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• Sunday Surfing 4/1/15

  

  Ok so weird things happen. For some reason wordpress decided this was a draft not an actual post…and I just realised, so here it is… Sunday Surfing is my... Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Children’s Hour: Sometimes I Like To Curl Up In a Ball

  

  Children’s Hour is a feature here at Lucybird’s Book Blog every Thursday, where I’m looking at children’s picture books. As I work in a nursery I get plenty of... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Kommandant’s Girl- Pam Jenoff

  

  Synopsis (from amazon) Nineteen-year-old Emma Bau has been married only three weeks when Nazi tanks thunder into her native Poland. Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Sunday Surfing 25/1/15

  

  Sunday Surfing is my weekly feature (inspired by Chrisbookarama‘s Friday Bookish Buzz, which is one of my favourite features) where I share my favourite links... Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Trains and Lovers- Alexander McCall-Smith

  

  Foreword It was National Handwriting Day on Friday, I only found out about it yesterday, so I decided to pay my tribute a little late. I’ve decided to write a... Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Night- Elie Wiesel

  

  This book was read as part of The Rory List Synopsis (from amazon) Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was sent to the Nazi... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Top 10 Books on My Wishlist

  

  Top 10 Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week is a free for all so I’m looking at some of the books on my wishlist. Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Sunday Surfing 18/1/15

  

  Sunday Surfing is my weekly feature (inspired by Chrisbookarama‘s Friday Bookish Buzz, which is one of my favourite features) where I share my favourite links... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review of the Year 2014: Children’s Hour

  

  I was going to talk about the best books we’ve read this year. Then I though, actually, we’ve had different kids this year to last year, and often the books... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Sunday Surfing 11/1/15

  

  Sunday Surfing is my weekly feature (inspired by Chrisbookarama‘s Friday Bookish Buzz, which is one of my favourite features) where I share my favourite links... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Children’s Hour: Silly Suzy Goose

  

  Children’s Hour is a feature here at Lucybird’s Book Blog every Thursday, where I’m looking at children’s picture books. As I work in a nursery I get plenty of... Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review of the Year 2014- Popular Posts

  

  What have my visitors been reading and looking at this year? Most popular reviews: Fiction- The Weight Of Silence This one always gets a lot of hits from the... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review of the Year 2014- Non-Fiction

  

  I’ve done better really with non-fiction this year than with fiction. I’ve read 9 non-fiction books and 2 of those have been five star books. I really loved the... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review of the Year 2014- Fiction

  

  I’ve only read two 5/5 fiction books this year, and to be completely honest I can’t say that either of them have had the literary merits of any of last year’s... Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review of the Year 2014- Challenges

  

  I’ve done just two challenges this year. I’m only doing The Rory List this year, I am trying to make my blogging more relaxed, and Rory is really an if it... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Sunday Surfing 4/1/15

  

  Sunday Surfing is my weekly feature (inspired by Chrisbookarama‘s Friday Bookish Buzz, which is one of my favourite features) where I share my favourite links... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review of the Year 2014- Overview

  

  This year I’m doing five posts for the first time. This one, a look at my challenges, a fiction post, a non-fiction post, and a (new!) Children’s Hour Post. Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Children’s Hour: Shh! We Have A Plan

  

  Children’s Hour is the weekly feature where I look at picture books I have encountered during my work at nursery. My reviews contain children’s opinions which... Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• How to Be a Heroine (Or What I’ve Learned From Reading Too Much)- Samantha Ellis

  

  Synopsis (by me) In ‘How To Be a Heroine’ Ellis revisits her bookish heroines from the past and evaluates whether they really deserved to be heroines, and why... Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Texts From Jane Eyre- Mallory Ortberg.

  

  Disclaimer: I was given a free copy of this book (from the US publisher) in exchange for an honest review Synopsis (my own- for once! Read more

  Posted on 29 December 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE