(courtesy Harper Collins Canada) If you’re going t do a festively fun take on a novel as loved and revered as Jane Austen’s Emma, then you need to be up to the task of doing it justice. Thankfully, Sheila Roberts is more than up to the task with her new Continue Reading
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I am an extrovert gay man living in Sydney who loves Indian food, current affairs, music, film and reading, caramel anything, and a beautiful guy called Steve who makes every day a delight. I am trying to get two novels in a trilogy ready for e-publication, love my iPhone & iPod, and am secretly Canadian in my soul. Life is fun, exciting and joyful and I aim to make the absolute most of it!
Santa Bilby saves the day in a very unusual Aussie Christmas!
(courtesy Scholastic Australia) SNAPSHOTWhen Santa gets stuck delivering Christmas presents, he calls his friend the Easter Bilby to help! Can Bilby deliver all the presents before Christmas morning, or will her wild approach to gift-delivery create all kinds of hilarious Christmas Eve chaos? (courtesy Scholastic Australia) Poor Santa! He’s done Continue Reading
On 8th day of Christmas … I listened to When I Think of Christmas by Amy Grant & Vince Gill
(courtesy Apple Music) For many years, Amy Grant, an artist I have loved and admired back when I was in the church, and one of the few who came with me on my way out of it, was Christmas for me. Her Christmas albums – A Christmas Album (1983), Home Continue Reading
How do you make a dream? Find out with four-part limited series from Pixar, Dream Productions
(courtesy IMP Awards) Dream Productions is another triumph for Pixar, an animation powerhouse that knows full well the power of marrying whimsy with emotional impact, of being silly and serious in one flawlessly execute package. Position as an interquel, and yes, apparently it is a word, the four-part miniseries, developed Continue Reading
On 7th day of Christmas, I added 15 more ornaments to my Christmas tree … The Sound of Music + Winnie the Pooh’s Rabbit, Linus + Snoopy, Nemo, Frozen, Snoopy, Big Hero 6 + more!
(via Shutterstock) More ornaments?! Did you really buy more than 15 ornaments in one year? Readers, I bought close to 60 and while that likely suggests a tad too much compulsive purchasing by someone who’s reached an age when they should be making more sensible buys, I love how happy Continue Reading
Roar ho ho ho! It’s time for A Very Dinosaur Christmas by Adam Wallace
(courtesy Harper Collins Publishers Australia) Now, if dinosaurs hadn’t died out some 65 million years ago when a rather big life-ending asteroid – well, almost life-ending; clearly the mammals dodged a bullet there – hit the earth, then it’s highly possible yoy might have been able to invite them to Continue Reading
On 6th day of Christmas … I read Nick and Noel’s Christmas Playlist by Codi Hall
(courtesy Sourcebooks Casablanca) Reading a series of books, festive or otherwise, in other than the intended order, is always a risk. If the author is good at their craft, then plunging into books two then three before bouncing back to book one, isn’t even remotely the end of the world; Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more FESTIVE songs by Eurovision artists (#120): Poli Genova, Daði Freyr, Måns Zelmerlöw, Subwoolfer, Anna Bergendahl … plus “Happy New Year” by ABBA
(via Shutterstock) The artists who are selected to presented their countries at the Eurovision Song Contest like a festive song as much as the next person. When they are done with the glitter and the pyrotechnics and the big LED screen visuals, they often parlay their newfound popularity, and the Continue Reading
On 5th day of Christmas … I watched That Christmas
Saying that something “feel like Christmas” is at once profoundly and definitively true, and yet gloriously and warmly intangible too. Such is the season which all but dominates the final two months of the year, and realistically longer if you count the eagerness of retailers to make the most of Continue Reading
Festive novella review: Highlands Christmas: Wishes Come True by Amy Quick Parrish
Christmas has been long revered for its capacity to bring about new beginnings. Well, imagined new beginnings, anyway; while we might want it to fix reality and reshape our lives in the festive buoyancy and hopeful possibility of the season, the truth is that it often doesn’t do that outside Continue Reading