Night Swimming by Steph Bowe Paperback, 311 pages Publication: April 3rd 2017 Publisher: Text Publishing Source: Review copy from publisher Thank You Text Add to Goodreads Rating: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ Steph Bowe is back. Night Swimming is a love story with a twist,… Continue Reading “Night Swimming: YA Review”
Category: Book Reviews: ALL, Book Reviews: YA & MGTags: #aww2017, Aussie Author, Australian Author, Australian Women’s Writer Challenge 2017, contemporary, diversity, Family, fiction, friendship, LGBTQIA, Love OZ YA, LoveOZYA, mental health, Mental Health Issues, Night Swimming, sexuality, Steph Bowe, Text Publishing, The Text Publishing Company, YA Fiction, Young Adult, Young Adult Literature
Meet Nevo: girl, boy, he, she, him, her, they, them, daughter, son, teacher, student, friend, gay, bi, lesbian, trans, homo, Jew, dyke, masculine, feminine, androgynous, queer. Nevo was not born in the wrong body. Nevo just wants everyone to catch up with all that… Continue Reading “Book Spotlight +Q&A: Finding Nevo by Nevo Zisin”
Category: Book PromotionsTags: acceptance, autobiography, Black Dog Books, Bullying, Family, Finding Nevo, Memoir, Nevo Zisin, queer, self discovery, transgender, weight issues
He stands next to my bed smiling at me. The most beautiful smile I’ve ever seen. The cheeky devil is lucky he’s so damn cute. He is up, so as far as he is concerned the rest of us should be. “Mummy get up”… Continue Reading “Dear Diary: I want a sleep in!”
Category: Flash Fiction & Poetry, Humanoid ‘ish’Tags: Buzz Lightyear, children, early morning wake up call, early mornings, Family, Kids, motherhood, Parenthood, Sunday cartoons, three year olds, Toy Story
So my attempt at NaNoWriMo 2015 was a bit on the Go Slow. Life got in the way. But I intend to finish the story I started. So far I’m calling it, Discovering Home, but that’s its working title and may change. The longest continuous piece I… Continue Reading “Prologue: Discovering Home”
Category: Flash Fiction & PoetryTags: disappearances, Family, family history, Family Secrets, fantasy, fiction, Grandmothers, Love, mystery, NaNoWriMo, NANOWriMo 2015, Paranormal, romance, Secrets, Witches, YA, Young Adult
Christmas is over for another year and as it goes it drains me of all my cheer Regardless of your religion I hope you got to be with the ones you love And found solace in whatever you believe is above We go into… Continue Reading “The New Year”
Category: Humanoid ‘ish’Tags: children, Christmas, Earth, Family, fear, Global Warming, happiness, life, Loss, Love, Mankind, Monsters, Mother Nature, motherhood, New Years, One Love, Parenting, Peace, poem, Poetry, Recycling, Religion, Trees, war
Saga, Volume 1 (Saga: Collected Editions #1) by Brian K. Vaughan (Writer), Fiona Staples (Artist) When two soldiers from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war fall in love, they risk everything to bring a fragile new life into a dangerous old universe. Saga is… Continue Reading “Saga, Volume 1 by Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples”
Category: Book Reviews: ALLTags: baby alien, Brian K. Vaughan, Family, fantasy, Fiona Staples, for adults, intergalactic war, Love, new life, pain, Parenthood, Saga, Saga Volume 1, Science Fiction, sexy, subversive drama, war, world building
By Jenn Bennett – Night Owls (UK & AU) The Anatomical Shape of a Heart (US). Published: 13th August 2015. Thanks to Jenn Bennett, Simon & Schuster and NetGalley for giving me a copy in exchange for an honest review. Feeling alive is… Continue Reading “Night Owls by Jenn Bennett”
Category: Book Reviews: ALL, Book Reviews: YA & MGTags: art, Beatrix, Bex, Book Lover, book review, Family, fiction, Get Read, Graffiti, hope, Jenn Bennett, Love, Night Owls, passion, review, romance, San Francisco, Street Art, The Anatomical Shape of a Heart, YA, Ya Book Review, YA Fiction, Young Adult
Yesterday (Easter Monday) my husband Shane decided we’d go for a lovely family bike ride as the rain had finally let up and the sun was out. Today I am really regretting it. I feared I’d wake up with sore knees as they were… Continue Reading “Push Bikes + Men = Evil”
Category: Humanoid ‘ish’Tags: crayons, cycle way, Easter Monday, Evil, excising, Family, family bike trip, family exercise, family time, Fassifern, happy hormones, jelly legs, Men, mongoose, overweight, photo editing, photograph, Photography, push bikes, sore bum, toddlers, unfit
We All Looked Up by Tommy Wallach Release date: April 1, 2015 Thank you Simon & Schuster Australia for giving me an ARC to read and review Four high school seniors put their hopes, hearts, and humanity on the line as an asteroid hurtles… Continue Reading “We All Looked Up by Tommy Wallach”
Category: Book Reviews: ALL, Book Reviews: YA & MGTags: 33.4% Chance, 66.6% Chance, Aussie YA Bloggers, book addict, Book Lover, Book Nerd, book review, Death, Faith, Family, friendship, high school seniors, Love, Simon & Schuster Australia, The apocalypse, The end of the world, The Next Big Thing, Tommy Wallach, Tommy Wallach Release, WALU, We All Looked Up, We All Looked Up by Tommy Wallach, YA, YA Addict, YA Review, Young Adult
“Why is it that I am always the only one who hears our son crying in the night?” I ask for the millionth time. I wake even when my son makes the slightest carry on, but my husband sleeps soundly on. Well he sleeps… Continue Reading “Crying Babies”
Category: Humanoid ‘ish’Tags: babies, babies crying, baby, baby crying, crying, dad, Family, fatherhood, motherhood, mum, Nightmares, Parenthood, Parenting, Parents, photograph, settling babies, sleeping, toddlers
