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BECOMING
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Arts & Culture, Literature, Random Ruminations
Get Reading For a Longer Life
A new study to be published in the September issue of the journal Social Science & Medicine has found that people who read books for 30 minutes a day lived ...
Decoding the Demagogues: Reading as Disobedience
These are times of a politics of the either/or. Either you’re with Donald Trump, glossing over 21st-century realities in favour of certainty, or you’re a “professional agitator” to be blamed ...
Top Ten Small Inner London Libraries
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Litro Library: January 2013
These are our Twitter followers’ recommendations for January this new year. We hope you find something good in here for your reading pleasure!
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Reading the Classics on a Kindle
I’m a serious reader. My addiction is incurable. The walls of my flat are lined with books, so many of them that they have overflowed their shelves and now stand ...
Let the Seasons Dictate Your Reading
This week, as the weather started to actually reflect the season we are in, I found myself cycling to work to the wonderfully fun sounds of The Go! Team. The ...
I don’t like the smell of the digital page
I have to admit, I had been thinking of buying an e-Reader for a couple of months, but I just couldn’t make a decision. There were at least ten different ...
Genre Games
If you’re a regular user of your local library – that is, if you’re lucky enough still to have one – you’ll be familiar with the way the libraries categorise ...
Best of the Best
Despite very rarely winning anything, I am a competitive person. Although my days of playing team sports at school are now a distant memory, rather than mellowing with age, my ...
Apprenticeship: Part One
I was asked to look after a friend’s house for a couple of months. He lived in Cambridge, a city I had never been to, and he had a garden ...
Putting Pen to Paper
The first stories I tried to write and the book that started it all: continuing the brief history that foretells the work I am currently writing. One night I couldn’t ...
To Write, First One Must Read
I’ve written a few blogs before in recent years on different topics and the thing I’ve always found difficult is starting it off. Do I do the whole, ‘Hello reader, ...
If you love your books, let them go
One day on a bus home from my sixth form college, I found a book underneath my seat. White, gold-edged, and claiming to ensure that your chosen man falls head ...