Monthly Archives: May, 2012
Facing My Demons to Better My Writing
My grandparents lived in a small, weatherboard house on the edge of a large, untamed forest. I used to visit them fortnightly with my three brothers. We would traipse through the forest pretending we were explorers, building bark huts and imagining other worlds. I believe that these sun-filled days set the foundations for me as …
Rilla of Ingleside, by L.M.Montgomery
Rilla of Ingleside by L.M. Montgomery My rating: 5 of 5 stars This book is the final in the ‘Anne of Green Gables’ series and follows Anne’s youngest child, Rilla. It begins with the outbreak of WWI, and you journey with the Blythe family as one-by-one their sons answer the Piper’s calling and go to …
Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children, by Ransom Riggs
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs My rating: 3 of 5 stars This book was not what I had expected it to be. I had picked it up thinking it would be a horror story, the kind that gives you nightmares for a month. Instead it was only slightly creepy. The story …
A. M. King Writes 