How to be a Woman - Caitlin Moran

“I’m going to lie this one right on the line, right here, right now: I’m pro big pants. Strident feminism NEEDS big pants. Really big. I’m currently wearing a pair that could have been used as a fire blanket to put out the Great Fire of London at any point during the first 48 hours or so. They extend from the...

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Book Blogger Love-a-Thon 2013 - Challenge 3

Eeep! Another excellent challenge! This challenge politely requests that we put together a musical playlist for our book of choice. I've been peeking around Twitter which has seen a flurry of playlists being tweeted all over the place and they are BRILLIANT. You must check our their awesomeness!I'm currently...

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Book Blogger Love-a-Thon 2013 - The Interview Swap

I'm putting this up late - but no matter, it's all awesome and so is the lady I have interviewed for this here blog post.  She's an author, she's awesome, she loves to cook, write, and most importantly she loves to read (oh and she loves cats!).So, here it is, the fabulous interview swap. It's time to...

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Book Blogger Love-aThon 2013 - Mini-Challenge 2

The second challenge is totally amazeballs.We have to grab a few books off of the shelf, arrange the titles in to a poem and share it with you wonderful people.  So, here's mine. I am currently living in the Middle East and have left the vast majority of my books back over in the home land, haha! So...

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Book Blogger Love-a-Thon 2013 - Mini-Challenge

It is a super-awesome day today. Today, is finally, the official start of the Book Blogger Love-a-Thon. A day where book bloggers unite to show some bookish love and appreciation to our fellow bloggers. It is also an opportunity for you lovely readers to come across new blogs to read, bloggers to make friends...

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Feature and Follow Friday

Feature and Follow Friday is a Blog-Hop hosted by ParaJunkee and AlisonCanRead.  What you have to do is follow the hop, the two hosts (as a courtesy) and then go and discover new and old bloggers! Enjoy their writing, follow them and expect them to do the same for your awesome blog. It is excellent for...

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The Shining - Stephen King

“...he looked to her like an absurd twentieth-century Hamlet, an indecisive figure so mesmerized by onrushing tragedy that he was helpless to divert its course or alter it in any way.” Stephen King, The Shining Holy moly. I think I almost had a bookish heart-attack reading this book. 'Fo realz yo' I...

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Horror Stories we Used to Tell Each Other as Kids

Laura Kasischke wrote an excellent piece for Huff Post the other day entitled Playground Tales: Fifteen Horror Stories My Classmates Told Me. She is the author of If a Stranger Approaches, a collection of short stories chronicling the way in which playground tales can change. In the Huff Post article...

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Feature and Follow Friday

It's Friday again and I thought that I'd participate in this blog hop again! It's hosted by the fabulous Parajunkee and Alison Can Read. So, today we have an activity we can participate in... and I thought, hell yes, yes, I will participate! It goes something like this: ACTIVITY:  Write a letter...

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Speed Review - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

In a Nutshell: In a continuation of the previous instalment Harry Potter and his friends set off on a quest to locate and destroy Lord Voldemorte's Horcruxes. At the same time they are all intrigued by the Deathly Hallows, a super-brilliant wand, a resurrection stone and a fabulous invisibility cloak....

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Warm Bodies - A Review

This movie was on my Upcoming Movies that Have Tickled my Fancy post. I had written... and I quote  "I'm terrified that this movie is going to be some sort of crazy Twilight type of thing - but I'm hoping it will definitely be on par with Zombieland (which I enjoyed immensely). The premise is...

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Feature and Follow

Good Morning everybody! So, I stumbled across this great Friday tradition over at ParaJunkie's Blog and thought that I would hop on to the wagon and have a go! Every Friday two bloggers are featured on Alison Can Read and ParaJunkie and a question is asked. What we do then, is answer the question and cruise...

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Django Unchained - A Review

I had originally saved this post for when I went to the cinema to watch Django a second time, but we're actually off to watch something else (shhhh, don't be so impatient, I'll let you know soon!) This film certainly caused quite a stir.  I had expected something so explosively controversial that...

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Company of Liars - Karen Maitland

“You've heard tales of beauty and the beast. How a fair maid falls in love with a monster and sees the beauty of his soul beneath the hideous visage. But you've never heard the tale of the handsome man falling for the monstrous woman and finding joy in her love, because it doesn't happen, not even in a story-teller's...

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