Tag: reading

• 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…

  alisonwells

  July 3, 2015

  Books and Authors

  Books, reading, Writing competitions

• Hughes & Hughes Launch of Housewife with a Half-Life Fri June 22nd: All welcome!

                                    Bookshop launch of Housewife with a Half-Life and Mid-Summer Tweetup! I want to invite you all to the real life bookshop launch, signing & reading of Housewife with a Half-Life taking place in Hughes & Hughes Booksellers, Dundrum,…

  alisonwells

  June 17, 2012

  Housewife with a Half-Life

  chat, Housewife with a Half-Life, launch, reading, signing

• Imagination and Reality

  Go outside and eat a leaf, tear off your clothes and swim underwater, stick your fingers in mud, stand at the edge of a crevasse and feel yourself sway, in summer, autumn cram strawberries, raspberries, blackberries into your mouth, see the stain on your fingers, eat carrots whole from the ground, lie in a darkened…

  alisonwells

  March 16, 2011

  Uncategorized, Writing Adventures

  dreams, Imagination, Kazuo Ishiguro, memory, reading, The Unconsoled, Writing