Notes from an almost-empty-nester
Hola book people.
Let me introduce you to the two people who live in my head: the Planner and the Reader.
The Planner is the sane, organised, voice, that attempts (valiantly) to bring order to my reading life.
Then there’s the Reader: capricious, flirty, moody.
It’s Bridgerton season. The second instalment of Season 4 releases in a few hours. Time for Benedict and Sophie’s story. If you haven’t read the books or seen the series let me just sum it up for you:
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I love train travel. I always have. I love the solitude of it, curling up with a book or idly looking out of the window watching trees, fields, buildings rush by.
Long journeys are even more fun. For those hours, you are disconnected from the world, its requirements, its demands, its worries. That more than anything, is what I love, the peaceful solitude.
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I know why bears hibernate. I really do.
But let me begin at the beginning.
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The year started on a happy reading note for me with A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers. Although pegged as sci-fi, there’s very little ‘sci’, though it is definitely futuristic fiction.
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