Things That Are Making Me Happy This Week

01. I never say no to a festival 🙂 The Now or Never program was announced this week – loads of free events (I’m especially looking forward to Matria, Einder and Burdi Burdi) and a bunch of others that I’m excited for (Crisis Actor; this talk about algorithms and music, and this one about eternal life; and this sound-bath). Continue reading

I’ll Take What She Has by Samantha Wilde

Take two women – one wanting a baby and one a stay-at-home-mum – they’ve been best friends for more than twenty years. Introduce a third woman. The third woman has things the other two want. Or rather, there are reasons why the other two may hate her.

I know this is a standard trope for chick-lit but the plot of Samantha Wilde’s I’ll Take What She Has is predictable and, quite frankly, irritating. Plots need a villain but I get the impression that Wilde has an axe to grind* and she’s doing it through this story. Continue reading