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 [...]
One question: how is it already July? Sometimes it's scary how quickly time slips by without you even knowing. That's why I think it's pretty ironic that this month I ended up reading two books where time is kind of key. In both of June's reads the main characters' desire to stop time is contrasted [...]
I realise this post should probably be called "What I've been reading: May, and a little bit of June", but that just doesn't have quite the same ring to it. Since I went on holiday in May, I actually managed to get a fair amount of reading done (three books in a week, don't all [...]
I wish I could say I've been so immersed in my reading that I've forgotten to blog, but that would be a lie. The truth is, I've been incredibly busy with writing for work. As my job title, Content Editor, I spend pretty much all of my time writing and researching my blogs for my [...]
