Welcome to Tuesday Book Chat. This is where we encourage book lovers to answer our bookish question of the week. Today’s question is: What’s the most heartwarming book you've read recently? We look forward to hearing your thoughts. Please join in the conversation by commenting on this post or on the blog post shared in …
The Benefits and Necessity of the Pause
I’ve been using the word pause often after recently experiencing the sudden loss of my mother. Over the Christmas holiday, I gathered with my family to make funeral arrangements, and I entered the new year surrounded by the struggle of bereavement. Because of this, January brought the need for a pause from work, socializing, and …
Fiction Friday | Venom Reef by Belinda Pollard
Venom Reef is the sequel to Poison Bay, and is set around two months after the end of Poison Bay (which I didn't realise at first, because Poison Bay released in 2015 ... so it's been a few years since I read it). While you don't have to read Poison Bay to enjoy Venom Reef, …
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Writer’s Life | Clutter that Overwhelms
Now I’m no Marie Kondo. Make no mistake. I hold onto things for years, decades, life if they have sentimental value. I'm not a fan of change But clutter does get overwhelming sometimes, so in recent years, I’ve developed a policy: don’t buy junk, and when I move, if something has no sentimental value, get …
Tuesday Book Chat | 30 January 2024
Welcome to Tuesday Book Chat. This is where we encourage book lovers to answer our bookish question of the week. Today’s question is: What's the last book you read that made you cry? We look forward to hearing your thoughts. Please join in the conversation by commenting on this post or on the blog post …
Devotional | Counting Our Blessings
Scripture: Luke 6:20-23 Do you know the hymn “Count Your Many Blessings”? Written in 1897, it was one of 5000 songs that Johnson Oatman Jr. composed during his lifetime – he died in 1922 - as a way to preach the Gospel. The song's message? Despite whatever hardships life may throw at us, God has …
Fiction Friday | I’m In A Reader’s Slump
Right now, I am in a reader’s slump. Or maybe if writers have writers block readers could have readers’ block. Either way that is me. It started around the time I moved. I had several books I needed to read, and a couple of the deadlines changed dramatically. I had agreed to read a few …
Tuesday Book Chat | 23 January 2024
Welcome to Tuesday Book Chat. This is where we encourage book lovers to answer our bookish question of the week. Today’s question is: Have you ever completed a "read the bible in the year" challenge? We look forward to hearing your thoughts. Please join in the conversation by commenting on this post or on the …
DEVOTIONAL: New Year, Same God
2024 has well and truly begun. It’s easy to be excited at a new year starting; there is a sense of anticipation the coming year will be better than the year before. Some of us had a great 2023 and some of us were counting down the minutes so we could farewell 2023. Some people …
Fiction Friday | The Love Penalty
I've written all kinds of romances over the years, with tropes ranging from friends-to-more (The Breakup Project), to best friends-to-more (Tangled up in Love), opposites attract (too many to name), arranged marriage (The Captivating Lady Charlotte, Midnight's Budding Morrow), to various others. One thing I haven't done too much of the 'bad' girl. I feel …