Throughout our lives, and even moment to moment, we are ever-changing people. We grow and change and make good and bad decisions. What remains constant is that even the smallest moments in our lives have consequences. This message is really at the heart of Storyworthy. It is a book about storytelling that is disguised as… More Storyworthy: A Book Review
At some point last year I wrote that I wanted to read more books with disabled or chronically ill characters in them, and I posted a preliminary post with five different books. Since then, I have read several more and thought it was about time I shared them with you. So here are four disabled… More 4 chronically ill & disabled books you should read
About three weeks ago my good friend, and fellow disabled person, Alicia Shearsby, contacted me and asked if I wanted to be involved in a project with her. As a sensible person, who knows when they have too much going on, I obviously said yes despite being very busy. For the next week we both… More Branwen and the Hare Moon
Learning a new language is quite a daunting prospect for anybody. Add in a chronic illness, with fun symptoms like brain fog, energy deficiency problems and memory recall issues, and it can seem very overwhelming. I am currently spending a lot of my time learning Dutch, in order to pass exams at the end of… More Language learning with a chronic illness
Today is International (working) women’s day, so what better day to talk about a book that left a huge impression on me: Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick by Maya Dusenbery. When I first became sick, I noticed that a lot more women than men… More Doing Harm by Maya Dusenbery – a review for International Women’s Day
When I am feeling very sick, or sad and want a bit of escapism, I often dive right back into my old ‘comfort’ books. Some of these books I have reread a hundred times, and it’s like going back to old friends. You know the characters well, you know exactly what will happen, but you… More Comfort books for tough times
TW Aids, Death:I read The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai recently and decided that I needed to review it. Today is World Aids Awareness day so seemed like the perfect time to discuss a novel set in the gay scene whilst the AIDS epidemic was on the rise. At the beginning of this novel we… More The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
“There is something about everything that you can be glad about, if you keep hunting long enough to find it.” ― Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna Believe it or not, in many ways I am very thankful for having an illness. Don’t get me wrong, I feel I’ve learnt my lessons now and would certainly not… More Playing the glad game with a chronic illness
I haven’t read a book that was so well put together as The Overstory by Richard Powers, in a long time. When I finished it, I was speechless and felt I had to jot down my thoughts on the book straight away. So here are those thoughts. The Overstory tells the story of several different characters… More The Overstory by Richard Powers
Disclaimer: this post contains affiliate links. As a book depository affiliate I earn a small from qualifying purchase to make sure my biscuit tin is always filled. Strange Weather in Tokyo is a fairly short book set, unsurprisingly, in Japan. It tells the story of a middle-aged woman who bumps into her old Japanese teacher,… More Strange Weather in Tokyo – Hiromi Kawakami