How to be a Woman

In the same weekend as Caitlin Moran took home the prize for “Non-Fiction” at the Galaxy National Book Awards, APW organised a book club meet-up for its readers across the globe on her fantastic book How to be a Woman. A Practical Wedding is the only “wedding blog” I still read daily. It’s a group…

The Help – the film

It is a widely agreed fact that “the film of the book” is neverĀ as good as the book. (At least, I can’t think of any exceptions off the top of my head). However, I am not one of those people who hate seeing their favourite book turned into a film, because of all they leave…

summer reading

Following my husband around the world for the summer is quite a lazy lifestyle. Yes, I’ve been studying and volunteering, but still my days are pretty relaxed. So I’ve had lots of time to read some of the books I brought along with me. I started with Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen which I’ve…

more reading

I’ve got into a habit of reading on the metro to work. It’s not long – only six stops which takes about ten minutes. But I am a fast reader so I can get through quite a lot of pages in that short time, and I love the feeling of escaping into a book for…

Jane Austen and the Bible

For the last month I’ve been working on some teaching for the church I go to on the characters of Mary and Martha in the bible. These are the sisters of Lazarus, who is more famously known for being raised from the dead by Jesus. These lovely ladies take up just three short chapters of…

holiday reads

I took three books with to Denmark and read two of them which is quite a good sign – I had enough time to read, which I love, but I was clearly not bored and needing something to do! The two I read were both great, which is nice because when I was in Morocco…