Orange Juice Snobbery

One of the great things about being unemployed is that you can sit back and watch TV shows you wouldn't be able to watch if you were at ...

Harriet Rose is no ordinary teenager. In fact, she doesn't even go to an ordinary school. I don't know of many high schools that h...

Back to racism ... dammit. I just read a blog that got me all hot and bothered and what better way to vent than to blog. It's easier th...

It seemed Harry Potter ended with The Deathly Hallows, but then out came Tales of Beedle the Bard. Now, I'm sure many Potterheads woul...

Yesterday I went to see Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. I liked the movie, I definitely thought it was much better done then The Ord...

Is pregnancy sexy? Today, I was wandering around at Wynyard station, minding my own business and I happened to wander into the newsagent. A...

I was just watching the DVD of Anne of Green Gables The Sequel the other day which is a hefty almost 4 hours long and is based on three of t...

What really annoys me is shortened versions tryign to pass themselves off as taller. I'm not talking about high heels, although I'm ...

Women are often accused of having checklists when it comes to dating, well apparently this guy has made a checklist for us. In his book ...

And here we are ... baaaack to another racial commentary, brought to you by Maria. I just had to get this in, I read it on a blog which was ...

I've just read a book called Blaze of Glory, first in a series called "Laws of Magic". It wasn't hyped by anyone to me ex...

Just wanted to note: Some time ago I finished all 7 of the "Tomorrow, When the War Began" series. I recently completed the three o...

Being unemployed means several things. It means being able to sit around all day in your pyjamas if you like. It also means watching a few...

I've seen the Curious Case of Benjamin Button. And I read the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. And I can see there's the Myste...

Readers of this blog will be aware that recently I have been plagued with visions of Mary Poppins. Specifically, I had a dream that detaile...

I've read, in the last few months, backstories, sequels, etc of 'classic works' that have not been written by the original autho...

Now, I've always prided myself on being a real meanie when it comes to books. Avid book buyer that I am, this is no time to not look ou...

First there was Australia , which I didn't go to see because of the bad reviews. The supposed epic Australian saga Now there is the tal...

And here's another one I got from the ABC'S First Tuesday Book Club website the literary theme park. Apparently, and not that surpr...

Another idea I read about on ABC'S First Tuesday Book Club website is the idea of a Five Word Book Review! Choose a book, name the auth...