Category: Non-Fiction
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Reading Diary: February – May 2022
It has been a while since I posted here, or was able to write anything. I was ill on and off from December through to the start of April, but finally managed to get myself sorted out with a visit to the doctor and a sort-of diagnosis in the form of the fact that my […]
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Reading Diary: January 2022
Recently I’ve been exploring the role and function of book blogging and how I want to fit into it. For a while I’ve just reviewed each book I read individually, and I think for me that format was getting a little stale, and I wasn’t sure how appealing it actually was to readers – especially […]
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The Montessori Toddler: A Parent’s Guide to Raising a Curious and Responsible Human Being by Simone Davies (2018)
I realise that this book is a bit of a departure from the sort of thing reviewed in my last few posts (which I realise were months ago, hello 2021), but this is the first book I have read all the way through since I think October – so I’m reviewing it. Honestly having a […]
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East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity by Phillippe Sands (2016)
This is a book about many things. Ostensibly you could say that East West Street is about a lawyer and historian, Phillippe Sands, exploring the lives of his maternal grandparents (and his mother) before and during the Second World War. It starts as that, catalysed by Sands being invited to give a lecture at the […]
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House of Glass by Hadley Freeman (2020)
Let me preface this review by saying that I have not written a book review, or any blog post, for months now so please bear with me… in June I went back to work after maternity leave, but due to lockdown my little one’s nursery was not open at the time and so my husband […]
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I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman by Nora Ephron (2006)
I honestly don’t know why it’s taken me so long to read any of Nora Ephron’s books. I adore her movies, particularly When Harry Met Sally, and I’d always heard her books were just as good. Perhaps I was afraid they wouldn’t be and my reverence of her script writing would be ruined. But then […]
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Stet: An Editor’s Life by Diana Athill (2000)
For whatever reason this book had been sitting on my shelves since at least January, as I received it as a Christmas/birthday present (they are only ten days apart so I forget which this was for), but luckily I had a book audit a few weeks ago and came upon it again. I had started […]
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Baby and Birth Books – My Reading So Far
I am now 34 weeks pregnant and while talking to friends and relatives with children about pregnancy and birth has been great, along with information from the midwife and the NCT course we just did, I have also been doing a bit of reading about all this as well – of course! I’ve got a […]
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