Monthly Archives: August 2010

Book Review: If I Stay – Gayle Forman

If I stay Gayle Forman

If I Stay by Gayle Forman My rating: 3 of 5 stars This book didn’t start off well for me. I didn’t like all the cute American family having breakfast scenario. However, it pays to stick with it. Mia is in her late teens, she has a decision to make about which route her life more »

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Book Review: “A gripping Cold War thriller” – honest…

Child 44

Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith My rating: 4 of 5 stars Here is a great example of why going to a reading group is worth while. It means that you read books that never in a million years would you have picked up from the cover alone. Set in 1953 during the end of more »

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The Gallery: A Little Bit of Pride

Gallery Amelie2 Proud

This weeks gallery prompt from Tara at Sticky Fingers is a photo you are proud of. I would be proud of any photograph of my three children, but the one below for me represented a turning point in my self belief that I could be a ‘real’, ‘proper’, photographer.  One that I felt, if it more »

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The Gallery: A Memory

Gallery Me & Gran Memory

I’m very late in posting this for the prompt A Memory for the gallery  from Tara at Sticky Fingers. It is two photographs of my Gran (Dad’s Mum) and me. Gran was a huge part of my childhood (& adulthood really). She was a very independent lady who was widowed early. She emigrated to Australia more »

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