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Browsing Tag
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 …
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 …
I have always been a reader. As a child, I was the one who would be curled up in a quiet corner with a book, rather than out there playing in the sunshine. Reading is, and has always been, a fundamental part of my life and a pastime that I’ve turned to when I’ve felt …
If I had a tail I would be wagging it so hard that you would know exactly how excited I am! My beloved Fiji’s memoir Paws for Thought: Seeing the World Through the Eyes of a Guide Dog is now also available as an audio book on both Amazon and Audible. Whether you’re discovering the …
For some people it may seem a peculiar concept – a book written by a dog. I mean, how can a dog write a book? Do they type using their paws or their noses? And since when do dogs learn how to spell? For other people, mostly people who have a close bond with their …
Extract from Paws for Thought (second edition): “I remember telling you that I had favourite toys when I was a young puppy, back when I lived with Mom Jenny and Dad Mike. I had hours of fun playing with my fluffy sheep and running around with my tennis ball in my mouth. I still have …
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 …