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Each year I try to read five books that are considered to be classics. Usually I try to find books I haven’t read before, or some that I may have read when I was young but honestly can’t remember. When I was a teenager I went through a phase of reading the classics. I thought …
Back in 2020 I realized that I wasn’t reading the non-fiction books in my collection. And yet I seemed to be accumulating them at an alarming rate, mostly due to friends and colleagues writing books, and through various seminars and summits I was attending online. Back then I set the intention of reading at least …
Over the years it has become important for me to read books that allow me to better understand the experiences of people whose backgrounds differ from my own. I have come to appreciate the wealth of voices that are available in both the fiction and non-fiction spaces. I am fascinated by what I can learn …
It is December and many of us have already started to look forward to the holiday season. As part of my wrap-up of 2025, my next few blog posts will be a review of books I’ve read this year. Today I’ll be focusing on books written by authors from the continent of Africa. We have …
Today’s post starts with a memory, best explained in an extract from my bestselling memoir A Different Way of Seeing: A Blind Woman’s Journey of Living an ‘Ordinary’ Life in an Extraordinary Way. “It was the evening of my 22nd birthday —10 months since I had been declared blind. We were sitting in the lounge …
The final blog post about my reading this year is about the books related to disability, the final category of diversity that I mentioned in my previous post. Below are the books I’ve read that are either by authors with disabilities, with characters who have a disability, or are on the subject of disability. Here …
I have also been trying to read a greater number of books by authors with diverse voices in 2024. These include books written by people from a diverse racial perspective from my own, from the non-binary community, or published originally in a language other than English, as well as stories by people from other cultural …
My final three blogs for the year are going to be on a central theme, the books I’ve been reading this year. Today, I’m going to tell you the non-fiction titles I read in 2024. I set an intention in 2020 to try and read at least one non-fiction book each month and have continued …
As an author I’ve become fascinated by the world of publishing. In the past few years I’ve noticed a shift towards greater inclusion of marginalised groups, both in terms of characters and writers, which is great. Where the publishing industry used to be dominated by white male authors and, to a lesser degree, white women …
In 2021 I read a book that fundamentally shifted my reading. It was Yaa Gyasi’s book, Homegoing. In the book one of the characters, a history teacher, tells his learners that when they are exploring the past, they should look for the voices that are silenced… and then try to discover those voices as well …