Reading Project 2015 – The Treasure Box & How To Live Forever #12

As this is my last write up for this year’s reading project, I am going to do two (very short but powerful and beautifully illustrated) children’s books. I was surprised (and glad) to see The Treasure Box by Margaret Wild & Freya Blackwood and How To Live Forever by Colin Thompson sitting side by side…

Reading project 2015 – Where’d you go Bernadette #8

After the initial few pages I thought this book was going to be similar to the two previous books (Big Little Lies and The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty) I’ve read. “Oh no”, I groaned, “not another story about a mother trying to get on with the unpleasantness of being a parent at her child’s school”….

Reading Project 2015 – Big Little Lies #6

It’s been so long since I’ve put Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty on reserve at the library that I couldn’t remember who recommended it or what the story was about. So it was a nice surprise to find out when I finally got the book that it was about parents (just like me but…