It’s been a while since anything - literary or otherwise - has really inspired me to write. Even longer since I can say a story has really gripped me and offered something a little different to my normal library fare. The Shadow of the Wind did both of those things. Sure it’s one of the [...]
I know we're pretty far into 2022 now, but it would be rude not to start off by saying Happy New Year! However, I will be the first to put my hands up and say, this has probably been the most January-y January of my entire life and I can't wait for it to be [...]
Well. It's been a minute. Safe to say that since lockdown disappeared into the ether, my social life has simultaneously rematerialised. Ironic, really, that my last post was all about my hermit life. However, since I've been plunged back into a temporary isolation ahead of a hospital appointment, now seems like as good a time [...]
If anyone was hoping for better times in 2021, they will have been sorely disappointed with the first week of the new year. With Lockdown 3.0, Brexit and the teeny, tiny issue of a would-be coup on the US Capitol in the space of just seven days, there's not much to feel positive about just [...]
Sometimes you read something so good it makes you feel inadequate as a writer. Whether it's a really insightful article, an amazing piece of fiction or a new and original viewpoint on something that you would never have thought of yourself, there's just something about the turn of phrase, the fluidity of the writing or [...]
I have no words to start this block, except this: where did 2020 go? I'm looking at the word "October" as I write this and it's just hit me that it's well and truly the end of the year. Like many other people, I promised myself back in March that I would do more with [...]
As I write this, it's safe to say the rain has well and truly set in - happy autumn everybody! Whilst there's many things I don't like about a rainy October, one thing I do like is the chance to snuggle in to my little nest, listen to the rain on my skylight and settle [...]
I am on a mission with my reading. As anyone who reads blog will know, I am a staunch believer in the notion that you can't watch the movie/ TV show before you've read the book (although there have been some exceptions - I have never had the time nor the motivation to read A [...]
With everything that's been going on in the world recently, I, like many other people, wanted to educate myself on the issues of race and racism that are prevalent not just in the US but around the world. Against the backdrop of the Black Lives Matter movement, I chose to read Bernadine Evaristo's Girl, Woman, [...]
As if 2020 has gone by in a state of lockdown and we are already in July. How has this happened? Since I'm still working four day weeks and I've had to take all of my annual leave on top of that, I have had a lot of time on my hands to do not [...]
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