10 People Whose Stuff I Loved in 2013

The first of my obligatory blogger bunch of “best of” posts. I don’t stay current with anything so my lists will be totally out of date and contain many things that aren’t new, unique or awesome to 2013, just to me. Suck it. In no particular order: #10 Shane Cortese I’m betting Shane Cortese is…

Arty Farty

Hey all! My sister has recently joined the online community and started up her own website to showcase her art. Why not head on over and show her some love? Yes, our DNA came from the same two people. Stop asking!

Success Tastes Awesome

To everyone who supported my crazy self this year, thank you. This will likely sound like a bunch of self-congratulatory wank, but so what, I have a lot to sing about today. One degree down. Yessss! The moment I truly never thought would arrive has finally arrived. It still seems a bit surreal. Six very…

Book Review: Takedown Twenty

I got my hands on the latest Janet Evanovich book, Takedown Twenty. While I haven’t enjoyed the last couple of books in the Stephanie Plum series, I do still have a soft spot for them as these were the books that got me into the bumbling female mystery solver style of book. So I bought…

Book Review: Orpheus Lost

Here’s another one I had to read for my English degree. You wouldn’t know I almost qualify for one by the amount of spelling and grammatical errors in some of my posts, but that’s what happens when you usually write after an exhausting 12 hour day with a screaming toddler hanging off you refusing to…

Book Review: The Slap

Tonight I am going to review The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas. This was required reading for my English degree and since I recall seeing ads for it plastered all over Melbourne on buses and billboards and the like. I knew it won a zillion awards and critics loved it, I figured it might have been…