This is a Book Week post for Saturday’s Holiday Learning theme. Do you still buy books when you want to learn something new? Our bookshelves (and basement and loft) are bulging with my many computer programming and software books bought years ago and most of them out of date, not …
This is a Book Week guest post from young entrepreneur, Alex d’Esterre. Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman So here it is, the first of two reviews for Holiday Learning in conjunction with WAHM-BAM’s Book Week. As you can probably guess from the title the first review shall be on the …
Today’s Book Week theme is Holiday Learning and is about taking some time over the holidays to learn something new, whether that be reading a non-fiction book instead of the latest thriller or romance, reading a biography, researching some parenting tips to help you manoeuvre those toddler tantrums or teenage …
This is a Book Week guest post by Kathryn Brown of Crystal Jigsaw and author of Discovery at Rosehill. Being an author is a wonderful journey and incredibly rewarding, too. I started writing short stories when I was a young girl, I even won a few competitions, but I didn’t …
This is a Book Week guest post from Emily Carlisle of More than Just a Mother. Writing is a solitary activity and for the most part this is an appealing aspect of the craft. But sharing your work with others can bring enormous pleasure as well as adding to your …
This is a Book Week guest post by Adam Horovitz of The Sleep of Reason. My poetry writing life takes place in corners, in snatched moments, on the periphery of vision, in the littoral zones of the imagination. Where is not important, not physically anyway. I can write anywhere, and …
This is a Book Week guest post from Emily Carlisle of More than Just a Mother. If I have to, I can write anywhere. I can write on paper or on the laptop, in pen or in pencil – I’d write with pavement chalk if it’s all I had. I …
Good morning and I hope you enjoyed yesterday’s Holiday Projects day on Book Week – reviews of a home style book and a cookery book and a very useful round-up of some gardening with children books. Today is our writing day and it is mostly themed around where writers like …
This is a Book Week guest post from Deb of Carrots and Kids. Books are hard to resist. And books on gardening with children? Even harder. Take a look at any gardening section of your local bookshop and the choice will be dazzling. Who knew there could be so many …
This is a Book Week guest post from Joanna, aka Mrs M, aka Madamding. It’s no real secret that I love a cookbook. At the last count my kitchen shelves were groaning under the weight of approximately 250 books. Whilst I may have hundreds of books, I still tend to …
