Many years ago now, when I was struggling to understand the limits of my responsibility towards people who were sad or suffering, my therapist gave me a poem to read by Mary Oliver. One day you f...
https://litlove.wordpress.com/2019/09/27/mary-oliver-loving-the-work/
I’m doing a spot of research into the period 1936-1960 in UK history and looking for things to read that will give me a real flavour of how people lived during this time. There’s SO much info...
https://litlove.wordpress.com/2019/09/06/book-recommendations-please/
It’s been a funny old year, reading-wise. I was pondering why this might be so when it suddenly occurred to me that my algorithm for purchasing books has changed. As audio books are pretty much...
https://litlove.wordpress.com/2019/08/20/the-year-in-books-so-far/
It’s a sore trial living in the UK at the moment. After three years of the shambolic Brexit debacle, in which zero progress has been made, we’re now forced to witness a leadership contest tha...
https://litlove.wordpress.com/2019/06/18/real-hope-for-dark-days/
I don’t quite know why I’m writing this when I have completely lost faith in this kind of blog post, but Mr Litlove and I have discussed Stoner and its problems so much he said he’d be inte...
https://litlove.wordpress.com/2019/06/07/blood-out-of-a-stoner/