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Love Your Sister – The Best And Worst Of Human Nature
Love Your Sister is the story of a brother and sister, Samuel and Connie Johnson. Samuel is a retired actor, who recently appeared back in the spotlight playing Molly Meldrum on Channel 7’s ‘Molly’ mini series. Connie is his sister, who is suffering from terminal cancer, and inspired Sam to…
Work Like Any Other – A Life Laid Out In 250 Pages..
Work like any other is the melancholy tale of Roscoe T Martin from Alabama. He is one of the first to work in electricity in the 1920's, when this wondrous power is harnessed, and slowly creeping through the rural farmlands. His passion for power is stunted however, when he has…
Presence by Amy Cuddy – Who’s Doing The Starfish?!
When I hear the name Amy Cuddy, it's usually in reference to her very famous TED talk 'Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are'. When Hachette had a copy of her new book Presence for review, I thought I would take a peek and see how my body language was shaping…
Coffin Road – Science, Murder and Memory Loss
Coffin Road – Science, Murder and Memory Loss 'If you had killed someone, you would remember, wouldn’t you?' (more…)
Like Forrest Gump? The Magic Strings Of Frankie Presto Is For You
The Magic Strings Of Frankie Presto was a real surprise. I had the book kicking around for a few weeks; it came with me to the pools, to work and to the bedroom but I never got around to opening the cover. Why? I’m not quite sure. The cover didn’t…
The Bit In Between
The Bit In Between is what happens after the flutter of true love subsides and before the inevitable end of the chapter. It will bring back memories of all those times you were selfish, self centred, dated the wrong guy or girl, took a chance, caught a plane and let…
Robert F Kennedy – Mindless menace of violence..
I wrote this post way back in 2011. The speech is still one of my favourites in history and Bobby Kennedy is one hell of a public speaker. ------------------------------------ However you feel about the Kennedy's, whether you think them saints or sinners, there is no denying the talent Robert F…
Trivia Man Book Blog Tour with Deborah O’Brien – Aren’t we all a little weird?
Thanks to for passing the baton on the Trivia Man book blog tour! The Book Jacket From the author of Mr Chen's Emporium comes a quirky and heartwarming tale about finding your true place in the world, set against the backdrop of a weekly trivia competition. ‘Trivia is a serious…
Funny, insightful, respectful – My movie review of Infinitely Polar Bear
4 out out of 5 stars - Opens 26th March I was lucky enough to be given a cracker of a movie for my first leap into movie blogging! Infinitely Polar Bear is an autobiographical movie about a married father of two young daughters who has Bi-Polar disorder. In the…
Everybody is somebody elses weirdo – My review of If I Fall, If I Die
I have just finished If I Fall, If I Die, and it is beautiful. This book is the story of Will, a young lad with an agoraphobic mother, living in a large house with rooms named after cities. Cairo, Toronto and Paris become their cocooned world filled with art, creativity…