Archive for January, 2010
Magazines: A love story
I am watching a show IВ recorded called Inside the Great Magazines as I write this. It is a Canadian series that take viewers inside the most influential magazines of our times – Cosmo, Rolling Stone, Ebony, Time – and for magazine addicts like me, a fascinating social history and insight into the publishing world. I [...]
January 31, 2010
Posted in: Media 
6 Comments
Reasons why I was a bad person this past week
Five reasons why I was a bad person last week.
1. I found the news that Brangelina is allegedly breaking up to be a mood-lifter. Nothing like a celeb break-up to lift the spirits!
2. We were at the playground and a little girl and my daughter (similar ages) were climbing on the equipment. Little girl looked [...]
January 25, 2010
Posted in: Lifestyle, Parenting, celebrity 18 Comments
Gen Buy: How Tweens, Teens and Twenty-Somethings Are Revolutionizing Retail
This is the third book in my 2010 100+ Reading Challenge. Gen Buy by Kit Yarrow and Jayne O’Donnell was fascinating and disturbing in that I felt like a complete Gen X dork compared to the pampered, confident and style-aware Generation Y.
This book is geared at informing retailers how to tap into the powerful Gen [...]
January 18, 2010
Posted in: 100+ reading challenge 2010 4 Comments
Lambs to the Slaughter by Debi Marshall
This is the second book in my 2010 100+ Reading Challenge. I have chosen grim reading so far – I do have a preference for true crime books – and Lambs to the Slaughter by Australian author Debi Marshall is very disturbing but compelling.
It is about Derek Ernest Percy, a child killer who has been [...]
January 8, 2010
Posted in: 100+ reading challenge 2010, Crime One Comment
The kids’ bookshelf cannot be tamed
This great article on Australian news site The Punch mentioned something I have long thought but never heard anyone articulate before – children’s books are impossible to stack neatly.
See our bookshelf below (Note the Go Duster. It has become more of a toy for our daughter than used by us as a cleaning aid!):
Several times [...]
January 5, 2010
Posted in: Parenting, Society 7 Comments
Soham: A Story of our Times by Nicci Gerrard
This is officially the first book read for my 2010 challenge of reading 100+ books.
Soham: A Story of Our Times by Nicci Gerrard uses the 2002 murder of British girls Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells as a narrative for the how and why society seems to have an over-emotional reaction to the deaths of people [...]
January 1, 2010
Posted in: 100+ reading challenge 2010 4 Comments
100+ reading challenge 2010
This year I am going to read more. I am going to swap the tv viewing with reading and I have set myself an aim of reading 100 books (I won’t include picture books I read to my kids!). I will be charting my progress, including short reviews on this blog.
The challenge is being hosted [...]
January 1, 2010
Posted in: 100+ reading challenge 2010 7 Comments
