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Winding Up the Week #374
An end of week recap
“A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.”
– Charlotte Brontë (born 21st April 1816)
This is a post in which I summarise books read, reviewed and currently on my TBR shelf. In addition to a variety of literary titbits, I look ahead to forthcoming features, see what’s on the nightstand and keep readers abreast of various book-related happenings.
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#Books#Charlotte Brontë#Constance Debré#Fantasy#Kathryn Hughes#Laur Vallikivi#Reading#Steve Almond#Wyrd and Wonder 2024
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Winding Up the Week #373
An end of week recap
“It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass.”
– Eudora Welty (born 13th April 1909)
This is a post in which I summarise books read, reviewed and currently on my TBR shelf. In addition to a variety of literary titbits, I look ahead to forthcoming…
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#ReadingKilmeny#ReadingtheMeow2024#Amrita Ghosh#Cat Books#Eudora Welty#L.M. Montgomery#Leif Enger#Reading the Meow#Seichō Matsumoto#Sylvie Cathrall
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Winding Up the Week #372
An end of week recap
“If you can’t write freely and if you can’t speak freely in your country, you can be sure that you are living in a very primitive country.”
– Mehmet Murat ildan
This is a post in which I summarise books read, reviewed and currently on my TBR shelf. In addition to a variety of literary titbits, I look ahead to forthcoming features, see what’s on the nightstand and keep readers…
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#1937Club#1937 Club#Gregory Maguire#Gyles Brandreth#Julia Alvarez#Lewis Carroll#Mehmet Murat ildan#Nicolás Medina Mora#Ray Bradbury#Reading the Theatre 2024
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Winding Up the Week #371
An end of week recap
“The first bud of spring sings the other seeds into joining her uprising.”
– Amanda Gorman
I hope those celebrating Easter have a marvellous time – whether you are off to church, awaiting the arrival of the Easter Bunny or gorging on chocolate eggs. In any event, I wish you a myriad of blissful hours with your nose buried in a good book.
As ever, this is a post in which I…
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#Amanda Gorman#Andrew Pettegree#Annabel Abbs-Streets#Booktime Magazine#Corylus Books#Dewithon 2024#Emma Timpany#Helen Oyeyemi#Independent Publishers#Indie Press Network#Marina Donovan#Reading Wales 2024#Short Fiction#Téa Obreht
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Winding Up the Week #370
An end of week recap
“Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict — alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.”
– Dorothy Thompson
This is a post in which I summarise books read, reviewed and currently on my TBR shelf. In addition to a variety of literary titbits, I look ahead to forthcoming features,…
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#Beth Kephart#Dewithon#Dewithon 2024#Dorothy Thompson#Lauren James#Ramie Targoff#Reading Wales 2024#Richard Adams#Zoladdiction 2024
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DEWITHON ‘24: Llyfrbabble (Bookbabble) #2
A series of short posts highlighting recent cultural and bookish chatter from Wales
This is the second post of D24 in which we look at literary and other cultural goings-on (Welsh speakers may prefer sgwrsio llenyddol Cymraeg) from the land of poetry and song.
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Are You a Cwlture Vwlture?
For those of you with an ear for a tune and a liking for underground…
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#dewithon24#CWLT#Dewithon#Horatio Clare#Jon Mlynarski#Reading Wales 2024#Welsh Culture#Welsh Folktales#Welsh Legends#Welsh Myths
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Winding Up the Week #369
An end of week recap
“All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.”
– Douglas Adams
This is a post in which I summarise books read, reviewed and currently on my TBR shelf. In addition to a variety of literary titbits, I look ahead to forthcoming features, see what’s on the nightstand and keep readers…
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#dewithon24#ReadingWales24#Alice Loxton#Dewithon 2024#Douglas Adams#James Bradley#Marina Yuszczuk#Rhys Thomas#The Futures Series#Twinkle Khanna#Wales#Welsh Writers
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DEWITHON ‘24: Llyfrbabble (Bookbabble) #1
A series of short posts highlighting recent cultural and bookish chatter from Wales
This is the first post of D24 in which we look at literary and other cultural goings-on (Welsh speakers may prefer sgwrsio llenyddol Cymraeg) from the land of poetry and song.
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Wales Book of the Year 2024
Literature Wales, the organisation responsible for the development of our…
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#dewithon24#Charlotte Williams#Dewithon#Dewithon 2024#Pod of Wales#Reading Wales 2024#Wales Book of the Year Award 2024#Welsh Culture
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Winding Up the Week #368
An end of week recap
“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”
– Voltaire
This is a post in which I summarise books read, reviewed and currently on my TBR shelf. In addition to a variety of literary titbits, I look ahead to forthcoming features, see what’s on the nightstand and keep readers abreast of various book-related happenings.
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If you are…
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#dewithon24#Amitav Ghosh#Andrés N. Ordorica#Becca Rothfeld#Dewithon 2024#Jan Morris#Paul Clements#Reading Wales 2024#Timothy Garton Ash#Voltaire#Welsh Biography
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Winding Up the Week #366
An end of week recap
“Poor Wales. So far from Heaven, so close to England.”
– Sharon Kay Penman
This is a post in which I summarise books read, reviewed and currently on my TBR shelf. In addition to a variety of literary titbits, I look ahead to forthcoming features, see what’s on the nightstand and keep readers abreast of various book-related happenings.
CHATTERBOOKS >>
If you are planning a…
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#dewithon24#ReadingWales24#Dewithon#Diana Wynne Jones#Dido Twite Day#Dydd Gŵyl Dewi#Fantasy#Google Doodle#March Magics 2024#Reading Wales 2024#Red Dragon#Saint David&039;s Day#Sharon Kay Penman#Terry Pratchett
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A Poem by Albert Cynan Evans-Jones
The Tŷ Newydd Hotel on the beach at Aberdaron by William M. Connolley
We celebrate the first week of Reading Wales 2024 with two verses from a poem written by the Welsh war poet, writer and dramatist Albert Cynan Evans-Jones
Aberdaron
When I am old and honoured
With silver in my purse
All criticism over
All men singing my praise
I will purchase a lonely cottage
With nothing facing its door,
But…
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#dewithon24#Aberdaron#Albert Cynan Evans-Jones#Cynan#Dewithon 2024#First World War Poets#National Eisteddfod of Wales#Reading Wales 2024#War Poet#Welsh Poetry#Welsh Poets
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Reading Wales 2024
1st to 31st March
Welcome to the sixth Reading Wales celebration (aka Dewithon 24), a month-long event beginning on Saint David’s Day, during which book lovers from all parts of the world are encouraged to read, discuss and review literature from and about Wales.
For more in-depth information on this reading jolly, head over to DHQ (Dewithon Headquarters) and, to see what’s happening this year,…
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#dewithon24#ReadingWales24#Anglo-Welsh Writing#Dewithon#Reading Wales 2024#Wales#Welsh Authors#Welsh Novels#Welsh Poetry#Welsh Writers
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Winding Up the Week #366
An end of week recap
“People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point, they don’t read them.”
– Flannery O’Connor
This is a post in which I summarise books read, reviewed and currently on my TBR shelf. In addition to a variety of literary titbits, I look ahead to forthcoming features, see what’s on the nightstand and keep readers abreast of various book-related…
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Winding Up the Week #365
An end of week recap
“Reading is becoming a kind of specialist activity, and that strikes terror into the hearts of people who love reading.”
– Ruth Rendell (born 17th February 1930)
This is a post in which I summarise books read, reviewed and currently on my TBR shelf. In addition to a variety of literary titbits, I look ahead to forthcoming features, see what’s on the nightstand and keep…
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#dewithon24#ReadingWales24#Ali Smith#Books#Brexit Literature#Dewithon#Reading Wales 2024#Ruth Rendell
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Prepare for Reading Wales 2024
DEWITHON PLANNER 2024
Dewithon is an opportunity for book bloggers and readers in general around the world to discover Welsh writers and their works (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, plays – in fact anything written in English or Welsh with links to the nation of Wales).
We will begin our usual 31 days of celebration on Friday 1st March 2024 (St. David’s Day), with an official page appearing on…
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#dewithon24#ReadingWales24#Anglo-Welsh Writing#Books from Wales#Cymru#Dewithon#Dewithon 2024#Frances Spurrier#Red Dragon#St David&039;s Day#Welsh Authors
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Winding Up the Week #364
An end of week recap
“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”
– Robert Fulghum
This is a post in which I summarise books read, reviewed and currently on my TBR shelf. In addition to a variety of literary titbits, I look ahead…
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#begorrathon24#readingirelandmonth24#Blue Book Covers#Douglas Bruton#Fairlight Books#Hussein Barghouthi#ReadIndies#Reading Ireland Month 2024#Robert Fulghum
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Winding Up the Week #363
An end of week recap
“As the questions grow harder and more complicated, people yearn for simpler answers, one-sentence answers, answers that point unhesitatingly to a culprit who can be blamed for all our suffering, answers that promise that if we only eradicate the villains, all our troubles will vanish.”
– Amos Oz
This is a post in which I summarise books read, reviewed and currently on my TBR…
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