Pandemic – Suzy D Harris

May (we continue to read, please?)

This was a month in which I read not widely but well. I ended May with my reading mojo restored but at times I thought I’d never pick up a book again. I have a very low fear threshold. Enid Blyton’s “Five and the Mystery Train” scared me so much as a child I couldn’tContinue reading “May (we continue to read, please?)”

April

Libraries use the Dewey Decimal System or the Library of Congress method of categorising (and therefore shelving) books. Bookshops are a little more relaxed but generally you know what you’re getting on a shelf marked “Local Interest” or “Literary Fiction.” What about the libraries in our own homes? Things might be colour co-ordinated or alphabetisedContinue reading “April”

Pandemic Poems

Just before lockdown, Samuel West (a British actor) asked his twitter followers what poems they’d like him to read for them. He was driven by a need to do something – the play he was about to perform in was cancelled – and a desire to offer something of meaning to people. Hundreds of peopleContinue reading “Pandemic Poems”