Review: Good Girls Don't - Mara Wilson - April 2023 One of my reading goals for 2024 is to read more non-fiction as over the past years, I have just been more focused on fiction reads. I have aimed to read a minimum of 12 non-fiction books over the year. My first one was a celebrity memoir from Mara Wilson who we know mostly for her role as Matilda. Mara also starred in Miracle on 34th Street, Mrs Doubtfire, and A Simple Wish. In this memoir, Mara talks about the pressure of being a Good Girl in Hollywood and how even the slightest untoward step can turn you into a bad girl or in her case a spoilt brat. She talks about how her life changed as her mum died when she was filming A Simple Wish and the impact it caused on being out in public and all they could see was Matilda and the image of her rather than Mara herself. I felt for Mara as she was going through her grief as a child and still having to have this perfect image for the world as they saw Matilda as a role model. The oth...

I am so excited that AWAKENED by Stacy R. Collins is available now and that I get to share the news! If you haven’t yet heard about this wonderful book by Author Stacy R. Collins, be sure to check out all the details below. This blitz also includes a giveaway for a $10 Amazon GC courtesy of Stacy and Rockstar Book Tours. So if you’d like a chance to win, enter in the Rafflecopter at the bottom of this post. Title:  AWAKENED (The Gatekeepers Book 1) Author:  Stacy R. Collins Pub. Date:  February 21, 2019 Publisher:  48fourteen Formats:  Paperback, eBook Pages:  410 Find it:   Goodreads , Amazon When seventeen-year-old DEVYN CARTER arrives at school, she expects the day to be as boring and mundane as usual, but when she meets the new, hot substitute teacher, and the even hotter transfer student, Devyn’s life transforms into anything but normal. With these newcomers, also come some harrowing revelations that thrus...