From my 2016 visit to my childhood library in Beckenham It’s World Book Day, which is traditionally celebrated mostly by primary school aged children, but why should we let them have all the fun? Here are some ways in which grown-ups can share their love of books with others this World Book Day. 1….
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The Best Escapist Books I Read in Previous Winters
For today’s post, I thought about books I’ve read before that would be great reads right now, as we settle in for what will hopefully be, at least for those of us in the UK, the last few months of staying inside as much as possible and weathering the pandemic. This is not a…
The Best Books I’ve Received As Gifts
It’s my birthday week so here’s a video about the best books I’ve received as gifts! Books mentioned (with affiliate links): The Dragonlover’s Guide to Pern by Jody Lynn Nye with Anne McCaffrey – Buy: Amazon (affiliate link) Giant Days Vol 1 by John Allison et al – Buy: Amazon | Bookshop.org (affiliate links) Her Body and Other Parties by…
Five Escapist Reads
Lots of readers will craving a little escapism right now, so here are five books I read last year that made me forget all about the pandemic, if only for a little while… City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert This was an absorbing whirlwind of a book, a historical novel following a young woman in…
