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I hadn’t read a quality, eerie thriller in a while and was surprised to find one on my hands with Lupton’s third novel. Set in Alaska, The Quality of Silence unfolds in a manner perfectly matched to the landscape in which it is set. A small cast of characters, an environmental conflict, murder, solitude, an ice road and an invisible …
* Perfect Christmas gift, very much a ‘Dad/husband’ book. This is a big book. A very, very engrossing book. The Father by Anton Svensson is a chilling novel that goes into excruciating detail when describing a family history so violent that there is no escape from it. Three brothers who grew up fending for themselves against not only their peers …
I’m a HUGE Bear Grylls fan. Dave and I went through a serious Man Vs Wild faze and when we actually got to use his scree running technique while completing the Tongariro Crossing (and it worked!) we became fans for life. Ethan loves the Bear Grylls junior novels so I was really looking forward to getting stuck into the first offering in …
Look, I’m a mummy blogger. I guess some of you think that means I must know what I’m doing with my kids but the truth is, I’m just cool with admitting publicly that I have no freaking idea! The best medicine for any attack of parenting guilt, doubts, anxiety and general malaise is laughter. And vodka, preferably taken together. You Can’t Give …
Finishing a book, or even starting or reading a page of one is a rare luxury these days but one I DO enjoy, so I will plod on s l o w l y lol. This is a book I really wanted to finish sooner, I never wanted to put it down at the end of the night when my …
Let me preface this by saying, this is a special kind of book for a special kind of kiwi kid. One that hates to be laced into shoes and stuffed into cars to hustle from here to there, a kid that doesn’t blink at dirty hands and can fashion a fishing line out of anything. A kid that wears shorts …
Have you seen the Idiot Abroad TV series? It’s awesomely, deadpan and hilarious. Basically the premise is Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant send their mate(?) Karl Pilkington on blind adventures to places he really has no interest in visiting. In fact Karl seems to have no interest in visiting any place at all aside from his local Fish n Chip. …