A Christmas Carol

Top Ten: Book to Film Adaptations

27 March 2015 by Louise Leave a Comment

You know I love films and I love books, so it kind of follows that I love films based on books. Sometimes the adaptations are quite poor and disappointing (Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy), much less often they improve on the source material (anything based on a Tom Clancy book) but just sometimes a great book leads to a great film…

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A To Z Bookish Survey

11 September 2013 by Louise 1 Comment

A few weeks ago I picked up on a meme that brilliant book blogger Jamie at The Perpetual Page-Turner was running. As always I’m a little late to get my entry in but here we go with my A-Z of reading survey….

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A Christmas Carol

21 December 2011 by Louise 1 Comment

This entry is part 10 of 10 in the series The 12 Days of Christmas

I only have a couple of Christmas traditions, not many but I do like to stick to them. I watch certain films, I insist on seeing the Queen’s Speech at 3pm on Christmas Day and I enjoy some indulging…

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It shouldn’t be this hard to find a Christmas book…

9 December 2011 by Louise Leave a Comment

This entry is part 2 of 10 in the series The 12 Days of Christmas

I started planning my 12 Days of Christmas feature in a little tinselly flurry. I was going to have so many posts that it would take me months to write them all…

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