Vacation Update

Dearest Readers, It's Over! (Did you ever watch the closing credits of Just for Laughs and that little green guy says this at the very end?) I have packed my bag to go back to where I live with a heart filled with love and my sides aching from many moments of laughter. I am …

Better Days are Coming – Review

Goodreads Synopsis: Marcy Browning, a single mother and a nurse, had donated, walked, and cared for women with breast cancer, but joining their ranks with an advanced diagnosis was a shock. Marcy draws on her public journal, her social media, and her private emails to illustrate the world of a patient, a mother, a friend …

Lucid World – Review

Goodreads Synopsis When 15 year-old Morgan is contacted by the advanced civilization of Lucid World, she has no idea what is to come. She is one of a select group of teens chosen to travel via avatar into a remote, and hidden technologically-advanced society housed inside a vast mountain cavern. Here she learns about an …

Fish Eyes for Pearls – Review

Goodreads Synopsis: "An absolutely brilliant and singularly indescribable book, Fish Eyes for Pearls is an extraordinary journey into a woman's life. One of the bravest, most unique and compelling self-examinations I have ever read- I was blown away!"- Henry Jaglom The phrase 'fish eyes for pearls' is coined in an ancient book of internal alchemy, …

What do you do dearest readers,

when you just can't find your way back to those things that you love? Having finished my novel Whose Story? and after having placed it into the hands of beta readers, sent it to agents/publishers and now having placed it online at Swoon Reads, I find myself simply without. And I feel without is the …

Dreams Are Not Dreamed – Review

Synopsis: Dreams Are Not Dreamed by Menachem Esse follows three years in the life of teenage Bryce and his aspirations to be a professional snowboarder in the face of snowboarding being forbidden due to a significant injury and the subsequent divorce of his parents. Favourite Quotes: “His heart was hurting now, as though someone were …

They still haunt me

Dearest readers, Are there novels which continue to haunt you after you read them? This has happened to me with a bunch of books, but there is one in particular which continues to call to me from my bookshelf. It is Human Remains by Elizabeth Haynes I found this book in a lending library at …

Favourite? How do you choose?

I have always had a great love of reading and there have been many books which I have thought could be in my top five (picking one favourite is impossible). Today I am doing a literary red carpet Who Whore it Best Wednesday of one of those top five: I Never Promised You a Rose …

Load ’em up!

Hello again dear readers, I wanted to discuss the ever important bookworm’s favourite pastime: buying books! Specifically BOOK HAULS! (**This post is not sponsored in any way, I just love deals and want to share them with my fellow book lovers!)     I have recently come across two great sites for all your book …

My Eyes Were Dim

Dear Readers, I would like to welcome you to the first edition of Writing Prompt Wednesdays, where I take a writing prompt from Pinterest or wherever I might come across one, and force myself to get some writing in. I mentioned in my previous post about Housekeeping that I really wanted to try out some …