Bloedlemoen Gin is another local craft gin distilled by the wonderful people at Hope on Hopkins. This citrus, spicy sweet gin includes botanicals juniper, blood orange, angelica root, liquorice root, cassia, nutmeg, cardamom, Grains of Paradise, coriander and...
This year I set out to read 100 books. I ended up reading 123. If you want to see the full list of books I read this year, you can check it out here. Some books that stood out for me were: Wonder by R.J. Palacio The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and...
The Colorado Kids was a mystery novel by Stephen King, which was published in 2005 the speciality crime and mystery publishing house Hard Case Crime. I had read The Colorado Kid twice, the second time changing my two-star rating to a three. As far as I was concerned,...
It's been 15 books (12 of which were penned by Stephen King) since my last update. Yes, I know, it's overdue. Random thoughts about what I've read: The Regulators and Desperation both freaked me out. They're hauntingly similar, except in The Regulators the cop was...
The blog has been quiet, I know, especially on the book front. April has not been a great month. As you may or may not know, I was in an accident on 29 March, in which my car was completely written off. So aside from the minor injuries I had, I was supremely...
I love books. More than that though, I love stories. My grandfather told us such amazing stories (which probably explains my current affection for audiobooks); my mom bought me loads of comics as a child (better reward than candy, etc.) as well as book/tape read along...
November: cue the sweaty palms and sleepless nights for many aspiring novelists. Because, thanks to the wonder that is the internet, everybody has been exposed to the pressure of writing 50 000 words in 30 days – the 30 days that are usually the most hectic in...
I found this on Goodreads, and it's been a while since I checked whether I'm a conformist or not 😛 so I looked at how many and which titles on the BBC literary list I've read. Currently I'm only 22% conformist, with ambitions of being much more so! * Update 22...
