It’s been a really difficult time for me with reading. I’ve not been able to concentrate on anything fiction for a couple of month, really only able to read books related to my tabletop gaming; Warhammer, Dungeons & Dragons, Call of Cthulhu… This has caused me some anxiety as I feel I really should be …
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Pact Coffee
One of the things I really didn’t think I would miss during #lockdown was coffee, I didn’t drink any at home and was mainly a tea drinker elsewhere but would occasionally buy a coffee from Echo 3 Coffee House and Roastery in town. So, there was I thinking that there was no problems, but three …
Music Lists
A growing collection of list about music 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die Guardian 100 Best Albums of the 21st Century Mercury Prize Winners UK #1 Albums
Film Lists
A growing collection of list about films 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die Academy Award for Best Picture Guardian 100 Best Films of the 21st Century Saturn Award for Best Horror Film
Book Lists
A growing collection of list about books 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die Booker Prize Winners Guardian Best 100 Books of the 21st Century Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Waterstones Children’s Book Prize Women’s Prize for Fiction
Lists
I like lists, really like lists, really really like lists. Here are the top level categories of the lists I’m working on. Book Lists This is a collection of award lists, sprinkled with Best of… and personal lists Book Lists Film Lists This is a collection of award lists, sprinkled with Best of… and personal …
Day Two – Brain Mush
So it’s Day 2 of self isolation and already my brain is feeling like mush, had all these plans to read some literary fiction this week that I should be reading and getting reviews ready for. But I’ve woken up and really feel like doing a Terry Pratchett binge instead. Though I’m not going to …
A Blag Of Booksellers
Collective Noun In linguistics, a collective noun refers to a collection of things taken as a whole. Most collective nouns in everyday speech are mundane and not specific to just one kind, such as the word “group”, which is applied to “people” in the phrase “a group of people”, but is also applied to “dogs” …
Q&A For A Bookseller
If you ever wondered where the image in the header comes from, here’s the answer. Part of my job is to welcome and talk to various school groups when they vists and as part of World Book Day 2018 Corporation Road School was invited down to visit us over a 9 day period, every class …