A Different Way of Seeing. Helping You Make Sense of the Overwhelm
Browsing Tag
I had such fun describing the books I enjoyed reading in 2025 during December here on the Beyond Sight blog. But now it’s time to look forward to some of my plans for the coming year One goal that I’m excited to share with you is that of my newest writing project. I’m turning my …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Two weeks ago I mentioned the impact that stories have on so many aspects of my life. Everything I shared in that post was brought home to me in a chance conversation I had a few days ago. Here’s what happened. I recently had to go for some routine medical tests. When I arrived at …
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 …
Over the past few years I have noticed that more characters with disabilities have been appearing in works of fiction. In many ways this is wonderful to see, as we have been a largely under-represented group when it comes to fictional characters. But, as with so many other facets of life, there is also a …
Okay, okay, so I’m not actually touring round Africa. But what else would you call it? This year I set myself two reading goals: to read some of the classics I didn’t get to when I was at school, and to focus on reading outside the genres I tend to default to. The first book …