HAPPY NEW YEAR, BETTER LATE THAN NEVER?

Well what can I say I started 2011 with the best intentions, I would write my blog, talk about my books and well everything would go to plan. Well, I can't say I'm surprised that my best intentions lasted until 12 noon on January 1 2011.

I have plenty of new books to blog about, 12 this year, less than in previous years, but then I usually buy my own books and give them to myself. I know that sounds sad, but everyone knows I love picking new books and they all find me difficult to buy for. This year my eldest daughter visited Liverpool medical school, as a sort of tester, before she applies next year, anyhow she decided she would buy family Christmas presents while she was away and yes she bought me books. I'm going to review one of them and yes I must say that I didn't like it before I read it. The book is i before e (except after c) old-school ways to remember stuff by JUDY PARKINSON. Hands up all those who can guess what turned me off before I even read it? Gold stars all around to anyone who said, where are the capital letter in the tittle? I hate it, the slipping standards, but I let it go and I have to say spent a happy hour reliving my youth and boring my family, yes I do that on a regular basis anyway.

So here goes I'm going to share the love and share a few with you too. How do you remember Admiral Nelson's injuries, think EAR, which equals Ear Arm - Right. Now you're either begging me to stop, my family begged too, or you want more. If you want more read on.

Are you, like me, prone to forget the names of the most important Greek philosophers in order of when they were born? Here goes: Socrate, Plato and Aristotle. The first way to remember is by the acronym SPA or think, Smart People of Athens.

Okay and another final one, and this one I think you'll like. How to remember the Cranial Bones: Occipital, Parietal, Frontal, Temporal, Ethmoid, Sphenoid, the aid to memory for this is Old People from Texas Eat Spiders.

To be fair to this book it is well researched and entertaining. I found it at times fascinating, informative, entertaining and a great book to share with the family or friends. As a Christmas present it was a winner, as I wouldn't buy it myself, but enjoyed it.