#WondrousWednesday @Eggs last post!
1.Yes! Both read and listen everyday.Litsy Buddy reads are very helpful for streamlining reading and reading books I may not think of reading otherwise!
2.Well,rest for your eyes from a screen,for one.Reading gives you a variety of absorbing perspectives and narratives that's increasingly more important in a polarised,fractured world.And unlike a movie or a tv show,allow a lot more interiority.
#12booksofchristmas @Andrew65 june. Among the contenders were My Phantoms by Gwendoline Riley, Looking for Mr Goodbar, and The broken shore by Peter Temple ( a great Australian crime novel), but I've got to go with a book that had me giggling to myself on the sofa to the annoyance of everyone else in the room. Definitely need to read more sue Townsend in 2023
pick#20in4 Didn't get a lot of rdng in this wkd as I was helping dtr move flats so spent a lot of time sat waiting hence photo but another instalment in the wonderful Adrian Mole series had me chuckling away and later to the annoyance of my wife giggling while she watched TV. Adrian is now 24 in 1991, still in love with Pandora + working for DOE counting newts. Sue Townsend was a genius and still grinning thinking abt it. Bk 2 in @Andrew65 challenge
Storm Diego was raging outside and was so noisy it woke me up and then I couldn't go back to sleep. So I decide to read something light and easy instead. It was fun and (very slightly) nostalgic, but inevitably perhaps, it had aged a bit.
got my ribs tickled today by this price of hilarity. want to read more of this series!
#suetownsend#thegrowingpainspfadrianmole#funny#hilarious#ya#youngadult
Winston and I will try not to take offense. 😂 We‘re finding this book very endearing, but it‘s a lot of teenage boy (Townshend‘s writing is convincing) and we think it‘s probably best, for us, read in smallish doses between other books.
Update: Adrian has grown on me & I‘d like to read the rest of the series!
pickfunny truth about being a teenager and growing . a classics
pickMy final bk of 2020 as I am mid chunkster at mo. A miscellany of writing by a much missed author whose thoughts on brexit + covid wd have been distracting. Here we have some of adrian, a lovely diary of her trip to Russia with writers incl Alan Bennett and why she loves England, and a mischievous Margaret thatcher teenage diary. If I don't post again before 2021 I'm sending my early wishes to everyone on litsy for a healthy and happy new year.
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