Hello, hope you all had a marvellous world book night. There wasn’t anything happening near me – that I could find via Google – so my world book night celebration got about as exciting as reading while attempting to cook can be. I haven’t had the will or the ideas to write from this week, I […]
Poetry: As the Ruin Falls by C. S. Lewis
All this is flashy rhetoric about loving you.I never had a selfless thought since I was born.I am mercenary and self-seeking through and through:I want God, you, all friends, merely to serve my turn.Peace, re-assurance, pleasure, are the goals I seek,I cannot crawl one inch outside my proper skin:I talk of love –a scholar’s parrot […]
We need to talk about: Horror
Between family gatherings and forcing myself to be social now my sister is home for two weeks I found myself watching a scary film. Now, by scary I am talking pretty low on the scary scale, because anything more than a few ‘boos’ and I am shaking in the corner with fear. Tip: should you […]
Poetry: Fast rode the knight by Stephen Crane
Fast rode the knight With spurs, hot and reeking, Ever waving an eager sword, “To save my lady!” Fast rode the knight, And leaped from saddle to war. Men of steel flickered and gleamed Like riot of silver lights, And the gold of the knight’s good banner Still waved on a castle wall. . . […]
Review: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
Published in 2011, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson is the memoir of the authors life. You will recognise its fictional counterpart, Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit published in 1988. ‘Mrs. Winterson, a thwarted giantess, loomed over the novel and the author’s life: when Jeanette left home at sixteen […]
We need to talk about: Daunt Books Festival
Last month (it feels wrong to be saying last month already) I went to the first day of the Daunt Books Festival. It was a two day event, but I only had time to visit for the first few day time talks. I had a wonderful time at these talks, the whole thing was put […]
