I have very fond childhood memories of Tintin and his trustee friend and dog Snowy, and yet I managed to miss seeing this film at the cinema! The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn is an animated family adventure film from legendary director Steven Spielberg, producer Peter Jackson, and writer Steven Moffat released [...]

Hello my fellow poetry lovers! You may have noticed I have actually finished reading Shakespeare’s Sonnets, but due to my holiday I was rather behind on my poet’s corner posts and so I still feel I have much to share with you before I do my conclusion post. The first sonnet I want to share [...]

Jane Eyre was the first novel published by author Charlotte Brontë in 1847 under the pseudonym of Currer Bell with the longer title of Jane Eyre: An Autobiography. This is another poor book that has been saved from an ancient corner of my tbr shelf and needed a good dusting down. I’m not sure why [...]

This poor book has been languishing on my bookshelf for many years, I have the large illustrated hardback version, and so with its unpractical size I have never gotten round to reading it properly. Until now of course. Because now I’m taking part in the Sir Terry Pratchett Reading Challenge which was the eventual push I needed [...]

Hello my fellow bookworms I have managed to stick to my book buying ban…however that has not stopped me borrowing books or accepting free ones…oh well nobody’s perfect right?! I think I’ve got a really interesting mixed bag of new books to share with you so here goes: Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys ‘In [...]

Hello my fellow bookworms, I hope you are all well? At the beginning of this week I thought Spring had finally arrived and that we could start looking forward to Summer, but you know what thought did don’t you?! (As my grandma always used to say hehe) Mid-week the rain and stormy weather returned and [...]

Last year I was introduced to Linda Gillard when I read her debut novel Emotional Geology toward my 2011 Mental Illness Advocacy reading challenge, and I loved it, the book went on to score highly on my reflection for the year. After reading my review Linda kindly offered to send me more of her work an offer I [...]

With one thing or another it has been over a month since I last spoke to you about my progress through this anthology, which is even more of a shame because just before going on holiday I had made some great progress. During my holiday I sadly didn’t read any poetry I was only cravings novels, [...]

This film came out just as I jetted off on holiday, as much as I think my boyfriend Tom enjoyed our holiday I swear the whole time he was gabbing to see this film, so a day after we got back we went to see it. The Avengers or Avengers Assemble (seems to be called [...]

Hello my fellow bookworms, hope you are all well. I am feeling much better myself after my holiday to the volcanic island of Tenerife which is part of the group of islands known as the Canaries, just off the coast of North West Africa but is actually under the dominion of Spain. I’m sorry to [...]