Review: I Celebrate My Voice - Nonku Kunene Adumetey - January 2022 What do you use your voice for? How do you express what you are feeling? Do you use your voicebox or do you use sign language? How do you celebrate your voice? Do you use it to sing or laugh? Do you use it to stand up for what you believe in? There are so many countless ways that one can use their voice. In I Celebrate My Voice by Nonku Kunene Adumetey we read about different ways that the kids use their voices. As a former children's librarian, I was always on the lookout for picture books that I could use for toddler time or school visits - something interactive and not too long.  This book would have been perfect as not only does it touch on an important issue and have a solid point to the book and represent a vital part of us all as human beings it also has the interactive side of showing different animals and actions which you can get the children joining in with, making the story not only great to listen al...

Title: Perfectly Thin Author: Margaret McHeyzer Genre: YA/NA Contemporary Romance Release Date: October 19, 2020 BLURB When I’m thinner, no one will make fun of me  When I’m thinner, I’ll be accepted When I’m thinner, I’ll be beautiful When I’m thinner, I’ll be happy When I’m thinner, I’ll be loved, and adored When I’m thinner, I’ll like myself I can’t wait until I’m perfectly thin. ADD TO GOODREADS PURCHASE LINKS $2.99 for a limited time! AMAZON US / UK / CA / AU Free in Kindle Unlimited AUTHOR BIO STRONG, BRAVE AND COURAGEOUS CHARACTERS.  **Write something worth reading** I'm Margaret and I'm a self-published author. Recently I was fortunate in obtaining New York Times best-selling status on my YA/NA book - Ugly, and my YA book - Mistrust. My last six books have been YA and I'm completely in love with the genre. I love being able to communicate with people through my words and stories. My writing genres all differ, but the one th...

Review: Roar - Cecelia Ahern - April 2019 When I saw that Cecelia Ahern had released a new book, it went automatically on to my reading list as I have always been a fan of her books whether it be her adult romance or her YA dystopian.  I wasn't 100% sure what to expect from Roar except that it would be a collection of short stories. I have to admit it was a weird collection of short stories but they each had a common thread of feminism and being about strong woman or women that needed to recognize their own strength to make themselves worthwhile. Roar is a reminder to woman to unleash their own powerful Roar and to stand up for themselves in the world as if you won't stand up for yourself then no-one else will and like one of the stories tells us if we don't use our voices, then we will become invisible to the world and become a doormat. This is a shorter review as I always find it hard to write reviews based on short story collections. But will finish...

A Divided Mind M. Billiter Published by: Tangled Tree Publishing Publication date: July 27th 2019 Genres: Adult, Psychological Thriller Sometimes that little voice in your head isn’t always yours. What if the only friend you have isn’t real? When the voices in his head begin to make sense, high school senior Branson Kovac turns to the one friend he’s still got… only to discover he’s not really there. Goodreads / Amazon / Barnes & Noble / iBooks / Kobo — EXCERPT: For everyone’s concern about me hurting myself or someone, cutting into a frozen frog didn’t prompt any crazed thoughts. Now the kid next to me who kept tapping me on the shoulder like he had a nervous tick, he deserved a beatdown just for annoying me. “Branson, help me out. What is this?” He pointed to a part of the frog. “For the hundredth time, it’s the liver.” “Oh, that makes sense.” No shit. I was identifying the other parts of Kermit’s anatomy when tick boy tapped me again on the shoulder. ...