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So this is the way to choose a pen name if you ever happen to write a novel and for some reason don't want the world to know. Personally I'd be telling EVERYONE! But I do quite like my pen name. Which is Maggie S Radlett I got it from Maggie O'Farrell, Sandy the Hamster, Linda Radlett from The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford. To find out your follow these instructions. (1) Use the first name of your favourite writer as your first name. (2) Use the name of your first pet as your middl… Continue

The Boyfriend List and The Boy Book - E Lockhart. E Lockhart is fast becoming one of my favourite authors. Her books are funny, insightful and full of great characters. In The Boyfriend List Ruby (Roo) loses all her friends and becomes a leaper at her school after an unfortunate kissing incident at the spring fling. With the help of her therapist Doctor Z, Ruby works through The Boyfriend List - a list of all the boys she has ever kissed or thought about kissing. The book flashes back to diffe… Continue

Scrambled Eggs at Midnight - Brad Barkley and Heather Hepler Cal and Eliot both come from eccentric families. Cal's Mum is trying to find herself and moves them from place to place so regularly nowhere ever feels like home. Eliot's Dad runs a religious fat camp - What would Jesus eat?. They are both searching for something and find it in each other. Told in alternating chapters by Cal and Eliot we get to see both their perspectives on their blossoming relationship. I really enjoyed the book an… Continue