Pause, Breathe, Live!
It's time for another Six Degrees of Separation post - yay! This month we start with Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld, in which the author imagines what life would have been like for Hillary if she had not married Bill. Of course in real life, Hillary became a Clinton and thus was First Lady. So for my … Continue reading Six Degrees of Separation: From Rodham to When Women Were Birds
In these ongoing troubled times, I continue to be drawn back to my knitting needles and crochet hooks. No matter how discombobulated I might feel, there is always room for an extra row or round. Indeed, the very act of becoming absorbed in a beautiful project is an essential part of my coping strategy at … Continue reading Off The Needles; Off The Hook
I wasn't planning to read Sarah Moss's new book Summerwater at the moment, not least because I have still got tons of reading I want to do for August's Women In Translation month. But after watching her online Edinburgh Book Festival session (free to watch until the end of the month), I just had to download the … Continue reading Book Review: Summerwater by Sarah Moss
I love the idea of 'the north'. I guess the idea of Father Christmas at the North Pole set up that notion of a magical fantasy in the snow from a young age, along with children's classics such as The Snow Queen. More recent fiction includes Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, which was my … Continue reading Book Review: A Woman In The Polar Night by Christiane Ritter, translated by Jane Degras #WITMonth #WomenInTranslation
