June 2011
1 post
For some reason, seeing a chubby girl with too much fake tan on makes me crave chocolate.
Wonka Bar, anyone?
May 2011
6 posts
“The best thing in life is finding someone who knows all of your flaws, mistakes,...”
– via @TheRandomWords on twitter
If you can’t be yourself around a friend, it is time you faced facts - they were never really your friend in the first place.
“Better to be silent and thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all...”
August 2010
1 post
Childhood Memories
When I was a child I used to visit my grandparents every fortnight. They used to live on a big property in the mountains, with lots of trees to climb, and lots of fruit trees to scavenge.The other day I was telling my boyfriend about some of my adventures in the forest with my brothers (did I mention the property backed onto an un-touched forest?) and he was intrigued.
Every now and then my...
July 2010
12 posts
The Kira Chronicles, by K.S.Nikakis
If healer sees a setting sun
and gold meets gold, two halves are one.
Then Westerner with silver tongue
will love and lose the golden one
but bind a friendship slow begun. I
f horses graze in forests deep
where trees their summer greening keep
then fire will be the flatsword’s bane
and bring the dead to life again.
The Treman are a peaceable peoples. In years long past they...
Tempestuous Romance
Standing hand in hand with my one true love,
Happy in this park, for once a land is ours and ours alone
Until a glance into the horizon spoils our hopes;
A tempest storm gushing frantically toward us both.
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Heads are bent – we are forced to flee
Separated as the ferocious wind reached a fever
pitch. Wouldst the gods to leave us be!
For one...
“What do you plan to do with your foolish pride when you’re all by...”
– James Taylor
“no one who knows what friendship is
chooses and picks the virtuous;
we love...”
– Excerpt from ‘Chance Meeting’, by Gwen Harwood
“It’s time to say good-bye, and I wish you’d just walk away. If you...”
– ‘I Don’t Know’, Joanne.
“Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.”
– Jane Austen
“If I was going to be happy I had to grasp happiness with both hands and not be...”
– Philippa Carr
The Celtic Tree Calendar, by Michael Vescoli
I spent a good portion of my Sunday down at the library, conducting research for the novel I am currently working on. I wanted to know a bit more about Celtic history, and in doing so I stumbled upon this little gem.
‘The Celtic Calendar’, by Michael Vescoli, is a really interesting book which relates some of the Celtic beliefs, and translates them in a way the modern reader can...
“Laugh - be jolly. There are those who think it lordly to be cold as stone, but...”
– Cecelia Dart-Thornton
“We mortals have many weaknesses - we feel too much; we hurt too much; all too...”
– Elizabeth of the Golden Age
“Funny it seems I always wind up here with you. Nice to know somebody loves me....”
– ‘Rainy Days and Mondays’, The Carpenters
“Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their...”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
June 2010
12 posts
“You know the phrase, “softly, softly catchy monkey”…I could...”
– Gareth, The Office (UK)
“No matter how powerful and real your feelings may be for someone, if that person...”
– via He’s Just Not That Into You
And wilt thou leave me thus!
That hath loved thee so long
In wealth and woe among:
And is thy heart so strong
As for to leave me thus?
-Thomas Wyatt-
“The things that happen to people we never really know. What happens in houses...”
– To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (via awritersruminations)
Hearts In Atlantis, by Stephen King
A few months ago I was lent a copy of Stephen King’s ‘Hearts in Atlantis’ by a good friend. I looked upon it with much skepticism. I had heard of the movie and remember hearing negative reviews.
I gave it a go. I think I need to explain something about myself at this point; I have never read a bad book. I do not complete a book if it bores me, I simply put it down and walk...
I am getting so, so, so excited! Not only are holidays nearly upon me but I have a new book in the mail! I have never read any of Salman Rushdie’s works, and have recently been encouraged to give him a go. So, by the genius that is Ebay I have purchased myself a copy of ‘Moor’s Last Sigh’ and I cannot wait. So now I have two whole books lined up for the break.
Holidays...
The least known Brontë sister
I had heard of Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë. I was forced to read it for a highschool literature class and hated every second of it. On my complaining loudly about the Brontës my long-suffering teacher told me to read some of Charlotte’s work. I suspect she just wanted to shut me up (I do have an annoying voice!).
I read Jane Eyre - I loved Jane Eyre - I read it several times. So my...
Clouds Across the Sun, by Ellen Brazer; a review
I have recently taken a break from reading Historical Fiction, but it is a genre I will always go back to time and time again. I love being transported to another time and learning about the way people lived and viewed the world.
“Clouds Across the Sun”, by Ellen Brazer, was the perfect novel to draw me out of my Historical Fiction retirement. Set in post-WWII, Brazer...
Hi all. Just have to share this picture I found on my laptop of my darling donkey, Miranda!
I will soon post my next book review on Ellen Brazer’s ‘Clouds Across the Sun’. Keep an eye out for it!
There is something in life that I am really enjoying lately, which is my use of Twitter. I have recently been struggling to find new books to read. I want something different; something I would not normally read.
Through the medium of Twitter I have been suggested many books. Here are the 2 most recent:
Clouds Across the Sun, by Ellen Brazer, an historical piece
The Whale Song, by Cheryl K...
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A false statement, no matter how many billion...
Wow I just read this and thought how true it is. Had to share!
(via leilockheart)
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What am I reading right now? The Black Jewels Saga
So I claim to be a big reader. That’s certainly no lie, but work has been so flat out lately that I don’t have time to read anything new. After working 8am til 6pm my concentration levels are really low, so I don’t want anything complicated right now. This makes things difficult because the thing I love to do most when I get home from work is lose myself in a good book.
...
May 2010
19 posts
“Be real, because a mask only fools people on the outside. Pretending to be...”
– -Alex Gaskarth (via fuckyeahhappy)
“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others
whenever they go.”
– Oscar Wilde (via quote-book)
Sad but true fact about me: I suffer from severe stomach ulcers. Its hard to believe that something so little can cause so much pain, but they can and do. I am not usually one to wallow in self pity. I prefer to be a bit more proactive with my life and health. As such, I have been searching and searching for ways to relieve stress - a difficult task when you work in the second most stressful...
Finally a new book to read!
After reading @walkwhilereading’s review on The History of Love by Nicole Krauss I feel inspired to read her works. I, too, had been put off by Krauss’ spouse and tend to avoid soppy romances. In a complete turn-around I have purchased the novel from good old ebay, and eagerly await its arrival. I look forward to letting you all know what I think!
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Important: 10 Things You Should Know Before Dating...
1. They are around unwashed kids all day. This means they have built up excellent immune systems, but are likely to be the carrier of all sorts of highly contagious diseases. You WILL get sick!
2. They will need to take a LOT of work home with them. Get used to sharing the couch with a pile of student’s homework.
...
Just Smile
via http://thesituationist.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/monkey_smile.jpg
“There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops,...”
– Doris Lessing (via booklover)
“I believe that first and foremost I am an individual, just as much as you are-or...”
– Nora from A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen (via imanisamazing) (via quote-book)
What are 10 things I have learned through working...
1. If it does not relate directly to them they don’t want to hear about it.
2. They are amusing in that they find their pathetic jokes amusing.
3. They crave someone to talk to; a sympathetic ear.
4. They smell - who wouldn’t with so many raging hormones?
5. In trying to act against expectations they act according to expectation.
6. Their knowledge of the English language is...
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Sticking by the Rules has never caused so much...
House Rules:
1. Clean up your own messes
2. Tell the truth
3. Look after your brother; he’s the only one you’ve got
The world of Jacob Hunt is a scary one. He has to learn social cues like it is a foreign language; he cannot read facial expressions; he takes everything you say literally; breaks in routine cause him to have a complete...
“Omnia vincit Amor; et nos cedamus Amori.
Love conquers all things; let us too...”
– Virgil (via oceanofmind)
Escape with a good book...
There are times when I wish I can go back in time and live in the era where all women had to do was stay at home and read…
Renoir
Pieter de Hooch
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Rokeby Canto Second XVI
See, he emerges! – desperate now All farther course – Yon beetling brow, In craggy nakedness sublime, What heart or foot shall dare to climb? It bears no tendril for his clasp, Presents no angle to his grasp: Sole stay his foot may rest upon, Is yon earth-bedded jetting stone. Balanced on such precarious prop, He strains his grasp to reach the top. Just as the dangerous stretch he makes, By...
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'House Rules'
So I have completely scrapped the idea of reading Michel Faber’s novel. I may come back to it later, or I might not. Instead I have picked up a copy of Jody Piccoult’s heart-rending story, ‘House Rules’.
As a teacher in a, well, difficult school, I have taught at least 5 students who have Asperger’s Syndrome - ranging from low to high spectrum, violent to passive....
Southpaws: The evolution of handedness - life - 30... →
Want to know why you are left or right handed? Read this article.