love, that this is going to be nearly impossible to choose! I’m just going to take the lazy route and find a couple in my images that hop out and include them… but there are always more! Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley Animal Farm READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | GARDENING BOOKS, PODCASTS AND TV SHOWS
This week’s prompt is “Summer Freebie,” so I have decided to write about gardening, nature and animal-related media I’ve been enjoying – books, podcasts, and TV shows – as well as some books I’d like to read soon. I have cycles of interest throughout the year. In the autumn and winter I enjoy crocheting, baking READ MORE
QUARTERLY WRAP-UP | SPRING 2025
The last few months have been quite the rollercoaster ride in my life. I’ve had my car broken into and my purse stolen, my medical conditions have been worse than they’ve been in a few years so I’m both dealing with that and worrying a lot about what it means going forward. My family are READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | I FOUND YOU – LISA JEWELL
I picked borrowed this from the library after reading We Were Never Here and The Paris Apartment and enjoying the fast pace of thrillers. This one was a little slower than those, but in a good way that I enjoyed. It all begins when Alice, a single mum who has her own struggles paying the READ MORE