Tag: Books

• Why read a book? (Competition)

  Several years ago I attended the wedding of a friend. At the table I was chatting to one of the guests and the topic of reading came up. I was flabbergasted when she asked ‘why would you read a book?’ She simply did not see the point. For someone for whom books have been central…

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  July 3, 2015

  Books and Authors

  Books, reading, Writing competitions

• Are you looking for something in our Fiction store? (YES! YES I AM!)

  Are you looking for something in our Fiction store? the email asks. Actually I’m doing everything I can to stop looking in your fiction store because there are so many books I want to read that I’ll soon own enough books to build a house of books and the walls will hold me up and…

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  March 6, 2013

  Books and Authors

  Books

• 31 Days: The benefits of laughter

  Laughter is in.  There is laughter yoga,and laughter therapy there is the plain old fashioned laughing and banter with friends. It makes us feel better, it makes us breath more, promotes endorphins, those happy hormones, it can surprise us out of our lethargy. Psychologists have had difficultly in pinning down humour and what makes a…

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  January 26, 2013

  31 ways to keep your Head above Water

  benefits of laughter, Books, humor, humour

• Your favourite books of 2012?

  2012 was the year that I took the plunge and self-published by own debut novel Housewife with a Half-Life as A.B. Wells as well as some small short collections as Alison Wells. I’m looking forward to submitting my literary books as Alison Wells to agents in 2013. But as well as writing I’ve enjoyed making more…

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  December 29, 2012

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  2012, Books, favourite books

• Which books have you thrown at the end of the bed?

  I’ve just been having an interesting conversation on Twitter about books we’ve thrown at the end of the bed either during or at the end of the reading process. Of course there are many reasons why we might be frustrated with a book. Much of the time it just didn’t live up to the expectation…

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  February 18, 2012

  Book reviews, Books and Authors

  Books, One Day, The Unconsoled, thrown at the end of the bed

• #Fridayflash A life in books

  Books I always thought I would read before I died: War and Peace, Rembrance of things Past, Ulysses. Then they told me I was going to die. How long does it take to read a book? I wondered. I tried to read Ulysses once but I found I couldn’t. There had been too much hype…

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  October 28, 2010

  #FridayFlash, Flash fiction, Uncategorized

  #FridayFlash, Books, death, flash fiction

• The Soul’s Re-education – who’s writing do you love?

  I will never be a literary critic. I say Wow. I say Yes. I feel a resonance inside, a plucked guitar string, light shifting, I find myself holding my breath. I feel a flicker of an idea, consciousness swirling, a pulse of feeling, a glimpse of memory that sets me ready to try to say…..something,…

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  January 2, 2010

  Books and Authors

  authors, Books, Chaos Trilogy, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Hanif Kureshi, inspiration, John Steinbeck