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Tag: reading
If I won the lottery, I’d build a reading garden
The World’s Fastest Flower by Charlotte Simmonds
I received an absolutely gorgeous surprise this morning; a package containing THE WORLD’S FASTEST FLOWER by Charlotte Simmonds, a beautiful and evocative book of poems from New Zealand, sent to me as a prize from this year’s Flash Mob.
A most excellent book dedication
I have been sorting through our book archives, and finding pearls.
Being compar’d
Sixty or seventy years after she absorbed Macbeth, I did the same, and we underlined the same words.
Thank YOU, World Book Day — for making us cry
World Book Day just made my children cry. Great.
Reading: The Night Rainbow by Claire King
Review.
Reading: Mother America by Nuala Ní Chonchúir
Mother America by Nuala Ní Chonchúir.
Other people’s shorts
Other people's shorts
Why I have not bought a Kindle
I love Kindle — I’ve used it (far) more than hard copy this year — but what I don’t need is another device.
The books we read (versus the books we expect to read)
Hands up, who’s failed to read a literary “must”? You know the one, the book with the gold-plated reviews, the one with its own stand in the bookshop window, the one that won the thingy. I’m reading WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN by Lionel Shriver. The story: via a series of letters to her ex, a …
At 2am
Tell me a dream, a good dream.
