Monday 5 October 2015

What are YOU reading? #287



What are you reading on Monday? is a weekly meme hosted by Sheila at Book Journeys where you post books completed last week and plans for upcoming books. Jump over to her blog and see who else is participating.



Read


How Many Greeks Fit Inside A Trojan Horse? by Dr Dino
Children's, Non-fiction, 7 years +
10/10E
(Funny way of learning about myths from around the world!)





Season of Salt and Honey by Hannah Tunnicliffe
Women's Fiction
9/10E
(A touching read about a woman who loses her fiance...)






Gone But Knot Forgotten by Mary Marks
Cozy Mystery, Crime
10E/10E
(Diving in partway to an incredible series whose protagonist has fibromyalgia, which has a few symptoms like mine, its full of humour, and lots of twists!)





Do Dinosaurs Make Good Pets? by Dr Dino
Children's, Non-fiction
9/10E
(Filled with heaps of dino facts!)





Sir Scaly Pants: The Dragon Knight by John Kelly
Children's, Picture book
10/10E
(A dragon rescues a town after being bullied...)





The Valentine's Day Cat by Sabuhi Gard and Karen Moore
Children's, Picture book
9/10E
(A cat who gets lost due to human error...)





Little Grey Rabbit's Year of Stories by Alison Uttley and Margaret Tempest
Children's, 5 years +
10E/10E
(This is a wonderful compendium of one of my childhood favourites!)





The Rabbit Ate My Flipflops by Rachel Elizabeth Cole
Children's, 9 years +
10E/10E
(An extremely funny sequel about siblings and their pet rabbit!)





Candy Corn Murder by Leslie Meier
Cozy Mystery, Crime
10E/10E
(Brilliant murder with emphasis on family life...)









Reread


The Rabbit Ate My Homework by Rachel Elizabeth Cole
Children's, 9 years +
10E/10E
(Hilarious sibling tale about hiding a rabbit!)





Arrows of the Queen by Mercedes Lackey
Fantasy
NOT YET FINISHED - 10E/10E
(This is the book that made me fall in love with magical horses! And want to be every profession in Valdemar... ^o^)









Listened


Sweet by Kathryn Littlewood
Children's, 9 years +
NOT YET FINISHED - 10/10E
(This time I understand the baking themed story better...)










Watched


The Great British Bake Off
Cookery show, English version
9/10E
(The semi-final had lots of chocolate!)





Once Upon A Time: Season 4
Fantasy Drama, English version
10E/10E
(Shocking news in store for Emma about the Snow Queen!)





Frozen
Anime, English version
9/10E
(Seeing Elsa in 'Once' had me rewatch this, skipping the parts I'm not fond of [anything with Olaf, some love songs, parts which exclude Elsa and Ana]...)





Winx: Season 6
Magical Girl Anime, French version
10E/10E
(The girls have begun their quest to fund Eldora's diary!)





Negima
Anime, Japanese version
10/10E
(Minus occasional innuendo this is a super fun school show, including Evangeline who is a vampire trapped as a girl who can't leave school!)





Bodacious Space Pirates
Science Fiction Anime
REWATCH - 10E/10E
(Mariko successfully leads an attack in space on the school yacht club's first outing!)





Kikari (also known as Kilarin Revolution)
Music Idol Anime, French version
10/10E
(It was sad and hilarious how awful Kilari was at singing, but she didn't give up and managed to sing in tune...)





Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Magical Girl Anime, Japanese version
10/10E
(The fight scenes are a bit too weird for my liking but there's something which makes it impossible to stop watching those parts, especially when a significant character dies...)





Fantasista Dolls
Magical Girl Anime, Japanese version
REWATCH - 10/10E
(Yo-yo wielding Akari seems to decide to leave Uzume...)





PriPara
Music Idol Anime, Japanese version
10E/10E
(Shion and Mireille are at war with each other which proves entertaining...)





Aikatsu: Season 1
Music Idol Anime, Japanese version
REWATCH - 10E/10E
(Time for Sakura to debut!)





Aikatsu: Season 3
Music Idol Anime, Japanese version
10E/10E
(Adoring the new episodes especially when Luminas come 2nd in a competition and Akari states her wish to be the next Starlight Queen! I hope she makes it...)









Games, craft and more
Still no gaming, but instead I did some colouring of a cute Disney princess art therapy book...



I baked a super yummy nutella cake (layer of nutella just under the surface of the cake thanks to adapting the recipe which only asked for tiny splodges)...




Also made these super yummy wholegrain hoop marshmallow (fish gelatine version) crispies which are DELICIOUS!



Craft wise I didn't do much as I got ready for welcoming family home from holiday, then had some rest days, bit managed to work on a cute knitted baby bootie...





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