Claire Wright likes to play other people.  A British drama student, in New York without a green card, Claire takes the only job she can get: working for a firm of divorce lawyers, posing as an easy pick-up in hotel bars to entrap straying husbands.  When one of her targets beco…

Yep. I finally did it! I signed up. Today is Friday, and after spending the beginning of the week picking out a handful of possible ideas, as well as letting the loudest fill my mind... I'm excited about my pick. The novel I'll be working on during NaNoWriMo 2018 will …

The Girl from the Other Side: Siúil, A Rún, Volume 1 by Nagabe   My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is a manga my daughter read last week and recommended I read because she thought I might enjoy it. Well, she was right. Teacher and Shiva live on the Outside. That's where the cursed b…

Providence by Caroline Kepnes My rating: 5 of 5 stars This was my first Caroline Kepnes book, and it won't be my last. Luckily, I already have You and Hidden Bodies on my bookshelf. Wow. Where do I start with this story? Jon is a strange boy because he likes stuff and…

Saga, Vol. 9 by Brian K. Vaughan My rating: 5 of 5 stars O.M.F.G. Did I seriously just read that? This is how they're leaving the story before their one year hiatus? *cries* Okay. I'm not going to get into the actual story because there's really no way to talk abou…

Hey! How are you today? I'm good, though I was better last week when hubby was still on annual leave, and we slept in and had an awesome relaxing time. Now, it's time to get back into the swing of things. And this month, that means thinking about my next writing project. …

Saga, Vol. 8 by Brian K. Vaughan   My rating: 5 of 5 stars Finally got my hands on Volume 8 & 9, so today I decided to get stuck into this one. And yikes! Vaughan & Staples don't shy away from difficult, serious issues. And they do it in the most imaginative, colourful, hu…

Choose a side - before it's too late. The gripping finale to the highly acclaimed Cainsville series.  Olivia Jones must make a choice.  Caught between two rival supernatural forces, Liv was granted a brief period in which to make her decision. Now that time has run out.  …

Cop. Drunkard. Low-grade magic user.  My name is Gideon Tau, but most people just call me London. (Because that's where I'm from. Get it? Hilarious.) Three years ago, someone killed my daughter. I sacrificed everything (the human race included) to learn his name - and then …

Hey! How's it going? Asides from the shitty weather we're having in Sydney at the moment, we're enjoying a nice break. A lovely time with hubby. But man, I'm SO ready for the rain to go away. I need some sunshine in my life, because a couple of glimpses during the w…

It's been five years since Mia and Brynn murdered Summer Marks, their best friend, in the woods.  Increasingly obsessed with a novel called The Way into Lovelorn and by their fan-fiction imagining of its sequel, the girls were drawn by an undertow of fantasy into the magical w…

And that means it's Halloween! ALL month. 🎃 It's also hubby & daughter's birthday month. When hubby will take a 2-week break. Daughter will do her HSC.  Halloween the movie comes out. And it's time to start NaNoPrep. Before I get stuck into that , I need t…