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At one point recently, I looked at the pile of books by the back door waiting to be donated to a charity shop and wondered if it might be easier to find somewhere to leave them nearby for other people to enjoy. I envisioned a little shelf on my road with a sign asking people… Continue reading The Little Free Library NG7

It’s not been a vintage month for reading. So it is with some relief that August is here and I can let this month’s books go (figuratively at least, as the charity shop bins are still resolutely shut to donations. I am considering piling my leftovers in the local phone box and inviting people to… Continue reading Reading in July

An Inheritance – Diane Simmons This is an excellent novella in flash, a series of short stories that link to tell the story of seventy years and four generations of a single family. As you’d expect for a flash piece, it demonstrates really tight writing and Simmons can really paint a picture with few words.… Continue reading May’s reading

I’m a bit late to July but I get there eventually. So, how is reading developing for you under this strange in-between time from lockdown into that already hackneyed phrase ‘new normal’? I felt like June’s reading was nearly back to normal, but looking at the list, it wasn’t really. But I tell you what… Continue reading June reading round up

“I love how this starts off sounding like Black Books but moves quickly to something much more exciting and classy.”

It seems a long month. But a nice range of books this month. I even ventured briefly into non-fiction. The Year of Living Danishly – Helen Russell After so many war books last month I couldn’t face something serious to start the month so I decided to read about Denmark instead. This is an Englishwoman… Continue reading April reads

Originally posted on The Writes of Womxn:
The women of American Housewife tell their stories in tales that range from between a page and forty pages in length. Some, anonymously, tell us about themselves: I shred cheese. I berate a pickle jar. I pump the salad spinner like a CPR dummy. I strangle defrosted spinach…

This is an exercise in preparation for the Write Around Town online writing course which I have just embarked on. Draw a map of any street you know well and then write about it.  This is not a destination street. It’s an “on the way to somewhere else” street. Leading from the Market Square, the… Continue reading Street scene – for Write Around Town