(courtesy McCabe Media Ltd) Firsts are a curious thing. They can either be the stuff of liberation and exhilarating novelty; a chance to ditch the status quo, throw ruts out the window and to experience in ways that have never been part of your life before. But equally, depending on Continue Reading
Happy festive 75th anniversary Peanuts! Review of Charlie Brown’s Christmas Tales
(courtesy Amazon) SNAPSHOTThe special consists of a series of vignettes, each one starring a different member of the Peanuts gang in various Christmas time situations. (courtesy Peanuts wiki) You have to feel a little sorry for any of the Peanuts’ Christmas specials that followed in the wake of the classic A Charlie Continue Reading
On 6th day of Christmas … I read The Secret Christmas Library by Jenny Colgan + bonus review of short story The Christmas Book Hunt
(courtesy Amazon Australia) If you’re after a book which is all Christmas all the time, like a blessedly escapist festive romcom, then The Secret Christmas Library is likely not the book for you. It is not even, as it turns out, about a library that is secret or especially Christmassy; Continue Reading