I’m the type of person who makes New Year’s resolutions. When you hear “New Year’s resolutions”, you probably think of fitness goals, but that’s not the focus here. I’m talking …
Reading
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This post summarises my Goodreads 2021 reading challenge, as I did for my Goodreads 2020 reading challenge last year. Does that make this post a tradition? Possibly. Probably. I like …
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Ahh, trashy reads… When life gets messy – or virus- and lockdown-ridden – a trashy read is equivalent to eating an entire chocolate bar. There may not be lots of …
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Have you ever read a book that you didn’t know whether you liked or not? That you didn’t know how to rate on Goodreads? I have. I definitely have. In …
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I have nothing to say to 2020. I will bite my thumb at it, sir. But, that being said, I did have more time for reading and listening to audiobooks. …
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A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin follows Ged, a boy who becomes a wizard. Ged’s journey, however, is ‘not only to learn to be a wizard, but …
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Do you reread books? Replay games? A lot of people do, and I’m one of them. But what is it that brings us back to media we’ve already finished and …
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I like writing the unreal, but I also like writing the real with unreal possibility. Sci-fi is fascinating because of the possible scenarios based on real world logic. There are …
You don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone. No, I’m not talking about a past-relationship I didn’t appreciate – I’m talking about libraries. But I’ve already written about why …
How have bookshops been able to survive and stay relevant when so much of the reading we do is now online? When even physical books can be purchased online? We …