Part Four The House at Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne, with decorations by E.H. Shepard Tiggers Don’t Climb Trees We all have had the childhood wish to fly, but at least I hope we get to an age when we realise it is impossible. Tigger hasn’t realised this yet. If you remember from the secondContinueContinue reading “Celebrating 100 Years of Winnie the Pooh “
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Celebrating 100 Years of Winnie the Pooh
Part Two The House at Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne, with decorations by E.H. Shepard Tigger comes to the Forest and has Breakfast Tigger comes to the Hundred Acre Wood, begging the question, “Do Tiggers really, truly eat everything? I don’t think so.” Looking back on my memories of watching Walt Disney, Winnie-the-Pooh movies asContinueContinue reading “Celebrating 100 Years of Winnie the Pooh “
Macbeth’s True Story
Introduction: Beginning Thoughts Author Val McDermid claims that through research, she has come close to uncovering the true story behind William Shakespeare’s Macbeth. In the author’s note to her book ‘Queen Macbeth,’ McDermid states that any inaccuracies or misinformation were solely her responsibility and the result of her research. Begging the question, is there aContinueContinue reading “Macbeth’s True Story”
Ninox Televisions’ Book ‘Sensing Murder’~First Episode Filmed 📷
Coldcase of 18-year-old Olive Oriwia Walker (1970) “Basically, we’ve got a shy, timid girl who for no reason was murdered” (Sensing Murder, Olive Walker, PAGE 67). In a community where locals always said, “It was safe to leave your doors unlocked when you went out,” (Sensing Murder, Olive Walker, PAGE 63). The description of Rotorua,ContinueContinue reading “Ninox Televisions’ Book ‘Sensing Murder’~First Episode Filmed 📷”
Ninox Televisions’ Book ‘Sensing Murder’
Book written in collaboration with Nicola McCloy. I had always watched the TV series ‘Sensing Murder NZ’ since my late teens. Once I realised the production team had co-written a book about the show, highlighting certain cold cases, I knew I had to read it. However, obtaining a copy now (2026) was difficult. I wasContinueContinue reading “Ninox Televisions’ Book ‘Sensing Murder’”
Good Girl, Gone Off the Rails
After: Graphic Novel (Volume 1) by Anna Todd Tessa is a good girl, as described and expected by her Mother. She’s on her way to college and is dating a reliable boy, Noah. The couple have plans to attend college together, but Tessa graduated from high school before her boyfriend. It is decided that TessaContinueContinue reading “Good Girl, Gone Off the Rails”
Life Flies & Crashlands
Olivia Flies High #2 by Lyn Gardner Second book in the Olivia Series ***.5 Olivia is jumping at the chance to let her friends know that the famous high-wire, Romeo and Juliet Routine has been invited to perform in New York on Broadway. But friends, Tom and Georgina have news of their own; the twoContinueContinue reading “Life Flies & Crashlands”
Talking Mental Health through Ghosts
Canva was created inspired by illustrations Volume 3, Five-Star Read Semi-Nonfiction Novella, 4.5-Star Read. Ghosts are coming together to support each other. A club started by a local group of ghosts that mix with humans. Stranger things have been known to happen. Such a positive demonstration of the reality of mental health. Through the readingContinueContinue reading “Talking Mental Health through Ghosts”
BorrowBox Audiobook: The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank
Narrator: Helena Bonham Carter We will be people again, and not just Jews (Frank, A. ed. 2016). Photograph of Anne Frank on the Definitive Edition (2016). Includes the missing 5 pages found around 2001 by the Anne Frank Foundation. Anne Frank’s diary is more than a diary from a Jewish girl. It really depicts theContinueContinue reading “BorrowBox Audiobook: The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank”
‘A latter day Daphne du Maurier’ (The Times) is Fullers’ Bitter Orange
I couldn’t agree more with The Times review on Claire Fuller’s Bitter Orange. Rather, the London Review Bookshop; “A compulsive page-turner. Fuller creates an atmosphere of simmering menace with all the assurance of a latter-day Daphne du Maurier”- The Times (London Review Bookshop, 2019). I was in a local bookstore, here in the UK andContinueContinue reading “‘A latter day Daphne du Maurier’ (The Times) is Fullers’ Bitter Orange”