How has your August been? I hope you got some time on a break of some kind? I had about 10 days off work, and a couple of weekends away and I feel like we made the most of the time. We went to a festival, city break, a day in London, a day at… Continue reading August round up
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July reading round up
This is a few days late! I am sorry. But look, here we are, halfway through the year already. And there has been warmth and sun and my daughter has hilarious sock tan lines from her school uniform. I still haven’t spent much time reading in the garden though. I have, on the other hand,… Continue reading July reading round up
June reading round up
As I type, I’m still wearing jumpers and feeling a bit nippy. Where did the sun go? This month I did get to sit in the garden reading for, ooh, a couple of days? But it is still pretty grey out there at the moment – fingers crossed for next month. Reading this month has… Continue reading June reading round up
May reading round up
Somehow I’ve only read six full books this month, though I read a bit of an advance copy of another and am making my way slowly through two large non-fiction books as well. And it was my daughter’s birthday (more to think about and organise, even without a party) and I also did three writing… Continue reading May reading round up
April reading round up
April has been a reading month. I mean a lot of reading. Though in the last week I’ve barely touched a book so crammed it all in early. I had a week off work which helped. Anyway, this is what I read this month! This Lovely City – Louise Hare Oh I loved this. It’s… Continue reading April reading round up
Writing for wellbeing: Journalling
Last week I was talking about free writing and writing by hand, and I guess the most popular and useful way of putting this into practice regularly is by journalling. Journalling seems to have come into its own recently – a few years back I don’t remember seeing as much about it but I suspect… Continue reading Writing for wellbeing: Journalling
Writing for Wellbeing: free writing
At work recently I’ve been running workshops about Reading and Writing for Wellbeing, an hour-long slot where we explore the concept of bibliotherapy in a basic sense to help you through your daily life. It’s been a while since I’ve done any training or development courses for anyone so it’s been a bit of a… Continue reading Writing for Wellbeing: free writing
Books from my Mother
For Mothers’ Day I thought I’d look at reading and mothers, or to be specific, how my mum is woven into my reading history. To start with there are the books she read to me, especially the ones she read to us over and over again. Beaky the Greedy Duck and Rapunzel, and for my… Continue reading Books from my Mother
February: a short month with many books
Somehow I’ve read 11 books this month. And while one of them was a re-read, the others were new. Three of them I read on the Kindle app which means I didn’t read them as thoroughly as I would have done on the page. Still quite pleased with it though. Home Cooking – Laurie Colvin… Continue reading February: a short month with many books
The Duchess of E 95th Street
Over on Twitter, I seem to have spent quite a bit of time recently discussing Helene Hanff with fellow book lovers. I guess it shouldn’t feel strange that book Twitter talks about famous book lovers but Hanff isn’t so well known that she would be mentioned as much as I’ve seen her name pop up… Continue reading The Duchess of E 95th Street
Susan E Barsby 