Let's not beat around the bush. February was a poor month on the reading front. This as a result hit the blog because it's hard to p...

My eldest son, who has dyslexia had his birthday and one of his presents was a book from the publishers Barrington Stoke. I picked the boo...

Got to admit it's been a pretty pleasing start to the year reading wise. Haven't cycled much but the reading has been on track as a ...

It can be cold, a baby can scream for what seems like hours and the food can be inedible. But one guaranteed joy of flying a fairly long dis...

It might have started to become obvious but the reading plans for this month are all around American writers. I have to travel to the US for...

Not the best of years reading wise with a fairly low number consumed. What was perhaps more disappointing was the failure to get a rythmn go...

January 1. Bagombo Snuff Box uncollected short fiction by Kurt Vonnegut 2. Child of God by Cormac McCarthy 3. A Visit from the Goon Squad...

With my commuting reading time gone as a result of cycling a pattern of reading at night and in chunks over the weekend has emerged and as ...

Managed to have a month of good reading building on the back of a strong July, where the books were great holiday companions. When I can the...

Last night I attended a discussion at the London Review Bookshop provoked by the book The Good of the Novel, which has been published by Fab...

April was a difficult month reading wise. A lot was happening in my life with the division of the company I work for being sold and as a res...

April is going to be a month of catching up with some of the books I have been sent or requested. So there is no overall theme for this mont...

Crime writers seem to enjoy delivering stories that come in at the 300 page mark and so the month's reading was slower going than I'...

Haven't managed to get the reading pace I wanted this month but it's been difficult because there has been a lot of uncertainty at w...

Months ago I send my details and waited to see if I would be chosen as a book giver for World Book Night. Rather than choose one of the more...

If you love books then the idea that they are to be celebrated in Central London is something rather special. World Book Night in Trafalgar ...

This year more than ever with libraries closing left, right and centre and charities like Book Start getting its fuinding cut the need to ce...

It felt like a very short month and so getting the usual seven books under the belt was a challenge and the rteading went to the wire. Didn...

Apologies for the absence recently. I was struck down with flu. There are those moments when you get ill and it can result in some time off ...

If you think about the great names in French literature there is a good smattering across both 19th and 20th centuries. In the 19th century ...