Reading in the Daisies

So the plan going forward is to make an appearance at least once a month to share my favourite books (mostly) with everyone.... Obviously with my track record of posting I really need to get into a routine before I commit fully, so at the end of may there will be a glorious recap of what I've read, including the embarrassing choices/maybe my favourite films/possibly some awesome moments. The end of June is bringing a big change in my life so I'd really love to be able to share all the things that are opening up in my world, along with sharing the my always reliable love of reading.  That's it for now!  Taran x  

Jane Austen is one of the most well known classic romance writers in the history of literature and because of this her novels have become a huge platform for writers and film makers. They have adapted, manipulated and on occasion just followed Austen's lead to create fun and often brilliant books, films and TV shows, and I think it's time I write about my favourites.  I've decided to write about this subject because I just finished  'Mr Darcy Unleashed'  by Teri Wilson. It's was an unreleased proof that I requested without putting much thought into it, but when I started reading I got sucked in to the world of Elizabeth and Darcy once again. Wilson has taken the bare bones of 'Pride and Prejudice' and used the basic plot line and wonderful characters for her own brilliant mix of cute puppies and brooding British aristocrats. Yes there were things that stuck out as not brilliant about this obvious piece of Chick Lit, and though they weren't bi...

I would like to start this post with an apology. An apology for the lack of posts....I completely blame the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and the amount of books I needed to read in such a short period of time. Also because it was the Long List I was not allowed to blog about it. Big Book Secrets. But I'm back and I decided to come back with a bang. This bang includes the magic of Patrick Rothfuss, Scott Lynch and Veronica Roth.  Whilst standing in a Queue in the boiling basement of Forbidden Planet waiting for two of my favourite fantasy authors to appear and begin signing the books which had drawn an inordinate amount of people to Shaftsbury Avenue on Tuesday evening, I began talking to the two women in front of me. We discussed exactly how we felt the first time we read Rothfuss's Name of the Wind and how Lynch's  Lies of Locke Lamora (Click for Review)  is the most intricately written fantasy novel of the last fifty years.  My friends and I were ...

So, after coming home to find my not so little kitten Flynn in a box, who was fairly unhappy to be disturbed, I was reminded me of one of my favourite picture books . . . My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes by Eve Sutton. This amazing book has a brilliant rhyme scheme, a individual illustration style and the best line from any picture book ever, "The cat from Norway, got stuck in a doorway." (And after putting it aside yesterday for myself to buy, I ended up having to sell it to a lovely woman who I couldn't deny the chance to have this awesome book.) Following this I decided to share with you some of my favourite picture books of all time, there are quite a few, so I've had to select a few special one.  So let's start with the best picture book available for really young ones, and to be honest one I can recite pretty much from cover to cover if necessary. Each Peach Pear Plum by Janet and Allan Ahlberg. When you start this book and discover the gorgeous and ...

So I'm in London at the moment doing an intern-ship at a small political publishers, which is actually the leading political publishers in the country; but that's just the way of publishing books on politics. Well it been an interesting four weeks, with best-selling memoirs, crazy bitch fights  involving the Managing Director and a grammatically-incorrect dog, Nuns, Awkward ness, South Africans, Cricket, UKIP Racism, Book Prize Longlist, French Food, New Jobs, a horrible head-cold, crazy ass tourists pushing me into cyclists and most magical of all NEW iPhones!!! Unfortunately so far I haven't had enough time or energy to fit in much reading, instead I have been audio-booking it every morning to a number of books. This week 'The Name of the Wind' (One of the best fantasy books written in a few years) and this is what brings me to my reason for this post....my love of Audible !  Come on what could be better than a monthly audio-book credit....£3.99 a month is...

I've very much want to share my lack of excitement this week by showing you some of the things that made me excited this week.  So I was über über pleased to get my Books Are My Bag (Bag). . . The publishing/book selling industry getting together to promote reading and bookshop. Using it makes me happy, it makes me feel that I'm spreading the love of reading around London! The bright orange really helps with that.  The Pemberley bag is almost as good; come on a Jane Austen and my true love for Lyme Park. It was a present from my Mum and though I wish I'd got to visit again myself.    And then to top off a really booky week I did Newspaper Print nails; the blue has totally become my go to colour of September. And with my working at a publishers this month it was great fun!!!  So this is my week of booky items, might add more lately!