Title: Books of Bayern 3: River Secrets

Author: Shannon Hale

Stars: 5 out of 5

Genre: Fantasy

Blurb: Razo has no idea why he was chosen to be a soldier. He can barely swing a sword, and his brothers are forever wrestling him to the ground. Razo is sure it's out of pity that his captain asks him to join an elite mission--escorting the ambassador into Tira, Bayern's great enemy.

But when the Bayern arrive in the strange southern country, Razo discovers the first dead body. He befriends both the high and low born, people who can perhaps provide them with vital information. And Razo is the one who must embrace his own talents in order to get the Bayern soldiers home again, alive.

Favourite Quotes: “It was a pleasure, Enna, Finn, tree rat."

Yesterday, I finished reading Little Women.

"Imogen, what's the next book in the series?" I asked, eager to continue the amazing story.

"Good Wives," Imogen replied, pulling the book off the shelf and passing it to me.

"Thank you!" I cried and rushed off to begin it. I opened the front cover and I got a shock. Sticky taped inside was a piece of paper saying: The Skeleton Sisters Lib Lob Library.

"Mum, was this your book when you were a child?" I asked. Skeleton used to be Mum's surname before she married Dad.

Mum nodded. "When we were children, my sisters and I liked to pretend we had a library," she told me.

I looked back down at the book. It suddenly seemed really special. I can imagine Mum and her sisters playing library. It sounds like the sort of game my sisters and I would play ourselves.

As I started reading Good Wives, I thought about Mum when she was a young girl, reading the exact same book. I smiled. I had a feeling I was really going to enjoy this book.

Do you have any old books? Have you read Little Women or Good Wives? What did you think?

Recently, I've had heaps of ideas for screen cast tutorials. Today I decided to use one of them to make a screen cast tutorial.

Have you ever written a post and then not had an image to go with it? This happens to me all the time. But I don’t have this problem any more.

A little while ago, Mum showed me where to find free images and properly attribute them.

So for today's video, I decided to show other people how to do this as well!

We're in the library. My older sisters, Charlotte and Imogen, rush over and thrust a book into my hands. "You've got to read this one!" they tell me.

I look down at the book's title: Princess Ben by Catherine Gilbert Murdock. Imogen is always posting about it on her blog. I've been wanting to read it for ages.

"Thank you!" I cry, I can't wait to start it.

As soon as I get home, I curl up on my bed with the book. Very soon I'm lost in a fantasy world with royalty, fairy tales, mystery and fun.

I can't put the book down, it's so good. All too soon, I'm closing the cover, book finished. I'm smiling, I've not yet left the world of the book properly. The book was just so perfect.

It's a few days later, I'm trying to think up a video idea. "I know!" I yell. "I could review Princess Ben."

So that's what I've done. Would you like to watch?

Have you read Princess Ben? What did you think? Do you like rewritten fairy tales? What's your favourite?

For a while now, I've been wanting to make a watermark to add to my photos. I looked for a tutorial to find out how to do this but only found ones which use Photoshop, and sadly I don't have the money for that.

After a lot of googling, experimenting and frustration, I finally worked out how to make my own watermark using Picmonkey.

Today I decided to make a video, so that everyone else who doesn't have Photoshop. can see how I did it!


Do you have Photoshop? Do you watermark your photos?