I’ve changed the day I publish my article on this website. I did that a few weeks ago in an effort to force myself to write. I’m finding I’m too busy doing things for, or with, other people to find time to write my blog. The thing is I am ...
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." C.S. Lewis
Est. 2009
I’m developing a really good track record for not talking about books this year. Or maybe that should be a really bad track record for talking about books. Both of those are right so take whichever you want. Last week I didn’t write at all and this week I’m writing ...
One day I’ll get back to talking about books, but that day has not arrived yet. Two weeks ago I talked about having books to write about, that is still the case. The problem this time is covid. And, yes, it was me. I finally succumbed to that illness that ...
Here is yet another reason I dislike Amazon. They own Audible. You may have heard of Audible, you might even use it. And if you’ve returned an audio book through Audible I hope you’re going to think twice about doing it again in the future. When we return purchases to ...
I’m sure you’ve all noticed I’ve not been blogging. I think I was hitting overwork and was struggling to find the motivation to write. My back was giving me pain and then it went from bad to worse. My physio put me on total bed rest, four weeks – and ...
This virus has everyone in a tizzy. People around the world are going into self-isolation or mandatory isolation. What we’ve seen in China and Italy has been awe inspiring. China seemed to do everything they could to limit people’s exposure to the virus, they built two new hospitals and closed ...
I’ll get back to scribbling about books soonish, promise. I mean, that is the premise behind this blog but I seem to have digressed quite a bit this year. We did it again. We went away without telling people. Mostly without telling people. Only this time I was prepared and ...
When I first start blogging it was with the idea of supporting my online bookselling with some search engine optimisation. It never occurred to me that it would lead to a brand new life. This coming Sunday, the 22nd April, is the ninth anniversary of the beginning of a whole ...
I happen to have a little break from uni. While I have lots and lots of stuff to do with regard to the Discworld Convention and one or two million things to do with the book I’m writing and, and, and… I took some time to have a glance through some ...
I’m taking inspiration today from a fellow Book Blogger. I’m sure I’ve scribbled a few words about this kind of thing before but Debbish wrote about A day in the life of a book blogger this week. She has a linky on her article and it occurred to me you could go ...
For the first time in eight years I’m at a loss of what to write about. I don’t want to write about uni as I’ve given you a lot recently. I’d really prefer to stick to my schedule and not write about a book today even though I have four ...
Today I have a case of the can’t be bothereds. They say that when you get to that stage on your blog that you should give up but giving it away is what I’m not doing as I know this is just today’s emotions and I’ll be fine on Sunday when I get ...
Something I’ve been thinking about for some time is communicating to authors about how they should approach me (or other book bloggers) about reading their book. We’ve had much discussion on our Book Blogger page and so I’ve put fingers to keyboard with a bit of a rant. I’ve published it as ...
For the first time in a very long time I have nothing for you for Friday Photos. My notes tell me this is number 121 in the Friday Photos regime which is well over two years. I’m very busy being busy without much time to go shopping or visit places or ...
It’s now the middle of May and I haven’t given you much of an update with my studies. I’ve managed to attend each class and disrupt the lessons on occasion but the teachers know how to get things back on track…I do try not to digress away from the topic too ...