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February Book Haul

How is it the middle of February already?! Things have been really busy here - we're moving soon and the preparations for that have been taking up a lot of time. We were worried about being able to sell the house with such short notice but...it sold in just 7 days! Woo! Now comes all… Continue reading February Book Haul

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Review: Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard

I've been looking forward to reading Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard. All of the book bloggers, and booktubers, have been talking about it so highly, and as I picked it up to read I began to worry it wouldn't live up to my expectations. I needn't have worried. I really enjoyed this book! The world… Continue reading Review: Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard

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Christmas Book Haul and Goodreads Reading Challenge 2016

How is it 2016 already?! Brian and I had a fun Christmas and New Year - the first in our new house! We just stayed at home, cooked lovely food and bought some new games in the Steam Winter Sale. We had some lovely Blanc de Bleu blueberry "champagne" for New Year's Eve - how… Continue reading Christmas Book Haul and Goodreads Reading Challenge 2016

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Review: The Beginner’s Guide

I've been into gaming as far back as I can remember. Even before I went to first school (younger than 4 years old) I was playing computer games - I was lucky that my Dad was really into technology and we had a home computer. I remember getting into gaming with the Zork series of… Continue reading Review: The Beginner’s Guide

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Black Friday Book Haul

So my great Black Friday book buys took forever (ok, it was only 3 weeks but it felt like forever) to get here! But now I can hug them, and love them, and curl up to read them complete with a hot chocolate...in 75F Florida heat. Seriously Florida, did you not get the memo that it's DECEMBER… Continue reading Black Friday Book Haul

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November Book Haul!

I'm taking part in NaNoWriMo this year. For those of you who don't know what that is, it's an annual writing challenge (National Novel Writing Month) where you write 50k words of a novel/novella/whatever during the month of November. I've taken part every so often since 2005 - some years winning, some years failing miserably! This… Continue reading November Book Haul!