In defence of ‘radical listening’ - an especially timely read in the wake of the cancellation of Short Cuts current.org/2024/11/why-...
Currently slugging my way through ACOTR. I like Feyre, but it feels like a poor knock off of Beauty and the Beast and the same things seem to happen in everyyy chapter. I’ve been assured that it’s the worst one in the series and only makes sense once you’ve read the others, so I shall continue. 📕✨
Going to read Pride and Prejudice next…. despite being obsessed with the 1995 tv version (basic I know), I’ve never read it. May the literary lords now forgive me of my sins!
Ok, IMO Bletchley Park Riddle lacked magic and emotional weight. But it’s a perfect high-interest book for 9-12s. It’s an interactive page-turner and immerses you in war-time Britain… but yes, I didn’t fall in love with the characters or the story and that’s a-okay. WHAT TO READ NEXT…
ACOTAR was an absolute slog… ‘Thomas Cromwell’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch on the other hand is quite the read 📖📖📖
Hyped to be on the reading panel for The Reading Agency… will be helping select children’s books for their Summer Reading Challenge!✨✨✨📚📚 p.s. my whippet is not on panel, but will be assisting me throughout the process (it’s not clear exactly how yet)
Marriage Portrait is an astounding read. So evocative and absorbing. Only criticism is that Lucre seems far older than a 15 y/o… And now I am not sure what to read next 😱
Finished Intermezzo. Ivan was such a wonderful character, also ♥️’d the ending and how it captured the nuances of living with complicated relationships, finding beauty in their tensions. But, gotta say, I still prefer R’s previous book - the letters perfectly punctuated her prose and I missed them.
Finally decided what to read next - gone for the tween thriller, Bletchley Riddle by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinken.
