Work, Holiday & Baby

Baby Thomas Vincent

Hello all, I hope you're having a lovely Sunday! I just wanted to do a quick post to explain why the blog has been a little inactive over the last month or so. Sally has been really busy with work and has been up & down the country for the last few weeks working very very long days. At the moment she is on holiday in Vegas, lucky her. I'm hoping for really exciting presents :D

And I've been working and spending a lot of time with my cousin, the last month of her pregnancy was difficult with a few trips to the hospital. She has two children already so it's not been easy but on Thursday the baby finally arrived after a long labour, considering he was her third child. She had a home birth and I was there for 12 hours on Thursday and have been there every day since. I'll be there again tonight from 6pm so I think I'll try and get some reading done before hand. My cousin is still struggling a little after the birth so I'm happy to help, it's what family is for and it means I get lots of baby cuddles :) Some of you may have seen me talking about baby names on twitter as my cousin didn't know what to call him. After about 5 hours of her son being in the world she decided to name him Thomas Vincent, Thomas after her brother, who was named after our grandad and Vincent after my dad, he was very proud!!

So that is why the blog has been lacking in reviews, both Sally and I do have reviews to write, I personally have about 9, and next week I have a few days off from work so I'll do as many as I can as well as finishing decorating my bedroom.



Stacking The Shelves #11

Carnival, Paris (Woman reading behind stage)

Stacking the Shelves is a weekly meme hosted over at Tynga's reviews. This meme allows us bloggers to tell you all about the books we have added to your shelves over the past seven days whether they be physical or virtual. This means we include books you can buy in a physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course ebooks!

We love sharing our books with you each week but more then that we loving seeing what books you get each week!! All links will take you to goodreads.

I was almost really good again in the week and didn't buy any books, that was until yesterday when I saw Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire on the table at work! And I still tried not to buy but I just had to have it! I've read and heard so much about it that I needed it!! I've even read some reviews that say don't read this book so naturally I'm going to! I would love to hear what you thought of this book & if you've written a review please feel free to leave a link and I'll have a read.

So just the one book this week and now I'm off to see what you all added to your bookshelves :)

Stacking the Shelves #10

Carnival, Paris (Woman reading behind stage) 

Stacking the Shelves is a weekly meme hosted over at Tynga's reviews. This meme allows us bloggers to tell you all about the books we have added to your shelves over the past seven days whether they be physical or virtual. This means we include books you can buy in a physical store or online, books you borrow from  friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course ebooks!

We love sharing our books with you each week but more then that we loving seeing what books you get each week!! All links will take you to goodreads.


Bungle's shelf


Bungle has been a star pupil again this week and has managed to keep her purse firmly in her bag.  Having said that, that doesn't mean that she didn't get to add something to her shelves.  Bungle was lucky enough to find Twilight - The Graphic Novel, Vol.2 (ahh Edward.. :) by Stephenie Meyer and Young Kim and she also got a special copy of 13, #13 of the Women of the Other World series by Kelley Armstrong.  I think we can safely say the girl done good! 

Sally's shelf


What can I say?  Forget the olympians, this week I have struck gold!  I added three books to my shelf this week.  The first two are my holiday reads. I bought Rebel Heart, #2 of the Dustlands series by Moira Young and Foretold by Jana Oliver.  I really enjoyed Blood Red Road which was #1 of the Dustlands series.  It had a twist on the dystopian theme that I found quite refreshing and I'm keen to find out what happens to Saba.  More to the point, where is Jack?! Foretold is one read I've been looking forward to for a while.  This is the last in the Demon Trappers series so I'm hoping for happy endings for Riley and Beck.  I nearly cracked and started reading this straight away until Jana Oliver told me to put the book straight into my suitcase and not to open it until I got on the plane. I did as I was told but I still hear it calling me at night...

Lastly, and certainly by no means least I got my hands on a copy of The Lost Prince by Julie Kagawa from Netgalley! SO excited about this one so prepare to watch as go a tad fangirly for a moment! The Lost Prince is a new series attached to the Iron Fey series (If you haven't read these, you're missing out on something fab!). The Lost Prince tells the story of Ethan, the brother of Meghan.  We have been transported into the future somewhat and Ethan is now 17 and if his story is anything like Meghan's then he's in for a bumpy ride.  Can't wait to get my teeth into this one! (OK, fangirly moment over...)

So, that's it from us this week!  What did you add to your shelves?