Readers’ corner – July to August 2022
A Booker Prize winner, a novelette and a mystery – the books on my July and August reading list (plus a long read about sailing).
Category: Reading
Readers’ corner, June and July 2022
Four books and an email subscription that sings: these are the things I have been reading in June and July 2022.
Reader’s corner – June, 2022: Getting carried away
The first in a monthly series of articles about reading – with a list of recommended books and articles. (There’s a poem too).
How Covid made libraries nicer
Public libraries are among the greatest blessings of all our lives. So how did Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns make them even better?
Four email newsletters worth trying
Email newsletters can be things of joy and enlightenment. Here are four that I love reading – and they might be worth your time too.
Why I love poetry (and how you can too)
Dealing with email can be a daily organisational chore – but it can also bring joy. In my daily emails, in among the serious stuff about the state of journalism and the endless promotional emails from Clicks (no matter how many times I unsubscribe, they find a way to send me more), is the Poem of the Day from the Poetry Foundation. I don’t remember now when I first came across the Poetry Foundation, but…
Books I Have Been Reading – April 2018
I have been banging on about the importance of reading for the last two weeks, and thought it might be useful to list the books that I have been reading myself, over the last month or so. I try to read as much as possible, but sometimes life gets in the way. Still, here’s what’s been keeping me busy: The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain Much-loved travel writer Bill Bryson…
Readers’ corner, June and July 2022
Four books and an email subscription that sings: these are the things I have been reading in June and July 2022.
Reader’s corner – June, 2022: Getting carried away
The first in a monthly series of articles about reading – with a list of recommended books and articles. (There’s a poem too).
How Covid made libraries nicer
Public libraries are among the greatest blessings of all our lives. So how did Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns make them even better?
Four email newsletters worth trying
Email newsletters can be things of joy and enlightenment. Here are four that I love reading – and they might be worth your time too.
Why I love poetry (and how you can too)
Dealing with email can be a daily organisational chore – but it can also bring joy. In my daily emails, in among the serious stuff about the state of journalism and the endless promotional emails from Clicks (no matter how many times I unsubscribe, they find a way to send me more), is the Poem of the Day from the Poetry Foundation. I don’t remember now when I first came across the Poetry Foundation, but…
Books I Have Been Reading – April 2018
I have been banging on about the importance of reading for the last two weeks, and thought it might be useful to list the books that I have been reading myself, over the last month or so. I try to read as much as possible, but sometimes life gets in the way. Still, here’s what’s been keeping me busy: The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain Much-loved travel writer Bill Bryson…