Category: Claire Jean
A page dedicated to book recommendations, a bit of journaling and all about living the cosy life.
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6 Tips on How to Indulge Your Book Loving Self while Parenting
I hesitated to write this blog because I don’t know if other parents struggle with this specific type of parenting related challenge. As with all things parenting, there are infinite scenarios and dynamics that make each family’s situation unique, but I am writing for those parents who miss their pre-kids book loving self and would…
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Best Vacation Reads 2024 – Books You’ll Love to Read on Holiday
Catching up on your TBR while relaxing by a pool somewhere sunny is one of the best ways to unwind on a summer holiday. Whether you prefer kindle, audiobook, or traditional hard copy, if you’re a book lover then you know that an excellent book is just what you need for the perfect break. But…
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Books I Love – What I Read in March 2024
I am returning to this book blog after a long period of changes and a shuffling of life priorities. I have found myself unexpectedly homeschooling one of my kids and working on my husband’s business – it’s been a big year. It has also meant leaving behind my work in libraries and feeling a little…
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The Best July 2023 Reading Recommendations
What I Loved Reading this Month I’ve started off the second half of 2023 with so many great books to read, I can hardly wait to get into them all. At one stage this month I was so engrossed in my audiobook Yellowface, but also couldn’t get enough of reading the hard copy of Dirty…
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2023 Fiction TBR July-December
Like many readers, I have been consulting my To-Be-Read list to decide what I want to read over the coming months. I decided to divide it into Fiction, Non-Fiction and Young Adult as these are my favourite types of reading and I want to make sure I read something from every area. This week I’m…
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Falling in Love with Libraries All Over Again
How could I have forgotten just how wonderful libraries are? You know when you’ve loved something for a long time and you don’t doubt that you love it but if you’re honest, you’ve probably taken it a bit for granted? Well that was me about libraries. And I work in a library! However, I was…
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The Best Parenting Book I’ve Ever Read
And no, I’m not even exaggerating. I’ve read a lot of parenting books and this one knocks the rest out of the park. Not that the others are bad – I have included some other excellent titles here in this article – but this one spoke to me like nothing else. It gave me some…
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The Best Books I’ve Read in 2023 (so far)
Where to begin?! I have been so lucky to come across many truly excellent books this year and I have compiled them here as The Best Books I’ve Read in 2023. We are only in June so there is still half a year of reading to go! The books listed here would come loosely under…
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Five things I LOVED about the book The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. And one thing I didn’t like at all.
The best book of all time, if it weren’t for one little flaw.
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Six Books About Life Do-Overs (with a Bit of Time Travel)
Pick up one of these books if you’ve ever wondered how making different choices might have changed everything in your life I once read in Susan Jeffer’s book Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway that there is no such thing as a wrong decision. I love this bold approach to living but as someone…