Tag: books

A girl who reads

This has been doing the rounds on Twitter for the last couple of days, and I think it’s an absolutely brilliant poem. (Not only because when I was at school I was often teased, mocked and derided for my unapologetic bookishness and love of the library.)
It’s only two minutes, and I promise you won’t regret [...]

Cancer Free Friday: full circle

I was reviewing my Christmas presents and am especially pleased with the gifts for my beautiful brace of goddaughters: these for Evie

and these for Cecily.

(They are 3 and 1 respectively, and not very interested in reading blogs, so I think I’m quite safe in publishing these pics. There are other book-and-knitted-thing combos that I can’t [...]

Offsetting World Book Night

Yesterday was World Book Night. It was one of those things that I was all enthusiastic about to start with. But the more I thought about it, and the more I read about it from people who’d given it more thought than me (especially The Guardian, Nicola Morgan, and The Guardian again), and the more I [...]