Category Archives: Books

Favourite Book(s) #3 – Artist’s Way: A Course in Discovering and Recovering Your Creative Self by Julia Cameron

Posted on January 15, 2018 by Julie Goucher

I came across this book some time ago and recently bought the 2016 anniversary edition. The book was originally released in 2006. If you read the reviews on Amazon they are quite mixed, some feel it is too religious, others … Continue reading →

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Favourite Book(s) #2 – Uncommon Type: Some Stories by Tom Hanks

Posted on January 10, 2018 by Julie Goucher

The moment I heard of this book I put it on advance order at Amazon and then waited for the release date. The book arrived on the release date and I immediately delved in. The book is made up of … Continue reading →

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Favourite Book(s) #1 – Home the Story of everyone who ever lived in our house by Julie Myerson

Posted on January 5, 2018 by Julie Goucher

Julie Myerson did not set out to research her Victorian home in South East London. She was actually researching for a nineteenth Century novel and stumbled across the 1881 Census return for her home. She discovered that her home at … Continue reading →

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You Are What You Read – Favourite Book(s)

Posted on January 4, 2018 by Julie Goucher

I have always loved this quote which I think I first heard in the Rom-Com film, You’ve Got Mail staring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, released in 1998. It is probably one of my favourite films and I am not … Continue reading →

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Advent Calendar 2017 – Christmas Reading

Posted on December 9, 2017 by Julie Goucher

I nowhere read as much as I used to due to a variety of drains on my time and the pull of social media, but there are several books that I read every December. I really like the Elm Creek … Continue reading →

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Desk Ramblings……(22)

Posted on August 4, 2017 by Julie Goucher

Oh my, it has been a long time since I sat and wrote here. A variety of domestic, personal and health issues have been an energy and brain drain. I am sure that you all know what I mean. Yesterday … Continue reading →

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Nature, Nurture or something else…..

Posted on January 24, 2014 by Julie Goucher

Last night my blogging buddy Pauleen from Family history across the seas reshared a post that she wrote back in 2012.  The post, which can be read HERE talks about how Pauleen feels of being an Australian.  I read the post as … Continue reading →

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Weekend Cooking – Nigella Christmas

Posted on November 30, 2013 by Julie Goucher

I am cheating ever so slightly and writing this post in January! Just before last Christmas I caught on the television the end of Nigella Christmas the TV programme. I was inspired with one of her recipes and had to … Continue reading →

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A Rip in the Veil (Graham Saga Book 1) by Anna Belfrage

Posted on October 1, 2013 by Julie Goucher

A little while ago I was given the opportunity to review the 3rd book in the Graham Sage by Anna Belfrage. As I read the synopsis I discovered a problem; I had not read the first books in the series. … Continue reading →

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Turtle Island by Sergio Ghione

Posted on March 19, 2013 by Julie Goucher

This was a fascinating account of an Italian doctor who travels as a companion to his friend, an academic who was travelling to what is described as the remotest inhabited place on earth to study the amazing sea turtles that … Continue reading →

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