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 [...]
So, I'm not going to lie: apart from the physical books, sunburn is the only evidence of my reading this month. But sunburn aside (it's turning into tan now anyway), it's been a bumper book month, mostly because of my newly free Fridays. It's also a month that I've just realised is also dedicated to [...]
Sometimes, if you think what you're going through sucks, reading can help. It can pick you up, remind you of happier times and take you to a better world. Or, it can remind you that really, your problems are literally miniscule. In the grand scheme of things, your problems don't matter and you're going to [...]
Since we can't go anywhere right now, you'd have thought I'd have been all over my reading list in the last few weeks. Safe to say, I haven't been. I can be a terrible procrastinator, and with so much time on my hands, it's so easy to just "do it tomorrow". The fact that the [...]
It's official: January 2020 was the longest January on record and I refuse to believe that it was only 31 days long. But even so, it's given me time to read, so I guess I'm not really complaining. Especially because I reunited myself with my literary favourite, John Steinbeck. I started reading The Grapes of Wrath a few years [...]
It's time; a little book update has been long overdue, and the two books I've read recently deserve a little time in the limelight (small though it may be). My lovely new commute (by lovely, I mean it's an hour shorter than it used to be) has reinvigorated both my motivation and energy for reading [...]
Between shows, socialising and just, you know, doing life, July has been beyond busy. Which is why I've surprised myself by getting through two and a half books. Why half, you might ask... Well, aside from the two full books I read, which I'll be telling you about in a second, I also started a [...]
