By Sally Hepworth Hardcover: 309 pagesMi Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ (4.5) Twin sisters Rose and Fern not only shared a womb, they share an awful childhood memory but also a big secret. Rose has been having not only marriage problems but fertility issues. Her therapist recommends that she starts a diary to pour out all […]
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Goolwa is a small country town located on the Fleurieu Penninsula in South Australia. It’s a special coastal town because Goolwa is the end of the line for the Murray River. It’s where the river meets the sea. It was also the locality of this year’s much-needed summer mid-break. While cruising the maps and looking
By BN Toler Ebook: 308 pagesSelf PublishedMi Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ (5) Due to the mature content of this book, I would recommend it for ages 17+ Neena is 12, and she is dying. Having never known her father, she puts an ad out on craigslist, in the hopes that she will be able
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By Matt Haig Hardcover: 304 pagesOriginal Title: The Midnight LibrarySetting: Bedford, Bedfordshire, EnglandLiterary Awards Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction (2020)Mi Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ (4.25) What if. Two such powerful words. We have all wondered about our lives would be if based on those two words. What if. I know I have. What if we
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Surprisingly Adventure has been a sub-theme for at least the last 5 years, it has however never taken centre stage, until now. The idea of having a single theme for the year is to give you direction and guidance. The power of a single word, can give you the motivation to achieve goals, dreams or
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When you choose a word like Celebrate as your yearly intention, you think there would be big things to celebrate. Instead life through a curveball with the world in quarantine, isolation and lockdown. Could I have changed my word? Yes sure, but instead I decided to look for all the small wins. The ones that
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Music allows you to celebrate, and while this year *should* have been a year of celebrations, it instead was everything that it wasn’t. Sure I could have changed my word theme. But I decided to embrace it and find the joy in music again. My tastes in music range from rock, to EDM to pop
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My objective for 2020 was to read as many books that I have had on my TBR (to be read) pile as possible. You can find my original list here: What to read for 2020 Reading List of 2020 In Chronically order A = Audiobook Essential I read 18 books off my list. Two of
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I can officially say that Wild Mount Beerimpo was my only official event for 2020. Beerimpo is the Djab wurrung name for Mt Buangor state forest, located between Ararat and Ballarat. Want to know the difference between State and National parks? Go here: Explore Diverse Landscapes It was seriously a last-minute decision to run this
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At the start of the year, I wrote a list of the books I had planned to read for the year. I figured it would take the guesswork out of what I wanted to read. For 2021 I have decided I want to go back to something I did way back in in 2015, and
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