
Lockdown reading | Books to read now
As we wade through this funny old time, here’s what I’ve been reading. Can you help me out with some ideas as to what to […]
As we wade through this funny old time, here’s what I’ve been reading. Can you help me out with some ideas as to what to […]
There are some cracking Christmas gift books around right now – remember The Greatest Showman book I showed you recently? Today we’re looking at […]
I hope you’ve enjoyed the posts about mental health this week and found them useful in some way. Firstly we looked at how bloggers […]
Every year I keep a list of the books I’ve read, and every year I aim to read one more than the year before. […]
My daughter and I are each reading a book. Actually, it’s the same book – Longbourn by Jo Baker. This is the story of Pride and […]
I keep a list in the back of my Filofax of all the books I’ve read and films I’ve seen each year. Not sure why […]
In a moment of serendipity that almost never happens, our house has birthed two new books in the same week. The kids are feral, the […]
Is a book is one of the few things it’s OK to give as a gift to someone who might not like it? Maybe if that […]
So that writing two books business, how's that going Joanne?
Actually, not so great. Have you ever tried to eat two elephants? That's what it's like. Or giving birth to two babies (I don't mean like twins. At least twins have the decency to queue, not both rush the exit at once).
And I didn't help myself at all by being so overwhelmed by the task in hand that that I achieved very little for weeks on end. Writing a book seems so much more permanent, and by implication important, than the online writing I've done.
But that's not even true – many more people have access to work that's published online than will ever pick up a book and read it. But still, it felt like A Bigger Deal than anything I'd done before, so I panicked a bit and hid my head in the sand. For most of May.
I’m starting a newsletter! Actually, it’s fairer to say that I’m having a play with a newsletter-type entity to see what it might become. The […]
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