I have spotted several versions of the Fictional Bucket List popping up on a few blogs now and I think it is really awesome so I couldn’t resist making up a list of my own! Fictional Bucket List Basically it is a bucket list for all the literary worlds you would love to visit or literary characters you would like to interact with – the sky’s the limit! Throughout the months of […]
World Book Day – UK World Book Day is celebrated on an entirely different day in Britain from the rest of the world. World Book Day is a charity event held annually in the United Kingdom and Ireland on the first Thursday in March. The rest of the world will be celebrating this event on 23 April but we folks in the UK have claimed this day for our celebrations. […]
Ten Must See Book-to-Movie Adaptations in 2014 I am always curious to see book-to-movie adaptations. So many have been disappointments but there have been a few gems here and there so I have never really given up on viewing them even though nine times out of ten I prefer the book – but there is always the exception to the rule. Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead I have read the […]
“Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit “All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached […]
Just for Fun: which magical Tolkien creature are you? Following on from my last blog post, My Top 10 Childhood Reads, I thought in honour of my number 1 book, I would partake in another small quiz to find out which Tolkien race I would be. And…I got an Elf! Definitely did not see that one coming (thought I would be more of a Hobbit!). Click HERE to take the […]