Love? Life? Joy!
A commercial money-making scheme or the most romantic day of the year, whether you love it or hate it, V day is looming. It’s the time of year where people tend to think about their ‘perfect partners’. I know of lots of perfect men, the only problem is that they don’t actually exist. You-Tuber Carrie Hope Fletcher has written a... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: Love & Relationships Poppy Gillian
It’s a bit weird to see one of my favourite films featured in a book club post, but did you know that it was based on a novel by Patricia Highsmith, of Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train fame? And a damn good book it is too! For those unfamiliar, The Talented Mr Ripley is a 1950s-set thriller about a young... Read the rest of this post...
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Dawn O'Porter is one of the most fabulous women on the planet. You all should have seen her somewhere at least once before - presenting a TV show/documentary, writing columns for Glamour, raising awareness of breast cancer, on the arm of Chris O'Dowd... There's literally nothing this gal can't do. And that's why I was so excited to hear that she had written a young adult novel.
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After owning the book for over a decade, I finally read The Diary of Anne Frank in its entirety. I had picked it up and put it back down a couple of times before, getting to the point where Anne and her family moved into the Annexe, and I'm ashamed to say it took me until the age of 26 to finally read it all. In fact, it was only after reading this, that I discovered that Anne died from typhus in a concentration camp, just two weeks before the British troops arrived. That is unbelievably tragic.
Categories: Book Club Emma's Book Club
The Time Traveler’s Wife is many things: a brilliant debut novel, a modern classic, a romance, a fantasy, a sob-fest, a book which has been adapted into a mediocre film… Whatever you think about it, one thing is for damn certain; it gets people talking. At a very basic level, it does what it says on the tin: it’s a book... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: a little piece of joy Emma's Book Club
Welcome to the first official Book Club post! Over the last month we’ve been encouraging you to read the Jane Austen classic Sense and Sensibility and share your thoughts with us. I’ve been going through a bit of a classics phase lately, particularly focusing on the Brontes and Austen, and your vote for S&S gave me the perfect excuse to... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: Book Club Emma's Book Club
I’m something of a bookworm. For as long as I can remember, I’ve been a big reader. I know, I’m a film buff, too, so I can’t have much of a social life, right? Well, no, but that’s not the point of this post! I guess I always loved losing myself in fantasy worlds. My parents bought me a lot... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: a little piece of joy Emma's Book Club