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Call the Midwife, by Jennifer Worth – Book Club
I bought this book because I had seen, and loved, the BBC TV series based on the book. It’s written by Jennifer Worth, who was herself a midwife in east end London in the 1950s. The area was poor,...
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The Fourth Bear, by Jasper Fforde – Book Club
This is the second Jasper Fforde book I’ve read, and the second in the Nursery Crime Division series. I didn’t realise it was the second when I started it and I wish I’d started with the first book,...
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10 great books for preschool boys that won’t bore the pants off YOU
I’ve heard it said that children should be read to for at least 10 minutes every day. When Son #1 was 18 months old he wouldn’t stay still for a 30 second nappy change, let alone a 10 minute story. I...
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12 Totally Creepy Marriage & Parenting Advice Books You Definitely Shouldn’t Buy
Parenting advice books can be handy for figuring out this whole wife and mother thing. Well yes, ok, so they’re rarely helpful. But sometimes. Or not? Anyway, I’ve found an awesome list of weird books...
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Melbourne for Dogs – review
My Pop spent most of my childhood shaking his head and muttering indulgently “Kids, Cats, Dogs and Weeds!” I spent most of my childhood trying to figure out what on earth he was going on about....
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The Rosie Effect – Review
“My love for Rosie was so powerful that it had caused my brain to make a grammatical error.” ~ Don Tillman, The Rosie Effect (by Graeme Simsion) The Rosie Effect is the very funny sequel to The Rosie...
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Season of Salt & Honey – author interview with Hannah Tunnicliffe
He always laughed more after surfing. His body was loose, his shoulders relaxed. He’d be tired, but somehow filled up from the inside. His hair thick with salt, dried crispy; the whites of his eyes...
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Bec’s Bulk Book Review – 14 books to choose from – Book club
The hard copies. There are several more in ebook format as well, plus the ones I’ve lent to others already! I’ve gotten back into reading novels recently in a big way. And I keep wanting to share them...
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The perfect gift for an expectant mum who has everything
The best kind of expectant mum is the friend who gets to 34 weeks and looks a little bewildered when you ask if they’ve set up the nursery yet. ‘Um, we’ve looked at a cot. What else do you think we...
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Looking for Alaska | by John Green | book review
I discovered John Green through his best-seller The Fault in Our Stars. I loved it so much I went looking for other books he’s written. Turns out he’s written quite a few. Five, to be precise. Plus a...
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Transposing music into prose – The Violinist of Venice – Review
And Vivaldi’s marvelous music, his melody and skillful word painting – which made it seem as if Alcina were alternately weeping and raging – only served to heighten this effect, creating more truth...
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7 easy gifts for science kids that don’t involve chemicals
My boys love ‘doing science’. Mostly this involves moving coloured water and expired cooking herbs between plastic cups using pipettes. However as they grow, so does their interest in real chemicals,...
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Christmas books for little boys who like to fart
I blame my Mum and our local library for starting this when the book Father Christmas comes up trumps graced our regular reading rota. Then again, our boys have giggled at ‘bubbles’ almost since they...
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Kim Lock – Aussie Author Interview
Kim Lock is an Australian fiction author, mother, breastfeeding counsellor and active feminist. Her second novel, Like I Can Love, will be released by Pan Macmillan Australia on 23 March 2016. I’m...
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Love, Violence & Suicide – Like I Can Love – Review
Available from 23 March 2016. Pre-order now. ‘Why doesn’t she just leave?’ ‘How could she kill herself and leave her baby behind?’ These are seemingly-simple questions with not-so-simple answers. Kim...
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My Cool Plastics Cupboard by Maggie Dent – Review
I’m a big fan of Maggie Dent’s sensible, practical and wise articles about parenting. With two highly active little boys on my hands, I particularly liked her recent posts about Little boys beginning...
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Knowing your child’s reading stage and how to help them
By Ryan Spencer, Dymocks Literacy Expert & State Director of the Australian Literacy Educator’s Association Learning to read is a complicated process and parents often wonder if their child’s...
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What happened to Soleil? – A French Wedding review
You’re not meant to finish a novel and obsess over a minor character. Especially not a rude, annoying minor character who is the not-even-technical sister of one of the main characters (she’s the...
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Season of Salt & Honey – author interview with Hannah Tunnicliffe
He always laughed more after surfing. His body was loose, his shoulders relaxed. He’d be tired, but somehow filled up from the inside. His hair thick with salt, dried crispy; the whites of his eyes...
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