The extraordinary happens every day… One night, George Duncan — decent man, a good man — is woken by a noise in his garden. Impossibly, a great white crane has tumbled to earth, shot through its wing by an arrow. Unexpectedly moved, George helps the bird, and from the moment he watches it fly off, […]
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In a dark vision of the near future, twelve boys and twelve girls are forces to appear in a live TV show called The Hunger Games. There is only one rule: kill or be killed. When sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen steps forward to take her sister’s place in the games, she sees it as a death […]
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Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. I know it’s technically already Wednesday, but I really wanted to participate in this week’s Top Ten Tuesday (and didn’t have the time yesterday), so here is my top ten! This week’s topic was top ten classics I want to read. I had a lot […]
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A few days ago Books Baking and Blogging reached the milestone of 250 followers! On top of that, the Facebook page for my blog reached 50 likes about a day later. I am having so much fun with this blog since I started it in October last year, and I’m really happy and grateful that […]
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“The thing about Margo Roth Spiegelman is that really all I could ever do was let her talk, and then when she stopped talking encourage her to go on, due to the facts that 1. I was incontestably in love with her, and 2. she was absolutely unprecedented in every way and 3. she never […]
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Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten books that will be in my beach bag this summer. I am very much looking forward to the summer holidays and all the reading I will be doing, so this list is basically my to read list. Although I had […]
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So… I went a bit nuts with ordering books again. Perhaps ordering six books doesn’t seem that crazy to some of you book bloggers out there, but on my budget it’s kind of a splurge. You can never have too many books, though, so I’m not even feeling remotely bad about it! There was a […]
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Ben Du Toit is an ordinary, decent, harmless man, unremarkable in every way — until his sense of justice is outraged by the death of a man he has known. His friend died at the hands of the police. In the beginning it appears a straightforward matter, an unfortunate error that can be explained and […]
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Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is books about friendship. As always I had a hard time picking ten books, but here they are, in no particular order!
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Heartsease House is in desperate need of renovation. Its owner, widower Joel, is struggling with life as a single dad. His plans to refurbish the house and garden suddenly seem like one burden too many. Mum to twin girls, Lauren’s life is a constant juggling act. When her ex, Troy, turns up wanting to see […]
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