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These were part of my leaving presents from Bloomsbury (which I managed to keep alive for a week!). Leaving my job and wrapping up things for handing over plus starting my new job (at Pan Macmillan) has eaten up a lot of brain space I would have usually used on blogging. I'm fine with taking a hiatus from my blog but it is feeling like a very long gap and I get a nagging feeling that I *should* be blogging. I'm also on a long holiday right now which means I won't be for a while. I fully intend to get back on it once I'm home and settled into work a bit more though. Anyway, this was partly an update and partly reminder to folks that if you're doing this for fun, it's okay to take breaks to keep it fun! ✌
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#blogging #books #hiatus
The recent heatwave and almost tropical rainfall alternately brings my grandma's hydrangeas to life before they wilt again.
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This is them on a good day, though and they match my lovely copy of The Midwich Cuckoos!
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This is a classic sci-fi story about an English village called Midwich where o ne night all of the women mysteriously become pregnant. As classic SF goes, this is really good, especially the attitude towards the women. Do you read classic sci-fi?
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#bookstagram #bookbloggersofinstagram #bookphotography #sciencefiction #classicscifi #scifi #JohnWyndham #midwichcuckoos
I walked past Forbidden Planet the other day and of course I had to go in.
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Their basement is definitely one of my favourite places to wander around and look at all the latest fantasy, sci-fi and geeky books on offer.
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#forbiddenplanet #bookshops #London #bookstagram #geek
Last week I went to see Van Gogh and Britain at the Tate Museum and I highly recommend it!
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The exhibition looked at Van Gogh's time in London and the artists that inspired him. They also showed how he in turn inspired other artists after his paintings were exhibited after his death.
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Featured was this self-portrait of Van Gogh, a version of Starry Night and the famous sunflowers themselves.
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@tate #VanGogh #museum #Exhibition #art #London #paintings #culture
Currently reading this gorgeous Penguin edition of The Bloody Chamber.
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I read Angela Carter's The Magic Topshop at uni and I didn't *love* it. This book features feminism and fairy tales so I thought I'd give Carter another go.
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Do you try several books by an author before you decide whether you like them? Or is one book enough? .
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#bookstagram #bookbloggersofinstagram #fairytales #angelacarter #London #bookbloggers #bookphotography #bloodychamber
Does Shakespeare intimidate you?
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Despite studying literature at a university that was literally in 'Shakespeare's Country' I managed to avoid him. But honestly his works are so good!
I'm going to see A Midsummer Night's Dream tomorrow night. I'm always a little worried of not being able to understand what's happening on stage if I go in blind. So I've read this ahead of time and I've realised that reading it aloud really helps. It is poetry after all! 😜
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#bookbloggersofinstagram #bookstagram #books #bookphotography #Shakespeare #RSC
