May is turning out to be a busy month for me. I went to Barcelona for the first bank holiday weekend and had a fantastic time. We all enjoyed the beautiful buildings, the amazing food and the break from normal life. At the moment I’m rushed off my feet organising a second-hand toy/clothing sale and [...]
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Two Board Game Reviews: Asara and Indigo
At the beginning of the year I wrote about my favourite board games. Many of you came up with some wonderful suggestions and I’d like to thank those who recommended Ticket to Ride Europe - it is as good as you said it would be! Since then I have been lucky enough to have been approached by [...]
April Summary and Plans for May
April has been a month of two halves for me. I read some amazing books (including two five star reads that I’ll tell you about soon), but I also abandoned a greater number than usual. I think the outstanding books helped to make everything else seem poor in comparison. The number of abandoned books also accounts for [...]
Three Disappointing Reads
Shortlisted for 2013 Women’s Fiction Prize Flight Behaviour by Barbara Kingsolver Five words from the blurb: butterflies, marriage, climate, destruction, poverty Flight Behaviour begins with the discovery of thousands of monach butterflies a long way from their usual migratory path. An investigation into their behaviour change begins; a story that runs alongside that of one woman’s [...]
My Easter Holidays
My boys go back to school tomorrow, so today is the final day of the Easter holidays. We’ve had a busy couple of weeks – here’s what we’ve been up to: Cooking We made cream eggs using this recipe. It was really simple and they tasted surprisingly similar to the real thing: Camping We went camping [...]
Ranking the Women’s Fiction Prize Longlist
I’ve now finished trying all the books on the longlist and thought it would be interesting to summarise my thoughts before the shortlist is announced on Tuesday 16th. I haven’t posted about all the books yet, but rather than inundate the blog with lots of (mainly negative) reviews I thought it was best to focus [...]
![A SUITABLE BOY [A Suitable Boy ] BY Seth, Vikram(Author)Paperback 01-Oct-2005](http://images2.farmlanebooks.co.uk/2012/12/suit.jpg "A SUITABLE BOY [A Suitable Boy ] BY Seth, Vikram(Author)Paperback 01-Oct-2005")
