Currently reading: Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam 📚
Ancestors by Alice Roberts review – a story of movement and migration 🔗 📚
Currently reading: Ancestors by Alice Roberts 📚
Currently reading: Jack Kerouac: King of The Beats by Barry Miles 📚
Currently reading: Medical Grade Music by Steve Davis & Kavus Torabi 📚
Sunny day ☀️ - trying to colour coordinate drinking and reading 📚
Currently reading: The Beats: A Graphic History by Harvey Pekar, Ed Piskor et al 📚
Interesting and informative podcast series from the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association and Keats-Shelley House. John Keats’ Bright Star 1820: read by heart with analysis is one of the highlights for me. 📚🔗
Michael Rosen blog post on Reading for Pleasure 📚 🔗
A child
A book
A read
A chat.This is the way
the mind grows.Not with a test
but a tale.
He’s writing for teachers and children but I think a lot of his points are applicable to all readers.
Currently reading: Jews Don’t Count by David Baddiel 📚
For the Ishiguro household, 5 October 2017 was a big day. After weeks of discussion, the author’s wife, Lorna, had finally decided to change her hair colour.…
Currently reading: Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline 📚
Currently reading: The Ruins by Mat Osman 📚
The piles of books I posted a photo of yesterday have been re-housed upstairs. According to Apple Health on my phone, in moving them I did 4752 steps, covered 2.8km and climbed 41 flights of stairs (I think this is an underestimate!). A literary workout. 📚
Moving four large bookcases. Trying to prevent our books from descending into chaos. 😊 📚
Mary Wollstonecraft finally honoured with statue after 200 years. 🔗
It shows a silvery naked everywoman figure emerging free and defiantly from a swirling mingle of female forms and, thanks to a 10-year slog of fundraising, is the world’s only memorial sculpture to a woman known as the “mother of feminism”
Currently reading: The Fire of Joy by Clive James 📚
Currently reading: The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman 📚
Clive James: ‘The poems I remember are the milestones marking the journey of my life’ 🔗 — Excerpt: What makes great poetry? An exclusive extract from the late critic’s final book The Fire of Joy celebrates the poems he loved most. 📚
‘He returned to what he really was’: Clive James’s daughter on his poetic farewell 🔗 — Excerpt: Ten months before his death last year at the age of 80, Clive James underwent an eight-hour operation to remove a tumour on his face. Already very frail – he had been suffering from leukaemia for a decade – afterwards it took him almost a week to emerge fully into consciousness.
Currently reading: Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present by Yanis Varoufakis 📚
Currently reading: Talking to My Daughter: A Brief History of Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis 📚
Currently reading: Bob Willis: A Cricketer and a Gentleman by Bob Willis and Mike Dickson 📚
Finished reading: Matilda Infantry Tank 1938-45 by David Fletcher 📚
